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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. VII. No. 159. 



Petersburg; Professor Arrhenius, Stockholm; 

 Professor Waage, Christiania ; Professor Fran- 

 chimont, Leyden ; Professor van der Waals, 

 Amsterdam ; Professor Spring, Liege ; Pro- 

 fessor Korner, Milan. 



Sir W. H. Flower has been elected associate 

 of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Belgium. 



Queen Victoria has conferred among the 

 usual New Year honors the following : knight- 

 hood on Professor George Brown, Consulting 

 Veterinary Advisor to the Board of Agriculture; 

 Ernest Clarke, Esq., Secretary to the Royal 

 Agricultural Society; John Struthers, M.D., 

 LL.D., late President of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons of Edinburgh, and John Batty Tuke, 

 Esq., M.D., President of the Royal College of 

 Physicians of Edinburgh; The K.C.B. on Pro- 

 fessor Gairdner, Dean of the Faculty of Medi- 

 cine, Glasgow University, and the C.B. on Pro- 

 fessor D'Arcy Thompson. 



A BRONZE bust of the late General Francis 

 A. Walker, of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, was presented formally by the 

 undergraduate students to the Institute of 

 Technology, on January 5th, the anniversary 

 of General "Walker's death. 



Dr. a. D. Waller has resigned from the 

 Fullerian professorship of physiology and com- 

 parative anatomy of the Royal Institution owing 

 to the lack of any facilities for physiological 

 research. 



Mr. W. p. Pycraft has left Oxford, accord- 

 ing to Natural Science, and has been appointed 

 temporary assistant in ornithology in the British 

 Museum (Natural History). He will devote 

 his attention specially to the arrangement of 

 the collection of skeletons of birds. 



Governor Black has appointed the follow- 

 ing as delegates to represent the State of New 

 York at the Fisheries Congress to be held at 

 Tampa, Fla., on January 19th: Tarleton H. 

 Bean and Warren N. Goddard, of New York 

 City; Charles L. Mac Arthur, of Troy; Charles 

 L. Babcock, of Rochester ; Edward Thompson, 

 of Northport, and A. Nelson Chenej'-, of Glens 

 Falls. 



News has just been received of the death of 

 Professor Thomas JefFery Parker, F.R.S., on 



November 7th, atDunedin, New Zealand. Pro- 

 fessor Parker was from 1872 to 1880 demons- 

 trator in biology at the Royal College of Science. 

 He then went to New Zealand as professor of 

 biology in the University of Otago, where he 

 did much to promote the advancement of nat- 

 ural science in the colony both by his lectures 

 and addresses and by founding the Otago Uni- 

 versity Museum, of which he was curator at 

 the time of his death. In 1884 he published 

 ' A Course of Instruction in Zootomy (Verte- 

 brata),' and a 'Text-book of Zoology,' written 

 jointly with Professor W. A. Haswell, was com- 

 pleted before his death and will be published by 

 the Macmillans. 



Dr. Ernest Hart, since 1866 editor of the 

 British Medical Journal, died in London on 

 January 7th. He had made the Journal, per- 

 haps, the leading medical journal of the world, 

 only rivalled by the Lancet, and had at the 

 same time built up the British Medical Associa- 

 tion to be probably the strongest professional 

 organization in the world. Dr. Hart was the 

 author of many publications and was promi- 

 nent in numerous and Important sanitary and 

 social reforms. 



We regret also to record the death of Pro- 

 fessor Francesco Brioschi, the mathematician. 

 President of the Accademia dei Lincei, at 

 Milan, on December 13th, aged seventy-two 

 years ; and of Professor James Holm, professor 

 of physics at the South African College, Cape- 

 town, and before 1895 demostrator in physics 

 at University College, Nottingham, aged twenty- 

 eight years. 



The Science Teacher is the name of a monthly 

 publication just established by Mr. A. T. Sey- 

 mour, instructor in science and mathematics, 

 Westminister School, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. 

 There is room for a scientific journal that will 

 be of interest to teachers in the secondary 

 schools, and we hope that this journal will fill 

 the place, but in order to do this it will be nec- 

 essary to improve upon the first number. 



The Philadelphia Medical Journal, established 

 under the auspices of the leading physicians 

 and medical men of Philadelphia and edited by 

 Dr. George M. Gould, has begun publication 

 with the New Year. The first number contains 



