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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVIII. No. 706 



The Mtmicli Academy of Sciences has 

 awarded the gold Liebig medal for services to 

 agriculture to Professor Joseph Konig, of 

 ]klunster, Professor Carl Kraus, of Munich, 

 and Professor Max Kubner, of Berlin. 



Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, presi- 

 dent of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, has returned to New York after 

 spending several weeks visiting the various 

 natural history museums of Europe. 



At the invitation of Dr. W. E. Hoyle, 

 president of the Museums Association of 

 Great Britain, Mrs. Agnes L. Eoesler will 

 speak to the members of the society at its 

 meeting to be held at Ipswich, England, dur- 

 ing the week commencing July 13, on the 

 educational work of the American Museum 

 of Natural History, in which institution she 

 holds the position of instructor. 



The officers of the Anthropological Society 

 of Washington, elected at tHe annual meeting 

 of the society, Tuesday, May 26, for the cur- 

 rent year are as follows : President, Dr. Walter 

 Hough; Vice-president, Mr. James Mooney; 

 Secretary, Dr. John R. Swanton; Treasurer, 

 Mr. George C. Maynard; Additional Members 

 of the Board of Managers, Dr. I. M. Gasan- 

 owicz, Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, Mr. F. W. Hodge, 

 Mr. C. H. Eobinson, Mr. W. E. Safford. 



At the luncheon on the occasion of the in- 

 stallation of Lord Rayleigh as chancellor of 

 the University of Cambridge, an announce- 

 ment was made by Sir Andrew Noble that it 

 liad occurred to several of Lord Eayleigh's 

 friends, who are not resident members of the 

 university, that some mode of expression 

 should be afforded to the gratification of the 

 scientific world on his election to the high 

 offi.ce of chancellor of the University of Cam- 

 bridge, which would at the same time serve 

 as a mark of recognition of the great obliga- 

 tions to his example and influence under which 

 British science had rested for many years. 

 They had, therefore, arranged to offer to the 

 university a fund large enough to provide an 

 annual award, in such manner as he may 

 select, to be associated with the name of the 

 chancellor in those branches of knowledge in 

 which Lord Rayleigh is preeminent. 



As has already been noted here, the Lin- 

 nean Society of London will celebrate the 

 fiftieth anniversary of the reading of the joint 

 essay by Charles Robert Darwin and Alfred 

 Eussel Wallace, entitled : " On the Tendency 

 of Species to form Varieties; and on the 

 Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by 

 Natural Means of Selection," which was pre- 

 sented to the society on July 1, 1858, and pre- 

 ceded by sixteen months the issue of the 

 classical " Origin of Species." The program 

 of the celebration is as follows: (1) An 

 afternoon meeting at which appropriate ad- 

 dresses will be given by eminent biologists, 

 and copies of a special medal, to be called the 

 Darwin- Wallace medal, wiU be presented. It 

 is proposed that from time to time a copy of 

 this medal in gold or silver may be awarded, 

 and that fellows may purchase copies of the 

 same in bronze. (2) An evening reception 

 in the rooms of the society. (3) A volume 

 to be published containing the full account of 

 the memorable meeting of July 1, 1858, and 

 an account of the jubilee proceedings, in- 

 cluding the addresses delivered at the after- 

 noon meeting. 



Mr. Henry Lome, one of the founders of 

 the Bausch and Lomb Optical Company, 

 which has accomplished an important service 

 for science in this country by the scientific 

 instruments which it has made, died on June 

 13, at the age of eighty years. 



Dr. Rudolf Credner, professor of geog- 

 raphy at Greifswald, died on June 6, at the 

 age of fifty-seven years. 



Dr. a. J. Belohoubek, professor of general 

 chemistry in the Bohemian University of 

 Prague, has died at the age of sixty-two years. 



The chemical interests of central New 

 York State are fostered by the Syracuse Sec- 

 tion of the American Chemical Society, 

 formerly the Syracuse Chemical Society. 

 This is an unusually prosperous organization 

 of over a hundred members. It has just 

 closed a very successful year under the presi- 

 dency of Dr. J. A. Mathews. Eight meetings 

 have been held, at which the speakers have 

 been: E. G. Acheson on " Deflocculated 

 Graphite," E. C. Spurge on " Essential Oils," 



