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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXII. No. 5G5. 



agriculture, ISTomiaii -J. Colman, former secre- 

 tary of agriculture, and Alvin H. Sanders, 

 Chicago. 



A SCIENTIFIC session of the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences will be held at the Shef- 

 field Scientific School, Yale University, New 

 Haven, beginning Tuesday, ISToveanber 14, 

 1905, at 11 A.M. A special stated session of 

 the academy will be held on Wednesday, No- 

 vember 15, to consider any business that may 

 come before the academy. 



According to a despatch from Lindenburg, 

 Prussia, where Emperor William went last 

 week to attend the dedication of the Royal 

 Prussian Aeronautical Observatory, the Ger- 

 man ruler has conferred upon Mr. A. Law- 

 rence Rotch, director of the Blue Hill Ob- 

 servatory the Order of the Red Eagle of the 

 third class. The emperor at the same time 

 presented the Prince of Monaco the great gold 

 medal bestowed once a year for work in 

 science. 



Dr. Adolf von Baeyer, professor of chem- 

 istry at Munich, has been elected a foreign 

 member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. 

 Dr. Baeyer will celebrate his seventieth birth- 

 day on October 31. 



Dr. Hubert Lyman Clark, professor of 

 biology at Olivet College, Michigan, who has 

 recently been working with Dr. Alexander 

 Agassiz in the study of sea urchins, will join 

 the staff of the Harvard Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology. 



Mr. Percy W. Flint, of Charleston, S. C, 

 has been appointed assistant chemist of the 

 Pennsylvania Experiment Station in place of 

 Mr. Arthur W. Clark, resigned. 



The international Italian ' King Humbert 

 Prize ' of 2,500 francs for the most important 

 contribution to orthopedic surgery has been 

 assigned to Dr. Oscar Vulpius, of Heidelberg. 



The Alvarenga prize for 1905 has been 

 awarded to Dr. Chalmers Watson, of Edin- 

 burgh, Scotland, for his essay, entitled ' The 

 Importance of Diet; an Experimental Study 

 from a New Standpoint.' This prize is given 

 by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 

 and consists, each year, of the income of the 

 bequest of the late Senor Alvarenga, amount- 



ing to about $180. The next award will be 

 made July 14, 1906, provided that an essay 

 deemed by the committee of award to be 

 worthy of the prize shall have been offered. 

 Essays intended for competition may be on 

 any subject in medicine, but can not have 

 been published. They must be typewritten, 

 and must be received by the secretary of the 

 college on or before May 1, 1906. 



Sir Clements R. Markham, F.R.S., gave 

 an address at Cambridge on October 19, intro- 

 ductory to the courses of instruction in geog- 

 raphy. 



The sixth annual LIuxley memorial lecture 

 of the Anthropological Institute, London, will 

 be delivered on October 31, by Dr. John Bed- 

 doe, F.R.S., the subject being ' Color and 

 Race.' 



The three-hundredth anniversary of the 

 birth of Sir Thomas Browne was celebrated 

 by Yale University on October 19 with a com- 

 memorative address by Dr. Francis Bacon, 

 under the auspices of the Modern Language 

 Club. 



Dr. Walter F. Wislicenus, editor-in-chief 

 of the Astronomischer J ahresbericht , died on 

 October 3 after a very brief illness. He was 

 born November 5, 1859; was a member of the 

 German transit of Venus expedition in 1882; 

 assistant in the observatory of the University 

 of Strassburg, 1883-89; instructor in the uni- 

 versity since 1887, and professor since 1894. 

 Since 1899, he has edited six volumes of the 

 Astronomischer Jahreshericht, aggregating 

 3,764 octavo pages, embracing reviews of 13,- 

 874 separate books or articles. 



Nature announces the deaths of the Rev. S. 

 J. Johnson, the author of contributions to 

 astronomy, and of Sir Edward LI. Carbutt, a 

 mechanical engineer. 



The Boston Transcript estimates that the 

 William M. Rice Institute for the Advance- 

 ment of Literature, Science and Art, of LIous- 

 ton, Tex., organized to take under his will the 

 residuary estate of William M. Rice, will 

 receive from Rice's property in New York 

 state $2,177,361.92. Since the murder of Mr. 

 Rice his estate has been in litigation both in 



