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 include Transactions in quarto and Proceedings 

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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



It is reported that the Nobel prizes for this 

 year will be awarded as follows: In chemis- 

 try, to Professor Emil Fischer, of Berlin; in 

 physics, to Professor S. A. Arrhenius, of 

 Stockholm; in medicine, to Professor Niels 

 E. Finsen, of Copenhagen, and to Major Eon- 

 aid Koss, of Liverpool. The value of these 

 prizes, it will be remembered, is about $40,- 

 000 each. 



Professor H. V. Hilprecht has been 

 awarded the Lucy Wharton Drexel medal of 

 the University of Pennsylvania for his arche- 

 ological researches. 



We learn from Nature that Dr. P. L. 

 Sclater, F.R.S., has resigned the secretary- 

 ship of the Zoological Society of London, and 

 only holds office until his successor is ap- 

 pointed. The council has passed the follow- 

 ing resolution on this subject and ordered it 

 to be entered on their minutes: 



The president, vice-presidents and council of the 

 Zoological Society of London desire to record 



their sincere regret at the retirement of their 

 secretary. Dr. Philip Lutley Sclater, after a ser- 

 vice of nearly forty-three years. They wish to 

 tender him their hearty thanks for his -most valu- 

 able services to the Society during this long 

 period, not only in the management of the Zoolog- 

 ical Gardens, but also in the conduct of the publi- 

 cations of the Society and the general direction 

 of its affairs. These afl'airs have prospered to a 

 remarkable degree during his long term of office. 

 The income of the Society has doubled, the So- 

 ciety's library has been entirely created, the mem- 

 bership has increased from 1500 to 3200. Dr. 

 Solater's own work as a zoologist is lield in uni- 

 versal repute, and it is no exaggeration to say 

 that the very higli position occupied at the present 

 day by the Zoological Society in the world of 

 science is largely due to the exertions and tlie 

 personal cliaraeter of its retiring secretary. 



Dr. JGfARY N. Calkins, of the department 

 of zoology of Columbia University, has been 

 appointed consulting biologist to the New 

 York State Pathological Hospital. 



Dr. G. T. W. Patrick, professor of phi- 

 losophy and psychology, in the University of 

 Iowa, is spending the year in Germany. 



Dr. Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer, is 

 expected to lecture in the United States early 

 next year. 



Dr. Egbert Koch has presented to the 

 Mount Vernon Hospital for Consumption, 

 London, a portrait of himself. 



The French International Geodetic Asso- 

 tion has elected General Bassot as vice-presi- 

 dent in succession to General Ferrero. 



The ashes of Christopher Columbus, re- 

 moved from the cathedral of Havana, were 

 placed in a mausoleum in Saville cathedral on 

 November 17. 



We regret to record the death of Professor 

 Henry Mitchell, the eminent engineer. He 

 was born in Nantucket in 1830, being the son 

 of William Mitchell, the astronomer. His 

 sister, Maria Mitchell, was also well known as 

 an astronomer. Mr. Mitchell was at one time 

 professor in the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology and took part in important engi- 

 neering works in the harbors of Boston, Phil- 

 adelphia and other cities. He took part in 

 the surveys of the Mississippi river and of 



