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McGill University to go into private practise 

 as a consulting geologist in engineering and 

 mining work. His present address is 197 

 Park Avenue, Montreal. 



Nature states that at a meeting of the 

 council of the Eoyal College of Surgeons of 

 England, held on April 5, the Walker prize 

 of £100, founded by the late Mr. C. C. Walker 

 to encourage investigation into the pathology 

 and therapeutics of cancer, veas awarded to 

 Professor C. O. Jensen, of Copenhagen. The 

 committee appointed to advise the council in 

 reference to the award of the prize was influ- 

 enced, not merely by the actual work which 

 Professor Jensen has done in investigating the 

 nature of cancer and the effect of treatment 

 upon it, but also by the extent to which he 

 has opened up a field of research to those en- 

 gaged in the study of cancer on certain lines, 

 enabling them to carry out their investigations 

 over longer periods of time and under better 

 and more determined conditions than have 

 up to the present time been possible. The 

 Jacksonian prize for 1905 was awarded to 

 Mr. R. C. Elmslie for his essay on ' The 

 Pathology and Treatment of Deformities of 

 the Long Bones due to Disease occurring 

 during and after Adolescence.' The prize- 

 subject for the year 190Y will be ' The Op- 

 erative Surgery of the Heart and Lungs, in- 

 cluding the Pericardium and the Pleura.' The 

 subject selected for essays to be submitted in 

 competition for the Cartwright prize for the 

 period 1906-1910 was 'Prevention of Dental 

 Caries.' The honorary medal of the college 

 was awarded to Lieut. Colonel Sir Richard 

 Havelock Charles, LM.S., in appreciative 

 recognition of his gift of anthropological 

 specimens — an addition to the museum of 

 special value and importance, not only on 

 account of the number and variety of the 

 specimens presented, but also because of the 

 authentic particulars attached to them. 



President Jordan, of Stanford University, 

 gave recently the convocation address at the 

 University of Wisconsin, the subject being 

 ' The Call of the Twentieth Century.' 



Mr. a. Lawrence Rotch, director of the 

 Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, gave an 



illustrated lecture before the Middletown Sci- 

 entific Association, on April 10, entitled ' Re- 

 cent Investigations at Great Heights above 

 the American Continent and the Atlantic 

 Ocean.' 



Professor Louis Kahlenberg, of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, delivered, between April 

 9 and 1.3, a series of five lectures in physical 

 chemistry before the faculty and students of 

 the College of Science at the University of 

 Illinois. The subjects of the lectures were: 

 ' The relation between chemical action and 

 electrical conductivity,' ' Osmosis and dialysis,' 

 ' The role of silicates in nature,' ' A study of 

 the optical rotatory power of substances ' and 

 ' The nature of solutions.' Throughout the 

 series the lecturer argued for the recognition 

 of solutions as chemical compounds according 

 to variable proportions. On the evening of 

 April 12, Professor Kahlenberg was given an 

 informal reception by the faculty of the de- 

 partment of chemistry. 



A special number of the University of 

 Chicago Record has been issued as a memorial 

 to President Harper. The issue, which con- 

 sists of ninety pages, contains appreciations, 

 and also the chief addresses delivered at the 

 various memorial services held at other Amer- 

 ican universities. Pour portraits are given. 



M. Pierre Curie, professor of physics at the 

 Sorbonne, Paris, eminent with Mme. Curie 

 for the discovery of radium, was run over and 

 killed by a wagon in Paris, on April 19. M. 

 Curie was born on May 15, 1859. 



We regret also to record the deaths of Dr. 

 Tullio Brugnatelli, professor of chemistry at 

 the University of Pavia and of the Swiss 

 ornithologist, Victor Patio. 



The next meeting of the Astronomical and 

 Astrophysical Society of America will be held 

 at New York, in affiliation with the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 during convocation week, 1906-7. 



The working library of Professor Meissner 

 on internal medicine, and a botanical library 

 of three hundred or more volumes, consisting 

 mainly of old and classical works on herbs. 



