NOVEMBKE 21, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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physics. We hope to publish subsequently 

 an account of his life and work. 



Pkofessor J. J. Thomson, the eminent 

 physicist of Cambridge University, has been 

 invited to be the first lecturer at Tale Uni- 

 versity on the Silliman foundation. This lec- 

 tureship, endowed by the late Benjamin Silli- 

 man with $85,000, is somewhat similar to the 

 GifFord lectures of the Scottish universities, 

 providing for a course of lectures ' the general 

 tendency of which may be such as will illus- 

 trate the presence and wisdom of God as 

 manifested in the natural and moral world.' 

 The lectures, however, must not be ' on topics 

 appropriate to polemical or dogmatic theology.' 



Dr. W J McGee, ethnologist in charge, 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, has been ap- 

 pointed by the President, through the Secre- 

 tary of State, to represent the United States 

 on the American International Archeological 

 Commission, whose creation was recommended 

 by the second International Conference of 

 American States held in Mexico last winter. 



Professor J. Willard Gibbs, of Yale Uni- 

 versity, has been elected a corresponding mem- 

 ber of the Munich Academy of Science. 



The Academy of [Natural Science of Phila- 

 delphia has, on the recommendation of its 

 special committee, consisting of Theo. D. 

 Rand, Amos P. Brown, E. A. P. Penrose, Jr., 

 and Henry Fairfield Osborn, conferred the gold 

 medal of the Hayden Memorial Geological 

 Award for 1902 on Sir Archibald Geikie, 

 LL.D., D.Sc, late director general of the 

 Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ire- 

 land. 



Me. J. S. DiLLER, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, who spent the field season in geolog- 

 ical work in northern California, has returned 

 to Washington. 



Professor F. S. Eaele, assistant curator 

 at the New York Botanical Garden, is in 

 Jamaica in company with the Hon. Wm. 

 Fawcett, director of the public gardens and 

 plantations, for the purpose of making an 

 investigation of the diseases of logwood, ba- 

 nana, cocoanut, ginger, pineapple and other 

 economic plants of the island. Dr. M. A. 

 Howe, assistant curator, is making an exten- 



sive survey of the algal flora of the Florida 

 Keys. 



The Peary Arctic Club gave a dinner in 

 honor of Commander Peary on November 13, 

 the president of the club, Mr. Morris K. 

 Jesup, presiding. 



At the banquet in honor of Drs. William 

 W. Keen and Horatio C. Wood, at Philadel- 

 phia on November 6, Dr. William H. Welch, of 

 Baltimore, proposed the toast ' Medicine,' to 

 which Dr. Wood responded. Dr. William B. 

 Coley, of New York City, gave the toast 

 ' Surgery,' to which Dr. Keen made response. 

 Dr. J. Chalmers Da Costa spoke to the toast 

 ' The Pupil in Surgery,' and presented Dr. 

 Keen with a loving cup. Dr. Hobart A. Hare 

 replied to the toast ' The Pupil in Medicine,' 

 and presented a loving cup to Dr. Wood. 



Dr. Max Wolf, of the Observatory on 

 Konigstuhl, Heidelberg, has lengthened in- 

 definitely the government appointment of Mr. 

 E. S. Dugan, as his assistant. Mr. Dugan 

 graduated at Amherst College in 1899, and 

 after being Professor Todd's assistant, was in 

 the Beirut Observatory for three years. He 

 discovered a new planet {KA) at Heidelberg 

 on October 25. 



Mr. George Grant MacCurdy, lecturer in 

 anthropology at Tale University, has been 

 appointed curator of the anthropological col- 

 lections in the University Museum. 



President Pritchett, of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, lectured at Buffalo 

 before the Association of College Alumni on 

 November 17, his subject being ' The Place of 

 Industrial Training in the Education of a 

 Modern Nation.' 



The eightieth birthday of Professor Fried- 

 rich von Esmarch, the eminent German sur- 

 geon, will be celebrated next year by the erec- 

 tion of a monument in his native to^vn of 

 Tonning. 



Dr. a. E. C. Solwyn, formerly director oi 

 the Geological Survey of Canada, died at Van- 

 couver on October 19, aged seventy-eight years. 



Me. William Gunn, F.G.S., district geol- 

 ogist in the Geological Survey of Great Britian 

 and Ireland, died on October 23, aged sixty- 

 five years. 



