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the officers, are as follows: Dr. Shelf ord Bid- 

 well, Sir T. Lauder Brunton, M.D., Professor 

 J. JSTomian Collie, Ph.D., Professor Wyndham 

 R. Dunstan, M.A., Professor John Bretland 

 Farmer, M.A., Professor Francis Gotch, D.Sc, 

 Dr. Sidney Frederic Harmer, Sir William 

 Huggins, K.C.B., Professor Edwin Eay Lan- 

 kester, M.A., Dr. John Edward Marr, Mr. 

 George Ballard Mathews, M.A., Mr. Hugh 

 Frank Newall, M.A., Sir William Davidson 

 Mven, K.C.B., Professor John Perry, D.Sc, 

 Professor Ernest Henry Starling, M.D., Pro- 

 fessor William Augustus Tilden, D.Sc. 



Sir Frederick Treves gave the opening ad- 

 dress of the winter series of the Edinburgh 

 Philosophical Institution on October 31, Lord 

 Rosebery presiding. 



A GENERAL monthly meeting of the members 

 of the Royal Listitution was held on Novem- 

 ber 6, Sir James Crichton-Browne, treasurer 

 and vice-president, in the chair. The special 

 thanks of the members were returned to Mr. 

 Robert Hannah, M.R.I, for his gift of the 

 picture, painted by him, of ' Master Isaac 

 Newton in His Garden at Woolsthorpe, in 

 the Autumn of 1665.' A Christmas course 

 of lectures, adapted to a juvenile auditory, 

 will be delivered at the Royal Institution by 

 Professor Herbert Hall Turner, F.R.S., on 

 ' Astronomy.' The dates of the lectures are 

 December 28, 30, 1905, January 2, 4, 6 and 9, 

 1906, at 3 o'clock. 



The statue of Benjamin Silliman has been 

 removed from its site on the old campus of 

 Yale University, near the library, to a place 

 between the Sloan and Kent laboratories. 



On October 13 a bust of the late Professor 

 M. Nencki was unveiled in the chemical de- 

 partment of the Institute of Experimental 

 Medicine, St. Petersburg. Professor Pawlow 

 delivered an address. 



A MEMORIAL to Tlieodore Schwamm, re- 

 garded as the originator of the cell theory, is 

 to be erected in his native birthplace, Reuss. 

 The sum of $2,500 has already been collected 

 for this purpose, but an additional sum of 

 equal amount is wanted. It is proposed to 

 create a scholarship as part of the memorial. 



Professor John Lewis Morris, emeritus 

 Sibley professor of practical mechanics and 

 machine construction at Cornell University, 

 died on November 19, at the age of sixty-three 

 years. 



The death is announced of Mr. W. H. An- 

 drews, assistant chemist in the New York 

 State Agricultural Station at Ithaca. 



Dr. Gustave Dewalque, formerly professor 

 of geology at Liege, died at Liege on November 

 3, in his eightieth year. 



Dr. E. Oustalet, professor of zoology in the 

 Natural History Museum at Paris, has died, 

 at the age of fifty-one years. 



Freiherr von der Goltz, director of the 

 Agricultural Academy at PoppelsdorfP and 

 professor of agriculture at the University of 

 Bonn, died on November 6, at the age of 

 seventy-eight years. 



The death is also announced of Dr. W. P. 

 Amalizki, professor of geology and paleon- 

 tology at Warsaw, and of Professor Bernhard 

 Fischer, director of the chemical research 

 laboratory at Breslau. 



The late Stephen Salisbury, of Worcester, 

 Mass., has bequeathed the residue of his estate 

 to the Worcester Art Museum, which, it is 

 said, will receive more than $3,000,000. Many 

 other public bequests have been made by the 

 will, including, in addition to $200,000 to the 

 Worcester Polytechnic Institute, some $250,- 

 000 to the American Antiquarian Society and 

 $5,000 and a site for a building for the Wor- 

 cester Natural History Society. 



The executive committee of the National 

 Educational Association authorizes the an- 

 nouncement that the forty-fifth annual meet- 

 ing will be held in San Francisco, Cal., from 

 July 9 to 13, 1906. The lines of the Trans- 

 continental Passenger Association have au- 

 thorized a rate of one lowest first-class limited 

 fare for the round trip plus $2, National Edu-. 

 cational Association membership fee via direct 

 routes; this provides for going one route and 

 returning another. For tickets routed via 

 Portland, Oregon, in one direction the rate 

 will be $12.50 higher. The dates of sale will 

 extend from June 25 to July 7, and the return 



