September 14, 1900.] 



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The Magellanic gold medal of the American 

 Philosophical Society will be awarded in De- 

 cember to the author of the best discovery or of 

 the most useful invention in the physical sci- 

 ences presented to the Society before Novem- 

 ber 1st. 



Mr. J. H. Porter, of London, has just issued 

 the final part of Messrs. Sclater and Thomas' 

 'Book of Antelopes,' which completes this im- 

 portant zoological work. It was planned by the 

 late Sir Victor Brooke (to whose memory it is 

 dedicated), and most of the plates were drawn 

 under his superintendence more than twenty 

 years ago. After Sir Victor's death, in 1891, 

 the present authors undertook to prepare the 

 letter press. The four volumes of the ' Book of 

 Antelopes ' contain 100 colored plates and 121 

 illustrations in the text. 



Mr. Heinemann will bring out in the autumn 

 an account of the Antarctic expedition of the 

 Belgica, written by the only English-speaking 

 member of her crew, Mr. Frederick A. Cook, 

 who accompanied the expedition as surgeon, 

 anthropologist and photographer. 



The Philosophical Society of the University 

 of Vienna proposes to publish a complete cata- 

 logue of psychological literature published be- 

 tween 1850 and 1900. 



The Journal oflficiel of the Paris Exposition 

 has published in a number containing 350 pages 

 the list of awards made at the Paris Exposition. 

 There were in all 75,531 exhibitors of whom 

 42,790 received awards. The number of each 

 kind of prize awarded is given in the first col- 

 umn of the accompanying table, while in the 

 second column is the number conferred on 

 Americans. 



Grand Prize 2,827 218 



Gold Medal 8,166 486 



Silver Medal 12,244 583 



Bronze Medal 11,615 423 



Honorable Mention 7,938 270 



In the Department of Education (Group I.) 

 12 grand prizes were awarded to the United 

 States for primary education, 9 for secondary 

 education, 13 for higher education, one for agri- 

 cultural education, 6 for industrial education. 

 It is perhaps somewhat surprising that the 

 United States should have been awarded 41 



grand prizes in education, as compared with 6 

 in machinery and electricity. 



We announced last week the death of Dr. John 

 Anderson and now take from the London Times 

 the following facts in regard to his life : Dr. 

 Anderson was the son of the late Mr. Thomas 

 Anderson, secretary to the National Bank of 

 Scotland, Edinburgh, in which city he was born 

 in 1833. He was educated at the George- 

 square Academy and the Hillstreet Institution, 

 and finally at the Edinburgh University. In 

 1861 he took the degree of M.D. and received 

 a gold medal for his thesis entitled ' Obser- 

 vations in Zoology.' Immediately after his 

 graduation he was appointed professor of nat- 

 ural science in the Free Church College, Edin- 

 burgh, but he resigned the office in 1864, having 

 been oflTered the curatorship of a museum which 

 the Government of India intended to found in 

 Calcutta, and of which the collections of the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal were to form the nu- 

 cleus. He arrived in India in July, 1864, and 

 in the following year was appointed superin- 

 tendent of the Indian Museum. Two or three 

 years afterwards he was also given the chair of 

 comparative anatomy in the Medical College, 

 Calcutta. In 1868 he was selected by the 

 Government of India to accompany an expedi- 

 tion to Western China via British and Inde- 

 pendent Burma, in the capacity of scientific 

 officer. Again, in 1874, he was chosen by the 

 Government of India to proceed once more to 

 Western China in the same capacity as on 

 the former expedition, and with instructions to 

 advance from Bhamo to Shanghai. This ex- 

 pedition was attacked by the Chinese, and 

 was obliged to retreat to Burma. In 1881 Dr. 

 Anderson was sent by the trustees of the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, to investigate the marine 

 zoology of the Mergui Archipelago, off the 

 coast of Tenasserim. In 1887 he retired from 

 the service of the government of India. Be- 

 sides numerous papers on zoology, Dr. Ander- 

 son is the author of many independent works, 

 among them being 'A Report on the Expedi- 

 tion to Western China via Bhamo,' published 

 by the government of India in 1871 ; ' Man- 

 dalay to Momien,' an account of the two expedi- 

 tions to Western China under Colonel Sir 

 Edward Sladen and Colonel Horace Browne ^ 



