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ments. The entire control of the Institute 

 will be in the hands of Professor James C. 

 Egbert, the Director of Extension Teaching, 

 who will be assisted by Milton J. Davies, who 

 was secretary to President George E. Vincent, 

 of the Chautauquan Institution, and later was 

 supervisor of lectures and concerts for the 

 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. He 

 leaves the position of educational director of 

 the Brooklyn Central branch of the Y. M. C. 

 A. The fee for membership in the institute is 

 $10 annually and the first thousand members 

 will not have to pay a registration fee. After 

 that the registration fee of $5 will have to be 

 paid, once only, however. A membership ticket 

 will admit one person to the day lectures dur- 

 ing the entire season, and two to the night 

 lectures. For certain of the more costly 

 events on the program, such as special con- 

 certs, membership will be given a reduced rate 

 of admission. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The National Academy of Sciences will 

 hold on April 22, 23 and 24, an adjourned 

 meeting to celebrate the semi-centennial anni- 

 versary of its foundation. The academy held 

 its first meeting in New York on April 22, 

 1863. In addition to the American speakers 

 there will be three speakers from Europe. 

 Professor J. C. Kapteyn, of the Astronomical 

 Laboratory of Groningen, Holland, on " The 

 Structure of the Universe " ; Professor Arthur 

 Schuster, secretary of the Royal Society of 

 London, on " International Cooperation in 

 Eesearch " ; and Professor Theodor Boveri, of 

 Wiirzburg, on " The Material Basis of Hered- 

 ity." 



The Oxford University convocation has 

 voted to confer the degree of doctor of science 

 on Dr. Josiah Royce, professor of the history 

 of philosophy at Harvard University, who has 

 been giving a course of lectures at Manchester 

 College, Oxford. 



The University of Calcutta has conferred 

 the degree of doctor of science on Dr. A. R. 

 Eorsyth, F.R.S., who has given a course of 

 mathematical lectures at the university. 



The Helmholtz medal of the Berlin Acad- 

 emy of Sciences has been awarded to Pro- 

 fessor S. Schwendener, of the Berlin Univer- 

 sity, for his researches in plant physiology. 



At the annual meeting of the Royal Astro- 

 nomical Society on February 14, the gold 

 medal of the society was presented to M. Henri 

 Delandre, of the Meudon Solar Observatory. 

 Officers were elected as follows : President, 

 Major E. H. Hills, C.M.G., F.R.S.; Vice- 

 presidents. Sir W. H. M. Christie (late as- 

 tronomer royal). Dr. F. W. Dyson, Mr. A. E. 

 Hinks and Professor H. F. Newall. Mr. 

 linobel was reelected as treasurer. Mr. A. S. 

 Eddington and Mr. A. Fowler were elected 

 secretaries, and Sir David Gill was reelected 

 to the office of foreign secretary. 



At the anniversary meeting of the Geolog- 

 ical Society of London officers for the ensuing 

 year were appointed as follows : President, Dr. 

 A. Strahan, F.R.S. ; Vice-presidents, Professor 

 E. J. Garwood, M.A., Mr. E. D. Oldham, 

 F.E.S. Mr. Clement Eeid, F.R.S. and Pro- 

 fessor W. W. Watts, F.R.S.; Secretaries, Dr. 

 A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S. and Mr. H. H. 

 Thomas; Foreign Secretary, Sir Archibald 

 Geikie, President R.S.; Treasurer, Mr. Bed- 

 ford McNeill. 



The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, act- 

 ing through its committee on science and the 

 arts, recently awarded the Elliott Cresson 

 gold medal, the highest in the gift of the 

 institute, to the following gentlemen: 



Charles Proteus Steinmetz, A.M., Ph.D., of 

 Schenectady, New York, in recognition of suc- 

 cessful application of analytical method to the 

 solution of numerous problems of first practical 

 importance in the field of electrical engineering. 



Emile Berliner, of Washington, D. C, in recog- 

 nition of important contributions to telephony and 

 to the science and art of sound-reproduction. 



Isham Randolph, D.Eng., of Chicago, 111., in 

 recognition of distinguished achievement in the 

 field of civil engineering. 



John William Strutt, Baron Eayleigh, P.C, J.P., 

 D.C.L., LL.D., P.R.S., Hon.C.E., Sc.D., of Witham, 

 Essex, England, in recognition of extended re- 

 searches of signal importance in physical science. 



