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tember, to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniver- 

 sary of its foundation, Professor A. Lawrence 

 Eotch, director of the Blue Hill Observatory, 

 Massachusetts, was elected an honorary mem- 

 ber of the society and Professor F. H. Bigelow, 

 of the United States Weather Bureau, a cor- 

 responding member. 



The Italian Society of Sciences has awarded 

 its biennial mathematical prize to M. Giuseppe 

 Picciati, of the University of Padua. 



Sir George Darwin and Professor Larmor 

 have been appointed electors to the Isaac New- 

 ton studentships at Cambridge University. 



Dr. W. Engelmann, professor of physiology 

 at Berlin, will retire from active service at 

 the close of the present semester. 



Dr. p. Heinrich has retired from the 

 directorship of the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station at Eostock. 



Mr. F. G. Clapp, geologist of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, engaged in investigations 

 and preparation of reports on coal, oil, gas 

 and artesian waters, has resigned in order to 

 take up expert practise. 



Mr. Horace V. Winchell has resigned his 

 position as chief geologist for the Great 

 Northern Kailway Co., and has opened an 

 office for general practise. 



Miss Wilman, of the South Africa Museum, 

 has been appointed curator of the Alexander 

 McGregor Memorial Museum, Kimberley, and 

 will take up her duties by the end of February 

 next. 



Dr. Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer, 

 sailed from Bombay for Yokohama on Oc- 

 tober 13. He expects to have finished his book 

 on his Tibetan travels next May. 



Professor William James returned on Oc- 

 tober 16 to Cambridge from England, where 

 he had gone to deliver a series of eight lec- 

 tures at Oxford on " The Present Position of 

 Philosophy." 



Dr. Smith Ely Jellifpe and family have 

 left New York for a year's stay in Europe. 

 Dr. Jelliffe anticipates working in the Psy- 

 chiatric Clinic with Professor Ziehen while in 

 Berlin and with Dr. Oppenheim, of the same 

 city. 



Dr. Daniel Vergara Lope, professor of 

 physiology in the University of Mexico, 

 lectured at the George Washington Univer- 

 sity, October 16, on " The Physiological 

 Effects of High Altitudes on Man." 



There was held at the Sorbonne in Paris, 

 on October 4, a meeting in memory of the 

 great chemist, Marcellin Barthelot. M. Ray- 

 mond Poincare made an address on his work, 

 and was followed by M. Falliere, president of 

 the Eepublic. M. Clemenceau, the prime 

 minister, and M. Domergue, minister of edu- 

 cation, were present. 



Dr. Francis H. Snow, chancellor of the 

 University of Kansas from 1889 to 1901, and 

 for many years at the head of the department 

 of entomology, died on September 20 at the 

 age of 68 years. 



M. Alphonse Boistel, for forty years pro- 

 fessor of commercial law in the University of 

 Paris, known to students of the natural sci- 

 ences for his work in botany and geology, has 

 died at the age of seventy-one years. 



We regret also to record the death of Mf. 

 Bennett H. Brough, secretary of the British 

 Iron and Steel Institute, and of Mr. J. T. 

 Cart, an English student of applied chemistry. 



The autumn meeting of the Iron and Steel 

 Institute of Great Britain was held at Middles- 

 brough on September 28 to October 2 -under 

 the presidency of Sir Hugh Bell. 



Lectures will be delivered in the lecture 

 hall of the museum building of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, on Saturday 

 afternoons, at four o'clock, as follows: 

 October 17 — " Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms," 



by Dr. W. A. Murrill. 

 October 24 — "Wild Autumnal Flowers and Fruits," 



by Dr. N. L. Britton. 

 October 31 — " Letchworth Park and the Falls of 



the Genesee," by Mr. George V. Nash. 

 November 7 — " Plant Distribution as interpreted 



by Geology," by Dr. Arthur Hollick. 

 November 14 — " Botanical Cruises in the Ba- 

 hamas," by Dr. M. A. Howe. 

 November 21 — -"The Rubber Plants of Mexico," 



by Dr. H. H. Rusby. 



The following is the provisional program 

 of the Royal Geographical Society for the 

 present session: 



