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on Professor William Wallace Campbell, of 

 the Lick Observatory. 



It is announced that Major-General A. W. 

 Greely, who was advanced to that rank by the 

 promotion of General Bates to be lieutenant- 

 general and chief of staff, will be sent to com- 

 mand the southwestern division, with head- 

 quarters at Oklahoma City. 



President W. G. Tight, of the New Mexico 

 University, Albuquerque, has been seriously 

 injured by an explosion of gasolene while ex- 

 perimenting in his laboratory. 



Professor J. J. Thomson,, of Cambridge; 

 Mr. Oliver Heaviside, of London; M. Henri 

 Becquerel, of Paris, and Professor P. Zeeman, 

 of Amsterdam, were made honorary doctors 

 of the University of Gottingen, on the occa- 

 sion of the dedication of the new physical 

 laboratory. 



Dr. Paul Drude, professor of physics in 

 the University of Berlin, has been elected a 

 member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. 



Professor Karl von i)EN Steinen, of Ber- 

 lin, has been made an honorary member of 

 the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain 

 and Ireland. 



Dr. Konrad Pressel, the engineer-in-chief 

 of the Simplon tunnel, has been made an 

 honorary professor in the Technological Insti- 

 tute of Munich. 



Professor Josiaii Eoyce, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has given during the last two weeks, 

 at the Johns Hopkins University, a series of 

 lectures upon ' Aspects of Post-Kantian 

 Idealism.' 



Professor T. H. Morgan, of Columbia 

 University, will deliver the ninth of the Har- 

 vey Society lectures, on February 17, at 8:30 

 o'clock in the hall of the New York Academy 

 of Medicine. The subject will be ' The Ex- 

 tent and Limitations of the Power to Regener- 

 ate in Man and Other Vertebrates.' 



Mr. Benjamin Kidd delivered at the Eoyal 

 Institution, on February 1 and 8, lectures on 

 ' The Significance for the Future in the The- 

 ory of Evolution.' 



The Court of St. Andrews University has 

 appointed Mr. Andrew Carnegie, rector of the 



university, to attend, as a representative of 

 the university, the celebration to be held un- 

 der the auspices of the American Philosophical 

 Society, in Philadelphia, in April, of the two 

 hundredth anniversary of the birth of Ben- 

 jamin Franklin, who in 1759 received from St. 

 Andrews the honorary degree of LL.D. 



The triennial Einecker prize given by the 

 medical faculty of Wiirzburg, Germany, was 

 awarded this year to Dr. E. Overton, assistant 

 at the Wiirzburg Institute of Physiology. 

 His researches have been on the osmotic prop- 

 erties of cells, the mechanism of narcosis and 

 the importance of the mineral elements for the 

 functions of the cells. 



Dr. Otto Nordenskjold and Capt. Mik- 

 kelsen were the guests of honor at a dinner 

 given by the Arctic and Explorer's Clubs in 

 New York City, on February 7. It was an- 

 nounced that Dr. Nordenskjold would sail on 

 the 8th inst. for his home in Sweden, to 

 arrange for another voyage in search of the 

 south pole. Capt. Mildjelsen is getting ready 

 an expedition to the Beaufort Sea, an unex- 

 plored Arctic area west of the Parry archi- 

 pelago. 



The Electrical Wo)-ld says : " The city of 

 Brantford, Canada, has, it is said, determined 

 to set a good example to those cities that wait 

 to honor a distinguished son until he is dead. 

 The town's recognition of Alexander Graham 

 Bell's services to humanity in inventing the 

 telephone will take the shape of a memorial 

 to be erected some time this year. To arrange 

 details a committee has been formed. It has 

 been suggested that the old Bell property at 

 Brantford should be bought and maintained 

 as a park. Dr. Bell's father went from Edin- 

 burgh to Brantford in 1870 and some of the 

 very earliest experiments of a telephonic na- 

 ture by Bell are said to have been made from 

 his father's house to that of the Rev. T. Hen- 

 derson in June, 1875." 



Dr. William Osler, who is at present in 

 Canada, expects to return to England at the 

 end of the month. 



Professor Angelo Heilprin, who has now 

 in preparation his final report upon the phe- 

 nomena of the Pelee eruptions, sailed from 



