March 10, 1899.] 



SCIENCE. 



381 



the subjects mentioned below, which will be 

 rated as follows : 



Subjects. Weights. 



1. Drafting, 30 



2. Theory and practice of irrigation, 20 



3. Irrigation engineering, 20 



4. Essays on irrigation subject, 20 



5. Training and experience, 10 



Total, 100 



We learn from Nature that at the annual 

 meeting of the Russian Geographical Society, 

 on February 2d, the following medals were 

 awarded : The Constantine medal to Dr. Gustav 

 Radde, the director of the Tiflis Museum, for 

 his forty-five years' work in the study of Russia ; 

 the Count Liitke medal to I. I. Pomerantseif, 

 for his researches into the forms of the earth's 

 geoid in the province of Fergana ; the SemonofF 

 medal to M. Kleiber, for his investigations into 

 the periods of high water in the Volga ; the 

 great gold medal of the Section of Ethnography 

 to N. L. Gondatti, for his three years' work of 

 exploration of the Land of the Chuckchis ; the 

 Przewalski medal to L. A. Jaczewski, for his 

 physico-geographical researches in Siberia ; and 

 three small gold medals to BI. Tachaloff, for his 

 instruction of travellers in astronomical observa- 

 tions ; A. A. Rostkovsky, for a ma,p of popula- 

 tion in the Bitol vilayet of Turkey ; and N. A. 

 Zarudnyi, for researches in Persia ; a number 

 of silver medals were awarded for minor works. 



It is proposed to establish, with the sum of 

 $5,000, at the University of Glasgow, a prize 

 in pathology in memory of the late Professor 

 Joseph Coats. 



Step.s are being taken to found a memorial in 

 honor of the late Robert Hebert Quick, who 

 accomplished much for the advancement of 

 education in Great Britain. It is hoped that 

 £500 may be collected and used to endow a 

 Quick Memorial Library at the Teachers' Guild, 

 London, where Mr. Quick's educational library 

 is at present deposited. Subscriptions may be 

 sent Mr. John Russell, Cripplegate, Woking 

 Surrey. 



Arrangements are being made to collect a 

 fund in memory of the late Professor Kanthack. 

 Owing to his early death, Mrs. Kanthack is not 

 sufiiciently provided for, and it is proposed that 



the income of the fund be given to her and at 

 her death be used for a permanent memorial to 

 commemorate his important contributions to 

 pathology. Subscriptions may be sent to Dr. J. 

 H. Drysdale, 25 Welbeck-street, London, West. 



Major General Joseph J. Reynolds, U. 

 S. A. , formerly professor of mechanics and en- 

 gineering at Washington University, St. Louis, 

 and during and since the Civil War a distin- 

 guished officer of the army, died on February 

 26th, at the age of 77 years. 



The death is announced of Alexandre La- 

 boulbene, professor of the history of medicine 

 in the University of Paris, at the age of 73 

 years. Dr. Laboulbene had not only published 

 valuable works on the history of medicine, but 

 was also well known as a pathologist and ento- 

 mologist, having published a ' Traite d' Anato- 

 mic Pathologique ' and a 'Fauue Entomologique 

 Franyaise.' 



We regret also to record the death of Dr. 

 William Rutherford, professor of physiology in 

 the University of Edinburgh, which occurred on 

 February 21st, from a relapse following influ- 

 enza. We learn from the Loudon Times that 

 Professor Rutherford was born at Ancrum 

 Craig, Roxburgshire, in 1839, and was educated 

 first at Jedburgh Grammar School, and after- 

 wards at Edinburgh University, where he grad- 

 uated with honors in 1863, obtaining a gold 

 medal for his thesis. He held office as house 

 physician and house surgeon in the Edinburgh 

 Royal Infirmary under Dr. Rutherford Haldane 

 and Professor Spence, and then taught anatomy 

 for a year in the Surgeons' -hall under Dr. 

 Struthers. He afterwards went to the Conti- 

 nent and studied at the great medical schools of 

 Berlin, Vienna and Paris. In 1865 he was ap- 

 pointed University assistant to the late Pro- 

 fessor John Hughes Bennett. In 1869, when 

 only 30 years of age, he was appointed profes- 

 sor of physiology in King's College, London, a 

 post which he filled for five years, during three 

 of which he was also Fullerian professor of 

 physiology in the Royal Institution, London. 

 His reputation as a teacher and lecturer spread 

 rapidly, and in 1874, on the resignation of Pro- 

 fessor Hughes Bennett, he was appointed to the 

 chair of physiology in Edinburgh University. 



