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presentation, of the medal, it having been 

 given previously to Professor G. Eetzius. 



Professor Theodore W. Kichards has re- 

 ceived a seventh grant of $2,500, and As- 

 sistant Professor Gregory P. Baxter a fifth 

 grant of $1,000, from the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion of Washington, to aid in researches upon 

 physico-chemical constants. 



Mr. E. E. Lloyd, Ehodes scholar at Oxford 

 from West Virginia, who was placed in the 

 first class in the final honor schools, has been 

 awarded the Burdett-Coutts scholarship in 

 geology, which is held for two years and is of 

 the annual value of £115. 



King Edward has appointed Dr. H. E. D. 

 Spitta to be bacteriologist to his household. 



Mr. Eaphael Zon^ who will have charge of 

 the forest experiment station work in the re- 

 organized Forest Service, is now abroad 

 studying the stations in Europe. 



Mr. 0. A. McLendon has resigned the posi- 

 tion of assistant botanist and plant patholog- 

 ist at the South Carolina Experiment Station 

 to accept the position of botanist and plant 

 pathologist at the Georgia Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Experiment. He takes the place re- 

 cently vacated by the removal to the State 

 College, at Athens, of Professor E. J. H. De 

 Loach. 



It is announced that Professor George 

 Hempl, of Stanford University, has made 

 important discoveries in the interpretation of 

 inscriptions left by the Etruscans. 



Professor S. A. Mitchell, of Columbia 

 University, on successive Saturday evenings, 

 beginning January 9, delivers a course of lec- 

 tures on " Astronomy " at the Wagner Insti- 

 tute, Philadelphia, as follows: (1) The sun 

 and its motion through space; (2) Eclipses of 

 the sun; (3) Wonders of the heavens revealed 

 by the spectroscope; (4) Foucault's pendu- 

 lum; (5) The moon; (6) Is Mars inhabited? 



The Southern California Science Associa- 

 tion was organized at Occidental College, Los 

 Angeles, Cal., on December 12. The next 

 meeting will be held in April at the Univer- 

 sity of Southern California, Los Angeles. The 

 following officers were elected at the meeting 

 for organization: President, W. A. Fiske, 



Occidental College, Los Angeles; Vice-presi- 

 dent, W. E. Bowker, University of Southern 

 California, Los Angeles; Secretary-treasurer, 

 H. T. Clifton, Throop Polytechnic Institute, 

 Pasadena. 



At the meeting of the Middletown Scientific 

 Association, on January 12, Charles Edward 

 Amory Winslow, assistant professor of sani- 

 tary biology at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, gave an illustrated lecture on 

 " Water Supply and Water Purification." 



Dr. John A. Brashear lectured at Lehigh 

 University on December 11 on contributions of 

 photography to our knowledge of the stellar 

 universe. 



The agricultural faculty and experiment 

 station staff of Clemson College, S. C, have 

 formed an organization to be known as the 

 Clemson Biological Club. Dr. C. H. Shattuck 

 has been elected president and Professor A. P. 

 Conradi, secretary. Eegular meetings will be 

 held each week. 



The British Admiralty will restore Halley's 

 grave in the old burial-ground of Lee Parish 

 Church. E. Halley, who was the astronomer 

 royal from 1Y21 to 1742, was given the tem- 

 porary rank of a captain in the navy, and 

 commanded a ship of war in 1698-1701, for 

 the purpose of making observations for mag- 

 netic variations. 



A committee has been formed in Denmark 

 to erect a memorial to Mylius Erichsen, who 

 perished with his companions while engaged 

 in explorations in Greenland. It is expected 

 that the memorial will take the form of a 

 lighthouse to be erected on the Danish coast. 



A monument to Professor von Krafft-Ebing, 

 was unveiled in the hall of the University of 

 Vienna at the time of the recent international 

 congress in that city on the care of the insane. 



It is proposed to erect a building for surgi- 

 cal eases in connection with the Presbyterian 

 Hospital, New York, as a memorial to the late 

 Dr. Andrew J. McCosh. The chairman of the • 

 committee having charge of the memorial is 

 Mr. John S. Kennedy, New York City. 



The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci- 

 ences held a Charles Darwin centennial meet- 



