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Mr. H. F. Newall has been appointed as- 

 sistant director of the observatory of Cam- 

 bridge University. 



Professor Blaserna, of Eome, has been 

 elected a foreign member of the French Phys- 

 ical Society. 



Professor A. E. Austin, of the Tufts Col- 

 lege Medical School, will pass the nest seven 

 months working in Ludwig's Biochemic Labo- 

 ratory in Vienna. 



Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S., has been elected 

 president of the Eoyal Microscopical Society 

 for the ensuing year. 



M. d'Arsonval has been elected president of 

 the French Physical Society. 



M. Henri Cordier has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Paris Geographical Society. 



Dr. C. W. Hayes, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, is giving a course of six lectures to 

 the geological students of the Johns Hopkins 

 University during the month of February. 

 The lectures embrace a discussion of the 

 structure of the Appalachian district and of 

 the origin of some of the more important non- 

 metallic deposits of economic value in the 

 eastern and southern states. 



Dr. Philip Jaisohn, late special adviser to 

 the privy council of the king of Korea, lec- 

 tured before the Geographical Society of Phil- 

 adelphia on March 2 on ' Korea and its 

 People.' 



At the Royal Institution, London, Professor 

 H. L. Callendar has begun a course of three 

 lectures on ' Electrical Methods of Measuring 

 Temperature,' and lectures have been an- 

 nounced for February 26 by Mr. Alexander 

 Siemens, his subject being ' New Develop- 

 ments in Electric Railways ' ; for March 4, by 

 Professor W. Stirling, on ' Breathing in Liv- 

 ing Things ' ; and for March 11, by Professor 

 F. T. Trouton, on ' The Motion of Viscous 

 Substances.' 



The Academy of Sciences at Berlin has 

 held a meeting to celebrate the birthday of 

 Frederick the Great and of the present Ger- 

 man emperor. The principal address was 

 made by Dr. Wilhelm Waldeyer, professor of 

 anatomy. 



On February 12, exercises commemorative 

 of the centenary of the death of Immanuel 

 Kant were held at the University of Alabama, 

 at which short addresses were made by Dr. 

 Edward F. Buchner, on the life of Kant and 

 his influence on philosophy; by Dr. H. F. 

 Sayre, on Kant in his relations to astronomy 

 and physical science ; by Dr. John T. Graham, 

 on Kant's contributions to the theory of evo- 

 lution; by Professor T. W. Palmer, on his 

 contributions to the development of mathe- 

 matics, and by Mrs. J. Y. Graham, on Kant 

 as a factor in the literature of Germany. 



We learn from Nature that the hundredth 

 anniversary of the death of Priestley was com- 

 memorated in Leeds by the congregation of 

 Mill Hill Chapel, where Priestley was min- 

 ister for some six years, and also by the Priest- 

 ley Club. The members of the club, to the 

 number of fifty, dined together, and the presi- 

 dent. Dr. T. E. Thorpe, C.B., F.R.S., after- 

 wards gave a public address on 'The Life and 

 Work of Joseph Priestley,' in the Philosoph- 

 ical Hall. At Warrington on the same day. 

 Dr. Thorpe unveiled a memorial tablet at the 

 house which Priestley occupied during his 

 stay in that town. 



It is proposed to publish a volume com- 

 memorating the work of the late J. S. Budgett, 

 of Trinity College, Cambridge, whose death 

 we were recently compelled to record. A large 

 part of the material collected by him in 

 Africa has not been described, and it is in- 

 tended that this shall be worked out by his 

 friends and issued under the editorship of 

 Professor J. Graham Kerr. 



We regret to record the death of Sir Leslie 

 Stephen, one of the great men of letters of the 

 Victorian era, whose work was largely in- 

 fluenced by the scientific thought of the nine- 

 teenth century. His ' Science of Ethics,' pub- 

 lished in 1882 and based largely on the theory 

 of evolution, is a scientific work of importance. 



The deaths are announced of Mr. W. G. 

 MacMillan, secretary of the British Institu- 

 tion of Electrical Engineers and formerly lec- 

 turer on electrical engineering in Mason Col- 

 lege, Birmingham; of Dr. Vassili AfanasiefF, 

 professor of pathological anatomy in the Uni- 

 versity of St. Petersburg, at the age of fifty- 



