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anatomy in the university of Berlin, Dr. 

 Ernst Ehlers, professor of zoology in the 

 University of Gottingen, and Professor Svante 

 Arrhenius, director of the division of physical 

 chemistry of the Nobel Institute of the 

 Academy of Sciences of Stockholm. 



The British Iron and Steel Institute has 

 awarded its Bessemer gold medal to Dr. J. 

 Brinell, Stockholm, for his researches on the 

 changes in the structure of steel with tempera- 

 ture changes. 



The Association of German Chemists has 

 awarded its Liebig gold medal to Dr. Adolf 

 Frank, the founder of the German potash 

 industry. 



The Italian Scientific Society has con- 

 ferred its gold medal for mathematics on Pro- 

 fessor G. Lauricella, of Catania. 



A GOLD jubilee cup has been presented to 

 Sir Charles A. Hartley by the European Com- 

 mission of the Danube, in commemoration of 

 the fiftieth anniversary of his engagement as 

 engineer-in-chief to the commission. 



On the occasion o± the celebration of the 

 twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of 

 the Russian Pirogoii Surgical Association at 

 St. Petersburg ten foreign, honorary members 

 were elected — Drs. Senn, Eoux, Lennander, 

 Watson, Horsley, Quenu, Poncet, Rydigier, 

 Roentgen and Trendelenburg. 



Me. Edward Roberts has retired from the 

 position of chief assistant of the British 

 Nautical Almanac Office, and has been suc- 

 ceeded by Mr. P. L. H. Davis, E.R.AS. 



Professor Arthur Fairbanks, who holds 

 the chair of Greek at the University of 

 Michigan, has been elected director of the 

 Boston Museum of Fine Arts. 



Professor E. H. Starling, of the Univer- 

 sity of London, has accepted the invitation to 

 give the Herter lectures at the University 

 and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. The 

 lectures vsdll commence after the Christmas 

 recess, and their subject will be " The Fluids 

 of the Body and their Regulation." They will 

 deal with the production and absorption of 

 Ijmiph, the intake by the intestines and the 

 output by the kidneys; with the regulation of 



the total amount and molecular concentra- 

 tion of the body fluids under varying condi- 

 tions, such as bleeding, transfusion, heart- 

 failure, dropsy, muscular exercise, high alti- 

 tudes. 



The Weld Hall of Ethnology of the Pea- 

 body Academy of Science, Salem, Mass., was 

 opened on the evening of June 26, when an 

 address was made by Dr. Edward S. Morse, 

 the director of the academy. 



Dr. Paul Gordan professor of mathematics 

 at Erlangen, has retired from active service. 



Dr. Otto Mijller has been given the title 

 of professor at Berlin, in recognition of his 

 work on diatoms. 



Professor W. G. Farlow represented Har- 

 vard University on the occasion of the Lin- 

 nsean celebrations at Upsala and Stockholm. 



Professor E. Riccioli, of Rome, has visited 

 Boston and inspected the parasite work eon- 

 ducted by Mr. A. H. Kirkland in connection 

 vpith the gypsy and brown-tail moth crusade. 



At Oberlin College, the leave of absence of 

 Professor Maynard M. Metcalf and of Asso- 

 ciate Professor Robert A. Budington is ex- 

 tended for another year, owing to the delay 

 in the completion of the zoological laboratory. 



Professor J. Perrin Smith, of Leland Stan- 

 ford University, and Professor J. Culver Hart- 

 zell, of the University of the Pacific, will spend 

 three or four weeks during the summer in the 

 western and central parts of Nevada. Dr. 

 Smith will study the stratigraphic, and Dr. 

 Hartzell the physiographic and structural, 

 features of the West Humboldt, the east and 

 the Dosatoya ranges in particular. 



Professor Newton has bequeathed to Cam- 

 bridge University his natural history collec- 

 tions and library, together with the cabinets, 

 cases and apparatus; also his copyrights, 

 books, pictures, prints, drawings, letters and 

 papers relating to natural history; also the 

 sum of £1,000, whose annual income is to be 

 employed in keeping up and adding to the 

 library. 



Dr. Thomas Evans, professor of chemistry 

 in the University of Cincinnati, dean of the 



