MA.T 27, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



837 



Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geog- 

 raphy. 



The council of the Eoyal Astronomical 

 Society has proposed as associates M. Henri 

 Deslandres, of the Meudon Observatory, Pro- 

 fessor C. D. Perrine, of the Lick Observatory, 

 and Mr. George W. Eitchie, of the Terkes 

 Observatory. 



Professor Feiedrich Kohlrausch, presi- 

 dent of the Eeiehsanstalt, has been elected a 

 foreign member of the Danish Academy of 

 Sciences. 



Professor Barrois, of Lille, the geologist, 

 has been elected a member of the Paris Acad- 

 emy of Sciences. 



The University of Gottingen has awarded 

 its Otto Wahlbruch prize, of the value of 

 $3,000, to Dr. Wilhelm PfefPer, professor of 

 botany at Leipzig. The prize is awarded for 

 the most important contribution to science 

 during the past two years. 



The candidates selected by the council of 

 the Royal Society have been elected as follows : 

 Dr. T. G. Brodie, Major S. G. Burrard, Pro- 

 fessor A. C. Dixon, Professor J. J. Dobbie, 

 Mr. T. H. Holland, Professor C. J. Joly, Dr. 

 Hugh Marshall, Mr. Edward Meyrick, Dr. 

 Alexander Muirhead, Dr. G. H. P. Nuttall, 

 Mr. A. E. Shipley, Professor M. W. Travers, 

 Mr. Harold Wager, Mr. G. T. Walker and 

 Professor W. W. Watts. 



The Eoyal Institution, London, has elected 

 the following honorary members : Professor E. 

 H. Amagat, Professor L. P. Cailletet, Pro- 

 fessor J. M. Crafts, Professor H. A. Lorentz, 

 Professor E. W. Morley, Professor E. 0. Pick- 

 ering, Professor and Madame Curie, Professor 

 H. L. Le Chatelier, Professor G. Lippmann, 

 Professor J. W. Bruhl, Professor G. H. 

 Quincke, Professor E. Fischer, Professor E. 

 W. G. Kohlrausch, Professor H. Landolt, 

 Professor L. Boltzmann, Dr. H. Kamerlingh 

 Onnes, Dr. G. Lunge, Professor P. T. Cleve 

 and Professor P. Zeeman. 



Dr. W. Schmid has been appointed director 

 of the Bavarian National Museum at Munich. 



Professor W. F. King, chief astronomer for 

 the Canadian government, is preparing to un- 



dertake the resurvey of the Alaskan boundary 

 in accordance with the recent award of the 

 Alaskan Commission. 



M. Alfred Grandidier has been elected 

 president of the French Society of Geography. 



Professor Henry B. Ward, of the Univer- 

 sity of Nebraska, will sail on June 11 for 

 England. He expects to visit the university 

 laboratories in England and on the continent 

 and to attend the International Zoological 

 Congress. He will not return to Lincoln until 

 about September 15. 



Dr. Egbert Koch has arrived at Cairo from 

 West Africa, and is being consulted by the 

 Egyptian Sanitary Department on the epi- 

 demic of bovine typhus now prevalent in 

 Egypt. 



Dean Edward C. Kjdbk, of the Dental School 

 of the University of Pennsylvania, has been 

 made chairman of the qommittee on organiza- 

 tion of the fourth International Dental Con- 

 gress, which is to be held at St. Louis from 

 August 29 to September 3. 



Mr. E. W. Williams, Jr., of the Biological 

 Survey, will soon return to his home in Talla- 

 hassee, Florida, to resume the practise of law. 



A JURY in Brooklyn has rendered a verdict 

 of $20,000 damages in favor of Mr. Arthur 

 MacDonald against the New York Sun, The 

 ^S'trn published numerous editorials attacking 

 Dr. MacDonald while he was specialist on the 

 defective classes of the U. S. Bureau of Edu- 

 cation. 



Dr. William Osler, professor of medicine 

 at the Johns Hopkins University, delivered on 

 May 18 the Ingersoll lecture at Harvard Uni- 

 versity. His topic was ' Science and Immor- 

 tality.' 



Professor Egbert Fletcher, director of the 

 Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth 

 College, has addressed the students of the 

 Worcester Polytechnic Institute on ' Our Per- 

 sonal Eelation to Sanitary Science.' 



The Croonian lectures before the Eoyal 

 College of Physicians of London will be de- 

 livered by Dr. J. Eose Bradford on June Y, 

 9, 14 and 16, his subject being ' Bright's Dis- 

 ease and its Varieties.' 



