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his contributions to chemical and physical sci- 

 ence. 



A Koyal medal to Professor John Henry 

 Poynting, F.R.S., for his researches in physical 

 science, especially in connection with the con- 

 stant of gravitation and the theories of 

 electrodynamics and radiation. 



A Eoyal medal to Professor Charles Scott 

 Sherrington, P.R.S., for his researches on the 

 central nervous system, especially in relation 

 to reflex action. 



The Davy medal to Professor Albert Laden- 

 burg, of Breslau, for his researches in organic 

 chemistry, especially in connection with the 

 synthesis of natural alkaloids. 



The Hughes medal to Professor Augusto 

 Righi, of Bologna, on the ground of his ex- 

 perimental researches in electrical science. 



MEETING OF TRUSTEES OF THE CARNEGIE 

 FOUNDATION. 



The first meeting of the trustees of the Car- 

 negie Foundation, the $10,000,000 fund given 

 by Mr. Andrew Carnegie last May for the 

 pensioning of college professors, was held, 

 on November 15, at, Mr. Carnegie's residence, 

 in New York. 



The morning session was devoted to an in- 

 formal conference. After luncheon Mr. Car- 

 negie called the meeting formally to order. 

 In a brief speech he expressed satisfaction at 

 gathering together so many prominent educa- 

 tors. Nothing he had ever done, he said, 

 seemed so propitious or so likely to be useful 

 to the cause of education as this gift. He 

 expressed the hope, in conclusion, that the 

 trust would be administered in a broad and 

 generous manner. President Eliot, of Har- 

 vard, in reply expressed the thanks of the 

 teaching profession to the donor. 



The board of directors organized by electing 

 President Eliot chairman, President Harper 

 vice-chairman and President Thwing secre- 

 tary. By-laws were then adopted providing 

 that the business of the board be entrusted to 

 an executive committee and a president who 

 shall be chairman of the committee. Dr. 

 Henry S. Pritchett, president of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, was chosen 



president. The committee was made up as 

 follows : President Butler, of Columbia ; Presi- 

 dent Wilson, of Princeton; Provost Harrison, 

 of the University of Pennsylvania; President 

 Humphreys, of Stevens Institute; Mr. Vander- 

 lip, vice-president of the National City Bank; 

 and Mr. Pranks, Mr. Carnegie's financial sec- 

 retary. 



It was decided that the head office of the 

 foundation shall be in New York City. The 

 third Wednesday in November was selected as 

 the date of the annual meeting. A special 

 meeting will be held in New York late in the 

 winter, at which time the executive committee 

 will make a report on the plan and scope of 

 the organization. 



All the trustees except President Harper, of 

 Chicago, were present, namely: Charles W. 

 Eliot, Harvard; A. T. Hadley, Yale; Nicholas 

 Murray Butler, Columbia; Woodrow Wilson,. 

 Princeton; Jacob G. Schurman, Cornell; L. 

 Clark Seeley, Smith; Charles C. Harrison, 

 Pennsylvania; Alexander C. Humphreys, 

 Stevens Institute; S. B. McCormick, Western 

 University of Pennsylvania; Edwin B. Craig- 

 head, Tulane ; H. C. King, Oberlin ; Edwin H. 

 Hughes, De Pauw ; C. F. Thwing, Western 

 Reserve University; Thomas McClelland Bell, 

 Drake; George H. Denny, Washington and 

 Lee; Principal Peterson, McGill University, 

 Montreal; Samuel Plautz, Lawrence; David 

 Starr Jordan, Stanford; W. H. Crawford, 

 Allegheny; Henry S. Pritchett, Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology; E. A. Vanderlip, T. 

 Morris Carnegie and Robert A. Franks. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Professor Albert von Kollicker^ the 

 eminent anatomist and zoologist, died at 

 Wiirzburg, on November 3, at the age of 

 eighty-eight years. 



At the meeting of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, held on November Y, 

 the Hayden memorial gold medal wasi unan- 

 imously voted to Charles Doolittle Walcott, 

 director of the United States Geological Sur- 

 vey, in recognition of the value of his indi- 

 vidual contributions to geological science and 

 of the benefits derived from his able and con- 



