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above. It is absolutely necessary that forty- 

 five sets be subscribed for in America, and it is 

 desirable that this be done before the beginning 

 of October. 



The judges who are to select 100 eminent 

 Americans, whose names are to be engraved in 

 the Hall of Fame of the New York University, 

 are ready to receive nominations. The follow- 

 ing men of science have been proposed : John 

 Adams Audubon, Spencer F. Baird, Alexander 

 D. Bache, Nathaniel Bowditch, William Chau- 

 venet, Henry Draper, James P. Espy, Asa Gray, 

 Eobert Hare, Joseph Henry, Edward Hitch- 

 cock, Isaac Lea, Matthew Fontaine Maury, 

 Marie Mitchell, Benjamin Peirce, David Ritten- 

 house, Benjamin Silliman, Benjamin Thomp- 

 son, John Torrey. Are any of the readers of 

 this Journal prepared to suggest how many 

 men of science should be included among the 

 100 most eminent Americans no longer living, 

 and who they should be ? 



Dr. Carl Gegenbaue, professor of anat- 

 omy at the University of Heidelberg, has re- 

 tired from the active duties of his professorship. 



It will be remembered that at the Twelfth 

 International Medical Congress, held at Mos- 

 cow in 1897, the city established a prize of 

 $1000 to be conferred at each Congress on the 

 one who since the preceding Congress had done 

 the medical work of the greatest benefit to hu- 

 manity. The first award of the prize was to 

 M. Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross 

 Society. At the present Congress, the award 

 has been made to Professor R4mon y Cajal, for 

 his researches on the minute structure of the 

 nervous system. 



The Faculty of Science of the University of 

 Rome proposes to publish by subscription a 

 complete collection of the works of the late 

 Professor Eugenio Beltrami. It will extend to 

 three or four large volumes, and will be sent 

 to those subscribing $10 or more towards the 

 cost of publication. 



The Berlin Academy of Sciences has made 

 further grants as follows: Dr. Holtermann, 

 Berlin, for a botanical expedition to Ceylon, 

 4000 Marks ; Professor Ludolf Krehl, Greifs- 

 wald, for experiments on respiration, 1500 

 Marks ; Professor Julius Tafel, Wiirzburg, for 



the continuation of his work on electrolysis, 

 100 Marks ; Dr. Benno Wandolleck, Dresden ; 

 for the investigation of the morphology of 

 diptera, 800 Marks. 



Professor B. E. Fernow, of the Cornell 

 College of Forestry, has been appointed delegate 

 to the International Forestry Congress of the 

 Paris Exposition. 



Professor Felipe Valle, of Mexico City, 

 connected with the Tacubaya Observatory, is on 

 his way to Europe, where he will represent the 

 Mexican Government at certain of the con- 

 gresses held during the Paris Exposition. 



The Royal College of Physicians has made 

 the following appointments : Professor CliflTord 

 Allbutt, regius professor of physic at Cam- 

 bridge, will deliver the Harveian oration on 

 October 18th (St. Luke's Day) ; and Dr. A. E. 

 Garrod, of St. Bartholomew's, the Bradshaw' 

 lecture in November. Dr. Henry Head has 

 been appointed the Goulstonian, Dr. J. Frank 

 Payne the Lumleian, and Dr. Halliburton the 

 Croonian lecturer for 1901, and Dr. J. W. 

 Washbourn the Croonian lecturer for 1902. 



Dr. AdalIr Richter, professor of botany at 

 the University at Klausenberg, has been made 

 director of the Botanical Institute and of the 

 Botanical Garden. 



The Moxon gold medal, of the Royal College 

 of Physicians, founded in 1886 in memory of the 

 late Dr. Walter Moxon, and awarded every 

 third year for distinction in clinical medicine, 

 was awarded to Sir William Tennant Gairdner, 

 M.D., F.R.S., emeritus professor of medicine in 

 the University of Glasgow. 



Dr. Hermann A. Loos died of yellow fever 

 on the steamship Chile on July 17th, while on 

 his way to South America. Dr. Loos received 

 the degree of doctor of philosophy from Co- 

 lumbia University this year for work in chem- 

 istry and was offered the position of assistant 

 in the University. He was only 24 years of age. 



We regret also to note the deaths of Dr. 

 Johann Kjeldahl, director of the chemical lab- 

 oratory at Karlsberg, and of Dr. Wilhelm Keck, 

 professor of engineering at Hanover. 



The Comptroller of the City of New York 

 has refused to pay most of the bills presented 



