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were elected fellows of Section IV. (Biological 
and Geological Division). 
Sir ROBERT STAWELL BALL, Lowndean pro- 
fessor of astronomy at Cambridge University, 
will present an address from the University at 
the bicentennial of Yale University. 
Dr. HENRY §. PRITCHETT, president of the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has 
been invited to serve as superintendent of 
awards at the Pan-American Exposition. 
PROFESSORS CHARLES O. TOWNSEND and H. 
P. Gould have resigned from the Maryland 
Agricultural College, to accept positions in the 
Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agri- 
culture. 
PROFESSOR HE, F. EMERY has been appointed 
special agent of the Bureau of Animal Industry 
to study the dairy interests in China, Japan and 
the Philippines. 
Dr. P. A. RYDBERG, assistant curator at the 
New York Botanical Gardens, has been given a 
short leave of absence for a trip in Europe. He 
will visit the herbaria at Kew, British Museum, 
Christiania and elsewhere for the purpose of 
completing some critical studies of the genera 
in which he is interested, and of arranging for 
exchanges. 
Dr. E.S. Rieas, of the Field Columbian Mu- 
seum, is now engaged in exploring the fossil 
beds of Wyoming. 
WE regret to learn that Professor B. O. 
Peirce, professor of mathematics and natural 
philosophy at Harvard University, is still suf- 
fering from ill-health, and will probably be un- 
able to resume his university work next year. 
Dr. N. 8. SHALER, professor of geology at 
Harvard University and dean of the Lawrence 
Scientific School, gave the annual address at 
the commencement exercises of the Worcester 
Polytechnic Institute. 
THE Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 
has presented its gold medal to Dr. George 
Watt, reporter on economic products for the 
Government of India. 
THE New York State Pharmaceutical Asso- 
ciation has passed a resolution favoring the 
building of a State laboratory of pharmacy in 
SCIENCE. 
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memory of William Proctor, formerly professor 
in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, 
A TABLET in memory of Dr. Jesse William 
Lazear, who lost his life in the study of yellow 
fever in Cuba, was unveiled at Trinity Hall 
Military School, Washington, Pa., at its com- 
mencement exercises last week. 
Tue Paris correspondent of the London Times 
telegraphs as follows: I have to announce with 
profound regret the death of one of the most 
eminent professors of the University of Nancy, 
M. Bleicher, who has been for six months at the 
head of the school of pharmacy in that city, 
after 20 years’ service as professor of natural 
history at the same school. He was murdered 
by M. Raymond Four, a chemist, a sample 
of whose cinchona had been seized for an- 
alysis at the school, and who, dreading the 
results of prosecution for fraud, decided to hold 
the director of the school responsible for his 
humiliation and mischance. He called yester- 
day upon M. Bleicher and after a long interview 
shot him dead and then committed suicide. 
This monstrous crime has deprived France of 
one of the scholars who have done most to re- 
veal to the world the geological interest of the 
frontier provinces of France. M. Bleicheis’ 
‘Les Vosges, Le Sol et ses habitants’ is a 
classical treatise which every traveller in 
Alsace-Lorraine should always carry with him. 
Every year Professor Bleicher spent his holidays 
on one or other of the slopes of the Vosges 
studying the stratifications, the rocks, the 
glacial marks, all the features, in a word, of 
this interesting region, upon which he had pub- 
lished a large number of memoirs. He had 
begun life as Médecin-Major in the French- 
African army, but left his work there in 1877 
to become professor at Nancy, where he was 
very popular, often conducting students’ scien- 
tific expeditions. No one so learned was ever 
more unassuming. 
WE regret to record the death of T. C. Clarke, 
which occurred in New York on June 15. 
Born in 1827, he graduated from Harvard Uni- 
versity in 1848, and has been one of the most 
eminent American engineers, having designed 
and constructed many American bridges. He 
had been president of the American Society of 
