Juke 9, 1899.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Franchimoiit (Leideu), Professor A. E. Gautier 

 (Paris), Professor H. G. Kayser (Bouu), Pro- 

 fessor W. Korner (Milan), Mr. S. P. Langley 

 (Washington), Professor G. Van der Mens- 

 brugghe (Ghent), Professor A. A. Michelsou 

 (Chicago), Professor H. Moissan (Paris), Pro- 

 fessor K. Nasini (Padua), Professor W. Nernst 

 (Gottingen), Professor W. Ostwald (Leipzig), Dr. 

 E. Solvay (Brussels), Professor R. H. Thurston 

 (Cornell), Professor E. Villari (Naples), Pro- 

 fessor J. L. G. Vielle (Paris), Dr. E. Ador 

 (Geneva), Dr. L. Bleekrode (The Hague), Pro- 

 fessor J. S. Ames (John Hopkins University), 

 Professor G. F. Barker (University of Pennsyl- 

 vania), Geheimrath Professor Dr. Liebreich 

 (Berlin), and President W. L. Wilson (Wash- 

 ington and Lee University). 



As part of the exercises of the jubilee of Pro- 

 fessor Stokes, Cambridge University has con- 

 ferred the degree of Doctor of Science on the fol- 

 lowing delegates : Albert Abraham Michelson, 

 professor of experimental physics in the Univei'- 

 sity of Chicago ; Marie Alfred Cornu, member of 

 the Institute of France, professor of experi- 

 mental physics in the Ecole Polytechnique of 

 Paris ; Jean Gaston Darboux, member of the 

 Institute of France, professor of higher geom- 

 etry in the University of Paris ; Friedrich Wil- 

 helm Georg Kohlrausch, member of the Acad- 

 emy of Sciences of Berlin, Director of the 

 Physikalisch-technische Beichsanstalt, Charlot- 

 tenburg ; Magnus Gustaf Mittag-Leflfler, pro- 

 fessor of pure mathematics at Stockholm ; 

 Georg Hermann Quincke, professor of experi- 

 mental physics in the University of Heidelberg ; 

 Woldemar Voigt, professor of mathematical 

 physics in the University of Gottingen. 



The President of the Dover meeting of the 

 British Association will as we have already 

 announced, be Professor Michael Poster. The 

 Presidents of the various Sections are to be : 

 Mathematical and Physical Science, Professor 

 J. H. Poynting; Chemistry, Mr. Horace T. 

 Brown ; Geology, Sir Archibald Geikie ; Zo- 

 ology, Mr. Adam Sedgwick ; Geography, Sir 

 John Murray ; Economical Science, Mr. Henry 

 Higgs ; Mechanical Science, Sir William White ; 

 Anthropology, Mr. C. H. Read; Physiology, Mr. 

 J. N. Langley ; Botany, Sir George King. The 



local committee have already collected £1,500 

 toward the expenses of the meeting. 



The honors conferred by Queen Victoria on 

 her eightieth birthday included a baronetcy for 

 Professor J. S. Burdon-Sandersou, the well- 

 known physiologist, regius professor of medicine 

 at Oxford University, and the K. C. B. for Pro- 

 fessor Michael Poster, professor of physiology at 

 Cambridge University, and to Mr. W. H. Preece, 

 President of the Institvition of Civil Engineers. 



Professors William James (philosophy), J. 



E. Wollf (petrography and mineralogy) and W. 



F. Osgood (mathematics), of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, will be abroad on a leave of absence next 

 year. Dr. Dickinson S. Miller will take the 

 work of Professor James, and Professor James 

 Pierpont, of Yale University, the work of 

 Professor Osgood. 



Professor S. P. Thompson, F.R.S., has been 

 nominated for the presidency of the British In- 

 stitution of Electrical Engineers. 



We learn from Nature that at the last meet- 

 ing of the Midland Malacological Society, held 

 in Mason University College, Birmingham, on 

 May 12th, Mr. H. A. Pillsbury, of Philadel- 

 phia, and Mr. Henry Fischer, of Paris, were 

 elected honorary members. 



The gold medal of the Paris Geographical 

 Society has been presented to General Gallieni. 



Professor C. Judson Heeeick, who holds 

 the chair of biology in Denison University, has 

 received the Cartwright Prize ($500) of the Col- 

 lege of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Uni- 

 versity. 



Me. John S. Lord, of Springfield, 111., has 

 been appointed Chief of Division iu the Depart- 

 ment of Statistics of the Census Bureau. Mr. 

 Lord has been Chief of the Illinois State Labor 

 Bureau and held a position in the Eleventh 

 Census. 



Dr. William Z. Ripley, of the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology and Columbia 

 Lfniversity, has been elected a corresponding 

 member of the Societa Romana di Antropologia. 



Efforts are being made to collect £5,000 to 

 erect a monument on the spot in Africa where 

 Livingstone died. 



Miss Elizabeth M. Baedwell, professor of 



