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sor A. Smithells, Professor W. L. Bragg, 

 Professor J. R. Partington, Professor A. 

 O. Eankine, and Dr. S. H. C. Briggs. 



The quinquennial prize for the best work 

 in the medical sciences, offered by the Brussels 

 Academy of Medicine, has been awarded to 

 Professor A. Brachet of the chair of anatomy 

 and embryology of the University of Brussels. 

 From exchanges we learn that the Univer- 

 sity of Vienna has created an honorai'y title 

 to express its gratitude to those who have aided 

 in relieving the material distress of the uni- 

 versity during the last few years. The honor- 

 ary title has been conferred on Dr. Ferriere, 

 the president of the International Red Cross, 

 and Dr. Franz Boas of Columbia University 

 besides the ambassadors of Great Britain 

 and Sweden, Mr. Herbert Hoover, the presi- 

 dent and ambassador of Argentina and an 

 English woman. Lady Mary Murray. 



Mr. J. P. BoNARDi, who has been with the 

 Bureau of Mines Experiment Station at Den- 

 ver for the past five years, has accepted a po- 

 sition as manager of the assay and chemical 

 department of the Mines and Smelter Supply 

 Co., of Denver, Colo. 



Major General W. L. Sibert, head of the 

 Chemical Warfare Service during the war, is 

 now on his farm in Warren County, Kentucky, 

 where some twenty oil wells are being de- 

 veloped. 



Mr. Charles K. Wead, for over twenty 

 years an examiner in the U. S. Patent Office 

 in the Class of Music, has resigned and gone 

 to Ann Arbor, Mich, to live. 



Professor Edward A. White, of Cornell 

 University, has sailed for England to spend 

 several months in study at the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens at Kew; he will also study commercial 

 floriculture in other parts of England and 

 Scotland, and in Holland and Belgium. 



The advisory committee provided for by the 

 Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act 

 recently enacted by the British Parliament has 

 been constituted as follows: Lord Crewe 

 (chairman), Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker and Dr. 

 W. Eagle Clarke (representing ornithology), 

 Mr. 0. F. Downham, Mr. W. G. Dunstall, and 



Mr. L. Joseph (representing the feather trade). 

 Lord Buxton, Capt. E. G. Fairholme, Mrs. 

 Reginald McKenna, and Mr. H. J. Massing- 

 ham. 



A memorial tablet was recently placed on 

 the house at Enghien-les-Bains, formerly oc- 

 cupied by the radiologist, A. Leray, who suc- 

 cumbed last spring to the effects of roentgen- 

 ray injury acquired during his work for the 

 wounded during the war. 



We learn from Nature that on July 21, a 

 memorial was unveiled in the public gardens at 

 Dartmouth to the memory of Thomas ISTew- 

 comen, the pioneer of the steam engine. New- 

 comen was born in Dartmouth in 1663; he 

 followed the trade of blacksmith there, and 

 was also a Baptist preacher. 



The Royal Photographic Society is collect- 

 ing funds for a memorial at Lacock to W. H. 

 Fox Talbot, distinguished for his work in sci- 

 entific photography. 



Nature announces the death, at the age of 

 eighty-nine years, of Samuel Alfred Varley, 

 known for his work on the applications of 

 electricity. 



Jules Carpentier, known for his work on 

 the designing and manufacture of electrical 

 and scientific apparatus, member of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences, has died at the age of 

 seventy years. 



Professor Oswald Schmiedebeeg, formerly 

 professor of experimental pharmacology in 

 Strasbourg, died in Baden-Baden on July 12, 

 at the age of 82. 



Professor N. A. Cholodkovsky, author of 

 works on entomology and helminthology, pro- 

 fessor emeritus in the Academy of Medicine 

 and at the Institute of Forestry, has died in 

 Petrograd at sixty-one years of age. Profes- 

 sor Cholodkovsky was also a distinguished 

 poet. 



A Reuters dispatch from Christiania dated 

 August 13 states that a telegram to the Af ten- 

 post from Hammerfest says that the expedi- 

 tion sent to Siberia to search for Tessem and 

 Knudsen, the missing members of the Amund- 

 sen expedition, failed to find any trace of the 



