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received in that country. An award will be 

 made annually to the man of science who, hav- 

 ing been domiciled in Switzerland for five 

 years, is judged to have made the most note- 

 worthy contribution to science, particularly in 

 relation to human life, during the preceding 

 year. 



Professor Guiseppe Tomassi has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Royal Institute for 

 Agricultural Chemistry in Rome. 



Professor Henry Louis has been elected 

 honorary secretary of the Institute of Mining 

 and Mechanical Engineers of the north of Eng- 

 land. 



The Kindborn Prize of the Swedish Acad- 

 emy of Sciences at Stockholm has been divided 

 equally between Professor Sven Oden for his 

 work on precipitation and C Lonnquist for 

 his investigation on the temperature of the in- 

 terior of the earth. 



We learn from Nature that the Committee 

 of Privy Council for Medical Research has ap- 

 pointed Sir F. W. Andrewes and Sir Cuthbert 

 Wallace to fill the vacancies on the Medical Re- 

 search Council caused by the retirement of 

 Mr. C. J. Bond and Professor W. Bullock, in 

 accordance with the provisions for rotation 

 made in the Royal Charter under which the 

 council is incorporated. 



Mr. D. Prain, agriculturist, Nyasaland, has 

 been appointed to be senior district agricultural 

 officer in Tanganyika Territory; Mr. H. A. 

 Dade to be assistant mycologist in the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Gold Coast; and Mr. J. 

 A. Robotham to be assistant agricultural 

 sufierintendent, St. Kitts-Nevis. 



The American School in France for Pre- 

 historic Studies has completed its first term's 

 work in Charente, Dordogne, Correze, and 

 the French Pyrenees. Professor George 

 Grant MacCurdy of Yale University, director 

 of the school, has returned to Paris for the 

 winter term. 



After two years spent as adviser to the food 

 minister of Poland, E. Dana Durand, pro- 

 fessor of economics in the University of Min- 

 nesota, has returned to the United States, and 

 has been appointed chief of the eastern Euro- 



pean division of the Bureau of Foreign and 

 Domestic Commerce. 



Dr. C. Eugexe Riggs, president of the Min- 

 nesota State Medical Association, gave a 

 Mayo Foundation lecture at Rochester, Minn., 

 on October 4. Dr. Riggs repeated his presi- 

 dential address, " Minnesota medicine in the 

 making; personal reminiscences," which he 

 gave at the meeting of the Minnesota State 

 Medical Association, in Duluth, on August 

 24. Dr. Cyrus Northrop, ex-president of the 

 University of Minnesota, delivered a Mayo 

 Foundation lecture on general education on 

 October 11. 



Professor Edgar James Swift, head of the 

 department of psychology and education in 

 Washington University, has been invited to 

 give three lectures before the student officers 

 of the Post Graduate School of the U. S. 

 Naval Academy at Annapolis. The first lec- 

 ture, " The Psychology of Managing Men," 

 was given October 8 ; the second, " Thinking 

 and Acting," will be given January 28, and 

 the third, " The Psychology of Testimony 

 and Rumor," April 8. 



The Harveian Oration before the Royal Col- 

 lege of Physicians of London will be delivered 

 by Dr. Herbert Spencer on October 18. The 

 Mitchell lecture by Dr. Parkes Weber, on the 

 relation of tuberculosis to general conditions 

 of the body and diseases other than tubercu- 

 losis, will be given on November 1. Dr. Michael 

 Grabham will deliver the Bradshaw lecture, on 

 subtropical esculents, on November 3. The 

 Fitzpatrick lecture, on Hippocrates in relation 

 to the philosophy of his time, will be given by 

 Dr. R. O. Moon, on November 8. 



The following public lectures were given 

 during October at University College, Lon- 

 don: Beginning October 10 Professor Eliot 

 Smith gave the first of thi*ee lectures on The 

 Beginnings of Science; on October 12 Dr. 

 A. Wolf began a series of lectures on the 

 general history and development of science; 

 and October 14 Dr. J. C. Drummond began 

 a course of eight public lectures on nutrition. 



The fourth annual Streatfeild memorial 

 lecture was delivered at the Finsbury Techni- 



