Maech 11, 1898.] 



SCIENCE. 



349 



Mk. W. Whitakee, F.K.S., has been elected 

 President of the Geological Society, London, 

 succeeding Dr. H. Hicks, F.R.S. 



A TESTIMONIAL in recognition of the services 

 of Mr. Francis H. Webb as Secretary of the In- 

 stitution of Electrical Engineers, lliondon, was 

 presented to him on February 1st. The testi- 

 monial took the form of a cheque for over 

 £600, together with a diamond brooch for Mrs. 

 Webb, and an illuminated address to Mr. Webb, 

 was read by Mr. Henry Edmunds, the secretary 

 to the committee. 



The Paris Soci6te de Geographic has awarded 

 its gold medal to M. Sven Hedin for his ex- 

 plorations in Central Asia to which we have al- 

 ready called attention. 



The Society of Colonial Studies of Brussels 

 has received a gift of $5,000 to promote the 

 study of the diseases of the Congo, and offers 

 two prizes of $500, one for some notable addi- 

 tion to our knowledge of the evolution of the 

 haematozoon of Laveran within and without the 

 body, and the other for the discovery of the 

 origin of hsemoglobinuric fever. 



A PRIZE of $3,000, named in honor of Galileo 

 Ferraris, will be awarded at the approaching 

 exhibition at Turin for the most valuable in- 

 vention exhibited for the application of elec- 

 tricity to industrial purposes. 



The ninth Congress of French Alienists and 

 Neurologists will be held this year at Angers 

 on August 1st and following days. The ques- 

 tions proposed for discussion are : (1) Post- 

 Operative Psychical Disturbances ; (2) The Part 

 played by Arteritis in the Pathology of the 

 Nervous System ; (3) Transient Delirium from 

 the Medico-Legal Point of View. 



On the motion of M. Brouardel, the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences has appointed a commis- 

 sion to study the question of the propagation of 

 tuberculosis. The commission is to consist of 

 the six members of the section of medicine and 

 surgery, the two permanent secretaries and 

 MM. Brouardel, de Freycinet, de Jonquieres, 

 Chauveau, Duclaux, Arm, Gautier. 



The British government has decided to ap- 

 point a Royal Commission to inquire into the 

 bacterial treatment of sewage. 



Professor J. A. Fleming, F. R. S., has be- 

 gun a course of five lectures at the Royal Insti- 

 tution, London, on ' Recent Researches in Mag- 

 netism and Diamagnetism.' Friday evening 

 discourses have been given by Captain Abney, 

 F. R. S., on ' The Theory of Color Vision ap- 

 plied to Modern Color Photography,' and by 

 Professor T. E. Thorpe, F. R. S., on 'Some 

 Recent Results of Physico-Chemical Inquiry.' 



The following lectures will be delivered at 

 the Royal College of Physicians of London : the 

 Goulstonian Lectures — Dr. John Rose Brad- 

 ford, on March 15, 17 and 22; 'Observations 

 on the Pathology of the Kidneys.' Lumleian 

 Lectures — Sir Richard Douglas-Powell, on 

 March 24, 29 and 31, on ' The Principles which 

 govern Treatment in Diseases and Disorders of 

 the Heart.' The Milroy Lectures, which 

 should have been delivered by Dr. S. Monck- 

 ton Copeman, on ' The Natural History of 

 Vaccinia,' on March 3, 8 and 10, are unavoid- 

 ably postponed, owing to the illness of the lec- 

 turer, to May 3, 5 and 10. 



The teachers of chemistry in the Somerville 

 district, Massachusetts, met at the Maiden 

 High School on February 9th, and listened to 

 the following papers : ' The Harvard Requisi- 

 tion in Chemistry,' Charles R. Allen ; 'Home 

 Work for Quantitative Pupils;' 'Chemical 

 Theory,' B. F. Holden ; 'Note Books,' Emer- 

 ton Rice ; and 'Reviews,' by Clarence Boylston. 



The Onondaga tribe of Indians, which is the 

 Wampum Keeper of the Six Nations, has notified 

 the Regents of the University of the State of 

 New York that the University has been desig- 

 nated as the Wampum Keeper of the tribe and 

 the Wampum belts will consequently be de- 

 posited in the State Museum. 



The Maryland Legislature has passed, by a 

 vote of 65 to 20, the bill allowing the Trustees 

 of the Sheppard Asylum to alter the name of 

 the Institution to the Sheppard and Enoch 

 Pratt Hospital in order that the institution may 

 receive the one and-a-half million dollars be- 

 queathed by the late Enoch Pratt. 



The Post-Oflfice Department has ordered 25,- 

 000,000 postal cards of the standard library 

 size intended for card indexes. 



The first meeting of the British Royal Com- 



