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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. II. No. 33. 



to Dr. Henry de Varigny, of Paris, for the 

 best popular treatise upon atmospheric air, 

 its properties and relationships. Dr. de 

 "Varigny's essay is entitled ' L'Air et la 

 Vie.' 



(Signed) S. P. Langley, 



G. Brown Goode, 

 J. S. Billings, 

 M. W. Haeeington. 

 August 9, 1895. 



stjpplementaey eepoet of the committee 



appointed by the smithsonian 



institution to awaed the 



hodgkins fund peizes. 



After having performed the function to 

 which the Committee was called, as an- 

 nounced by the circular of the Secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, dated March 

 31, 189.3, which function did not include the 

 award of any medals, there remained sev- 

 eral papers to which the Committee had 

 been unable to give any prize but to which- 

 they had felt desirous to give some honora- 

 ble mention, and on their representing this 

 to the Smithsonian Institution they have 

 been commissioned to do so, and also to 

 give certatu medals of silver and bronze 

 which had been subsequently placed at 

 their disposition. 



The Committee has decided that honor- 

 able mention should be made of tlie papers, 

 twenty-one in number, included in the fol- 

 lowing list, which also gives the full names, 

 titles and addresses of the authors, and the 

 mottoes or pseudonyms which in four in- 

 stances were employed. To three of the 

 papers a silver medal is awarded and to 

 six a bronze medal. 



HONOEABLE MENTION WITH SILVER MEDAL. 



Prof. A. L. Herrera and Doctor Vergai-a 

 Lopez, of the City of Mexico: 'La Atmos- 

 fera de las altitudes y el bienstar del hombre. 



Mr. C. L. Madsden, ('Geo,') Helsingor, 

 near Copenhagen, Denmark. 



Thermographical Studies: Mr. F'. A. R. 

 Eussell, of London, Vice President of 



the Royal Meteorological Society of Great 

 Britain : ' The Atmosphere in relation to 

 Human Life and Health.' 



HONOEABLE MENTION WITH BRONZE MEDAL. 



M. E. Deburaux-Dex and M. Maurice 

 Dibos, (' Spes,') of Rouen, France: ' Etudes 

 des courants aeriens continentaux et de leur 

 utilisation par des serostats long-courriers.' 



Doctor O. Jesse, of Berlin: ' Dieleuchten- 

 den Nachtwolken.' 



Doctor A. Loewy, of Berlin: ' Unter- 

 suchungen ueber die Respiration und Cirku- 

 lation unter verdiinnter und verdichteter 

 Sauerstoffarmer und sauerstoifreicher Luft.' 



Mr. Alexander McAdie (' Dalgetty '), of 

 Washington: "The known properties of 

 atmospheric air considered in their rela- 

 tionships to research in every department 

 of natui-al science, and the importance of 

 a study of the atmosphere considered in 

 view of these relationships: the proper di- 

 rection of future research in connection with 

 the imperfections of our knowledge of at- 

 mospheric air and the conditions of that 

 knowledge with other sciences." 



Mr. Hiram S. Maxim, of Kent, England: 

 ' Natural and Artificial Flight.' 



Doctor Franz Oppenheimer and Doctor 

 Carl Oppenheimer (' E pur si muove '), of 

 Berlin, Germany: ' Ueber atmospharische 

 Luft, ihre Eigenschaften und ihren Zusam- 

 meuhang mit dem mensclilichen Leben.' 



HONORABLE MENTION. 



Mr. E. C. C. Baly, of University College, 

 London : ' The decomposition of the two 

 constituents of the atmosphere by means of 

 the passage of the electric spark.' 



Professor F. H. Bigelow, of Washington: 

 ' Solar and Terrestrial Magnetism and 

 their relation to Meteorology.' 



Doctor J. B. Cohen, of Yorkshire College, 

 Leeds, England : ' Tlie Air of Towns.' 



Doctor F. J. B. Cordeiro, U. S. N., of 

 Washington : ' Hypsometry.' 



