July 18, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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ate of the Prench Academy of Sciences in the 

 room of the late Baron Nordenskiold. 



The full list of coronation honors as far 

 as they concern men of science is given in 

 Nature as follows: Among the new Privj' 

 Councillors are Lord Kelvin and Lord Lister. 

 The new Baronets include Sir Andrew Noble, 

 K.C.B., Sir Francis Laking and Sir Frederick 

 Treves. The honor of KJnighthood has been 

 conferred upon Dr. J. W. Collins, F.KC.S., 

 Mr. A. Cooper, F.R.C.S., Mr. H. Croom, presi- 

 dent of the Eoyal College of Surgeons (Edin- 

 burgh) ; Dr. T. Fraser, F.R.S., president of 

 the Eoyal College of Physicians of Edin- 

 burgh; Mr. Victor Horsley, F.R.S., Mr. H. 

 G. Howse, president of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons; Principal Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., 

 Professor W. Macewen, F.R.S., Principal 

 Riicker, F.R.S., and Mr. J. Thornycroft, F.E.S. 

 In the Order of the Bath (Civil Division) 

 Sir William Church, Bart., president of the 

 Eoyal College of Physicians, and Professor 

 W. Ramsay, F.R.S., have been appointed 

 Knight Commanders, Major Ronald Eoss, 

 F.E.S., and Professor A. M. Worthington, 

 F.E.S. , have been appointed Companions of 

 the same Order. In the Military Division of 

 the Order of the Bath, Admiral Sir Erasmus 

 Ommanney, F.E.S., has been appointed Knight 

 Commander. The Kaiser-I-Hind medal for 

 public service in India has been granted to 

 Mr. Edgar Thurston, superintendent, Govern- 

 ment Central Museum, Madras. Finally, the 

 new Order of Merit includes in its list of 

 twelve original members the names of four dis- 

 tinguished men of science, namely, Lord Ray- 

 leigh. Lord Kelvin, Lord Lister and Sir Will- 

 iam Huggins. 



The International Committee upon Atomic 

 Weights, composed of representatives from 

 all the greater chemical organizations of the 

 world, has been reorganized, by a vote of its 

 own membership, into a working committee 

 of three. These are F. W. Clarke, of Wash- 

 ington, chairman; T. E. Thorpe, of London, 

 and Carl Seubert, of Hannover, Germany. 



Trinity College has conferred the degree 

 of LL.D. on Professor W. L. Eobb, who leaves 

 that institution to take charge of the Depart- 



ment of Physics and Electrical Engineering 

 at the Eensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 



Mr. F. H. Newell, chief hydrographer of 

 the U. S. Geological Survey, has gone to the 

 West to supervise surveys in connection with 

 the work in irrigation authorized by Congress. 

 Surveying parties are in the field in Califor- 

 nia, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Utah, 

 Nevada, Idaho, Arizona and Colorado. 



On July 1, by order of the Secretary, of 

 Agriculture, Dr. Ch. Wardell Stiles, who has 

 been serving temporarily as pathologist of the 

 U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry, resumed 

 his regular duties as zoologist of the bureau, 

 and Dr. John E. Mohler, formerly assistant 

 pathologist, has been promoted to the position 

 of pathologist. 



Professor Edward S. Holden, U.S.M.A., 

 '70, has accepted the appointment of librarian 

 of the Military Academy at West Point. The 

 library now contains about 45,000 volumes. 

 Congress has provided a much-increased ap- 

 propriation — $11,500 — for the present fiscal 

 year and its collections are likely to grow 

 rapidly. The interior of the large library 

 building has lately been remodeled at a cost 

 of $85,000. 



The Executive Commission of the Interna- 

 tional Congress of Applied Chemistry, which 

 met at Paris in 1900 and is to meet at Berlin 

 nest year, has appointed an international com- 

 mittee on analytical methods. The American 

 members of this committee are H. W. Wiley 

 and F. W. Clarke. 



At the general meeting of the Zoological 

 Society of London on June 19 the gold medal 

 of the Society was delivered by His Grace, the 

 Duke of Bedford, K.G., president, to Sir 

 Harry Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., F.Z.S., in 

 consideration of his great services to zoolog- 

 ical science during the various official posts 

 which he had held in Africa and especially in 

 commemoration of his discovery of the Okapi. 

 After the close of the meeting the third of the 

 series of zoological lectures for the present 

 year was delivered by Professor E. Ray Lan- 

 kester, F.E.S., on 'The Okapi and its Position 

 in the Natural Series.' Professor Lankester's 

 Memoir in the society's quarto 'Transactions,' 



