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THE fourth banquet of the Paris Scientia was 
given to M. Marey on January 14th. Speeches 
were made by MM. de Parville, D’ Arsonval and 
Richet. M. Marey made a reply, in the course 
of which he called attention to the progress of 
the plans for the standardization of physiolog- 
ical instruments. It appears that the City of 
Paris has set aside a building where the com- 
mission may carry on tests. 
THE Adams Prize for 1901, open to the com- 
petition of all persons who have at any time 
been admitted to a degree in Cambridge Uni- 
versity, has been awarded to Hector Munro 
Macdonald, M.A., fellow of Clare, for an es- 
say on ‘ Electric Waves.’ 
Proressor A. D. MEAD, of Brown Univer- 
sity, has been appointed a member of the Inland 
Fish Commission of Rhode Island, in succession 
to Professor H. C. Bumpus who resigned, owing 
to his removal to the American Museum of 
Natural History, New York City. 
Ar the meeting of the Paris Academy of 
Medicine on January 29th, M. Jaccoud was 
elected to the post of permanent secretary, va- 
cant by the death of M. Bergeron. 
PROFESSOR DAvID P. Topp, of Amherst Col- 
lege, will sail next week for Singapore, to ob- 
serve the total eclipse of May 18th in the Island 
of Sinkop. Mrs. Todd will accompany the ex- 
pedition to accumulate material for revising her 
work on ‘Total Eclipses of the Sun,’ a new 
edition of which was published by Little, Brown 
& Co. a year ago. A botanist, also possibly an 
anthropologist, will be attached to the expedi- 
tion, which is expected to return in August. 
WE learn from the Electrical World that Pro- 
fessor R. A. Fessenden and his corps of assist- 
ants, sent out by the Government to establish 
wireless telegraph stations down the coast, have 
completed the first installation off Roanoke 
Island, N. C. The station is not far from Cape 
Hatteras. 
Dr. FREDERICK A. Coox has returned to 
New York after having attended a meeting at 
Brussels of those interested in the publication 
of the reports of the Belgian Antarctic expedi- 
tion. 
PRoressor M. I. Puprn, of Columbia Univer- 
sity, delivered an address on February 18th be- 
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fore the Scientific Association of Johns Hopkins 
University, his subject being ‘ Recent Improve- 
ments in Long Distance Telephony.’ 
WE learn from Nature that Professor J. A. 
Ewing, F.R.S., has been elected a member of 
the Athenzeum Club under the provisions of the 
rule which permits of the election of persons 
of ‘distinguished eminence in science, litera- 
ture, the arts or for public service.’ 
Dr. J. W. L. GLAISHER, F.R.S., has been 
elected president of the Royal Astronomical So- 
ciety of Great Britain. 
THE following members of the Paris Academy 
of Sciences have been elected officers of the 
Bureau des Longitudes for the year 1901: Presi- 
dent, M. le commandant Guyon; Vice-Dresi- 
dent, M. le général Bassot, and Secretary, Pro- 
fessor G. Lippmann. 
THE following were elected president and 
members of the council of the Physical Society 
of London for the ensuing year at the annual 
general meeting held on the 8th inst.: Prest- 
dent, Professor S. P. Thompson, F.R.8.; Vice- 
Presidents, Mr. T. H. Blakesley, Mr. C. Vernon 
Boys, F.R.S., Professor J. D. Everett, F.R.S. 
and Mr. J. Walker; Secretaries, Mr. H. M. 
Elder and Mr. W. Watson, Physical Labora- 
tory, South Kensington ; Foreign Secretary, Pro- 
fessor R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S.; Treasurer, 
Professor H. L. Callendar, F.R.S., University 
College, Gower-street ; Librarian, Mr. W. Wat- 
son, Physical Laboratory, South Kensington; 
Other Members of Council, Professor H. E. 
Armstrong, F.R.S., Mr. W. R. Cooper, Mr. 
G. Griffith, Mr. E. H. Griffiths, F.R.S, Mr. R. 
A. Lehfeldt, D.Sc., Mr. S. Lupton, Professor 
J. Perry, F.R.S., Mr. A. W. Porter, D.Sce., 
Mr. W. A. Price and Mr. R. Threlfall, F.R.S. 
Professor Willard Gibbs, of Yale University 
and Dr. Rudolph Koenig, Paris, were elected 
honorary fellows of the Society. 
Dr. JAcoB GEORG AGARDH, the eminent 
Swedish phycologist, died at Lund, Sweden, 
on January 17th, aged eighty-eight years. 
FRANCIS KENNEDY, PH.D., since 1898 pro- 
fessor of philosophy in the University of 
Colorado, died on February 19th of heart 
failure. Although but 26 years of age, Dr. 
Kennedy had done much research work, and 
