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G.B., Bight Hon. Lord Lister, O.M., Professor 

 G. D. Liveing, Professor A. E. H. Love, Pro- 

 fessor H. A. Miers, Professor E. A. S chafer. 

 Captain T. E. Tizard, R.N., O.B., Professor 

 H. H. Turner, Sir J. Wolfe Barry, K.C.B. 



Mr. Albert F. Woods, chief of the Division 

 of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, has gone to 

 Nebraska to visit the experimental stations 

 and gather information in regard to the beet- 

 sugar industry. 



Dr. a. D. Hopkins, of the Division of 

 Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 has returned from an extended trip to Arizona, 

 southern California, northern Idaho, the Puget 

 Sound country and the Black Hills, where 

 he made investigations of the damage done 

 timber by insect pests. 



The jubilee of the eminent anatomist, Golgi, 

 who is now in his eigthy-sixth year, was cele- 

 brated at Pavia on October 28. He was pres- 

 ented with an edition of his works in three 

 volumes. 



Mr. J. C. Hawkshavi^ gave the presidential 

 address before the British Institution of Civil 

 Engineers on November 4. Afterwards med- 

 als and premiums were awarded as follows : 

 The Howard quinquennial prize to Mr. 

 Eobert A. Hadfield, for his scientific work in 

 investigating methods of treatment of alloys 

 of steel, and on account of the importance in 

 industry of some of the new joroducts intro- 

 duced by him. A Telford gold medal to Mr. 

 William M. Mordey and a George Stephenson 

 gold medal to Mr. Bernard M. Jenkin, for 

 their joint paper on ' Electrical traction on 

 railways ' ; a Watt gold medal to Mr. J. A. F. 

 Aspinall, for his paper on ' Train resistance ' ; 

 a Telford gold medal to Mr. John M. Gray, 

 for his paper on ' The variable and absolute 

 specific heat of water ' ; a George Stephenson 

 gold medal to Mr. Richard Price-Williams, 

 for his paper on ' The maintenance and re- 

 newals of waterworks ' ; a Watt gold medal to 

 Dr. William B. Dawson, for his paper on 

 ' Tide-gauges in northern climates and isolated 

 situations.' The Miller scholarship, tenable 

 for three years, and the James Forrest medal 

 were presented to Mr. Herbert F. Lloyd, for 



his paper on ' The design, manufacture and 

 erection of wrought steel conduits for gravi- 

 tation and pressure water supply.' 



The list of birthday honors in Great Britain 

 includes the names of Mr. W. H. Power, 

 F.R.S., principal medical officer to the Local 

 Government Board, who has been made a 

 companion of the Order of the Bath ; Sir J. J. 

 Trevor Lawrence, a Knight Commander of 

 the Royal Victorian Order; and Mr. H. J. 

 Chaney, superintendent of the Standards De- 

 partment, Board of Trade, Companion of the 

 Imperial Service Order. 



Dr. H. p. Johnson, having undertaken the 

 investigation of icterohsematuria of sheep, is 

 at present in Helena, Montana, and requests 

 that all correspondence, exchanges, etc., be sent 

 to that address. 



Mr. G. M. Eitchey, of the Terkes Observa- 

 tory, gave an illustrated lecture on ' Recent 

 Celestial Photography,' under the auspices of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, November 22, 

 in the lecture hall of the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum. 



Major Walter Reed, an officer of the Sur- 

 geon-General's Department of the Army, and 

 well known for his researches on the relation 

 of the mosquito to yellow fever, died at Wash- 

 ington on November 23, at the age of fifty-one 

 years. 



Mr. Frederick James Carnell, laboratory 

 assistant in physics in the Sheffield Scientific 

 School, of Yale University, died on Novem- 

 ber 16 from an accidental shot while hunting. 



The death is also announced of Mr. Wil- 

 liam Henry Barlow, F.R.S., a well known 

 British civil engineer, on November 12, at 

 the age of ninety years. 



There will be an examination to fill the 

 position of piece-work comi^uter in the 

 Nautical Almanac Office on December 9 and 

 10, and to fill a similar position in the Naval 

 Observatory on January 6 and 7. 



According to La Semaine Medicale Dr. 

 Steiner, a Dutch physician, has discovered a 

 method of ansesthesia among the Javanese 

 produced by compression of the carotid artery. 

 From a story collected by Dr. J. R. Swanton, 



