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to return to London at the end of June. Lieu- 

 tenant Johnston as soon as possible after the 

 eclipse will rejoin the Carnegie, as second in 

 command. During the war he was on duty 

 with the Admiralty Compass Department at 

 Slough, England. 



The llontyon prize ($500) has been awarded 

 by the Paris Academy of Sciences to Drs. 

 Henri Guillemard and Andre Labat, of Paris, 

 for their researches on asphyxiating gases. 



The Adams Prize of the University of Cam- 

 bridge has been awarded to Professor J. "W. 

 Nicholson, F.E.S., for an essay on " Difirac- 

 tion." 



According to the Proceedings of the Wash- 

 ington Academy of Sciences Dr. Olaf Ander- 

 sen of the Mineralogical Institute, Kristiania, 

 and Professor Sem Sealand, professor of 

 physics and rector of the Technological In- 

 stitute of l^orway, at Trondlijem, have been 

 visiting Washington. 



Dr. J. IST. Van der Vries has resigned his 

 position as professor of mathematics at the 

 University of Kansas to continue his work as 

 secretary of the central district of the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce of the United States, with 

 headquarters at Chicago. 



Professor Arthur A. ISTeish is giving before 

 the Institute of Arts and Sciences of Colum- 

 bia University four lectures on " Liquid air ; 

 chemistry and the war." 



The annual joint meeting of the University 

 of Pennsylvania Chapters of the Sigma Xi 

 and Phi Beta Kappa Societies was held on 

 May 1. The address was by Dr. William E. 

 Safford, economic botanist, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, former governor of the island 

 of Guam, Pacific ocean, on " Plants in the 

 arts and industries of the ancient Americans." 



The Tale Medical Alumni Association Lec- 

 ture for this year was given on April 4 by Dr. 

 William Gilman Thompson, of New Tork, on 

 the Fimctional restoration of the disabled sol- 

 dier and civilian. 



The Eamsay Memorial Committee has of- 

 fered to the University of London a sum of not 

 less than £25,000 towards the foundation of a 



laboratory of chemical engineering at Univer- 

 sity College. 



Charles Brinkerhoff Richards, for twenty- 

 five years Higgins professor of mechanical 

 engineering at Yale University, and for the 

 last nine years emeritus professor, died on 

 April 20, in his eighty-sixth year. 



Nature records the deaths of Sir James 

 MacKenzie Davidson, t)he distinguished oph- 

 thalmic surgeon and radiologist, and of Dr. 

 William Allen Sturge, author of papers on 

 prehistoric ethnology. 



R. W. H. Row, lecturer in zoology at King's 

 College, London, died on February 16, at the 

 'age of thirty-four years. 



The death is annoimced of Dr. K. H. v. 

 Bardeleben, professor of anatomy at the Uni- 

 versity of Jena and author of a long series 

 of works on anatomy and evolution at the 

 age of sixty-nine years, and of Dr. E. Kobert, 

 professor of pharmacology, physiologic chem- 

 istry and the history of medicine at the Uni- 

 versity of Rostock, an authority on materia 

 medica and physiologic chemistry, aged sixty- 

 five years. 



The New England Federation of Natural 

 History Societies held its annual meeting on 

 April 25 and 26 in the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology. This is a federation of 

 some thirty societies of the New England 

 states which has an annual gathering in Bos- 

 ton, at which the representatives of the dif- 

 ferent associations exchange experiences in 

 matters of natural history. Delegates were 

 present from Springfield, Mass. ; Worcester, 

 Mass. ; Providence, R. I. ; New Bedford, Mass. ; 

 Lawrence, Mass., and points in Maine and 

 New Hamipshire. There were exhibitions of 

 various items in methods of handling speci- 

 mens. 



The American Astronomical Society will 

 hold its annual meeting in Ann Arbor from 

 September 1 to 3. It is announced that there 

 will be in attendance at the conference, repre- 

 sentatives from the observatories of Green- 

 wich, Oxford, Cambridge, Vienna and Pots- 

 dam. 



