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Pennsylvania Geological Survey and of the 

 coal industry. 



At the meeting of the Cambridge Philosoph- 

 ical Society held on May 18, as we learn from 

 Nature, the following were elected honorary 

 members of the society: Dr. H. E. Armstrong; 

 Professor J. Bordet, the University, Brussels; 

 Madame Curie, the Sorbonne, Paris; Pro- 

 fessor F. Czapek, the German University, 

 Prague; Professor T. W. Edgeworth David, 

 the University, Sydney; Colonel W. C. Gorgas, 

 Medical Corps, U. S. A. Army; Professor P. 

 H. von Groth, the University, Munich; Pro- 

 fessor Jacques Hadamard, the College de 

 Prance, Paris; Dr. G. E. Hale, director of the 

 Mount Wilson Solar Observatory; Dr. Pran- 

 gois A. A. Lacroix, Natural History Museum, 

 Paris; Professor C. Lapworth, late professor 

 of geology, the University, Birmingham; Pro- 

 fessor H. Lebesgue, the Sorbonne, Paris; Dr. 

 •Jacques Loeb, the Rockefeller Institute, New 

 York ; Professor Arthur Looss, the Government 

 ■School of Medicine, Cairo; Professor H. A. 

 IiOrentz, the University, Leyden; Professor M. 

 Planck, the University, Berlin; Lieut.-Col. 

 Leonard Rogers, the Medical College, Cal- 

 cutta ; Professor Gustav Schwalbe, the Univer- 

 sity, Strassburg; Dr. Karl Schwarzschild, the 

 University, Berlin; Dr. D. H. Scott, foreign 

 secretary, Royal Society; Professor E. B. Wil- 

 son, Columbia University, New York; A. F. 

 Yarrow, Blanefield, Glasgow; Professor P. Zee- 

 man, the University, Amsterdam. The society 

 will celebrate in 1919 the centenary of its foun- 

 dation. 



Dr. W. H. R. Rivers has been appointed to 

 represent the University of Cambridge at the 

 nineteenth International Congress of Ameri- 

 canists td be held at Washington in October 

 next. 



The Hon. Bertrand A. W. Russell, lecturer 

 in Trinity College, Cambridge, has been 

 elected Herbert Spencer Lecturer for the year 

 1914^15 at Oxford. 



Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, known for his 

 important discoveries in connection with the 

 carbon filament lamp, electro-chemistry and 



photography, died on May 27, in his eighty- 

 sixth year. 



Dr. Philip Henry Pye-Smith, a distin- 

 guished London physician and man of science, 

 died on May 23, at the age of seventy-five 

 years. 



The death is also announced of Dr. George 

 Dean, regius professor of pathology in the 

 University of Aberdeen. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for an assistant 

 physicist, qualified in metallography, to fill 

 a vacancy in this position in the bureau of 

 standards. Department of Commerce, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, at a salary of $1,400 to $1,800 

 a year. 



The magnetic survey yacht Carnegie left 

 Brooklyn, on June 8, under the command of 

 Capt. J. L. Ault, for a cruise in the North. 

 Atlantic Ocean to Norway (Hammerfest) and 

 Iceland. The vessel will return to Brooklyn 

 again about December 1. 



The schooner George B. Cluett, of the Gren- 

 fell Association, has been chartered by the 

 department of terrestrial magnetism of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington for a 

 cruise to Hudson Bay this summer. The ex- 

 pedition will be in charge of W. J. Peters, 

 assisted by D. W. Berky, and will leave Battle 

 Harbor, Labrador, on July 1. 



Owing to the fact that the Cartier celebra- 

 tion will be held in Montreal during the week 

 beginning on September 6, and the resultant 

 congestion of hotel and transportation facil- 

 ities, the meeting of the American Chemical 

 Society in that city has been changed to 

 September 15-18. 



The seventh congress of the International 

 Association for Testing Materials will be held 

 under the patronage of the Czar of Russia, in 

 St. Petersburg, on August 12-17, 1915. After 

 the congress extensive excursions in the inte- 

 rior of Russia have been arranged. 



By the will of Harris Charles Fahnestock, 

 of New York, $550,000 is bequeathed to New 

 York city hospitals and charities. 



