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transacted by the committee will be brought 

 before the council of the association at the 

 approaching Chicago meeting. 



General Cyrus B. Comstock, Corps of En- 

 gineers, U. S. A., has given to the National 

 Academy of Sciences, of which he is a mem- 

 ber, the sum of $10,000, the income from 

 which is to be devoted to the advancement of 

 knowledge in magnetism, electricity and ra- 

 diant energy. 



M. Gaston Daeboux, president of tha first 

 general assembly of the International Asso- 

 ciation of Academies and permanent secretary 

 of the Paris Academy of Sciences, has trans- 

 mitted to the National Academy of Sciences 

 a copy of a plaque by the engraver M. Vernon, 

 authorized by the French government to com- 

 memorate the first general assembly of the 

 International Association of Academies held 

 in Paris in 1901. 



The following is a full list of those to whom 

 the Eoyal Society has this year awarded 

 medals: The Copley medal to Professor A. A. 

 Michelson, of Chicago, For. Mem. R.S., for 

 his investigations in optics; a royal medal to 

 Dr. Ernest William Hobson, F.R.S., for his 

 investigations in mathematics; a royal medal 

 to Dr. Ramsay H. Traquair, F.R.S., for his 

 discoveries relating to fossil fishes; the Davy 

 medal to Professor E. W. Morley, Western Re- 

 serve University, for his contributions to phys- 

 ics and chemistry, and especially for his de- 

 terminations of the relative atomic weights 

 of hydrogen and oxygen ; the Buchanan medal 

 to Mr. W. H. Power, C.B., F.R.S., for his 

 services to sanitary science ; the Hughes medal 

 to Professor Ernest H. Griffiths, F.R.S., for 

 his contributions to exact physical measure- 

 ment; the Sylvester medal to Professor Wil- 

 helm Wirtinger, of Vienna, for his contribu- 

 tions to the general theory of functions. 



The Royal Swedish Academy of Science in 

 Stockholm has elected Professor Theodore W. 

 Richards, of Harvard University, to foreign 

 membership. 



The honors announced on the occasion of 

 the birthday of King Edward include: Pro- 

 fessor T. Clifford Allbutt, F.R.S., has been 



appointed a knight commander of the Order 

 of the Bath. The honor of knighthood has 

 been conferred on Dr. W. H. AUchin, consult- 

 ing physician to the Westminster Hospital, a 

 member of the medical consultative board to 

 the admiralty, and one of the representatives 

 of the Royal College of Physicians of London 

 on the senate of the University of London; 

 on Dr. W. J. Thompson, physician to Jervis 

 Street Hospital, Dublin, who is one of 

 the committee engaged in dealing with the 

 prevalence of tuberculosis in Ireland; and 

 on Mr. Charles Whitehead, who is associated 

 with scientific agriculture. Dr. A. Theiler, 

 government veterinary bacteriologist, Trans- 

 vaal, has been appointed a companion of the 

 Order of St. Michael and St. George. 



Dr. Field Halvorsen, of the University of 

 Christiania, who has been sent by his govern- 

 ment to study American methods of teaching 

 technical chemistry, is attending the regular 

 lectures and laboratory exercises at the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology. For the 

 past three years Dr. Halvorsen has been study- 

 ing German methods in the technical school 

 at Charlottenburg. 



The third lecture in the Harvey Society 

 course will be delivered by Professor David 

 Edsall, University of Pennsylvania, at the 

 New York Academy of Medicine, on Saturday, 

 November 30, at 8:30 p.m. Subject: "The 

 bearing of metabolism studies on clinical 

 medicine." All interested are invited to be 

 present. 



Professor R. W. Wood, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, lectured at Lehigh Univer- 

 sity, on November 8, on " Modem Airships 

 and Flying-machines." 



Professor C. F. Binns, director of the New 

 York State School of Ceramic Arts, Alfred 

 University, lectured before the Syracuse 

 Chapter of Sigma Xi on November 15. His 

 subject was " Clays, chemical, physical and 

 empirical." 



Mr. J. S. Hunter, deputy game and fish 

 commissioner of California, gave an address 

 on November 19 before the Zoological Club 

 of the University of Nebraska on the " Fauna 

 of the Galapagos Islands." Mr. Hunter was 



