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Illinois, and Dr. H. C. P. Weber, for their re- 

 searches on the atomic weight of chlorine. 

 The medals will be awarded at a meeting of 

 the Chemists' Club, New York City, on the 

 evening of November 26, when Dr. Noyes will 

 give a very brief resume of the work on chlo- 

 rine, and Dr. Weber will announce further 

 results on work which has been done along 

 the same line on the atomic weight of bromine. 



The Bisset Hawkins medal, of the Eoyal 

 College of Physicians, of London, awarded 

 triennially to a British medical man who had 

 distinguished himself in sanitary science and 

 the promotion of public health, has been pre- 

 sented to Sir Shirley Murphy, medical officer 

 to the London County Council, in recognition 

 of his services to the public and to preventive 

 medicine. 



At the annual meeting of the American 

 Mathematical Society, to be held in the last 

 week of December, President H. S. White will 

 deliver his retiring address, the subject of 

 which will be " Bezout's theory of resultants 

 and its influence on geometry." 



In the vote for the Lord Rectorship of 

 Edinburgh University, Mr. George Wyndham 

 received 826 votes, Mr. Winston Churchill 727 

 votes and Dr. William Osier 614 votes. 



Professor Bashford Dean will represent 

 Columbia University at the inauguration of 

 the monument to Lamarck, in Paris, on No- 

 vember 19. 



Professor Charles R. Barnes and Dr. W. 

 J. G. Land, of the University of Chicago, are 

 spending four months (September-December) 

 in tropical Mexico, primarily to investigate 

 the Bryophytes, and incidentally to secure 

 other research material for the department of 

 botany. 



The Geological Survey has issued a report 

 on the prevention of mine explosions, sub- 

 mitted by three foreign experts, Victor 

 Watteyne, inspector-general of mines, Bel- 

 gium; Carl Meissner, councilor for mines, 

 Germany, and Arthur Desborough, H. M. 

 inspector of explosives, England. These engi- 

 neers have been in the United States for sis 

 weeks, coming at the invitation of the govern- 

 ment to assist the federal authorities in be- 



ginning the investigations authorized at the 

 last session of congress. 



Mr. Henry Leighton, instructor in geology, 

 Cornell University, has resigned to take a 

 position as assistant in economic geology in 

 the New York State Museum, Albany. 



Mr. V. Bleininger, of Champaign, 111., has 

 been appointed ceramic chemist of a new sec- 

 tion of the U. S. Geological Survey devoted 

 to clays and clay products. 



Professor John M. Macfarlane, of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, is chairman of a 

 committee of the Bartram Association, which 

 will plant a tree annually in Bartram's Gar- 

 dens, either at the June or October meeting 

 of the association. At a meeting of the so- 

 ciety held on Saturday, October 24, Henry R. 

 Edmunds, president of the board of education, 

 was elected president. 



Mr. H. L. Telegdi is at present visiting this 

 country in the interests of the agricultural 

 department of the Hungarian government. 



G. SuTO, professor of veterinary science in 

 the Agricultural College at Tokyo, has passed 

 through the United States on his way home, 

 after a visit to Germany. 



D. Shono and Professor Gamoh, of Tokyo, 

 are in this country, having been appointed by 

 the emperor of Japan to investigate industrial 

 conditions in America, particularly in connec- 

 tion with industrial education in our secon- 

 dary schools and colleges. 



Dr. Joseph S. Chamberlain, chief of the 

 cattle food and grain investigation laboratory 

 of the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, has been granted leave of ab- 

 sence for a year's study abroad. He expects 

 to work under Professors Fischer and Abder- 

 halden at the University of Berlin. 



Dr. Nicolas Achucarro, physician to the 

 General Hospital at Madrid, Spain, has been 

 appointed and has taken up his duties as his- 

 topathologist at the Government Hospital for 

 the Insane, Washington, D. C. Dr. Achucarro 

 was granted a year's 'leave of absence by the 

 Spanish government for this purpose. 



Captain C. C. Carter, U. S. M. A., 1899, has 

 been detailed by the War 'Department to spend 



