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the Carnegie Institution at Wasliington, on 

 the application of Professor William Maxwell 

 Eeed, to $1,200. "This renders possible the 

 use of the telescope on all clear nights in meas- 

 uring the brightness of certain standard 

 stars." The same newspaper reports that the 

 Carnegie Institution has made a grant of $500 

 in aid of research work in the Department of 

 Physical Chemistry of the University of 

 Toronto. 



S. I. Franz, Ph.D. (Columbia), instructor 

 in physiology in the Dartmouth Medical Col- 

 lege, has been appointed physiologist at the 

 McLean Hospital for the Insane, Waverly, 



A DINNER in honor of Dr. D. B. St. John 

 Eoosa and to celebrate the twenty-first anni- 

 versary of post-graduate medical instruction 

 was given in New York on March 3. A cup 

 was presented to Dr. Eoosa by Dr. A. H. 

 Smith, and speeches were made by Dr. Will- 

 iam Osier, Dr. C. A. Blake, Dr. W. W. 

 Keen and others. 



Dr. Simon Schwendener, director of the 

 Botanical Garden of the University of Berlin, 

 celebrated on February 10 his seventy-fifth 

 birthday. 



Dr. Edwin Klebs, the eminent pathologist, 

 celebrated his seventieth birthday on Febru- 

 ary 6. 



It is reported that Professor E. von Behring 

 will succeed Professor Eobert Koch as head 

 of the Berlin Institute for Infectious Diseases. 



Dr. Egbert Bell, F.E.S., acting-director of 

 the Geological Survey, Canada, has been ap- 

 pointed a companion of the Imperial Service 

 Order. 



Dr. Abbe, professor of physics at Jena, and 

 Dr. Neumann, professor of mathematics at 

 Leipzig, have been appointed members of the 

 Bavarian Maximillian Order for Science. 



A GOLD medal engraved by M. Chaplain has 

 been presented to Professor Bouchard, the 

 eminent French pathologist. 



At the annual meeting of the Geological 

 Society of London on February 19, officers 

 were elected as follows : President, Mr. John 

 E. Marr; vice-presidents, Professor T. G. Bon- 

 ney, Sir Archibald Geikie, Mr. E. T. Newton 



and Mr. H. B. Woodward; secretaries, Mr. E. 

 S. Herries and Professor W. W. Watts; for- 

 eign secretary. Sir John Evans; treasurer, 

 Mr. W. T. Blanford, CLE. Sir Archibald 

 Geikie, vice-president, delivered the anniver- 

 sary address, which dealt with ' Continental 

 Elevation and Subsidence.' Medals and funds 

 were awarded in the manner already an- 

 nounced. 



The Sedgwick prize, for 1903, at Cambridge 

 University, is adjudged to Herbert Henry 

 Thomas, B.A., Sidney Sussex College, for an 

 essay on ' The Petrology of some Groups of 

 British Sedimentary Eocks.' 



Professor Charles L. Parsons, New Hamp- 

 shire College, secretary of Section C of the 

 American Association, who was prevented 

 from attending the St. Louis meeting on ac- 

 count of a severe attack of corneal ulcers, will 

 completely recover his sight. He has been 

 granted three months leave of absence to re- 

 cuperate in the south. 



Professor E. W. MaoBride, D.Sc, of 

 McGill University, has been requested to rep- 

 resent the university at the approaching 

 jubilee of the University of Wisconsin. 



Eear- Admiral Eixey, surgeon-general of the 

 Navy, and Colonel W. C. Gorgas, U.S.A., are 

 expected to proceed to the Isthmus of Panama 

 to study the sanitary conditions. 



The medical journals state that Drs. E. Mar- 

 choux and P. L. Simond, of the Paris Pasteur 

 Institute, arrived in Eio Janeiro, February 17, 

 to study yellow fever. A fund has also been 

 raised by the merchants and wharf owners of 

 Hamburg to send Drs. Otto and Neumann of 

 the Institute for Tropical Diseases to South 

 America to study these diseases on the spot. 



Mr. James Hornell has been appointed 

 marine biologist to the government of Ceylon 

 with special reference to the pearl beds. 



Dr. Hermann Klatsch, professor of anat- 

 omy of Heidelberg, has undertaken a scien- 

 tific expedition to Australia. 



Dr. Eobert Abbe, of New York City, is to 

 deliver the medical alumni lecture at Yale 

 University, on March 9, on the ' Present 

 Status of Eadium as regards its Therapeutic 

 Utility.' 



