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which Dr. Lawrence F. Flick, director of the 

 institute, was presented with a piece of silver 

 plate. 



Dr. M. bALOMON has received the Alvarenga 

 prize from the German Hufeland Society for 

 his pamphlet on ' Tuberculosis as a Disease 

 of the Masses and Measures to Prevent it.' 



The mimicipal council of the City of Paris 

 has presented M. and Mme. Curie with silver 

 medals. 



Mr. Arthur Thomson, assistant superin- 

 tendent of the Gardens of the Zoological So- 

 ciety of London, has been presented with the 

 society's silver medal for his services extending 

 over thirty-four years. 



Professor Cornil, of Paris, has been pre- 

 sented with a portrait and medallion on retir- 

 ing from hospital service at the age limit of 

 sixty-five years. Dr. Cornil remains professor 

 of pathological anatomy in the University of 

 Paris. 



Dr. Wilhelm Hittorf, the eminent physicist 

 and chemist, for many years professor at 

 Miinster, celebrated his eightieth birthday on 

 March 27. 



We learn from Nature that the Belgian 

 Eoyal Academy has awarded its gold medal of 

 1,000 francs to M. Marc de Selys-Longchamps 

 for his memoir on the development of a 

 Pharonis. The Theophile Gluge prize for 

 physiology has been awarded to Dr. P. Nolf, 

 of the University of Liege. 



Professor Wilhelm Ostwald will give at 

 the Eoyal Institution, London, the Faraday 

 lecture before the Chemical Society on April 

 19. 



The Croonian lecture of the Eoyal Society 

 was delivered on March 4, by Professor E. H. 

 Starling, F.E.S., and Dr. W. M. Bayliss, 

 F.E.S., the subject being ' The Chemical 

 Eegulation of the Secretory Process.' Pro- 

 fessor E. Eutherford, of McGill University, 

 will give in May the Bakerian lecture, on 

 ' The succession of changes in radioactive 

 substances.' 



The following are among the lecture ar- 

 rangements at the Eoyal Institution : Pro- 

 fessor L. C. Miall, three lectures on ' The 

 Transformations of Animals ' ; Mr. L. 



Fletcher, three on ' Meteorites ' ; Mr. H. F. 

 Newall, two on the ' Solar Corona ' ; Professor 

 Dewar, three on 'Dissociation'; and Sir W. 

 Martin Conway, two on ' Spitzbergen in the 

 Seventeenth Century.' The Friday evening 

 meetings will be resumed on April 15, when 

 Mgr. Count vay de Vaya and Luskod will 

 deliver a discourse on ' Korea and the 

 Koreans.' 



Dr. Henry Milton Whelpley, professor of 

 materia medica and pharmacy. Medical De- 

 partment, Washington University, and of mi- 

 croscopy, St. Louis College of Pharmacy, 

 delivered by invitation the valedictory address 

 at the Pharmacy Department of Purdue Uni- 

 versity, on March 30. 



A MEMORIAL has recently been erected to 

 Mas Schede in the grounds of the clinic at 

 Bonn. The address was delivered by his suc- 

 cessor. Professor Bier. 



Mr. Henry L. Maeindin, hydrographer con- 

 nected with the United States Coast and 

 Geodetic Sui-vey since 1863 and a member 

 of the Mississippi Eiver Commission, has 

 died at the age of sixty. 



The death is also announced of M. Jules 

 Gamier, known as a geologist and metal- 

 lurgist, at the age of sixty-five years, and of 

 Captain Deburaux, known for his aeronautical 

 experiments at the age of forty years. 



The a. W. Anthony collection of birds has 

 been purchased by the Carnegie Museum, 

 Pittsburg. The collection contains ten thou- 

 sand specimens, including the types of all the 

 species and subspecies described by Mr. 

 Anthony. Mr. C. V. Hartman, the curator 

 of archeology and ethnology in the museum, 

 has removed the collection of Costa Eican 

 antiquities made by Padre Jose Maria Velasco 

 from the Archeological Department of the 

 Free Museum of Science and Art in West 

 Philadelphia to the Carnegie Museum at 

 Pittsburg. This collection, together with 

 another scarcely less important collection 

 made by Padre Velasco, supplemented by the 

 Troyo, the Ferraz and other collections re- 

 cently acquired by the museum, give this in- 

 stitution the largest assemblage of Costa Eican 

 antiquities in existence outside of Costa Eica. 

 In fact, the Carnegie Museum possesses more 



