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fessor of pathology in the Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity, will mark the occasion of his twenty- 
fifth year as teacher and investigator, by 
dedicating to him a volume of their scientific 
contributions. Some seventy-five students have 
undertaken investigations under Dr. Welch’s 
leadership and nearly half of these will contrib- 
ute to the volume. Dr. F. P. Mall is the secre- 
tary of the committee of publication and to him 
communications and subscriptions should be 
addressed. The committee of publication con- 
sists of: A. C. Abbott, University of Pennsyl- 
vania; L. F. Barker, Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity; Wm. T. Councilman, Harvard University; 
Simon Flexner, University of Pennsylvania; 
W.S. Halsted, Johns Hopkins University ; A. 
C. Herter, University and Bellevue Hospital 
Medical College, New York; Wyatt Johnston, 
McGill University; F. P. Mall, Johns Hop- 
kins University; Henry F. Osborn, Colum- 
bia University, New York; Walter Reed, 
Army Medical Museum, Washington, D. C.; 
Geo. M. Sternberg, Surgeon General’s Office, 
Washington, D. C. 
AT the approaching meeting of the American 
Society of Naturalists, which will be held at 
New Haven on December 27th and 28th, a lec- 
ture will be given on Wednesday evening by 
Professor A. E. Verrill on ‘The Geology and 
Natural History of the Bermudas.’ Afterwards 
there will be a reception to members in Alumni 
Hall. The speakers in the discussion on ‘The 
Position that Universities should take in regard 
to Investigation’ will include Professors Thomas 
Dwight, R. H. Chittenden, William B. Scott 
and Joseph Jastrow. The address of the presi- 
dent, Professor W. G. Farlow, will be given, as 
we have already stated, on Thursday evening. 
THE Royal Society held its anniversary meet- 
ing on November 30th. In accordance with 
custom the president, Lord Lister, delivered an 
address in which he paid special attention to 
inoculation against the plague. The leading 
officers were reélected, except that Dr. T. EH. 
Thorpe was elected foreign secretary and the 
medals were conferred as already announced. 
The Council in its annual report referred es- 
pecially to the preliminary conference on an 
International Association of Scientific Acade- 
SCIENCE. 
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mies, the proposed International Catalogue of 
Scientific Literature, and the National Physical 
Laboratory. The annual dinner was held in 
the evening and speeches were made by Lord 
Lister, Lord Rayleigh and others. 
Tue American Chemical Society, on petition 
of those of its members who reside in Michigan, 
is now establishing a local section for that State. 
The headquarters are to be in Ann Arbor, and 
the meetings are to be held alternately in 
Detroit and at the University of Michigan. 
THE inauguration of Professor geistl. Rath 
Dr. Bach as Rector of the University of Munich, 
took place on November 25th. His address 
was entitled ‘Verhdltniss von Bildung und 
Arbeit.’ 
THE memorial lecture established by the 
Liverpool Society of Chemical Industry in 
memory of Dr. Ferdinand Hurter, was given 
for the first time by Professor C. Lunge, of 
Zurich, whose subject was ‘Impending Changes 
in the General Development of Industry and 
particularly in the Alkali Industry.’ 
Mr. CHARLES VERNON Boys, F.R.S., is to , 
deliver the annual course of Christmas lectures, 
specially adapted to young people, at the Royal 
Institution this year. He has chosen as his 
subject: ‘Fluids in Motion and at Rest.’ The 
lectures, which will be six in number, will com- 
mence on Thursday, December 28th, at three 
o’clock. 
Ir is proposed to hold an International Con- 
gress of Tuberculosis in May, 1901. 
Nature states that the budget of the German 
Imperial home office includes an item of 15,000 
Marks for the International Catalogue of Scien- 
tific Literature. 
Tue New York Board of Estimate has re- 
fused the request of the New York Zoological 
Society for an additional appropriation of 
$7,500 and the Mayor has refused to reconsider 
the question. 
THE subjects proposed by the Boston Society 
of Natural History for the Walker prizes in 
1900 are (1) Stratigraphy and correlation of the 
sedimentary formations of any part of New 
England; (2) A study in paleozoic stratig- 
raphy and correlation. 
