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was retired as rear admiral on December 17th, 
on reaching the age of sixty years. Professor 
Stinson Joseph Brown has been appointed to 
the position. He was born at Hammondsport, 
N. Y., in 1854, and graduated from the Naval 
Academy in 1876. He was employed in the 
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and in 1881 
obtained by competitive examination a profes- 
sorship of mathematics in the Navy. 
M. Lemorne has been elected a member of 
the Section of Chemistry of the Paris Academy 
of Sciences in the room of the late M. Friedel. 
M. Lemoine received 32 of the 57 votes cast. 
PROFESSOR JOSIAH Royce of Harvard Uni- 
versity, sailed from New York on December 
27th, in order to give his second course of Gif- 
ford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen. 
Professor Royce will also lecture at Glasgow and 
Oxford. He will return to Cambridge early in 
February. 
PROFESSOR ALBERT P. BRIGHAM, of Colgate 
University, who has been abroad with his 
family for ten months, has returned, and will 
resume his college duties with the new term. 
During his absence, Professor Brigham has 
traveled extensively in England, Scotland, 
Germany, and Switzerland, and has spent a 
number of weeks in study and literary work at 
Oxford and Munich. 
Mr. ARTHUR HENRY SAVAGE LANDOR, the 
explorer, arrived in New York from England on 
December 23d. 
AMONG the passengers by the mail steamer 
Bakana for the west coast of Africa on Decem- 
ber 8th were three medical men, Dr. Christo- 
pher, Dr. Stephens, and Mr. A. Pickels, bound 
for Sierra Leone and Lagos. They are going 
out at the expense of the Colonial Office, hay- 
ing been selected by the Royal Society, and 
their work will be carried on under the auspices 
of the Liverpool School for Tropical Diseases. 
Drs. WILLIAM OSLER and Howard Kelly, 
of Baltimore, have been elected honorary mem- 
bers of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Ire- 
land. 
TuE Royal Geographical Society London has 
elected the following honorary corresponding 
members: Captain Meliton Carbajal (president 
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of the Peruvian Geographical Society), Professor 
A. Bertrand (professor of topography and engi- 
neering in the University of Santiago, Chile), 
and Sefior D. Samuel A. Lafone Quevedo, a dis- 
tinguished geographer and ethnologist of Buenos 
Ayres. 
Mr. Baitey WILLIs of the United States 
Geological Survey, addressed the members of 
the Geological Club of the University of Chicago 
on November 29th, on ‘A Pacific Atlantis.’ 
THE centennial anniversary of the birth of 
Joseph Henry, was celebrated at his birthplace, 
Albany, on December 16th, at a joint meeting 
of the Albany Institute and the Albany His- 
torical and Art Society. The exercises were 
held at the Albany Academy where Henry 
taught for many years before going to Princeton 
and the Smithsonian Institution. 
THE death is announced of Dr. Birsch-Hirsch- 
feld, professor of pathology in the University 
of Leipzig, at the age of 57 years. 
THE death is also announced of Dr. John 
Frederick Hodges, professor of agriculture and 
lecturer on medical jurisprudence in Queen’s 
College, Belfast. Dr. Hodges was the au- 
thor of books on chemistry and agriculture: 
and was perhaps the oldest member of the 
Chemical Society of London, having been 
elected a fellow in 1844, three years after the 
formation of the Society. 
Dr. ARTHUR COWELL STARK was killed by 
the explosion of a shell on November 18th at 
Ladysmith, where he was serving as a volun- 
teer on the medical staff. Dr. Stark was an 
authority on South African ornithology and had 
just completed the first volume of a work on 
South African birds for Mr. W. L. Sclater’s 
Fauna of South Africa. 
WE regret also to record the death of Mr. N. 
E. Green, an artist who accomplished important 
scientific work in making astronomical draw- 
ings. He was a past president of the British As- 
tronomical Association. 
Tue American Museum of Natural History 
has secured through the generosity of President 
Jesup the second part of the Cope collection of 
fishes, amphibia and reptiles. It will be re- 
membered that by the will of the late Professor 
