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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol XII. No. 313. 



philosophical and theological subjects, died on 

 December 6th at the age of 52 years. 



We regret also to record the deaths of the 

 following men of science : Dr. Theodor Aden- 

 samer, assistant in the Natural History Mu- 

 seum in Vienna ; Dr. August Bottcher, physi- 

 cist in Berlin ; Dr. Adolf Stengel, professor of 

 Agriculture in the University at Heidelberg, 

 and Father Amand Davis, corresponding mem- 

 ber of the Paris Academy of Sciences in the 

 section of geography. 



It will be remembered that the late Professor 

 Hughes left £4,000 to the Royal Society for the 

 establishment of a prize. The Society has now 

 decided to award annually a gold medal, to be 

 called the Hughes Medal, not exceeding in 

 value the sum of £20, together with the balance 

 of the income, to such person as the president 

 and council may consider the most worthy re- 

 cipient, without restriction of sex or nation- 

 ality, for original discovery in the physical sci- 

 ences, particularly in electricity and mag- 

 netism. 



At the banquet of the Royal Society on 

 November 30th the Swedish and Norwegian 

 Minister, in replying to a toast, said that the 

 prizes to be awarded by each of the five Noble 

 institutes would amount to about £8,000 an- 

 nually. 



The Committee of the National Educational 

 Association charged with selecting the place 

 of meeting for the year 1901 has voted in favor 

 of Detroit. The meeting will be held in July. 

 The Association met at Detroit in 1874. 



A SCIENCE club has been organized in Las 

 Vegas, New Mexico. At the first meeting held 

 early in December, Mrs. Wilmatte P. Cockerell 

 referred to the tendency of the butterfly Argyn- 

 nis nitocri to develop distinct races on isolated 

 mountain ranges, and exhibited a new race from 

 Sapello Canon, N. M., which it was proposed to 

 call var. nigrocxrulea. Mr. Emerson Atkins 

 exhibited some rodents which he had collected 

 in the mountains near Las Vegas, including 

 specimens of Sciuriis fremonti, which appear to 

 iudicate that the subsp. neomexicanua of Allen 

 could not be maintained, but must be referred 

 to subsp. mogollonensis. He also showed ex- 

 amples of a Tamias which served to connect T. 



quadrivittatus, Say., with T. cinereicollis, Alien, 

 indicating that the latter should apparently be 

 regarded as a subspecies of the former. Mr. 

 T. D. A. Cockerell exhibited and discussed 

 some parasites found in the nest of the bee 

 Anthophora occidentalis, Cresson, at Las Vegas. 

 These included the metoid beetles Leonidia neo- 

 mexicana (Ckll.) and Meloe aublatvis, Lee, the 

 former only known heretofore by a single ex- 

 ample, and the chalcidid Monodontomerus monti- 

 vagus, Ashm. 



Professor F. H. Herrick has been invited 

 to give a lecture on ' The Habits and Instincts 

 of Wild Birds ' at Trinity, before the Hartford 

 Scientific Society on January 15th. He will 

 give the same lecture at Yale University, be- 

 fore the Scientific Society of Sigma Xi, on 

 January 17th ; at Brown Universitj', before the 

 Rhode Island Audubon Society, on January 

 17th, and at Dartmouth College on January 

 18th. 



The Hungarian Minister of Education recom- 

 mends the appropriation of 332,000 crowns for 

 the establishment of a general pathological in- 

 stitute together with a Pasteur institute at 

 Buda-Pesth. 



Drs. Sambon and Low have returned to 

 England, after the summer spent in the mos- 

 quito-proof hut in the Roman Campagna. They 

 are in excellent health, though it is said that 

 the past summer was exceptionally malarious. 

 For example, fifteen or sixteen police agents 

 were sent to Ostia, and though they only re- 

 mained a night in the place, they all developed 

 fever. 



A CABLE dispatch to the New York Sun states 

 that investigations of the causation of yellow 

 fever now being carried on at Marinao have so 

 far confirmed the report of the Surgeon-Gen- 

 eral's commission. Five soldiers who have 

 kept themselves protected from mosquitoes 

 have been living in infected clothes and sleep- 

 ing in infected beds for twenty days and have 

 not j'et developed any symptoms of the disease. 



At its annual meeting on December 14th the 

 American Forestry Association recommended 

 that a national park be established in Minne- 

 sota and that the California big trees be pre- 

 served so far as possible. 



