July 14, 1905.] 



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government expedition which will observe the 

 eclipse of the sun at Bona, Algeria, and 

 Valencia, Spain, on August 29, has sailed for 

 Spain. The auxiliary cruiser Dixie and the 

 collier Ccesar, which have on board the instru- 

 ments and materials for the observation sta- 

 tions, are also on their way to the Mediter- 

 ranean. 



It appears from the daily papers that Pro- 

 fessor Robert Koch, who is at present in 

 German East Africa, has made important dis- 

 coveries in regard to the transmission of 

 tropical diseases. 



M. Elie Metchnikoff, vice-director of the 

 Pasteur Institute, Paris, has been made an 

 associate of the Belgian Academy of Sciences. 



The Guy silver medal of the Royal Statis- 

 tical Society has been awarded to Mr. R. 

 Henry Rew for his work on the production 

 and consumption of meat and milk. 



Dr. Albert Orth, professor of agriculture 

 in the Berlin School of Agriculture, cele- 

 brated, on June 15, his seventieth birthday. 



Dr. E. Warburg, president of the Reichs- 

 anstalt, has been appointed honorary professor 

 in the University of Berlin. 



Dr. F. Sieglbauer, of Prague, has been ap- 

 pointed curator of the Anatomical Institute 

 at Leipzig. 



Professor J. Volney Lewis, of Rutgers 

 College, will devote the summer to a special 

 investigation of the petrography of the Newark 

 (Triassic) traps of New Jersey and their asso- 

 ciated copper ores for the State Geological 

 Survey. 



We learn from Nature that the civil list 

 pensions granted during the year ended March 

 31, include the following: 1904, August 8. — 

 Mr. W. F. Denning, in consideration of his 

 services to the science of astronomy, £150. 

 August 8. — Miss Elizabeth Parker, in recogni- 

 tion of the services rendered to science as an 

 investigator by her late father, Mr. W. Kitchen 

 Parker, F.R.S., £100. August 8.— Lady Le 

 Neve Foster, in consideration of the services 

 rendered to mining science by her late hus- 

 band. Sir Clement Le Neve Foster, F.R.S., 

 and of the fact that his death was due to the 



effects of poisoning by carbonic oxide gas while 

 carrying out his official duties, £100. 1905, 

 January 17. — Dr. J. G. Frazer, in recognition 

 of his literary merits and of his anthropolog- 

 ical studies, £200. March 22.— The Rev. 

 Lorimer Fison, in recognition of the original- 

 ity and importance of his researches in Aus- 

 tralian and Fijian ethnology, £150. March 

 22. — Dr. W. Cramond, in consideration of his 

 antiquarian researches, more particularly in 

 connection with the ecclesiastical and burghal 

 history of Scotland, £80. March 22. — Miss L. 

 C. Watts and Miss E. S. Watts, in recognition 

 of the services of their late father, Mr. Henry 

 Watts, to chemistry, £75. 



The Paris Aeronautic Club will erect in 

 Paris a statue in memory of Philippe Lebon, 

 the discoverer of illuminating gas. 



A BUST of Michel Faraday by Mr. H. C. 

 Fehr, presented to the Borough Polytechnic 

 Institute, London, by Mr. Passmore Edwards, 

 was unveiled on June 28 by Professor Syl- 

 vanus P. Thompson. 



The Berlin municipality has appropriated 

 $20,000 to erect a statue in honor of Rudolf 

 Virchow, which will be placed on the Karls- 

 platz, close to the Charity Hospital. 



Dr. Wm. Thos. Blandford, F.R.S., the well- 

 known British geologist, died on June 23, at 

 the age of seventy-three years. Mr. Bland- 

 ford served on the Geological Survey of India 

 from 1855 to 1882. He accompanied the 

 Abyssinian expedition as geologist in 1868 

 and published on his return his ' Observations 

 on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia.' 

 He was also a member of the Persian Bound- 

 ary Commission of 1872, and published a vol- 

 ume on the geology of eastern Persia. Dr. 

 Blandford was a president of the Asiatic So- 

 ciety of Bengal from 1878 to 1879; president 

 of the Geological Section of the British Asso- 

 ciation in 1884; president of the Geological 

 Society of London from 1888 to 1890, and 

 vice-president of the Royal Society from 1892 

 to 1893 and from 1901 to 1903. He was the 

 recipient of the Abyssinian medal, the Royal 

 medal of the Royal Society and the WoUaston 

 medal of the Geological Society. He was the 

 editor of ' Fauna of British India,' to which 



