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tory, administration, party organization and 

 economics, combined with accurate reporting 

 and graphic writing has not yet been attempted 

 on the same scale and under such favorable 

 conditions. It is planned by newspaper men, 

 it is taught by newspaper men, and it repro- 

 duces newspaper conditions in order to train 

 the newspaper man. 



BBITISH ASSOCIATION GRANTS FOB 

 EESEABCE 



At the Dundee meeting of the British As- 

 sociation grants for research amounting to 

 over $5,000 were made as follows : 



Professor H. H. Turner, seismological observa- 

 tions, £60; Dr. W. N. Shaw, upper atmosphere, 

 £50; Sir W. Ramsay, grant to the International 

 Commission on Physical and Chemical Constants, 

 £40; Professor M. J. M. Hill, tabulation of 

 Bessel functions, £30; Dr. W. H. Perkin, study of 

 hydro-aromatic substances, £20; Professor H. E. 

 Armstrong, dynamic isomerism, £30; Professor F. 

 S. Kipping, transformation of aromatic nitro- 

 amines, £20; A. D. Hall, plant enzymes, £30; 

 E. H. Tiddeman, erratic blocks, £5; Professor W. 

 W. Watts, igneous and associated sedimentary rocks 

 of Glensaul, £10; Professor P. F. Kendall, list of 

 characteristic fossils, £5; Dr. J. Home, Old Red 

 Sandstone of Dura Den, £75; Dr. A. Strachan, 

 Ramsay Island, Pembroke, £10; Professor Gren- 

 ville Cole, Old Red Sandstone of Kiltorean, £15; 

 Professor S. J. Hickson, table at the Zoological 

 Station at Naples, £30; Dr. A. E. Shipley, Belmul- 

 let Whaling Station, £15; Dr. Chalmers Mitchell, 

 nomenelator animalium genera et subgenera, £100; 

 Sir W. H. Preeee, gaseous explosions, £80; Dr. R. 

 Munro, Glastonbury Lake Village, £5; C. H. Read, 

 age of stone circles, £2; Dr. R. Munro, artificial 

 islands in Highland lochs, £5; Professor G. Elliot 

 Smith, physical character of ancient Egyptians, 

 £34; Professor A. Thomson, anthropometric investi- 

 gations in British Isles, £5; Professor W. Ridge- 

 way, Roman sites in Britain, £15 ; Professor W. 

 Ridgeway, excavations in Macedonia, £30; E. S. 

 Hartland, Ilausa manuscripts, £20 ; Professor E. 

 A. Schiifer, the ductless glands, £40; Professor S. 

 J. Hickson, table at the Zoological Station at 

 Naples, £20; Professor J. S. Maedonald, calori- 

 metric observations, £45 ; Professor Starling, oxy- 

 hemoglobin, £15; Professor F. Goteh, mammalian 

 heart, £20; Dr. D. H. Scott, structure of fossil 

 plants, £35; Professor A. C. Seward, Jurassic 



flora of Yorkshire, £15; Professor F. Keeble, flora 

 of peat of Kennet Valley, £15; A. G. Tansley, 

 vegetation of Ditcham Park, £45; Professor J. J. 

 Findlay, mental and physical factors, £20; Dr. G. 

 A. Auden, influence of school books on eyesight, 

 £15; Sir H. Miers, scholarships, etc., held by 

 university students, £5. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. Lewis Boss, director of the Dudley Ob- 

 servatory, Albany, since 1875, and director of 

 the department of meridian astronomy of the 

 Carnegie Institution, died on October 5, aged 

 sixty-six years. 



Professor Morris Loeb, the distinguished 

 chemist of New York City, died on October 8, 

 aged forty-nine years. 



The Huxley Lecture will be delivered at 

 Charing Cross Hospital Medical College on 

 October 31 by Dr. Simon Flexner, of the 

 New York Rockefeller Institute. The sub- 

 ject he has chosen is " Recent Advances in 

 Science in Relation to Practical Medicine." 

 Previous lecturers have been Professor Vir- 

 chow, Lord Lister, Professor Welch, Professor 

 Pavlov, Sir Patrick Manson, Sir William 

 Maeewen and Dr. F. W. Mott. 



Professor Mary W. Whitney, director of 

 the Vassar College Observatory since 1888, re- 

 tires on a pension of the Carnegie Foundation 

 as professor emeritus of astronomy. 



Professor H. J. Wheeler, former acting 

 president of the Rhode Island State College, 

 at Kingston, R. I., and for eleven years direc- 

 tor of the government agricultural experiment 

 station at that institution, has tendered his 

 resignation. 



Dr. M. W. Haskell, professor of mathe- 

 matics in the TJniversity of California, has 

 received a half-year's leave of absence, which 

 he is spending abroad. 



Dr. David H. Tennent, professor of biology 

 at Bryn Mawr College, has returned after a 

 year's leave of absence spent partly in the 

 Bahama Islands and partly at Naples. 



Dr. Frederick H. Getman, associate in 

 physical chemistry at Bryn Mawr College, has 



