June 10, 1898.] 



SCIENCE. 



799 



Professor Ira Remsen has beeu elected an 

 honorary member of the Pharmaceutical So- 

 ciety of Great Britain. 



De. W. H. Dall has been elected a Foreign 

 Correspondent of the British Geological Society. 



Professor Robert Koch has returned to 

 Berlin after an absence of a year and a-half, 

 which he has devoted to the study of infectious 

 disease in Africa and India. 



Professor George Rorig, of Konigsberg, 

 has been appointed head of the newly estab- 

 lished division for agriculture and forestry 

 under the Imperial Bureau of Health, Berlin. 



Dr. John Murray, F.K.S., has been made a 

 K.C.B. as one of Queen Victoria's birthday 

 honors. 



The Royal Academy of Belgium has elected 

 Professor Mas Miiller to fill the vacant place 

 among the foreign members in the Class of Let- 

 ters and Moral and Political Sciences. 



Cambridge University will confer the hon- 

 orary LL.D. on Sir William Turner, F.R.S., 

 and Mr. F. C. Penrose, F.R.S. The honorary 

 M.A. will be conferred on Mr. Arthur Willey, 

 Balfour student. 



Mr. C. E. Emery, the well-known consulting 

 engineer, formerly of the United States Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey, died in Brooklyn, June 2d, 

 at the age of sixty years. He was a Past Presi- 

 dent of the Society of Electrical Engineers and 

 had received the Telford medal from the British 

 Society of Civil Engineers. 



We regret to record the following deaths 

 among men of science abroad : M. Souillart, 

 professor of astronomy in the University of 

 Lille, correspondent to the Paris Academy for 

 the Section of Astronomy and known especially 

 for his researches on the satellites of Jupiter ; 

 Mr. Edward Wilson, curator of the Bristol Mu- 

 seum and the author of valuable papers in 

 geology, on May 21st, at the age of forty-nine 

 years ; Mr. W. C. Lucy, an English geologist, 

 on May 11th, at the age of seventj'-five years ; 

 Dr. C. Herbert Hurst, demonstrator in zoology 

 in the Royal College of Science, Dublin, and 

 the author of valuable contributions to zoology, 

 and Dr. Gustav Reichsritter von Wiedersperg, a 

 prominent Austrian sanitarian, aged fifty-nine. 



At the annual meeting of the National Geo- 

 graphic Society held on May 20th Messrs. 

 Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Gannett, John 

 Hyde, W J McGee, F. H. Newell and A. W. 

 Greely were re-elected members of the Board 

 of Managers. Several amendments were made 

 to the By-laws, one of which reduces the num- 

 ber of Vice-Presidents from six to one. At the 

 meeting of the Board of Managers on June 3d 

 the following officers were elected : President, 

 Alexander Graham Bell ; Vice-President, W J 

 McGee ; Recording Secretary, F. H. Newell ; 

 Corresponding Secretary, Eliza Ruhamah Scid- 

 more ; Treasurer, Henry Gannett. The So- 

 cietj' has arranged for several summer meet- 

 ings. A field meeting will take place at 

 Cabin John Bridge, and an indoor meeting in 

 Washington, in connection with the annual 

 meeting of the National Educational Associa- 

 tion, which is this year to be held at the Na- 

 tional capital. A meeting in Boston has been 

 arranged also, to be held in connection with the . 

 meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science and the Geological So- 

 ciety of America. The date chosen is Thursday, 

 August 25th. 



The Schweizerische naturforschende Gesell- 

 schaft will hold its 81st annual meeting at Berne 

 on July 31st, August 1st, 2d and 3d, under 

 the presidency of Professor Th. Studer. The 

 meeting opens with an assembly on the evening 

 of July 31st, followed by a general meeting and 

 various entertainments on August 1st. August 

 3d is devoted to au excursion to Grindelwald. 

 The scientific work of the sections is confined to 

 August 2d, and in conjunction with them will 

 meet the Swiss Geological, Botanical and Zoolo- 

 gical Societies. Of the thirteen sections six are 

 devoted to physiological, medical and agri- 

 cultural sciences, which are entirely ignored by 

 the American Association. American men of 

 science would doubtless be repaid by arranging 

 to be present at Berne on the first of August. 

 They can obtain further information from the 

 General Secretary, Professor J. H. Graf, Wyler 

 Str., 10, Berne. 



Mr. Borchgrevink expects to leave London 

 in July for explorations in South Victoria Land 

 on a new ship, ' The Southern Cross,' designed 

 by the builder of the ' Fram.' 



