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The Society of Chemical Industry held its 

 annual dinner in London on July 12, Dr. 

 William H. Nichols, of New York City, pre- 

 siding. Speeches were made by Lord Alver- 

 stone, Professor C. F. Chandler, of Columbia 

 University, Sir William Huggins and others. 

 Among the Americans present were Dr. H. 

 W. Wiley, of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, 'and Professor Charles Baskerville, of 

 the College of the City of New York. 



Mr. John Hyde, chief of the Bureau of 

 Statistics of the Department of Agriculture, 

 has resigned. In his letter accepting the 

 resignation. Secretary Wilson said : " I am 

 familiar with your devotion to your work and 

 with the untiring efforts you have made to 

 render the bureau of the highest service to 

 growers, manufacturers and consumers of 

 farm products in our country, and I regret 

 that failing health should compel you to bring 

 your work to an end." 



The Baly gold medal of the London College 

 of Physicians, which is awarded every second 

 year for the most distinguished work in 

 physiology, has been conferred on Professor 

 Pavlov, of St. Petersburg. 



The Mary Kingsley medal of the Liverpool 

 School of Tropical Medicine has been awarded 

 to Dr. Laveran, of the Pasteur Institute, Sir 

 Patrick Manson, F.E.S., and Sir D. Bruce, 

 F.RS. 



London University has awarded the Rogers 

 prize of £100 to Mr. B. J. Collingwood, M.B., 

 B.C., for his essay on ' Anesthetics, their 

 Physiological and Clinical Action.' The essay 

 submitted by Dr. A. G. Levy, M.D., was highly 

 commended, and the senate awarded him an 

 honorarium of £50. 



Dr. Fred Neufeld, assistant in the Berlin 

 Institute for Contagious Diseases, has been 

 given the title of professor. 



Dr. Barton W. Evermann^ chief of the 

 Division of Scientific Inquiry and ichthyol- 

 ogist of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, has 

 been appointed curator of the Division of 

 Fisheries, U. S. National Museum. He still 

 retains his connection with the Bureau of 

 Fisheries. 



The commencement address of the Case 

 School of Applied Science, at Cleveland, was 

 delivered by Dr. George T. Moore, of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, upon ' The Creation 

 and Development of Plant Industries by the 

 Government.' 



It is proposed to collect a fund in memory 

 of the late Professor G. B. Howes, F.R.S., 

 professor of zoology in the Royal College of 

 Science, London, the fund to be used to pur- 

 chase an annuity for his widow and daughter. 

 Americans who wish to join in this memorial 

 may send subscriptions to Mr. Frank Crist, 

 17 Throgmorton Avenue, London, E. C. 



A correspondent writes to The Nation: "1 

 have been watching for some notice in the 

 Nation of the death of Dr. Washington Mat- 

 thews. Among American ethnologists he 

 ranked not lower than second. Without the 

 horizon of genius to put him on a par with 

 Bandelier, he had a distinction all his own. 

 In all American history, no other one man 

 has known so intimately much about any 

 aboriginal tribe as Matthews did. His studies 

 of the Navajo are the most exh'atistive thing 

 of their sort in all our anthropology. He was 

 an extremely modest man, without the gift of 

 popularity, either in his writings or in his in- 

 tercourse. Of an extremely sweet and unselfish 

 disposition, and much beloved by those who 

 knew him, there was not a bit in him of self- 

 seeking or pushing to the front. He accepted, 

 with a whimsical patience, but with his eyes 

 open, his latter-day function as the original 

 source from which a hundred ' poptilarizers ' 

 built up notoriety for themselve!s, without 

 credit to him. He was a real martyr — using 

 that abused word without abuse — both to his 

 duty as an army surgeon and his duty as a 

 scientist; and the great mass of accurate and 

 intimate research that he has left to us will 

 always remain among the chiefs of the corner 

 in our scientific edifice." 



Sir William Muir, principal of the Univer- 

 sity of Edinburgh from 1885 to 1903, died on 

 July 11, at the age of eighty-six years. 



Dr. Theodor Cleve, professor of chemistry 

 at Upsala, died on June 18. 



