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Eostock; Casimir Kostanecki, professor of 

 anatomy, Cracow; Hugo Kronecker, professor 

 of physiology, Bern; Sir Francis H. Laking, 

 Bart., G.C.V.O., physician in ordinary to His 

 Majesty the King and the Prince of Wales; 

 Commandatore Rodolfo Lanciani, professor of 

 ancient topography. University of Rome; 

 Charles Rockwell Lanman, professor of San- 

 skrit, Harvard University; Gustavus Mittag- 

 Leffler, professor of mathematics, Stockholm; 

 Oscar Liebreich, professor of pharmacology, 

 Berlin; Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., director 

 of Solar Physics Laboratory, South Kensing- 

 ton; Sir Oliver Lodge, Kt., principal of Bir- 

 mingham University; Friedrich Loffler, pro- 

 fessor of hygiene, Greifswald; Donald Mac- 

 alister, president. General Medical Council; 

 A. B. Macallum, professor of physiology, 

 Toronto; Sir John Macfadyean, principal of 

 the Royal Veterinary College, Camden Town, 

 London, N.W. ; Lord M'Laren, vice-president, 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh; Jinzo Matsu- 

 mura, professor of botany. University of 

 Tokyo, Japan; His Serene Highness Albert 

 Honore Charles, Prince of Monaco; Wilhelm 

 Ostwald, professor of chemistry, Leipzig; 

 Edmund Owen, vice-president. Royal College 

 of Surgeons of London; W. M. Flinders 

 Petrie, professor of Egyptology, University 

 College, London; Rev. George E. Post, pro- 

 fessor of surgery in Johanite Hospital, Beirut ; 

 Sir Richard Douglas Powell, Bart., K.C.V.O., 

 president of the Royal College of Physicians, 

 London ; Salomon Reinach, professor of arche- 

 ology, Paris; Guglielmo Romiti, professor of 

 anatomy, Pisa; Sir Henry E. Roscoe, late 

 professor of chemistry, Owens College, Vic- 

 toria University; Major Ronald Ross, C.B., 

 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; Vladi- 

 mir Scheviakoff, professor of zoology, St. 

 Petersburg ; Jakob Schipper, professor of Eng- 

 lish philology, Vienna; Dukinfield Henry 

 Scott, hon. keeper, Jodrell Laboratory, Kew 

 Gardens; William Napier Shaw, director of 

 the Meteorological Office, London; Joseph J. 

 Thomson, Cavendish professor of experimental 

 physics. University of Cambridge; Frederick 

 Trendelenburg, professor of surgery. Univer- 

 sity of Leipzig; Sir William Turner, K.C.B., 

 principal of University of Edinburgh; Gius- 



eppe Veronese, professor of analytical geom- 

 etry, Padua; Hugo de Vries, professor of 

 physiological botany, Amsterdam; J. William 

 White, professor of surgery, Pennsylvania 

 University; J. W. van Wijhe, professor of 

 anatomy, Groningen, Holland; Sir John Wil- 

 liams, Bart., K.C.V.O., late professor of mid- 

 wifery. University College, London. 



THE FBANCO-AMERIGAN EXPEDITION TO 



EXPLORE THE ATMOSPHERE IN THE 



TROPICS. 



The third cruise of the Oiaria, the steam- 

 yacht sent by M. Teisserenc de Bort, director 

 of the private meteorological observatory at 

 Trappes, near Paris, and by Mr. Rotch, di- 

 rector of the similar observatory at Blue Hill, 

 near Boston, to explore the atmosphere over 

 the tropical Atlantic has ended, and the yacht 

 has returned to Havre after a very successful 

 voyage of three months and a half. 



Atmospheric soundings with balloons and 

 kites were executed over the central part of 

 the North Atlantic, the equatorial regions and 

 the South Atlantic as far as Ascension Island. 

 The soundings southwest and northwest of the 

 Canaries confirm the conclusions reached dur- 

 ing the two preceding cruises of the Otaria, 

 namely, that the upper anti-trade blows from 

 southeast or southwest, not only within the 

 tropics but generally as far north as latitude 

 30°, and is found above the open ocean as well 

 as above the Canaries. Farther north it is 

 transformed into a westerly wind. 



The observations with hallons-sondes re- 

 vealed this new and important fact, that in 

 summer over the equator, very low tempera- 

 tures (reaching — 80° C.) exist in the upper 

 air above 12 kilometers, being analogous to 

 those occurring in winter at the same height 

 in our own latitude. 



SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF IN- 

 DUSTRIAL EDUCATION. 



A PUBLIC meeting will be held at Cooper 

 Union on Friday evening, November 16, at 

 eight o'clock, under the auspices of the na- 

 tional Society for the Promotion of Industrial 

 Education. 



