September 14, 1900.] 



SCIENCE. 



413 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



De. William T. Haeeis, United States 

 Commissioner of Education, has been awarded 

 the grand prize of the Paris Exposition. 



MM. Lacaze Duthiees and E. Mascart have 

 been made grand oflicers of the French legion 

 of honor, and MM. Henri Moissan and Troost 

 are among those who have been made com- 

 manders. A large number of scientific men 

 have been made oflicers and knights. These 

 decorations have been conferred on the occasion 

 of the Paris Exposition. 



Peofessoe Lamp, astronomer at the Kiel 

 Observatory, will be absent for two years on 

 an expedition to South Africa to determine the 

 boundary between German East Africa and the 

 Congo Free State. 



Peofesboe W. J. Simpson and Colonel Not- 

 ter have gone to South Africa to investigate 

 dysentery and enteric fever. Before leaving 

 England they were inoculated against typhoid 

 fever by Professor Wright. 



The Gottingen Society of Sciences has made 

 the following awards : To Professor F. Klein 

 SOO Marks for the Mathematical Encyclopsedia 

 and 500 Marks for the preparation of kinematic 

 models, and 500 Marks to Professor Wiechert 

 for the construction of seismological recording 

 instruments. 



Following the banquet given to Lord Lister 

 by the Paris Scientia Club a banquet was given 

 to Lord Kelvin at which M. Oliver presided 

 and speeches were made by MM. Mascart and 

 Cornu to which Lord Kelvin replied. 



Peofessoe Giaed, director of the biological 

 station at Wimereux, has been elected Knight of 

 the Order of Leopold by the Belgian government. 



It is stated in Nature that Professor J. C. 

 Bose, who has been attending the recent Inter- 

 national Congress of Physics at Paris as the 

 delegate of the Government of Bengal, proposed 

 to attend the British Association meeting at Brad- 

 ford in the same capacity, and would there de- 

 scribe some electrical investigations with which 

 he has lately been engaged. 



Sie W. McGeegoe, M.D., C.B., Governor of 

 Lagos, will deliver the opening address at the 

 London School of Tropical Medicine in October. 



De. Domingo Feaiee known for his work on 

 the yellow fever bacillus has died at Rio Janeiro, 

 at the age of 50 years. 



Under the auspices of the Ottawa Field- 

 Naturalists' Club last fall a movement was in- 

 augurated with the object of perpetuating, in 

 some visible and tangible manner, the memory 

 of Elkanah Billings, who died some 24 years 

 ago. He conducted the Canadian Naturalist 

 and Geologist for several years, first in Ottawa, 

 but later in Montreal, whither Sir William 

 Logan had induced him to go and join him in 

 investigating the geological resources of old 

 Canada (Quebec and Ontario). For twenty 

 years Mr. Billings labored in the Survey, and 

 by his good work achieved reputation as a 

 paleontologist and a geologist. The memorial 

 will take the form of a portrait painted by Mr. 

 Charles E. Moss, which will be presented to 

 the Geological Survey Department and placed 

 in the museum near the collections made by 

 Billings. Subscriptions towards the memorial 

 may be sent to Dr. H. M. Ami, Geological 

 Survey Department, Ottawa, Can. 



The International Congress of Hygiene was 

 held in Paris from August 10th-17th with more 

 than 1600 members in attendance. Professor 

 Brouardel, dean of the faculty of medicine in 

 Paris, presided, with honorary p«residents from 

 the different nations as follows : Dr. Calleja 

 (Spain), Dr. Kohler (Germany), Dr. Pagliani 

 (Italy), Professor Corfield (Great Britain), Dr. 

 Van Trama-Sternegg (Austria), Dr. Bartolette 

 (United States), Dr. Borup (Denmark). The 

 Congress met in nine sections to which over 

 fifty reports were presented for discussion. 



The fourteenth International Medical Con- 

 gress will be held at Madrid during the spring 

 of 1903 and will be under the presidency of 

 Professor Julien Calleja, dean of the Faculty 

 of Medicine. 



The twelfth International Congress of An- 

 thropology and Historic Archaeology opened at 

 Paris on August 20th under the presidency of 

 M. Bertrand. 



The next international Congress of Mathe- 

 maticians will be held in Germany in the sum- 

 mer of 1904. The place has not yet been 

 definitely decided upon. 



