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SCIENCE. 



493: 



May 1 : To Dr. John S. Billings, for an inves- 

 tigation of the colon bacillus group of organ- 

 isms, being a continuation of the research 

 upon the variability of bacteria, previously 

 appropriated from the Bachefund 500 



May 5 : Professor A. A. Michelson, for an in- 

 vestigation of a two-decimeter standard of 

 length, -which is to be determined in terms 

 of the wave-lengths of red cadmium radia- 

 tions by the interference method ? 



May 17 : To Professor Ira Eemsen, for an in- 

 vestigation of the atomic weight of cadmium. 400 



May 22 : To Alexander Agassiz, for assistance 

 in paying part of the expenses of borings to 

 be made in the Fiji Islands to determine 

 the thickness of coral reefs 1,200 



December 7 : To Professor A. S. Packard, for 

 an investigation of the metamorphoses of the 

 bombycine moths, in continuation of work 

 already published in the last volume of 

 Memoirs of the National Academy 100 



The following oificers of the sections have 

 been appointed, as we learn from Nature, for 

 the Bristol meeting of the British Association : 

 Section A — President : Professor W. E. Ayrton, 

 F.R.8. Vice-Presidents : Professor Riicker, 

 F.R.S., Professor S. P. Thompson, F.R.S. Sec- 

 retaries : Professor A. P. Chattock, Professor 

 W. H. Heaton (Recorder), J. L. Howard, W. 

 Watson, E. T. Whittaker. Section B— Presi- 

 dent: Professor F. R. Japp, F.R.S. Vice-Presi- 

 dent: Professor W. Ramsay, F.R.S. Secre- 

 taries : Dr. C. A. Kohn (Recorder), Dr. T. K. 

 Rose, F. Wallis Stoddart. Section C — Presi- 

 dent: W. H. Hudleston, F.R.S. Vice-Presi- 

 dent : E. Wethered. Secretaries : G. W. 

 Lamplugh, Professor H. A. Miers, F.R.S. (Re- 

 corder), E. Wilson. Section D — President : 

 Professor W. F. R. Weldon, F.R.S. Vice- 

 Presidents: Professor F. Gotch, F.R.S., Pro- 

 fessor L. C. Miall, F.R.S. Secretaries: W. 

 Garstang, Dr. A. J. Harrison, W. E. Hoyle 

 (Recorder). Section E — Vice-Presidents : Col- 

 onel F. Bailey, Dr. J. Scott Keltic. Secretaries : 

 H. N. Dickson, Dr. H. R. Mill (Recorder), A. 

 J. Herbertson, H. C. Trapnell. Section F — 

 President : Dr. J. Bonar. Vice-President : Pro- 

 fessor E. C. K. Gonner. Secretaries : E. Can- 

 non, Professor A. W. Flux, H. Higgs (Re- 

 corder), W. E. Tanner. Section G — President : 

 Sir John Wolfe-Barry, F.R.S. Vice-President : 



G. F. Deacon. Secretaries : Professor T. H. 

 Beare (Recorder), H. W. Pearson, W. A. Price, 

 Professor John Munro. Section H — President: 

 E. W. Brabrook, C.B. Vice-President: C. H. 

 Read. Secretaries : H. Balfour, J. L. Myers 

 (Recorder), Dr. G. Parker. Section K — Presi- 

 dent : Professor F. O. Bower, F.R.S. Vice- 

 President : Professor H. Marshall Ward, F.R.S. 

 Secretaries : A. C. Seward (Recorder), Professor 

 J. B. Farmer, J. W. White. 



Mr. William Ogilvie, of the Geological 

 Survey of Canada, gave a lecture to the Royal 

 Geographical Society on 'TheGeography and Re- 

 sources of the Klondike Region,' on March 23d. 



The following are among the lecture arrange- 

 ments at the Royal Institution, London, after 

 Easter : Lord Rayleigh, three lectures on ' Nat- 

 ural Philosophy ;' Dr. E. E. Klein, two lectures 

 on ' Modern Methods and their Achievements 

 in Bacteriology ;' Mr. J. A. Thomson, two lec- 

 tures on ' The Biology of Spring.' The Friday 

 evening meetings of the members will be re- 

 sumed on April 22d, when Mr. W. H. M. 

 Christie, the Astronomer Royal, will deliver a 

 discourse on 'The Recent Eclipse.' Succeed- 

 ing discourses will probably be given by Pro- 

 fessor A. Gray, Mr. E. A. Minchin, Professor 

 W. A. Tilden, Mr. Justice Madden, Lieutenant- 

 General Sir A. Clarke, Professor W. M. Flinders 

 Petrie, Lord Rayleigh and others. 



An attempt is being made to establish a 

 scholarship in botany at Barnard College in 

 memory of the late Miss Emilj' L. Gregory, 

 who was in charge of the department of botany 

 at the College from its establishment. 



SiE William Tueneb, who holds the chair 

 of anatomy at Edinburgh University, has been 

 asked to allow himself to be nominated for the 

 presidency of the General Medical Council, 

 vacant by the death of Sir Richard Quain. 



De. W. B. Benham, who succeeds the late 

 Professor Parker in the chair of zoology in the 

 University of Otago, New Zealand, has been 

 given a dinner at Oxford in view of his depar- 

 ture from that University, and has been pre- 

 sented with a piece of plate by his present 

 and former students. 



The Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium 

 has proposed eight questions for essays in 1898- 



