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stitute of Agriculture, citizens of the United 

 States and other countries who are in sym- 

 pathy with the purposes of the institute have 

 an opportunity to contribute to its support 

 and development and to receive permanent 

 recognition therefor as " donating members " 

 by having their names and nationality and 

 the date of their donation inscribed on a mar- 

 ble tablet which will be placed in a con- 

 spicuous position in the halls or vestibule of 

 the marble palace occupied by the institute, 

 situated in a beautiful park on an elevation 

 overlooking the Eternal City. Such donations 

 can be made either through the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, the Secretary of State, or the 

 American delegate to the International Insti- 

 tute of Agriculture, Eome, Italy. 



THE EDINBURGH MEETING OF THE BRITISH 

 ASSOCIATION 



As has already been noted here the British 

 Association meets at Edinburgh beginning 

 on September 7. It last met in that city in 

 1892 under the presidency of Sir Archibald 

 Geikie. The president. Sir Edward Thorpe, 

 will address the association on aspects and 

 problems of post-war science, pure and applied. 

 An evening discourse will be given by Pro- 

 fessor C. W. Inglis on a comparison of the 

 Forth and Quebec Bridges, and there will be 

 an opportunity to visit the former. Another 

 discourse will be given on Edinburgh and 

 oceanography by Professor W. A. Herdman, 

 who, as president of the association at Cardiff 

 last year, proposed a new exploration of the 

 oceans like that of the Challenger. Sir Oliver 

 Lodge will give the opening of the three lec- 

 tures to the citizens on " Speech through the 

 ether, or the scientific principles underlying 

 wireless telephony " ; Professor Dendy will lec- 

 ture on " The stream of life " ; and Professor 

 H. J. Fleure on " Countries as personalities." 

 A special lecture, arranged in collaboration 

 with Section M (Agriculture), for agricul- 

 turists will be given by Dr. E. J. Russell on 

 " Science and crop production." Hitherto all 

 addresses of the presidents of sections have 

 been formally read, and never discussed, but 

 in the present program, the following addresses 



are announced to initiate debates: Sir W. 

 Morley Fletcher, on the boundaries of physiol- 

 ogy; Professor Lloyd Morgan, on conscious- 

 ness and the unconscious, opening the newly 

 established section of psychology; Dr. D. H. 

 Scott, on the present position of the theory 

 of descent in relation to the early history of 

 plants; Sir Henry Hadow, on the place of 

 music in a liberal education; and Mr. C. S. 

 Orwin, on the study of agricultural economics. 

 Other addresses will be given on the problems 

 of physics by Professor O. W. Eichardson, 

 on the laboratory of the living organism by 

 Dr. M. O. Forster, by Dr. J. S. Flett on 

 experimental geology, by Professor E. S. 

 Goodrich on some problems in evolution, by 

 Dr. D. G. Hogarth on the application of ge- 

 ography, by Mr. W. L. Hichens on principles 

 by which wages are determined, and by Pro- 

 fessor A. H. Gibson on water power. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The South African Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science will meet next year at 

 Lorengo Marques under the presidency of Dr. 

 A. W. Rogers, director of the Geological 

 Survey of the Union of South Africa. 



The council of the Royal Society of Medi- 

 cine made, on July 6, the first award of its 

 gold medal to Sir Almroth Wright, F.R.S., 

 in recognition of his services to medicine 

 during the war. The medal is awarded for 

 original discovery in medicine and other allied 

 sciences, or for the practical application of the 

 results of previous investigations of other 

 scientists, or for the most valuable contribu- 

 tion in any other way towards the progress 

 of the art and science of medicine, preventive 

 medicine, or surgery. 



It is reported that Professor Edouard 

 Branly, of Paris, is to receive this year's 

 Nobel prize for physics. 



We learn from Nature that the French 

 Societe de Geographic has celebrated its cen- 

 tenary. There was a reception for delegates 

 at the house of Priilce Roland Bonaparte, 

 president of the society, and M. Millerand, 



