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de Vilmorin, and silver-gilt Banksian medals 

 to Miss E. R. Saunders, lecturer on botany 

 at Newnham College, and Mr. R. H. Biffen, 

 for eminent services rendered to scientific and 

 practical horticulture. Professor de Vilmorin, 

 as the representative of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety and the Botanical Society of France, 

 invited the society to hold its next conference 

 at Paris. 



Under the direction of Mr. Whitman Cross, 

 Mr. Albert Johannsen, of the United States 

 Geological Survey, is making a reconnaissance 

 this summer with Mr. Willis T. Lee in the 

 northeastern section of New Mexico. 



A RECONNAISSANCE suTvey of the Paleozoic 

 rocks in Utah is being made this summer by 

 Mr. F. B. Weeks, of the U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey. This will complete Mr. Weeks's study 

 of the Paleozoic rocks of the state, and will 

 furnish the final data for a paper on the 

 subject. 



Mr. Samuel Sanford is engaged in an in- 

 vestigation of the underground waters of the 

 coastal plain of Virginia for the United States 

 Geological Survey. The developments in this 

 important region have been very marked since 

 the report of N. H. Darton in 1896 and the 

 demand for information very great, especially 

 in regard to the quality of the water and its 

 availability for boiler and industrial purposes. 

 To supply this complete chemical studies will 

 be undertaken as a part of the work. 



Dr. Leon J. Cole, of Harvard University, 

 has been appointed chief of the Division of 

 Animal Breeding and Pathology in the Rhode 

 Island Station. J. Prank Morgan, a grad- 

 uate of St. Lawrence University; H. S. Ham- 

 mond, of the Agricultural College, at Guelph, 

 Canada, and W. P. Purrington, a graduate of 

 the New Hampshire College of Agriculture 

 and Mechanic Arts, have recently received ap- 

 pointments as assistant chemists at the same 

 station. 



Dr. Clemens Schlutter, professor of geol- 

 ogy and paleontology, at Bonn, has retired 

 from active service. 



Professor R. Heymons, professor of zool- 

 ogy in the School of Forestry at Munster, has 



been appointed curator in the Zoological Mu- 

 seum at Berlin. 



The Bradshaw lecture will be delivered at 

 the Royal College of Physicians, London, on 

 November 6, by Dr. Sharkey, who will take as 

 his subject ' Rectal Alimentation ' ; the Fitz- 

 Patrick lectures will be given by Dr. Norman 

 Moore, on November 8 and 13, and will deal 

 with the ' History of the Study of Clinical 

 Medicine in the British Islands ' ; and the 

 Horace Dobell lecture by Dr. F. W. Andrews, 

 on November 15, will treat of the ' Evolution 

 of the Streptococci.' 



Mr. E. a. Minchin, M.A., the recently- 

 appointed professor of protozoology at London 

 University, will deliver his inaugural lecture 

 on ' The Scope and Problems of Protozoology ' 

 on November 15. 



The Berlin correspondent of the Medical 

 Record, states that the physicians of Berlin 

 are much interested in the naonument to be 

 erected in memory of Virchow. The commis- 

 sion has given the first prize to the design of 

 the sculptor Klimsch, which portrays a man 

 fighting against a fabulous monster, while 

 Virchow's portrait appears only in a medallion 

 on the base. The medical societies have pro- 

 tested against this selection, and would prefer 

 a monument showing a full-length- figure of 

 the great pathologist. The commission has 

 resolved to reopen the question, but no de- 

 cisive action has yet been taken. 



Albert Grannis Lane, assistant superin- 

 tendent of the Chicago city schools, formerly 

 president and a trustee of the National Edu- 

 cational Association, died on Augiist 22 at 

 the age of sixty-five years. 



Sir Alexander Moncrieff, K.C.B., F.R.S., 

 known for his improvements in the system of 

 mounting hfeavy ordnance, has died at the age 

 of seventy-seven years. 



Mr. Richard Glascott Symes, for many 

 years geologist on the Geological Survey of 

 Great Britain, died on July 27, at the age of 

 sixty-six years. 



Professor George Reyet, for the past 

 twenty-five years director of the observatory 

 at Bordeaux, has died at the age of sixty- 

 seven years. 



