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on receipt of a satisfactory report of work done 

 during the first year : 



Uniy. St. Andrews,. 

 Mason Uniy. Coll., 



Birmingham. 

 Uniy. Coll., Bristol. 



Yorkshire College, 

 Leeds. 



Univ. Coll., Liver- 

 pool. 



Univ. Coll., London 



Man- 



Oweua Coll 

 Chester. 



Durham Coll. Sci., 

 Newcastle - upon- 

 Tvne. 



Univ. Coll., Not- 

 tingham. 



Univ. Coll. Wales, 

 Aberystwith. 



Univ. Coll. of North 

 Wales, Bangor. 



Queens Coll., Bel- 

 fast. 



McGill Univ., Mon- 

 treal. 



Uniy. of Melbourne 



Queen's Coll., Cork. 

 Univ. of New Zea- 

 land. 

 Univ. Coll., London 



J. C. Irvine, B.Sc' 

 Henry L. Heath 



cote, B.Sc. 

 Winif. E. Walker, 



B.Sc. 

 Fred. W. Skirrow, 



B.Sc. 

 Charles G. Barkla, 



B.Sc. 

 Harriette Chick, 



B.Sc. 



Frank A. Lidbury, 



B.Sc. 

 William Campbell, 



B.Sc. 



Louis Lownds, B.Sc, 

 James T. Jenkins 



Robert D. Abell, 



B.Sc. 

 William Caldwell, 



B.A. 

 William B. McLean, 



B.Sc. 

 Bertram D. Steele, 



B.Sc. 

 Ed. J. Butler, M.B. 

 Joseph W. Mellor, 



B. c, 

 Louis N. G. Filon, 



Place of Study. 



Univ. of Leipzig. 

 Univ. of Leipzig. 



Univ. Coll., Lon- 

 don. 

 Uniy. of Leipzig. 



Cavendish La'),, 



Cambridge, 

 Thompson- Yates 



Lab,, Uniy. Coll., 



Liverpool. 

 Univ. of Leipzig. 



Univ. of Berlin. 



Univ. of Kiel and 

 Biol, Institution, 

 Heligoland, 



Uniy, of Leipzig. 



Univ. Wiirzburg. 



Owens Coll., Man- 

 chester. 

 Univ. of Breslau. 



Univ. of Freiburg. 



Owens Coll., Man- 

 cheater. 



King's Coll. , Cam- 

 bridge. 



The following scholarships granted in 1898 

 have been exceptionally renewed for a third 

 year : 



Mason Uniy. Coll., 



Birmingham, 

 Yorkshire College, 



Royal Coll. of Sci., 



Dublin, 

 Dalhousie Univ., 



Halifax, N. S. 



A. H. H. Buller, 



B.Sc, Ph.D. 

 Harry T. Calvert, 



B.Sc, 

 Rob. L. Wills, B.A. 



Place of Study. 



Univ. of Munich. 



Univ. of Leipzig, 



Cavendish Lab., 



Cambridge. 

 Harvard Univ. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Professor A. Michelson, of the University 

 of Chicago, has been awarded the grand prize of 

 the Paris Exposition for his Echelon spectro- 

 scope. 



It is reported that Professor Haeckel, of Jena, 

 is about to start for Java to conduct explora- 

 tions in search of Pithecanthropus erectus. 



In the matter of the vacancy arising from the 

 death of Professor James E. Keeler, the presi- 

 dent and board of regents of the University of 

 California have authorized astronomer W. W. 



Campbell to discharge the duties of the director 

 of the Lick Observatory, ad interim. 



M. M. OusTALET and Depousaeques have 

 been nominated by the Paris Academy of Sci- 

 ences for the chair of zoology in the Museum 

 d'Histoire naturelle, rendered vacant by the 

 death of Professor Milne-Edwards. One of 

 these candidates will be selected by the minister 

 of public instruction. 



Mr. Thomas Large has been appointed assist- 

 ant in charge of the Fresh Water Biological Sta- 

 tion of the University of Illinois, at Meredosia, 

 Illinois, to succeed Dr. C. A. Kofoid, who, as we 

 have already announced, has accepted a call to 

 the University of California. 



Mr. J. Stirling, Government geologist of 

 Victoria, is at present in London, and will ad- 

 dress several scientific societies during his stay 

 in England. 



Surgeon A. K. Thomas of the U. S. Marine 

 Hospital Service has been sent to Glasgow to 

 investigate the bubonic plague which appears 

 to be increasing in that city. 



The Government of Queensland has engaged 

 Dr. Maxwell, the sugar expert of Honolulu, for 

 five years' service on the Food Commission at 

 a salary of $20,000 a year. 



Dr. F. Roemer, assistant in the Zoological 

 Institute at Breslau, has been made curator in 

 the Senckenbergischen Museum at Frankfurt- 

 on-the-Main. 



Professor K. Lampert, of Stuttgart, has 

 been made curator of the Royal Natural His- 

 tory collections. 



Dr. D. Morris, the British Commissioner 

 of Agriculture for the "West Indies, is at pres- 

 ent in Great Britain for the purpose of report- 

 ing to the Colonial office. 



Dr. C. Virohow has been appointed chemist 

 in the geological bureau at Berlin. 



The tomb of Sir Humphrey Davy, at Geneva, 

 which for some years was in a neglected state, 

 has recently been renovated. 



Dr. John Anderson, M.D., F.R.S., has 

 died at Buxton at the age of 66 years. He was 

 appointed superintendent of the Indian Mu- 

 seum, Calcutta, in 1865, and made several ex- 

 peditions to China. He was the author of 



