August 2, 1912] 



SCIENCE 



130 



CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OP AMERICA 



Ignatius Albert Wagner : ' ' The Condensation of 

 Acetone by Means of Calcium Carbide. ' ' 



UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI 



Frances Kohnky: "The Subjective Element in 

 Mysticism. ' ' 



UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH 



Harry Nelson Eaton: "Geology of South Moun- 

 tain and the Beading Hills, Pennsylvania." 



VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY 



Ernest Victor Jones: "A Spectrographie Study 

 of Tellurium." 



WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY 



Charles Haskell Danf orth : ' ' The Anatomy of 

 Polyodon. ' ' 



TEE CELEBSATION OF THE TWO EUN- 



BEEDTE ANNIVERSARY OF TEE 



ROYAL SOCIETY 



The celebration of the two hundred and 

 fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the 

 Eoyal Society of London began on Monday, 

 July 15, when the president and the fellows 

 received their guests informally in the rooms 

 of the society at Burlington House. The first 

 formal recognition of the anniversary, apart 

 from the visit of the president and the treas- 

 urer to the king to present to him the memo- 

 rial volumes on Saturday, was at noon on 

 Tuesday at Westminster Abbey, when a special 

 service was held. The dean of Westminster 

 preached the sermon, taking his text from 

 Esdras, " Truth abounds and is strong for 

 ever." The formal reception of the delegates 

 took place in the afternoon at Burlington 

 House. After formally giving the delegates 

 welcome, Sir Archibald Geikie, the president, 

 made an address in which he traced the origin 

 and early days of the society. 



The ceremony of presenting addresses of 

 congratulation followed. Besides the formal 

 addresses, there were speeches by a representa- 

 tive of each country or dominion. The se- 

 lected speakers were: 



Austria-Hungary — Professor Izidor Prohlich, 

 rector of the Eoyal Hungarian University, Buda- 

 pest. 



Belgium — Professor Louis Dallo, Aead^mie Eoy- 

 ale des Sciences, Brussels. 



Denmark — Professor Hector F. E. Jurgensen, 

 University of Copenhagen. 



France — M. Gabriel Lippmann, president of the 

 Aeademie des Sciences de I'Institut, Paris. 



Germany — Professor Dr. Woldemar Voigt, rector 

 of the University of Gottingen. 



Greece — Professor Andrew Andreades, Univer- 

 sity of Athens. 



Italy — Professor Vito Volterra, University of 

 Eome. 



Monaco — Mr. J. Y. Buchanan, F.E.S., Oceano- 

 graphical Institute. 



Netherlands — Professor P. Zeeman, secretary of 

 the Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam. 



Norway — Professor H. Mohn, president of the 

 Academy of Sciences of Christiania. 



Eussia — Dr. O. Backlund, Acad. Impgriale des 

 Sciences, St. Petersburg. 



Spain — Professor Eodriguez Carracido, Eeal 

 Acad, de Oiencias, Madrid. 



Sweden — Count K. A. H. Morner, vice-president, 

 Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Akademie, Stock- 

 holm. 



Switzerland — Professor E. Naville, University of 

 Geneva. 



Egypt — Dr. James Currie, principal of the Gor- 

 don College, Khartum. 



Japan — Professor E. Fujisawa, Imperial Uni- 

 versity, Tokyo. 



United States — Professor W. B. Scott, vice- 

 president American Philosophical Society, Phila- 

 delphia. 



Australia — Professor H. Laurie, University of 

 Melbourne. 



Canada — Dr. W. Peterson, principal, McGill 

 University, Toronto. 



India — Dr. F. G. Selby, late vice-chancellor,. 

 University of Bombay. 



South Africa— Sir David Gill, F.E.S., Eoyal 

 Society of South Africa. 



England and Wales — ^Dr. C. B. Heberden, vice- 

 chancellor of Oxford (universities), and Sir C. H. 

 Eead, president, London Society of Antiquaries 

 (learned societies). 



Scotland — The Very Eev. Dr. G. Adam Smith, 

 principal of the University of Aberdeen. 



Ireland — Professor J. Joly, F.E.S., University of 

 Dublin (Trinity College). 



On Tuesday evening a banquet took place 

 at the Guild-hall. Sir Archibald Geikie was 

 in the chair and the principal addresses were 



