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[N. S. Vol. XXXI. No. 793 



Mr. G. H. Hardy, Dr. J. A. Harker, Professor 

 J. T. Hewitt, Professor B. Hopkinson, Dr. A. 

 Lapworth, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir W. B. Liesli- 

 man, Mr. H. G. Plimmer, Mr. P. Soddy. 



Professor G. E. Hale. Professor S. Arrhen- 

 ius and Madame Curie have been elected hon- 

 orary fellows of the Physical Society, London. 



Dr. Hugo MOnsterberg, professor of psy- 

 chology at Harvard University, has been ap- 

 pointed exchange professor to lecture at Berlin 

 in 1910-11. 



The Academy of Scientific Men of Halle 

 has awarded its gold Cothenius medal to 

 Dr. Wilhelm Pfeffer, professor of botany at 

 Leipzig. 



The New York Academy of Sciences has 

 appointed the following delegates to represent 

 it at international congresses during the 

 coming summer: Professors Hermon C. Bum- 

 pus, Bashford Dean and Henry E. Crampton 

 for the Zoological Congress at Graz; Pro- 

 fessors James F. Kemp, J. J. Stevenson and 

 Dr. E. O. Hovey for the Geological Congress 

 at Stockholm. 



Professor Pdnnett, Mr. H. Gadow, King's, 

 and Mr. A. E. Shipley, Christ's, have been 

 appointed representatives of Cambridge Uni- 

 versity at the International Congress of Zool- 

 ogy to be held at Graz in August next. Mr. 

 A. G. Tansley, Trinity, has been appointed to 

 represent the university at the International 

 Congress of Botany to be held at Brussels in 

 May next. 



Sir J. J. Thomson has been nominated to 

 represent Cambridge University at the celebra- 

 tion next October of the centenary of the Uni- 

 versity of Berlin. 



Sir William Preece, Sir Joseph Swan and 

 Professor G. Vernon Harcourt have been 

 elected the first honorary members of the Il- 

 luminating Engineering Society. 



Dr. a. Hertzfeld, director of the Institute 

 of Sugar Industry in Berlin, has been elected 

 a foreign member of the Swedish Academy for 

 Agriculture. 



Dr. Edm. von Lippmann, Halle, has been 

 given the honorary degree of doctor of engi- 



neering by the Dresden Institute of Tech- 

 nology. 



The naturalists of France and of many 

 other parts of the world are uniting in a jubi- 

 lee celebration in honor of J. H. Fabre, styled 

 by Charles Darwin " the immortal Fabre," and 

 referred to by him also as " that inimitable ob- 

 server." Fabre, after years of labor and of 

 patient observation and of most important 

 work, is, in his age, the most modest of men, 

 leading a retired life, and his admirers every- 

 where and in all walks are uniting in this 

 celebration. Not only are naturalists coming 

 together for this jubilee, but prominent oifi- 

 cials throughout France and prominent men 

 in literature as well, since Fabre's published 

 work possesses a high literary value. No one, 

 says David Sharp, has ever written on his sub- 

 jects with equal brilliancy and vivacity. So 

 Mistral, the poet; Edmund Eostrand, the poet 

 and dramatist, and Maurice Materlink, the 

 naturalist, philosopher and novelist, among 

 others, have united in this jubilee. Members 

 of the French Academy engaged in other 

 branches of science, such as Poincare, and 

 men prominent in many walks of life, not 

 even excepting journalism, such as Hebrard, 

 the director of the Temps, have also associated 

 themselves with Fabre's other admirers. The 

 jubilee will be held on the third of April, at 

 the time of the inauguration of the Institute 

 of Oceanography by the Prince of Monaco. 

 A medal will be struck in honor of the occa- 

 sion. Americans wishing to contribute may 

 send their subscriptions to Dr. L. O. Howard, 

 permanent secretary of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, Smith- 

 sonian Institution, Washington, D. C. These 

 should be sent at once, since the subscription 

 closes the twenty-fifth of March. 



Since the return of the DeMilhau Peabody 

 Museum South American Expedition of Har- 

 vard University, Dr. William C. Farabee has 

 received from the Universidad Mayor de San 

 Marcos de Lima a diploma as honorary mem- 

 ber of the faculty of sciences in the univer- 

 sity, for " scientific merits and important 

 services rendered to the government of Peru." 



