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SCIENCE. 



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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS- 



Victoria University conferred at Man- 

 chester on June 30th, honorary degrees upon 

 Lord Rayleigh, Sir William Huggins, Sir W. 

 C. Roberts Austen, Sir William Abney, Dr. T. 

 E. Thorpe, Professor J. Dewar, Professor A. R. 

 Forsyth, Mr. R. T. Glazebrook, Professor E. C. 

 Pickering, Professor J. J. Thomson and Mr. 

 Henry Wilde. 



The Hopkins prize of Cambridge University 

 for the period 1894-1897 has been awarded to 

 Mr. J. Larmor, F.R.S., of St. John's College, 

 for his investigations on the ' Physics of the 

 Aether ' and otber contributions to mathemat- 

 ical physics. 



Sir Michael Foster arrived in New York 

 by the steamship Liicania on July 21st. He will 

 give a course of lectures before the Cooper 

 Medical College, San Francisco, and will make 

 arrangements for American co-operation in the 

 International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. 



Professor J. Mark Baldwin, of Princeton 

 University, has returned to the United States 

 after a residence of over a year at Oxford, where 

 he has been seeing through the press the ' Dic- 

 tionary of Psychology and Philosophy ' shortly 

 to be published by The Macmillan Company. 



Dr. Emory McClintock has returned from 

 Paris, where he attended the third interna- 

 tional Congress of actuaries as delegate from 

 the U. S. Government. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has elected 

 M. Bazin of Dijon a correspondent for the sec- 

 tion of mechanics and M. Zambacca a corre- 

 spondent for the section of medicine and surgery. 



Dr. Corfield, professor of hygiene and pub- 

 lic health at University College, London, has 

 been elected a corresponding member of the 

 Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium. 



Dr. Nicholas Senn, who served as a volun- 

 teer medical officer during the war with Spain, 

 has again offered the United States government 

 his services, to go to China to care for the 

 American soldiers who may be wounded. As 

 volunteer in the Spanish-American war Dr. 

 Senn went to Cuba, where he was chief operat- 

 ing-surgeon in the field with the rank of lieu- 

 tenant-colonel. 



Captain E. L. Munson, assistant surgeon in 

 the United States army has been awarded the 

 prize (one hundred dollars in gold or a medal 

 of that value) presented to the Military Science 

 Institution by Dr. Louis L. Seaman, for the 

 best paper on the subject of 'The Ideal Ration 

 for an Army in the Tropics.' 



The Managers of the Royal Institution have 

 awarded the Actoniau prize of 100 guineas to 

 Sir William Huggins, K.C.B., F.R.S., and 

 Lady Huggins for their work ' An Atlas of 

 Representative Spectra.' 



Me. J. H. Maiden, director of the Botanic 

 Gardens at Sydney, is at present in London, and 

 will spend about three months making special 

 investigations in Great Britain and on the con- 

 tinent. 



James R. Bailey, Ph.D., adjunct professor, 

 in charge of organic chemistry in the Univer- 

 sity of Texas, will spend the coming year at 

 Leipzig. His place will be supplied by Mr. E. 

 Schoch, late of the University of Chicago. 



Mr. Thomas Large has been appointed as- 

 sistant in the Illinois State Laboratory of 

 Natural History for ichthyological work on the 

 natural history survey. 



At a recent meeting of the Board of Regents 

 of the University of Texas (July 12th) provision 

 was made for the appointment of an ' instructor 

 in economic and field geology,' who should 

 supplement the work of instruction in the Uni- 

 versity by research work in the State. This 

 step is preliminary to the establishment of a 

 Geological Survey under the auspices of the 

 University. 



Dr. J. M. Meneck is supposed to have per- 

 ished in the desert of southern Utah. He was 

 separated from his companions while prospect- 

 ing in that region, and no traces of him have 

 been found. He was known as a geologist and 

 archaeologist and had represented the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



The following deaths of ornithologists are 

 noted in the Auk : Edgar Leopold Layard has 

 died at Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England, 

 in his 76th year. He was born at Florence 

 on July 23, 1824, and entered the Civil Ser- 

 vice of Ceylon when twenty-two years of 



