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formed that Dr. Minot will present some new 

 aspects of medical education. 



Peofessoe Geoege T. Ladd, of Yale Univer- 

 sity, will be given a year's leave of absence at 

 the close of the present academic year, and will 

 lecture on philosophical subjects before the Uni- 

 versities of Japan and India. 



De. William T. Haekis, United States 

 Commissioner of Education, has been given an 

 honorary doctorate of philosophy by the Uni- 

 versity of Jena. 



Me. W. E. D. Scott has been appointed 

 curator of the ornithological collection in the 

 School of Science of Princeton University. 



Me. a. E. Bostwick, Librarian of the New 

 York Free Circulating Library, has been elected 

 Librarian of the Brooklyn Public Library. 



The Permanent Secretary of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Dr. L. O. Howard, Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C, would be glad to receive 

 information of the present addresses of the 

 following : Mr. William J. Lewis, Mr. Frank 

 McClintock, Miss Mary A. Nichols, Mr. Charles 

 M. Rolker and Mr. Carl H. Schultz. 



SiGNOE RODOLFO Lanciani, D.C.L., LL.D., 

 professor of ancient topography in the Uni- 

 versity of Rome and Director of the Italian 

 School of Archaeology, has been appointed 

 Giflford lecturer in the University of St. An- 

 drews for the next two academical years. The 

 subject of his lectures will be the ' Religion of 

 Rome.' 



We learn from iVafMre that at the anniversary 

 meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society, 

 Mr. Frank McClean, F.R.S., was awarded the 

 gold medal of the Society for his photographic 

 survey of stars in both hemispheres, and other 

 contributions to the advancement of astron- 

 omy. A prize of 500 francs, founded by 

 Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle for the best 

 monogi'aph on a genus or family of plants, is 

 offered in competition by the Societe de physique 

 et d'histoire naturelle de Geneve. The mono- 

 graphs may be composed in Latin, French, 

 German, Italian or English, and must be sent 

 to M. Pictet, the President of the Society, be- 

 fore January 15, 1900. Members of the Society 



are not permitted to compete. The Belgian 

 Royal Academy has awarded prizes of 600 francs 

 to M. Georges Clautriau, of Brussels, for his 

 memoir, on the macro- and micro- chemistry of 

 digestion in carnivorous plants, and to Professor 

 L. Cuenot, of Nancy, for his essay on the ex- 

 cretory organs of Mollusca. 



We regret to record the death of Sir Douglas 

 Galton, F.R.S. , the eminent sanitary engineer. 

 Born in 1822, he was educated at Rugby and 

 Woolwich, and received a commission in the 

 Royal Engineers in 1840. He subsequently 

 served in many important capacities as Inspec- 

 tor of Public Works, visiting the United States 

 to inspect the railways in 1856. He was the 

 author of books on ' Healthy Dwellings ' and 

 ' Healthy Hospitals. ' Sir Douglas Galton was 

 for twenty-five years the General Secretary of 

 the British Association, and on his retirement, 

 in 1895, was elected President. It will be 

 remembered that his presidential address at 

 Ipswich was published in this Jousnal. 



SiE John Steuthees, emeritus professor of 

 anatomy in the University of Aberdeen, died 

 on February 24th, aged 75 years. He was the 

 author of numerous papers on human and com- 

 parative anatomy, and exercised much influence 

 on the improvement of anatomical teaching in 

 Scotland. 



The deaths are also announced of Dr. Dareste 

 de la Chavanne, the French anthropologist, and 

 Dr. Franz Lang, a Swiss zoologist and geolgist. 



A geant of £300 from the Worts Travelling 

 Scholars' Fund, Cambridge University, has 

 been made to Mr. W. W. Skeat, M.A., towards 

 defraying the expenses of his scientific expedi- 

 tion to the Malay peninsula, on the condition 

 that the results of the investigations made by 

 the expedition be reported by him to the Vice- 

 Chancellor in a form that may hereafter be 

 published. Mr. Skeat is accompanied by two 

 zoologists, Messrs. Evans and Annandale, of 

 Oxford, and by Mr. Gwynne-Vaughan, bot- 

 anist. 



News of the safety of M. Bonin, the French 

 explorer, who has been missing in Thibet and 

 the interior of China, has reached Shanghai. 

 He arrived at Yachow, Sye Chuen district, after 

 many exciting experiences, and will make his 



