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SCIENTIFIC XOTES AND NEWS. 



De. Wilhelm Waldeyer, of Berlin, has 

 been elected a foreign member of the Paris 

 Biological Society. 



President Jordan, of Stanford University, 

 will be absent from Palo Alto for about three 

 weeks on a visit to the east. He will make an 

 address at Tale University, at the meeting of 

 the Association of American Universities, on 

 February 18, and will visit other universities. 

 Dr. Jordan has been invited to give the ad- 

 dress at the opening of the new science build- 

 ing of the University of Colorado. 



General I. J. Wistar, president of the 

 American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 

 sailed on February 2 for a visit to the Medi- 

 terranean and the Orient. 



Dr. H. V. HiLPEECHT, of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, is making arrangements for 

 another expedition to Babylonia next fall. 



The Council of the Geological Society of 

 London has this year made the following 

 awards : Wollaston Medal to Professor Albert 

 Heim of Zurich; Murchison Medal to Pro- 

 fessor G. A. Lebour of Newcastle-on-Tyne, 

 chiefly in recognition of his work on the car- 

 boniferous rocks and in connection with coal; 

 i;.yell Medal to Professor A. G. Nathorst of 

 Stockholm; Wollaston Fund to Miss E. M. 

 Wood, joint-author of the ' Monograph on 

 British Graptolites,' and assistant to Professor 

 Lapworth of Birmingham; Murchison Fund 

 to Dr. A. Hutchinson, demonstrator of 

 mineralogy at Cambridge ; the Lyell Fund is 

 shared between Professor S. H. Reynolds of 

 Bristol, who is whole or part author of several 

 contributions to English stratigraphy, and Mr. 

 C. A. Matley of Dublin, another British strati- 

 graphical paleontologist; Barlow- Jameson 

 Fund to Mr. H. J. Beadnell for his strati- 

 graphical work in connection with the Egyp- 

 tian Geological Survey. We understand that 

 the new president is likely to be Mr. J. E. 

 Marr of Cambridge. We regret to learn that 

 the out-going president, Professor Lapworth, 

 is still prevented by ill health from under- 

 taking his professorial or presidential duties, 

 among them the delivery of the annual ad- 

 dress. 



The Eoyal Society of New South Wales 

 has awarded the Clarke memorial medal to 

 Mr. A. W. Howitt, of Melbourne. 



Dr. George F. Kunz, special agent of the 

 United States Geological Survey, has been 

 appointed commissioner of the radium exhibit 

 at the St. Louis Exposition, and has been 

 authorized to prepare and procure material 

 comprising radio-active substances of all 

 kinds and also exhibits to illustrate the action 

 of radium compounds, ultra-violet light and 

 Eontgen rays upon mineral and chemical sub- 

 stances. This exhibit is to be made by the 

 United States Geological Survey in the United 

 States building at St. Louis. There will be 

 a second exhibit of radium and radio-active 

 substances in the mines building. 



Dr. F. H. Baker, superintendent of the 

 National Zoological Park, will be in charge 

 of the aviary at the St. Louis Exposition. 

 The cage for the flying specimens, now build- 

 ing at the fair grounds, will be 200 feet long, 

 60 feet wide, and 70 feet high. 



The patents of Professor Michael I. Pupin, 

 concerned with long distance telephony, have 

 been upheld by the ' German courts, as against 

 the .contention of the postal administration. 

 Professor Pupin is at present in Berlin. 



Sir William White, F.E.S., president of 

 the British Institution of Civil Engineers, has 

 been appointed a member of the Engineering 

 Standards Committee. 



At the annual meeting of the Anthropolog- 

 ical Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 

 Mr. H. Balfour gave an address and was re- 

 elected president. 



The Zoological Society of London has 

 elected the following members : Dr. Lorenzo 

 Camerano, of the Royal Zoological Museum, 

 Turin, Italy; Dr. Fritz Sarasin and Dr. Paul 

 B. Sarasin, of Basle, Switzerland. 



A society for the prehistoric study of 

 France has been founded at Paris, with M. 

 Emile Riviere as first president. 



The president of the British Board of Trade 

 has appointed Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S. (chair- 

 man) ; Sir William de W. Abney, F.R.S. ; 

 Robert Farquharson, Esq., M.D., M.P.; Will- 

 iam King, Esq.; and J. Fletcher Moulton, 



