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countries as a great writer and student and 

 scholar, and, among his friends and acquaint- 

 ances, was recognized as a man of genius and 

 of heart, of perfect frankness and integrity, 

 as well as of delightful personality. He was 

 very extensively acquainted, at home and 

 abroad. His death will be regretted by his 

 numerous acquaintances, and by every one 

 familiar with his work, and will be mourned 

 long and sincerely by all who had the good 

 fortune to be numbered among his personal 

 friends. R. H. T. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 By order of the president, the spring meet- 

 ing of the Council of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science will be 

 held in the Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C, 

 on Thursday, April 17, 1902, at 4:30 p.m. 



Edinburgh University will confer its LL.D. 

 on President J. G. Schurman, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, and on Principal A. W. Riicker, of 

 London University. 



Dr. Julius Kuehn, professor of agriculture 

 at the University at Halle and director of the 

 Agricultural Institute, has been elected a cor- 

 responding member of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences. 



The Russian Geographical Society has 

 awarded its Constantin medal to the geologist, 

 K. J. Bogdanowitsch ; the Semenoff medal to 

 Dr. Eduard Suess, professor of geology in the 

 University of Vienna, and the Przewalsky 

 medal to the zoologist, Professor Zarudnyi. 



Professor C. R. Barnes, of the University 

 of Chicago, sailed for Europe March 22, and 

 will spend nine niontlis in visiting the botanic- 

 al centers. 



Dr. D. T. MacDougal has returned from 

 Arizona and Sonora with an extensive collec- 

 tion of giant cacti and other large xerophytic 

 plants, which are being installed in the horti- 

 cultural houses of the New York Botanical 

 Garden. Dr. MacDougal characterizes the 

 recent sensational announcement in the daily 

 press concerning the extermination of the tree 

 cactus (Oereus giganteus} as being utterly 

 without foundation. 



Professor Tylor has given in his resigna- 



tion of the olfice of keeper of the University 

 Museum, Oxford, to which he was nominated 

 on the death of the late Professor Henry 

 Smith, who had succeeded Professor Phillips, 

 the first occupant of the post, on the opening 

 of the museum in 1857. Professor Tylor will 

 continue to hold the readership in anthropol- 

 ogy, to which he was appointed in 1884. 



Dr. Earl Lintner, professor in the Tech- 

 nical Institute at Munich, has been made 

 director of the scientific station for the study 

 of brewing in the same city. 



Dr. Louis Cobbett and Dr. E. S. St. Barbe 

 Sladen have been appointed by the Royal Com- 

 mission on Tuberculosis to assist in the ex- 

 perimental work of the commission to be car- 

 ried out at Stansted. They will reside at the 

 farms and devote the whole of their time to the 

 investigations of the commission. 



Owen's College, Manchester, celebrated it3 

 jubilee on March 12 and 13. Among those who 

 presented addresses were Professor Becquerel, 

 representing the Paris Academy of Sciences, 

 and Professor Bteymann, representing the Ba- 

 varian Academy of Sciences. 



Mr. Creswell Shearer, of Trinity College, 

 has been nominated to occupy the table at the 

 Zoological Station at Naples, maintained by 

 Cambridge University. 



The Smith prizes at Cambridge University 

 have been adjudged as follows : T. H. Have- 

 lock, B.A., St. John's College, for his essay 

 'On the Distribution of Energy in the Con- 

 tinuous Spectrum'; and J. E. Wright, B.A., 

 Trinity College, for his essay, 'Singular Solu- 

 tions of Differential Eqxiations with Known 

 Infinitesimal Transformations.' 



The Department of Astronomy of Colum- 

 bia University announces two lectures open to 

 the public. On April 8 at 3:30 p.m. Mr. 

 Percival Lowell will lecture on 'Modem 

 Mars,' and on April 16 at the same hour. Dr. 

 S. A. Mitchell will lecture on the recent eclipse 

 expedition. 



The Raoult memorial lecture of the Chem- 

 ical Society, of London, was delivered by Pro- 

 fessor van 't Hoff on March 26, in the lecture 

 theater of the Royal Institution. 



At a meeting of the members of St. 



