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I should like to suggest to the Society the 

 adoption of the following resolutions : 



" Whereas, On the 26th day of Septemher, our be- 

 loved colleague and friend, Jesse William Lazear, lost 

 his life in the discharge of his duty as a member of 

 the United States Yellow Fever Commission ; 



" And lohereas, His exceptional ability in his pro- 

 fession, his simplicity and modesty as a man, had 

 greatly endeared him to all whose good fortune it was 

 to know him ; 



" Be it resolved, That we, his former colleagues and 

 associates, do hereby express our profound sorrow at 

 the loss to the community of one whose future was 

 unusually rich in promise, to ourselves, of a dear 

 friend and fellow student ; 



" And he it further resolved. That we express to his 

 wife and family our warmest and most heartfelt sym- 

 pathy. 



The resolutions were unanimously adopted. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES -AND NEWS. 



The mid-winter meeting of the Council of 

 the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science will be held at 1 o'clock, p. M., 

 Friday, December 28th, in Room 12, McCoy 

 Hall, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. 



At the anniversary meeting of the Munich 

 Academy of Sciences on November 14th, Pro- 

 fessor W. C. Rontgen was elected an ordinary 

 member ; Professor S. Giinther, of Munich, 

 was elected an associate member ; Professors 

 W. Wundt, Leipzig, O. Biitschli, Heidel- 

 berg, W. His, Leipzig, and H. de Vries, Am- 

 sterdam, were elected corresponding members, 

 aud Professor Poincar6, Paris, a foreign mem- 

 ber. 



Dr. Karl Klein, professor of mineralogy at 

 Berlin, has been elected a corresponding mem- 

 ber of the Paris Academy of Sciences. 



The Cross of Commander of the Legion of 

 Honor has been conferred by the president of 

 the French Republic on Sir William McCormac, 

 president of the Royal College of Surgeons of 

 England. 



Oxford University will confer the degree of 

 D.Sc. , honoris causa, upon Dr. Oliver J. Lodge, 

 principal of the University of Birmingham. 



The Berlin Academy of Sciences has made 

 the following appropriations: To Herr Engler, 

 toward the publication of 'Das Pflanzenreich,' 



2,000 Marks; to Professor Otto Lehmann, of 

 Karlsruhe, for the continuation of his investiga- 

 tions on fluid crystals, 1,200 Marks; to Pro- 

 fessors Friedrich Pascheu and Karl Runge, 

 Hanover, for an electro magnet, 1,400 Marks, 

 and to Dr. Karl Peter, of Breslau, for studies 

 on the development of lizards, 500 Marks. 



Dk. H. M. Smith, of the U. S. Commission 

 of Pish and Fisheries, has recently returned 

 from a three month's trip to Europe, during 

 which he visited a number of biological stations, 

 including those at Plymouth and Naples. At 

 the International Congress of Fisheries and 

 Agriculture, held at Paris in September, Dr. 

 Smith was the official delegate of this govern- 

 ment. 



A BUST of Charles H. Haswell, the first en- 

 gineer-in-chief of the U. S. Navy, is in process 

 of completion, by Dunbar, for the Union Club 

 of New York. Mr. Haswell is now in his ninety- 

 second year and is still active, going to business 

 every day and looking no older, his friends say, 

 than he did thirty years ago. He was the first 

 officer in the navy to introduce scientific methods 

 in engineering and constructed the engineer 

 corps of that service. After he had organized 

 the corps, he designed much of the then novel 

 machinery of steam propulsion. A few of his 

 steam war vessels still survive, in retii-ement. 

 He published the first table-book for engineers, 

 and that famous pioneer work is still published 

 by the Harpers, and has passed through about 

 fifty editions in something over a half century. 

 His semi-biographical ' History of New York ' 

 is probably better known to the majority of his 

 fellow townsmen. 



Cambridge University will confer its M.A., 

 honoris causa, on Mr. G. H. F. Nuttall, M.D., 

 (California), Ph.D. (Gottingen), university lec- 

 turer in bacteriology and preventive medicine, 

 and on Mr. T. Strangeways Pigg, university 

 demonstrator of pathology. 



Dr. H. R. Mill has resigned the librarianship 

 of the Royal Geographical Society, and will be 

 succeeded by Mr. E. Heawood. 



We learn from Nature that at the annual 

 meeting of the Royal Geological Society of 

 Cornwall, Dr. Le Neve Foster was presented 

 with the William Bolitho gold medal in recog- 



