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have greatly increased in recent years, and it 

 is much straitened by its inability to increase 

 its expenditure, either on its own establish- 

 ment, or in other directions, owing to the in- 

 cessant demands of the catalogue. The coun- 

 cil consider that the time has now come for 

 them to appeal to those who are in a position 

 to afford substantial financial assistance, to 

 enable them to complete this great underta- 

 king without devoting any part of their funds, 

 so sorely needed for other purposes, to this 

 object. They are thankful to be able to an- 

 nounce that Dr. Ludwig Mond, T.E.S., has 

 been so impressed with the importance of the 

 catalogue, with the necessity for producing 

 the subject index of the scientific literature 

 of the past century so far as possible in the 

 same complete form as that adopted by the 

 International Council for the literature of 

 the present century, and with the justice of 

 the view that the Royal Society ought for 

 the future to be relieved of the cost of pro- 

 ducing the catalogue, that he has most gen- 

 erously added to his previous gift of £2,000 

 the munificent donation of £6,000, payable in 

 four annual instalments of £1,500. 



The president and council have also much 

 pleasure in stating that Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 

 fully appreciating the value of the society's 

 undertaking and the claims that it has on the 

 liberality of those who, though not fellows of 

 the society, are interested in the promotion of 

 natural knowledge, has contributed the hand- 

 some sum of £1,000 towards its accomplish- 

 ment. They venture to hope that others may 

 be willing to contribute towards a fund to 

 provide for the total cost of this national 

 work. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 The Eoyal Society has this year awarded 

 medals, as follows : The Copley medal to Lord 

 Lister in recognition of his jphysiological and 

 pathological researches in regard to their in- 

 fluence on the modern practice of surgery. 

 The Eumford medal to the Hon. Charles Al- 

 gernon Parsons for his success in the applica- 

 tion of the steam turbine to industrial pur- 

 poses and for its recent extension to naviga- 



tion. A Royal medal to Professor Horace 

 Lamb for his investigations in mathematical 

 physics. A Royal medal to Professor Edward 

 Albert Schafer for his researches into the 

 functions and minute structure of the central 

 nervous system, especially with regard to the 

 motor and sensory functions of the cortex of 

 the brain. The Davy medal to Professor 

 Svante August Arrhenius for the application 

 of the theory of dissociation to the explana- 

 tion of chemical change. The Darwin medal 

 to Mr. Francis Galton for his numerous con- 

 tributions to the exact study of heredity and 

 variation contained in ' Hereditary Genius,' 

 ' ISTatural Inheritance,' and other writings. 

 The Buchanan medal to Dr. Sydney A. 

 Monckton Copeman for his experimental in- 

 vestigations into the bacteriology and compara- 

 tive pathology of vaccination. The Hughes 

 medal to Professor Joseph John Thomson for 

 his numerous contributions to electric science, 

 especially in reference to the phenomena of 

 electric discharge in gases. 



At the meeting of the National Academy of 

 Sciences, held in Baltimore November 11 and 

 12, a grant of eight hundred dollars was made 

 from the income of the J. Lawrence Smith 

 bequest to Dr. O. C. Farrington, of the Field 

 Columbian Museum, Chicago, to enable him 

 to conduct certain investigations tipon the 

 meteoric bodies of America. 



The daily papers state that Major Ronald 

 Ross, of the Liverpool School of Tropical 

 Medicine, will receive the award of a Nobel 

 prize. 



Nature gives the following list of those who 

 have been recommended by the president and 

 council of the Royal Society for election into 

 the council for the year 1903 at the anniver- 

 sary meeting on December 1. The names of 

 new members are printed in italics: Presi- 

 dent, Sir William Huggins, KC.B., O.M.; 

 treasurer, Mr. A. B. Kempe; secretaries. Sir 

 Michael Foster, K.O.B., and Dr. Joseph Lar- 

 mor; foreign secretary. Dr. T. E. Thorpe, 

 C.B. ; other members of the council, Mr. W. 

 Bateson, Dr. W. T. Blanford, Professor H. 

 L. Callendar, Mr. F. Darivin, Professor H. B. 

 Dixon, Professor G. Carey Foster, Right Hon. 

 Sir John E. Gorst, Professor J. W. Judd, 



