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sustained. As fellow of the society since 1854, 

 as a member of the council since 1864, as secre- 

 tary in 1867-72, as foreign secretary in 1873-75, 

 as president in 1876-78, and as foreign sec- 

 retary from 1883 to the present time, he ren- 

 dered services of the greatest value to our society. 

 His wide knowledge and sound judgment were 

 ever at its disposal. But it is on the higher 

 ground of his having been the pioneer in all those 

 branches of research now termed astrophysics 

 that he has the greatest claim to respect and 

 admiration. The council, in requesting the presi- 

 dent to convey their sympathy to Lady Huggins 

 on her bereavement, desire him to say how much 

 they have reason to be proud and thankful for the 

 noble life's work of her husband, with whom she 

 has actively collaborated for so many years. 



Dr. Zenchallo, medical officer of the In- 

 ternational Sanitary Commission, has died of 

 plague at Jeddah as the result of infection 

 when examining rats. 



Stanislau Cannizzaro, the eminent Italian 

 chemist, professor in the University of Rome 

 and a member of the Italian senate, died on 

 May 10, at the age of eighty-four years. 



Mr. James Cantlie, hon. secretary of the 

 Pellagra Commission, has received, as we 

 learn from the London Times, the following 

 telegram from Dr. Sambon, dated Home, May 

 13 : " The pellagra field commission has defi- 

 nitely proved that maize is not the cause of 

 Pellagra. The parasitic conveyer is the 8im- 

 ulium reptans." 



An International Association of Colonial 

 Agriculture was founded in 1905 at the close 

 of the first International Congress of Tropical 

 Agriculture, held in Paris in that year. The 

 association has arranged to hold a second In- 

 ternational Congress at Brussels on May 20- 

 23. 



The Society for the Promotion of Engi- 

 neering Education is to meet at the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, June 23-25. 



The Royal College of Physicians of Lon- 

 don announces that the next award of the 

 Weber-Parkes prize of 150 guineas and a 

 silver medal will be made in 1912, the subject 

 of the essay to be " The Influence of Mixed 

 and Secondary Infections upon Pulmonary 



Tuberculosis in Man, and the Measures, Pre- 

 ventive and Curative, for dealing with them." 



American students of Characece will be in- 

 terested to learn that, through the purchase of 

 the herbarium of L. J. Wahlstedt, the Field 

 Museum of Natural History has rendered 

 available to them a wealth of authenticated 

 material in that family. The material com- 

 prises a large series of specimens that have 

 been attested by Alex. Braun, Eabenhorst, 

 Stizenberger, Norstedt, Wahlstedt and Allen. 

 The total collection numbers 1,750 sheets. 



The United States Pharmacopoeial Conven- 

 tion at its meeting held at the Hotel New 

 Willard in Washington, D. C, May 10-13, 

 elected the following officers : President, Dr. 

 H. W. Wiley, of the Bureau of Chemistry, 

 Washington, D. C. ; first vice-president, Dr. N. 

 S. Davis, of Illinois; second vice-president, 

 Charles Caspari, Jr., of Maryland; third vice- 

 president, O. T. Osborn, of Connecticut; 

 fourth vice-president, Leo Eliel, of Indiana; 

 fifth vice-president, W. A. Bastedo, of New 

 York; secretary, M. G. Motter, of the District 

 of Columbia ; assistant secretary. Dr. Noble P. 

 Barnes, of the District of Columbia; treas- 

 urer, S. L. Hilton, of the District of Co- 

 lumbia. The board of trustees, for the ex- 

 penditures of the convention, was elected as 

 follows: J. H. Beal, of Ohio; F. W. Meissner, 

 of Indiana; W. J. Schieffelin, of New York; 

 G. H. Simmons, of Illinois, and H. M. Whelp- 

 ley, of Missouri. The committee on revision 

 of the Pharmacopoeia was elected as follows: 

 J. P. Remington, H. Kraemer, C. Caspari, Jr., 

 C. L. Diehl, J. O. Schlotterbeck, A. B. Lyons, 

 H. C. Wood, Jr., J. M. Osborne, M. I. Wil- 

 bert, H. H. Rusby, Reid Hunt, A. R. L. 

 Dohme, A. B. Stevens, G. M. Beringer, E. G. 

 Eberle, L. E. Sayre, E. Kremers, W. A. Puck- 

 ner, L. F. Kebler, C. S. N. Hallberg, C. H. 

 La Wall, G. D. Rosengarten, V. Coblentz, 

 J. W. Hatcher, J. M. Good, H. V. Arny, J. A. 

 Koch, S. P. Sadtler, W. Bodemann, J. H. 

 Long, O. Raubenheimer, C. E. Vanderkleed, 

 T. SoUman, W. H. Nixon, J. C. F. Anderson, 

 N. S. Davis, J. M. Francis, C. E. Caspari, 

 R. H. True, W. N. Gregory, H. M. Gordin, 



