June 17, 1898.] 



SCIENCE. 



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the occasion of the completion of his monu- 

 mental work, ' The Flora of British India. ' The 

 annual gold medal of the Society was, in ac- 

 ■cordance with the arrangements already an- 

 nounced, presented to Major G. C. WoUich. 



The University of California has conferred 

 .the degree of LL. D. on Professor J. M. Schae- 

 berle in recognition of his services to the Lick 

 •Observatory. 



The Gilbert Medal of the Society of Arts for 

 the present year ha% been awarded to Professor 

 K. W. Bunsen, of Heidelberg, the eminent 

 chemist. 



SiE William H. Flower, Director of the 

 JBritish Museum of Natural History, has received 

 from the German Emperor the Royal Prussian 

 'Order Pour le Merile in the Division of Science 

 ^nd Art. 



De. Anton Dohen, Director of the Zoological 

 Station at Naples, has been elected an honorary 

 member of the Stockholm Academy of Sciences. 



De. Gumlich and Dr. Holborn have been 

 appointed professors in the Reichsanstalt at 

 -Charlottenburg. 



M. Falguiere has now completed the monu- 

 ment of Pasteur to be erected in Paris, opposite 

 the Pantheon. The international subscription 

 for the monument amounts to about $80,000. 



A POETEAIT of Dr. James W. McLane, Dean 

 •of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Co- 

 lumbia University, has been presented to that 

 University by the faculty of the College on the 

 occasion of the retirement of Dr. McLane from 

 the chair of obstetrics after a service of 25 years. 



Peofessor Feiedeich Mijllee, of the Uni- 

 versity of Vienna, the eminent ethnologist and 

 philologist, died on May 25th. He was born at 

 Jemnik, in Bohemia, in 1834. 



The death is also announced of Mr. W. M. 

 Maskell, Register of the University of New 

 Zealand, who had made valuable contributions 

 to entomology. 



The trustees of the Fiske fund. Providence, 

 R. I., have awarded the Fiske prize of f350 to 

 Dr. D. I. Wolfstein, of the Ohio Medical Col- 

 lege, for an essay ou ' The Neuron Theory ; its 

 Relation to Brain and Nerve Diseases in the 

 ^Light of the Most Recent Investigations.' 



The College of Physicians of Philadelphia 

 announces through its committee that the sum 

 of $500 will be awarded to the author of the 

 best essay in competition for the first Nathan 

 Lewis Hatfield prize for original research in 

 medicine. The subject is ' A Pathological and 

 Clinical Study of the Thymus Gland and its 

 Relations,' and essays must be submitted on or 

 before January 1, 1900. 



The examination for the position of Photog- 

 rapher in the U. S. Naval Observatory (salary, 

 $1,200 per annum) has been postponed to June 

 23d. The examination will consist almost ex- 

 clusively of experience and practical questions 

 in photography. 



De. Feank Waldo, of Princeton, New 

 Jersey, offers elementary or advanced courses 

 of lectures ou meteorology to colleges and other 

 educational institutions. Persons interested in 

 the matter can obtain further details at the 

 above address. Dr. Waldo was formerly a 

 junior professor in the U. S. Signal service, and 

 is the author of ' Modern Meteorology ' in the 

 Contemporary Science Series (London), and of 

 ' Elementary Meteorology,' recently published 

 by the American Book Company, in New York. 



It is reported in the daily press that President 

 Jordan, of Stanford University, and a party of 

 men of science are at present engaged in ex- 

 ploring the Grand Caiion of the Colorado and 

 the ' Enchanted Mesa. ' 



Mr. Nikolai Hansen, a Norwegian zoolo- 

 gist, will accompany Mr. Borchgrevink in his 

 approaching expedition to South Victoria Land. 



In addition to Lieutenant Peary's expedition 

 to the Pole by way of North Greenland and 

 Mr. Walter Wellman's by way of Franz Josef 

 Land, the steamship Helgoland has just started 

 from Germany for the Far North. The leader 

 of this expedition, Herr Theodor Leruer, is 

 accompanied by Dr. Bruhl, Dr. Romer and Dr. 

 Schaudien. 



Reutee's agency announces that Baron Toll, 

 the well-known Arctic explorer, has submitted 

 to the Imperial Russian Geographical Society a 

 scheme for an expedition to explore SannikofiF 

 Land, about which very little is known and the 

 very existence of which is denied by some ex- 

 plorers. These include Dr. Nansen, who de- 



