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SCIENCE 



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minster Abbey on December 23. The last man 

 of science buried in the abbey was Charles 

 Darwin, who died in 1882. 



Professor Simon Newcomb, of Washington, 

 and Professor Emil Fischer, of Berlin, have 

 been elected foreign members of the Gottingen 

 Academy of Sciences. 



The freedom of the city of Glasgow wiU be 

 conferred on Lord Lister. 



The Lavoisier medal of the Paris Academy 

 of Sciences has been awarded to Professor 

 Adolf von Baeyer, of Munich, eminent for his 

 work in organic chemistry and especially for 

 the synthetic production of indigo. 



The Lalande prize of the Paris Academy 

 has been awarded to Mr. Thomas Lewis, of 

 the Eoyal Observatory, Greenwich, and secre- 

 tary of the Eoyal Astronomical Society. The 

 Observatory states that during the last twenty 

 years there have been twenty-one recipients of 

 this prize, of whom nine were American, nine 

 French, one South American, one Italian and 

 (the present award) one Englishman. 



The Wilde medal of the Manchester Lit- 

 erary and Philosophical Society has been 

 awarded to Professor J. Larmor, of Cam- 

 bridge. Professor Larmor will deliver on 

 March 3 the Wilde lecture on " The Physical 

 Aspect of the Atomic Theory," and at that 

 time the medal will be presented. 



A PORTRAIT of Dr. Arthur J. Evans, keeper 

 of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, has been 

 presented to the university by a number of 

 those interested in archeology, including fifty- 

 five American subscribers. The portrait, 

 which is the work of Sir William B. Rich- 

 mond, E.A., depicts Dr. Evans in the ruins 

 of the Palace of Knossos. 



Among those who have promised to deliver 

 addresses before the Lnternational Congress 

 on Tuberculosis, to be held at Washington 

 from September 21 to October 12, 1908, are 

 Dr. E. W. Philip, of Edinburgh; Dr. Theo- 

 dore Williams, of London; Dr. Newsholme, 

 of Brighton; Dr. C. H. Spronck, of Utrecht; 

 Dr. Karl Turban, of Davos Platz; Dr. Gott- 

 hold Tannwitz, of Charlottenburg ; Professor 

 von Behring, of Marburg, Professor Calmette, 



of Lille; Dr. Maurice Letulle, of Paris; and 

 Professor Kitasato, of Tokyo. 



Professor J. C. Kapteyn, of the University 

 of Groningen, will hereafter spend several 

 months of each year at the Solar Observatory 

 of the Carnegie Institution on Mount Wilson. 



Dr. Stromgren, of Kiel University, has been 

 appointed director of the Copenhagen Observa- 

 tory, in succession to Professor Thiele, retired. 



According to The Observatory, M. Stephan 

 is about to retire from the directorship of the 

 Observatory of Marseilles. The selection of 

 the occupant of such posts is entrusted to the 

 Academy of Sciences, which selects two candi- 

 dates to be presented to the minister of public 

 instruction, the name of them being indicated 

 as preferable. The selected candidates for 

 Marseilles are M. Bourget and M. Simonin 

 (given in this order). The candidates sim- 

 ilarly submitted for the directorship of the 

 Algiers Observatory, vacant by the death of 

 M. Trepied, are M. Gonnessiat and M. Fabry. 



Theodore Whittelsey, Ph.D., associate pro- 

 fessor of chemistry in Northwestern Univer- 

 sity, has been granted leave of absence to serve 

 as chemist of the department of investigation 

 of the Continental-Mexican Eubber Company, 

 which is engaged in the manufacture of rub- 

 ber from guayule. Dr. Whittelsey will make 

 a chemical study of the industrial possibilities 

 of the plant life on a tract of land covering 

 2,500,000 acres that this company has recently 

 purchased. His address is Hacienda de 

 Cedros, Mazapil, Zacatecas, Mexico. 



Mr. Walter E. Collinge has resigned the 

 professorship of economic zoology in Birming- 

 ham University to accept the directorship of 

 the Cooper Eesearch Laboratory, Berkhamsted. 



Mr. E. J. D. Graham, M.A., B.Sc, Car- 

 negie scholar in botany, St. Andrews Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed to the Agricultural 

 Department in India. 



The University of Vienna recently con- 

 ferred the medical degree on Count Vetter von 

 der Lilie after he had completed the usual 

 course. He is now fifty years old and has 

 been prominent in political life, having served 

 as president of the lower house of the Aus- 

 trian parliament. 



