November 17, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



645 



Lord Kelvin has been elected president of 

 the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 



The Janssen medal of the French Astro- 

 nomical Society has been awarded to Mr. Per- 

 cival Lowell for his work on Mars. 



Dr. John Beddoe, F.R.S., has been pre- 

 sented with the Huxley medal of the Anthro- 

 pological Institute for his services to anthro- 

 pology. 



We learn from Nature that a gathering of 

 the old piipils of Mr. Francis Darwin, F.R.S., 

 formerly reader in botany, was held in the 

 botany school of the University of Cambridge 

 on October 28, when his portrait, by Mr. W. 

 Eothenstein, was presented to the botanical 

 department by a Body of subscribers, all for- 

 mierly his pupils. To Mr. Darwin himself was 

 presented a book containing autographs of his 

 pupils. Speeches were made by members of 

 the staff and by other botanists regretting the 

 severance, after twenty-one years, of Mr. Dar- 

 win's connection with the botanical depart- 

 ment. 



Professor Adam Pollitzer, of Vienna, well 

 known for his researches on otology, recently 

 celebrated his seventieth birthday, and in ac- 

 cordance with the Austrian law will retire 

 from academic service at the end of the pres- 

 ent year. 



President David Starr Jordan, of Stanford 

 University, left Palo Alto on November 8 for 

 New York, where he will attend the meeting 

 of the trustees of the Carnegie foundation for 

 pensioning college professors. 



The Observatory says that among visitors at 

 Greenwich lately were Professor W. J. Hussey, 

 professor of astronomy at the University of 

 Michigan, and Professor W. W. Campbell, 

 director, and Dr. and Mrs. Perrine, of the 

 Lick Observatory. Professor W. S. Eichel- 

 berger, of the U. S. Naval Observatory, and 

 others who attended the conference at Oxford 

 in September have also visited Greenwich. 



Professor Wilhelm Ostwald is delivering 

 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology a 

 course of six lectures in German on ' The 

 Historical Development of Chemistry.' The 

 course began on November 9. 



Baron Erland Nordensk.jold has returned 

 from an eighteen months' anthropological ex- 

 pedition to the Andes and the northern forests 

 of Bolivia, where he was accompanied by 

 Lieutenant E. de Bildt and Dr. Holmgren. 



A memorial bust of the late Dr. Joule was 

 unveiled on October 28 at Sale, near Man- 

 chester. The ceremony was performed by Sir 

 William Bailey, president of the Manchester 

 Literary and Philosophical Society, who deliv- 

 ered an address. 



Professor Ralph Copeland, astronomer 

 royal of Scotland and professor of astronomy 

 at the University of Edinburgh, died on Oc- 

 tober 27, at the age of sixty-eight years. 



Professor F. W. Hutton, F.R.S., curator 

 of the Museum at Christchurch, New Zealand, 

 and president of the New Zealand Institute, 

 died on October 27, at the age of sixty-nine 

 years. Professor Hutton was well known for 

 his contributions to geology, zoology and the 

 theory of evolution. 



There will be a civil service examination 

 on December 6 to fill a vacancy in the posi- 

 tion of computer (male) in the Forest Service 

 at $1,000 per annum. 



At a meeting of the council of the Royal 

 Society on October 26 the treasurer announced 

 that he had received from Mrs. Tyndall a 

 check for £1,000, which, in accordance with 

 the wishes of the late Professor Tyndall, she 

 desired to have applied to the general purposes 

 of the society. 



At a meeting on October 31 of the general 

 committee of the British Association the fol- 

 lowing resolution, which has reference to the 

 meeting of the association in 1907, was unan- 

 imously adopted : " That having regard to the 

 fact that no meeting of the association has as 

 yet been held in Leicester, the general com- 

 mittee decides to accept the cordial invitation 

 from that town, and at the same time expresses 

 its most hearty appreciation of the kind and 

 courteovis invitation from the city of Dublin, 

 and ventures to express the hope that the in- 

 vitation may be renewed at an early date." 



The telescopes and instruments of the late 

 Dr. Isaac Roberts were sold by auction by 



