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M. Louis Grntit has been elected president 
of the French Geological Society. 
Tue Geological Society of London will this 
year award its medals and funds as follows: 
Wollaston medal, to Mr. Lazarus Fletcher, 
F.R.S.; Murchison medal, to Professor Louis 
Dollo; Lyell medal, to Mr. Philip Lake; Wol- 
laston fund, to Mr. OC. I. Gardiner; Murchison 
fund, to Dr. Arthur Morley Davies; Lyell 
fund, to Dr. A. R. Dwerryhouse and Mr. R. 
H. Rastall. 
Av a recent meeting of the Rumford Com- 
mittee of the American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences, a grant of $250 in addition to 
former appropriations was made to Professor 
A. L. Clark, of the Kingston School of Min- 
ing, in aid of his research on the physical 
properties of vapors in the neighborhood of 
the critical point. 
Dr. FREDERICK CHEEVER SHATTUCK has re- 
signed the Jackson professorship of clinical 
medicine at Harvard Medical School, which he 
has held for the past twenty-four years. Dr. 
Shattuck will become professor emeritus on 
September 1, 1912. 
Dr. C. Raunxiir has been appointed pro- 
fessor of botany and director of the botanical 
garden at Copenhagen in succession to Pro- 
fessor Eugene Warming, who retires from 
active service. 
Siwney L. Gap, instructor in mineralogy, 
Cornell University, has been appointed as- 
sistant state geologist of Georgia, to succeed 
Otto Veatch, who accepts a position with the 
U. S. Bureau of Soils. 
Mr. A. C. Veatcu, having returned from a 
year’s examinations and explorations in the 
Trinidad and Venezuela oil fields, and having 
resigned from the U. S. Geological Survey, 
where he was geologist and chairman of the 
land classification board, will practise as a 
consulting geologist. 
Dr. Max UBtLeE has resigned the directorship 
of the Museo de Historia Nacional at Lima, 
Peru, and accepted the offer of the Chilian 
government to take charge of its archeological 
research, with headquarters at Santiago. 
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Dr. Gerorce Bruce Hatstep’s “ Rational 
Geometry,” has been translated into the 
French language by M. Paul Barbarian and 
published by Gauthier-Villars. The book has 
also been translated into German and Jap- 
anese. 
Proressor Wm. Patten, of Dartmouth Col- 
lege, and Mrs. Patten sailed from San Fran- 
cisco on January 24 for Honolulu, Fiji, Auck- 
land and Sydney. His book on “ The Origin 
of Vertebrates,” of which he has just finished 
the proofreading, will soon be published by 
P. Blakiston’s Sons, Philadelphia. 
Proressor ALEXANDER SmiTH, head of the 
chemistry department of Columbia Univer- 
sity, lectured before a joint meeting of the 
Syracuse Chapter of Sigma Xi and the Syra- 
cuse Section of the American Chemical So- 
ciety on the evening of January 19, on “ Some 
Essentials in the Teaching of Chemistry 
which are often neglected.” 
Dr. WaLDemMar Kocu, assistant professor of 
pharmacology in the University of Chicago, 
known for his important researches in the 
chemistry of lecithin and of the brain, and on 
the quantitative study of animal tissue, died 
of pneumonia on February 2, aged thirty-six 
years. Dr. Koch was the nephew of Robert 
Koch. 
Mr. Cuartes Fryney Cox, treasurer of the 
New York Academy of Sciences and of the 
New York Botanical Garden, past-president of 
the academy and the author of contributions 
on botanical and zoological histology and the 
theory of evolution, has died at the age of 
sixty-six years. 
CHARLES GILBERT WHEELER, assistant state 
geologist of Missouri from 1859 to 1861, pro- 
fessor of chemistry in the old University of 
Chicago, from 1868 to 1889, since then con- 
sulting mining geologist and mining expert, 
died on January 30 in Chicago, at the age of 
seventy-five years. 
Dr. SopHta JEX-BLAKE, who was responsible 
for the foundation of schools of medicine for 
women in London and Edinburgh, and prac- 
tised medicine for many years in Edinburgh, 
has died at the age of seventy-two years. 
