May 19, 1899.] 



SCIENCE. 



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20, 1899, Sir John Struthers bequeaths to the 

 Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh the 

 sum of £500 ' for the purpose of promoting an- 

 atomical science' by founding a lecture to be 

 delivered every third year before the College, 

 the subject of the lecture to be on any part of 

 normal vertebrate anatomy, the lecturer to be 

 chosen at least a year before the lecture with- 

 out restriction as to country or profession. Sir 

 John Struthers left his large and valuable stock 

 of anatomical drawings to the University of 

 Edinburgh for the use of the professor of anat- 

 omy in the University. Most of the drawings 

 were made by his own hand, and many of them 

 direct from nature. Sir John Struthers also 

 left to the University of Glasgow the sum of 

 £500 for the founding of an award in anatomy 

 for the purpose of encouraging original reseai'ch 

 or special practical work, the award to be made 

 for original research or for the best special dis- 

 sections or preparations or series of dissections 

 or preparations relating to any part of anat- 

 omy, human or comparative, the decision to 

 rest with tlie professor of anatomy in the Uni- 

 versity. The award is to be made every sec- 

 ond year and to take the form of a gold medal 

 with money prize. The prize is to be open to 

 all students and graduates of the University of 

 Glasgow, including the women students and 

 graduates of Queen Margaret College. 



The annual subscriptions promised to The 

 Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases now 

 amount to about £2,500. 



In June next the Koyal Institution, London, 

 will complete 100 years of its existence, the 

 first meeting of its members in the building in 

 Albemarle street having been held on June 5, 

 1799. The managers have decided that this 

 event, so interesting and memorable in the life 

 of the Institution and in the history of science, 

 shall be duly celebrated, and arranged for the 

 delivery of two commemoration lectures. The 

 first of these will be delivered on Tuesday, June 

 6th, by Lord Rayleigh, when the Prince of 

 Wales, Vice Patron of the Institution, will pre- 

 side and receive the honorary members ; the 

 second of the lectures will be delivered on 

 Wednesday evening, June 7th, by Professor 

 Dewar, when the Duke of Northumberland, 



President of the Institution, will preside. The 

 Lord Mayor has consented to give a reception 

 to the members and guests at the Mansion- 

 house on the evening of Tuesday, June 6th. 



Peofessoe Gustave Gilson, of Louvain 

 University, Belgium, has begun, under the 

 direction of the government of Belgium, a 

 series of experiments in the North Sea. On 

 April 29th a set of bottles was let off from the 

 West Hindar light vessel, 2 degrees, 26 minutes 

 east longitude, 51 degrees, 23 minutes north 

 latitude — i. e., about twenty miles northwest 

 of O.stend. Each bottle contains a printed card, 

 and it is hoped that any one who picks up one 

 of these bottles will take out the card and fill up 

 the blanks reserved for the place and date of 

 finding, name and place if found on the shore, 

 latitude and longitude if found on the sea, and 

 send it to Professor Gilson. 



Dr. Peters, the German explorer, arrived at 

 Sena, on the Zambesi, on May 8th. 



The Duke of Abruoes started from Rome on 

 the 2d inst. for the polar regions. His pur- 

 pose is to sail from Norway for Franz Josef 

 Land in the steamship Stm- of Italy, go as fixr 

 north as possible in the ship, and then to try 

 to reach the pole with sledges. The king and 

 the royal princes have, it is reported, subscribed 

 S200,000 for the expedition, and the Duke will 

 himself spend a large sum. 



The first statutory general meeting of the 

 British National Association for the Prevention 

 of Consumption and other Forms of Tuber- 

 culosis, of which the Prince of Wales is Presi- 

 dent, was held in London on May 4th. The 

 Earl of Derby presided, and those present in- 

 cluded Sir William Broadbent, Sir James 

 Crichton-Browne, Sir Ernest Clarke, Sir John 

 T. Brunuer, M. P., Dr. Church, President of 

 the Royal College of Physicians, Sir G. T. 

 Brown, Mr. Edward Hulse, Professor Mc- 

 Fadyean, Mr. C. Rube, Mr. Malcolm Morris, 

 Treasurer, and Dr. St. Clair Thomson, Honor- 

 able Secretary of the Organizing Committee^ 



At the annual dinner of the Sanitary Insti- 

 tute of Great Britain on May 2d the Duke of 

 Cambridge, who presided, referred to the great 

 work which it had done in promoting sanitary 



