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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXII. No. 551. 



Kimberley : ' Diamonds,' Sir William Crookes ; 

 ' Bearing of Engineering on Mining,' Pro- 

 fessor Porter. Bulawayo : ' Zimbabwe,' Mr. 

 Eandall-Maclver. 



The president's address to the association 

 will be delivered at Cape Town, on August 

 15, and at Johannesburg, on August 30. Mr. 

 G. W. Lamplugh's report on the geology of 

 the Victoria Falls will take the form of an 

 afternoon address to Section C at Johannes- 

 burg. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The American Medical Association met last 

 week in Portland, Ore., with an attendance 

 of about 1,500 members. Dr. Louis S. Mc- 

 Murtrie, of Louisville, Ky., delivered the presi- 

 dential address, taking as his subject ' The 

 American Medical Association, its Origin, 

 Progress and Purpose.' 



M, Curie has been elected a member of the 

 Paris Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Adolf WulIner, of Aachen, has been 

 made an honorary doctor of engineering by 

 the Technical Listitute of Dantzig. 



M. Combes, recently premier of France, has 

 returned to the practise of medicine in his 

 native village. 



The steamship Roosevelt, which will carry 

 Commander R. E. Peary to the Arctic regions, 

 sailed from New York City on July 16. 



Professor W. M. Davis, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, sailed from New York, July 15, for 

 England, to accompany the British Associa- 

 tion to South Africa. The party will leave 

 Southampton on July 29, and return in mid- 

 October. 



The De Morgan medal of the London 

 Mathematical Society has been awarded to 

 Dr. H. F. Baker, F.R.S. 



The Bissett-Hawkins gold medal of the 

 Boyal College of Physicians has been pre- 

 sented to Sir Patrick Manson for the services 

 he has rendered to science and humanity by 

 his researches on tropical diseases. 



The Senn medal of the American Medical 

 Association for an essay on some surgical 

 topic has been awarded to Dr. John L. Yates, 

 of Chicago. 



The British Meteorological Office, which 

 corresponds to our Weather Bureau, has been 

 reorganized, and placed under the charge of a 

 committee. The appropriations for the serv- 

 ice is £15,300, and the salary of the director 

 is £1,000. The committee is as follows: Mr. 

 W. N. Shaw, Sc.D., F.R.S., director; Captain 

 Arthur M. Field, R.N., hydrographer to the 

 navy; Captain A. J. G. Chalmers, professional 

 officer of the Marine Department, Board of 

 Trade; Mr. W. Somerville, Sc.D., assistant 

 secretary of the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries; Professor G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., 

 University of Cambridge; Professor Arthur 

 Schuster, F.R.S., University of Manchester; 

 Mr. G. L. Barstow, nominated by the Treasury. 



Among those who are the recipients of the 

 king's birthday honors Nature notices the fol- 

 lowing : Lord Rayleigh, O.M., F.R.S., has been 

 made a privy councilor; knighthoods have 

 been conferred upon Professor T. McCall An- 

 derson, of the University of Glasgow; Mr. E. 

 W. Brabrook, C.B., formerly registrar of 

 Friendly Societies; Dr. A. B. W. Kennedy, 

 F.S.S., emeritus professor of engineering and 

 mechanical technology at University College, 

 London, and president of the admiralty com- 

 mittee on machinery designs ; Dr. Boverton 

 Redwood; and Dr. W. J. Smyly, president of 

 the Royal College of Physicians, Ireland. 

 Colonel D. Bruce, F.R.S., has been made a 

 Knight Commander of the Bath. Dr. W. T. 

 Prout, principal medical officer, colony of 

 Sierra Leone, and Dr. J. W. Robertson, late 

 coramissioner of agriculture and dairying of 

 the Dominion of Cauda, have been made 

 C.M.G.'s. The honor of Knight Bachelor has 

 been conferred upon Dr. E. S. Stevenson, 

 member of the medical council of the Cape of 

 Good Hope; and Mr. Philip Watts, F.R.S., 

 director of naval construction, is made an 

 ordinary member of the civil division of the 

 second division, or Knight Commander, of 

 the Order of the Bath. 



Students of Sibley College, Cornell Uni- 

 versity, have ordered designs made for a bronze 

 tablet, which they will erect in memory of 

 the late Dr. R. H. Thurston, formerly director 

 of the college. The tablet is being designed 



