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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIX. No. 490. 



The Iron and Steel Institute of Great Brit- 

 ain held its twenty-fifth annual meeting at 

 London on May 6 and 7. Mr. Andrew Car- 

 negie presided. The Bessemer gold medal for 



1903 was presented to Sir James Kitson, M.P., 

 past president, in recognition of his conspicu- 

 ous services in the advancement of the metal- 

 lurgy of iron and steel. The Andrew Car- 

 negie gold medal for 1903 was awarded to Mr. 

 Alfred Champion of Coopers Hill for re- 

 searches in the heat treatment of steel under 

 conditions of steelworks practise. A special 

 medal was also awarded to Dr. O. Boudonard, 

 of Paris, in recognition of the merits of his 

 research on the determination of the points 

 of allotropic changes of iron. Four Carnegie 

 research scholarships of the value of £100, 

 tenable for one year, were awarded respectively 

 to C. O. Bannister (London), to P. Breuil 

 (Paris), to K. A. Gunnar Dillner in conjunc- 

 tion with A. F. Enstrom (Stockholm), and to 

 J. C. Gardner (Middlesbrough). Further 

 grants were also made to A. Campion and to 

 P. Longmuir (Sheffield). The Bessemer gold 

 medal for 1904 was presented to Mr. Roberts 

 A. Hadfield, vice-president, in recognition of 

 his great services to the metallurgy of iron and 

 steel. The Andrew Carnegie gold medal for 



1904 was awarded to M. Pierre Breuil, of 

 Paris, and a special silver medal was awarded 

 to Mr. Percy Longmuir, of Sheffield. 



At the annual meeting of the Royal Insti- 

 tution on May 2, officers were elected as fol- 

 lows: President, the Duke of Northumber- 

 land; treasurer. Sir James Crichton-Browne ; 

 secretary. Sir William Crookes; managers. 

 Dr. Henry E. Armstrong, Sir William Abney, 

 Mr. Shelford Bidwell, Sir Alexander Binnie, 

 Mr. J. H. Balfour Browne, K.C., the Hon. Sir 

 Henry Burton Buckley, Sir Thomas A. De la 

 Rue, Dr. J. A. Fleming, Sir Victor Horsley, 

 Lord Kelvin, Dr. Ludwig Mond, Sir Owen 

 Roberts, Sir Thomas Henry Sanderson, Sir 

 Felix Semon and Mr. W. H. Spottiswoode. 



Peofessor E. B. Wilson, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, has sailed for Europe to continue his 

 researches at the Naples Zoological Station. 



Professor Ernst Haeckel, who recently 

 celebrated his seventieth birthday in Italy, 



has returned to Jena and has resumed his 

 lectures. 



We leam from The Observatory that Dr. 

 W. Doberck has returned to Hong Kong Ob- 

 servatory after a period of leave in Europe 

 on account of his health. His assistant, Mr. 

 Figg, is now coming to England for a year 

 or two. 



An Astronomical Society has been founded 

 at Newcastle on Tyne with Mr. P. E. Espin 

 as the first president. 



Edward W. Berey has been elected record- 

 ing secretary of the Torrey Botanical Club 

 in the place of Professor F. S. Earle, who has 

 resigned to accept a scientific position in 

 Cuba. 



Miss Eugenia Metzgee, M.D., assistant in 

 physiology at the University of Missouri, has 

 been appointed to the woman's table at the 

 Zoological Station at Naples for the months 

 of June, July and August. 



The first field party of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey to leave Washington this year is, as 

 usual, the Alaskan contingent. During the 

 past winter, congress increased its appropria- 

 tion for Alaskan work from $60,000 to $80,000. 

 Nine parties will be engaged there during the 

 coming season in topographic and geologic 

 work. Besides these, three subparties, which 

 may be counted as offshoots of the larger ones, 

 will take up special work, so that the number 

 of survey investigations in Alaska during the 

 summer will be twelve as compared with seven 

 of last year. Among those taking part in the 

 work are Mr. A. H. Brooks, Mr. C. W. Wright, 

 Mr. F. W. Wright, Mr. F. H. Moffit, Dr. T. 

 W. Stanton, Mr. A. G. Collier, Mr. L. M. 

 Prindle and Mr. C. W. Purrington. 



Professor G. H. Parker, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has given at the Brookljm Institute 

 of Arts and Sciences a course of six lectures 

 on ' Human Sense Organs and their Evolu- 

 tion.' 



The Horticultural Society of New York 

 held its sixth annual meeting at the New 

 York Botanical Garden on May 11. At the 

 conclusion of the business meeting an illus- 

 trated lecture on ' Common Trees and their 

 Uncommon Flowers ' was given by Mr. J. 



