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elected an honorary member of the Russian 

 Geographical Society. 



Sir Ernest Eutherford, professor of phys- 

 ics, University of Manchester, has been elected 

 a member of the Athenaeum Club for eminence 

 in science. 



At a recent meeting of the Eoyal Geograph- 

 ical Society the president (Mr. Douglas Fresh- 

 field) announced that the king had approved 

 of the award of the Royal Medals for the pres- 

 ent year as follows: 



The Founders' Medal to Commander D. G. 

 Hogarth, for his explorations and other geograph- 

 ical work in Asiatic Turkey, 1887-1911. 



The Patrons' Medal to Brigadier- General Eaw- 

 ling, for his explorations in western Tibet and 

 Eudok, 1903; his journey from Gyanste to Simla 

 via Gartok, and his exploration in New Guinea, 

 1908. 



The Victoria Medal is awarded to Dr. J. Scott 

 Keltie for his eminent services to geography dur- 

 ing his secretaryship of the society. 



The other awards are as follows : 



The Murchison grant to Eai Bahadur Lai Singh 

 for his devoted work as surveyor to the expedition 

 of Sir Aurel Stein. 



The Back grant to the Eev. "Walter Weston for 

 his travels and explorations in the Japanese Alps 

 — a district previously unknown to Europeans. 



The Cuthbert Peak grant to Dr. A. M. KoUas 

 for his explorations and ascent of new peaks in 

 Sikkim and his investigation of the effects of high 

 altitude. 



The GUI Memorial to Mr. E. C. Wilton for his 

 geographical work in southwestern China. 



Mr. Hubert jAR-^as, assistant entomologist 

 of Queensland, made a trip to Hawaii during 

 February. In spite of the brief time that Mr. 

 Jarvis spent in the islands he was very success- 

 ful in his mission, which was the securing of a 

 considerable stock of the lantana Agromyzid 

 flies for his government. The signal success of 

 these flies in Hawaii, in preventing the seed- 

 ing of this most troublesome weed, has led 

 other countries to seek similar relief. This 

 Agromyzid, which apparently is an unnamed 

 species, was introduced into the Hawaiian Is- 

 lands by Mr. Albert Koebele, many years ago. 



The directors of the Fenger Memorial Asso- 

 ciation have made a grant of $400 to Pierce 



McKenzie for supiwrt of chemical and other 

 work under the direction of Dr. E. E. LeCount. 

 He will study the brain and other tissues from 

 cases of heat stroke in order to determine, if 

 possible, better than now known, the cause of 

 the high temperature in this condition. 



The Lane Medical lectures at Stanford Uni- 

 versity for the year 1917 will be delivered by 

 Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the laboratories 

 of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search, during the week beginning on October 

 8. There will be five lectures in all and they 

 will be given on consecutive evenings, at 8 

 o'clock. The subject of the series will be: 

 "Physical Basis and present Status of Specific 

 Serum and Drug Therapy." 



Professor Martin H. Fischer, of the Uni- 

 versity of Cincinnati, addressed the !New York 

 Section of the Society of Chemical Industry, 

 on April 13, on " Some Technical Aspects of 

 Colloid Emulsion Chemistry." 



On March 20 Dr. David D. Whitney, of the 

 University of IN'ebraska, delivered an address 

 before the Science Club of the Kansas State 

 Agricultural College on " The Determination 

 of Sex." This address is the first of a series of 

 addresses on scientific subjects of popular in- 

 terest planned by the club this spring. 



Dr. Alexander Scott, the retiring president 

 of the British Chemical Society, delivered an 

 address entitled " The Atomic Theory " at the 

 annual meeting on March 29. 



Sm J. Wolfe Barry will deliver the " James 

 Forrest " lecture before the British Institution 

 of Civil Engineers on May 2, taking as his 

 subject, " The Standardization of Engineering 

 Materials and its Influence on the Trade and 

 Prosperity of the Country." 



Lectures to be given at the Royal Institu- 

 tion, London, include two by Professor C. S. 

 Sherrington, on " Tetanus : Its Prevention, 

 Symptoms and Treatment," and on " Rhyth- 

 mic Action in Muscle and in Nerve." Pro- 

 fessor D'Arcy W. Thompson will give two lec- 

 tures on laws of growth and form; and Pro- 

 fessor William Bateson two on " Heredity." 

 Among the Friday discourses will be one on 

 the organs of hearing in relation to war by 



