June 10, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



901 



by the provisions of the -will of President 

 Barnard, is awarded qurnquennially for dis- 

 covery in physical or astronomical science, or 

 the novel application of science to purposes 

 beneficial to the human race, vphich in the judg- 

 ment of the National Academy of Sciences 

 shall be esteemed most worthy of such honor. 

 The award of 1895 was to Lord Eayleigh and 

 Professor William Ramsay; that of 1900, to 

 Professor Wilhelm Conrad von Eontgen, and 

 that of 1905, to Professor Henri Becquerel. 



The friends and former pupils of Mr. A. 

 E. Shipley, of Christ's College, Cambridge, 

 propose to present him with his portrait, in 

 recognition of his " services to zoological 

 teaching and research, and his eminent use- 

 fulness to the University and to his college." 

 The portrait will be painted by Mr. William 

 Nicholson. 



Professor Heller, director of the Patho- 

 logic Institute of Kiel, celebrated his seven- 

 tieth birthday on May 1. 



Mr. Ferdinand Ellerman, in charge of the 

 expedition organized by the Astronomical and 

 Astrophysical Society of America to observe 

 Halley's comet in the Hawaiian Islands, re- 

 ports that in spite of unfavorable weather 

 conditions he has obtained a set of excellent 

 photographs of the comet. No trace of the 

 comet's head could be seen while in transit 

 over the sun, although it was carefully sought 

 under favorable atmospheric conditions. 



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

 kins University, Baltimore, who will spend 

 next year abroad, will give, in London, the 

 Thomas Young oration of the Optical Society 

 and the Traill Taylor lecture before the 

 Eoyal Photographic Society. 



M. Jean Charcot has returned to France 

 on the Pourquoi Pas from his Antarctic ex- 

 pedition. 



Dr. Charles Peabody, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, has returned from North Carolina, 

 where, during the month of May, he explored 

 two groups of small mounds in Cumberland 

 County, near Fayetteville. 



Dr. E. Grawitz, professor of pathology at 

 Berlin, will visit this country in the autumn 



and deliver an address before the New York 

 Academy of Medicine on " Pernicious 

 Anemia." 



On May 31, Mr. C. J. Holmes gave the first 

 of two lectures at the Eoyal Institution on 

 " Heredity in Tudor and Stuart Portraits " ;, 

 on June 2, Major Eonald Eoss gave the first 

 of two lectures on " Malaria," and on June 4, 

 Professor J. A. Fleming began a course of 

 two lectures on " Electric Heating and 

 Pyrometry," these being the Tyndall lectures.. 

 Dr. W. S. Bruce, leader of the Scottish 

 Antarctic expeditions of 1902-04 and 1911,, 

 gave a lecture, with lantern illustrations, on 

 " Antarctic Exploration " at Oxford Univer- 

 sity on May 27. 



Professor Victor Bjerknes, of the Univer- 

 sity of Christiania, gave a lecture on " The- 

 Synoptical Eepresentation of Atmospheric- 

 Motions," at University College, London, on 

 May 27. 



General Cyrus Ballou Comstock, U. S_ 

 A. (retired), the eminent engineer, member- 

 of the National Academy of Sciences, died on 

 May 29, at the age of seventy-nine years. 



Lieutenant Boyd Alexander, known for 

 his important scientific explorations ia 

 Africa, was killed by natives in the Soudan,, 

 on April 2. 



Mr. J. B. N. Hennessey, F.E.S., knowit 

 for his surveys and other scientific work in 

 India, died on May 23, at the age of eighty 

 years. 



M. Bernard Bronhes, the director of the- 

 observatory of the Puy de Dome, known for 

 his researches in meteorology, has died at the- 

 age of forty-seven years. 



Dr. Salvatori Lo Bianco, of the Zoological 

 Station at Naples, has died at the age of 

 fifty years. 



M. Grehant, professor of histology of the 

 Museum of Natural History and director of 

 the laboratory of the Ecole de Hautes Etudes, 

 has died at the age of seventy-two years. 



We learn from the London Times that a 

 number of visitors inspected the National 

 Physical Laboratory at Teddington on March 

 18, by the invitation of Sir Archibald Geikie,. 



