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SCIENCE. 



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Mr. C. Crossland and Mr. J. S. Budgett 

 have received grants for zoological research in 

 Africa from the Balfour fund of Cambridge 

 University. 



Capt. J. S. Pratt, of the U. S. Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, is preparing for his annual 

 cruise in northern waters on the United States 

 steamer Patterson. 



Foreign exchanges state that Professor 

 Rudolf Virchow is now going through a 

 'cure' at Teplitz-Schonau, where he is under 

 the care of Dr. Hirsch. He is able to walk 

 about with support, sometimes using only 

 one crutch. He is regaining power over the 

 injured limb, being able to lift the left leg so 

 as to place it across the right knee. Plis 

 general condition is also much improved. 



Dr. S. KiiiURA, surgeon inspector of the 

 imperial Japanese navy, is at present in this 

 country, where he will spend three months 

 examining the medical and hygienic arrange- 

 ments of our navy. 



The University of Cambridge will on June 

 10 confer the degree of LL.D. on Mr. F. S. 

 E. Bell, of the Canadian Geological Survey. 



The prize of the Otto-Vahlbrueh founda- 

 tion at Hamburg has this year been awarded 

 to Dr. Ludwig Boltzmann, professor of 

 physics at the University of Leipzig. The 

 value of the prize is about $2,400. 



The Eolleston Memorial Prize, awarded at 

 Oxford University for original research in 

 morphology, has been given to Mr. Francis J. 

 Cole, of Jesus College. 



Sir William Turner Thistleton Dyer, 

 director of the Kew Botanical Gardens, has 

 been appointed botanical adviser to the secre- 

 tary of state for the colonies. 



The degree of M.A. has been conferred 

 by Oxford University on Andrew L. Her- 

 bertson, Ph.D. (Freiburg in B.), lecturer in 

 regional geography, and on Henry N. Dick- 

 son, B.Sc, New College, lecturer in physical 

 geography. 



Cambridge University has granted the de- 

 gree of M.A. (honoris causa) to Mr. T. H. 

 Middleton, professor of agriculture. 



On February 15 the Russian Medical Society 

 celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the 

 birth of its founder, Dr. Fedor Inosemzeff, who 

 died in 1869. Dr. Inosemzeff was professor of 

 surgery in the University of Moscow till his 

 death. 



A MEMORIAL erected by Edward Longstreth, 

 of Philadelphia, to John Fitch, who is said to 

 have been the first to apply steam to the run- 

 ning of a boat, has been erected in Warminster, 

 Pa. It bears the inscription: "John Fitch 

 here conceived the idea of the first steam-boat. 

 He ran a boat with side-wheels by steam on a 

 pond below Davisville in 1785. Bucks County 

 Historical Society." 



We have already noted the unveiling of a 

 bronze tablet at Lafayette College in memory 

 of the late James H. Cofiin. The inscription 

 reads as follows : "In memory of James Henry 

 Cofiin, LL.D. Long a main-stay of Lafay- 

 ette College, professor of mathematics, natural 

 philosophy and astronomy, 1846-1873 ; vice- 

 president and college treasurer, 1863-1873. A 

 tireless teacher and administrator, an officer 

 of the church, a friend of the slave. A mem- 

 ber of the National Academy of Sciences, au- 

 thor of 'Winds of the Globe.' He annexed the 

 atmosphere to the realm of science, and search- 

 ed the highways of the winds and the paths of 

 vagrant storms. Born in Williamsburg, 

 Mass., September 6, 1806 ; died in Easton, Feb- 

 ruary 6, 1873. The Class of 1866 has erected 

 this tablet." 



Professor Adolf Kussmaul, the eminent 

 German pathologist, who recently celebrated 

 his seventieth birthday, died on May 27. Dr. 

 Kussmaul is eminent for his work on aphasia 

 and other forms of nervous disease. 



Mr. G. C. Hubbard, assistant in the depart- 

 ment of chemistry, Columbia University, died 

 on May 26. Mr. Hubbard graduated from the 

 School of Applied Science in 1900. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has promised to du- 

 plicate all subscriptions up to $7,500 to the 

 Hugh Miller Centenary Memorial. 



Mrs. Collis P. Huntington has given the 

 sum of $100,000 to the General Memorial Hos- 

 pital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied 



