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is six dollars or less through rate is made on 

 the basis of fare and one third for the round 

 trip to such gateways added to rkte of one 

 fare plus twenty-five cents for the round trip 

 tendered therefrom, provided that where such 

 one and one-third fare to Chicago is two 

 dollars or less, fifty cents additional be added 

 for return transfer. The Southwestern Ex- 

 cursion Bureaii, which includes all of Texas, 

 Missouri sovith of St. Louis, and a central 

 strip through Illinois up to Chicago, offers one 

 fare plus two dollars. The Trans-Continental 

 Passenger Association, which includes the 

 Pacific coast states, offers rate of approxi- 

 mately two cents per mile, or about one fare 

 and a third for the round trip. 



The purchasing dates are as follows : Trunk 

 Line Association from Washington, December 

 26, 27, 28, 39; from other points, December 

 26, 27, 28. Central Passenger Association, 

 December 26, 27, 28. Southeastern Passenger 

 Association, December 27, 28, 29. Western 

 Association, December 26, 27, 28. 



The date of return is arranged so that ticket 

 holders must reach original starting point not 

 later than January 6 in all cases, except under 

 the Trans-Continental Association. 



f^CIENTIFIC JSfOTES AND NEWS. 



A CABLEGRAM to the daily papers states that 

 the Nobel prize in medicine has been awarded 

 to Professor Eobert Koch, of Berlin, the prize 

 in physics to Professor Philipp Lenard, of 

 Kiel, and the prize in chemistry to Professor 

 Adolf von Baeyer, of Munich. 



Dr. Albrecht Pence, professor of geog- 

 raphy in the University of Vienna, has been 

 elected a member of the Vienna Academy of 

 Sciences. Dr. Kichard Hertwig, professor of 

 zoology at Munich, "has been elected a corre- 

 sponding member of the same academy. 



The Geological Society of London has 

 elected Professor Louis Dollo, Brussels, and 

 Professor A. Rothpletz, Munich, to be foreign 

 members in the places of Baron F. von Richt- 

 hofen and Professor Gustavo Dewalque, both 

 recently deceased. 



Dr. Wilhelm Wundt, the eminent psycholo- 

 gist of the University of Leipzig, celebrated 



the fiftieth anniversary of his doctorate on 

 November 10. 



Dr. E. Ehlers, professor of zoology at 

 Gottingen, who celebrated his seventieth birth- 

 day on November 11, has been elected a cor- 

 responding member of the Senckenbergische 

 Naturforschende Gesellschaft at Erankfurt. 



The council of the Royal Meteorological 

 Society has awarded the Symons gold medal 

 to Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Strachey, 

 aC.S.L, F.R.S. 



Professor C. S. Sherrington, E.R.S., and 

 Professor R. Threlfall, F.R.S., have been 

 elected honorary fellows at Gonville and Caius 

 College, Cambridge. 



Professor C. S. Sargent, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has sailed for Chili and the mountains 

 of South America to obtain specimens for the 

 Arnold Arboretum. 



Professor Wilhelm Ostwald addressed the 

 Washington Academy of Sciences on Novem- 

 ber 28, on 'The International Language.' The 

 address was discussed by Professor Maurice 

 Bloomfield, of the Johns Hopkins University, 

 and by Professor M. Carroll, of the George 

 Washington University. 



Professor A. V. Stubenrouch, of the Uni- 

 versity of California agricultural department, 

 has accepted a position in the division of 

 pomology in the Bureau of Plant Industry of 

 the United States Department of Agriculture. 



Captain Admundsen, as the daily papers 

 have fully reported, has succeeded in passing 

 through the Northwest Passage, and making 

 observations about the North Magnetic Pole. 



Sir Clements Markham lectured before the 

 Royal Geographical Society on November 13, 

 on ' The Next Great Arctic Discovery,' which 

 he held to be exploration over the continental 

 shelf of Beaufort Sea. 



Professor Herbert C. Sadler, of the de- 

 partment of marine engineering at the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, has returned from a trip 

 in the east, where he attended a meeting of 

 the Society of Naval Architects and Marine 

 Engineers in New York City. During his 

 absence he delivered a lecture before the 

 marine engineering department of the Boston 

 Polytechnic Institute on ' The Present Status 



