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lected and published. Dr. 0. J. Martin, di- 

 rector of the Lister Institute, Chelsea Gar- 

 dens, London, S. E., will be glad to receive 

 the names of those who desire to take part in 

 this tribute. 



The council of the Eoyal Society has nom- 

 inated for membership the following fifteen 

 candidates: Frank Dawson Adams, Hugh 

 Kerr Anderson, William Blaxland Benham, 

 Lord Blythswood, WiUiam Henry Bragg, 

 Frederick Daniel Ohattaway, Arthur William 

 Crossley, Arthur Eobertson Oushny, William 

 DuddeU, Frederick William Gamble, John 

 Ernest Petavel, Henry Cabourn Pocklington, 

 Henry Nicholas Eidley, Grafton Elliot Smith, 

 WUliam Henry Young. 



Professoe W. a. Tilden, F.K.S., professor 

 of chemistry and dean of the Eoyal College of 

 Science, London, has been elected a member 

 of the Athenajum Club for 'distinguished 

 services in science.' 



Dr. George E. Hale, director of the Solar 

 Observatory of Mount Wilson, has been elect- 

 ed one of the alumni members of the corpora- 

 tion of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology. 



Dr. Frederic T. Lewis, of the Harvard 

 Medical School, Boston, Mass., has been ap- 

 pointed editor of The American Naturalist. 

 The editor desires contributions from 'all 

 naturalists who have anything interesting to 

 say.' Candidates for the higher scientific de- 

 grees are invited to contribute concise sum- 

 maries of the special literature pertaining to 

 their chosen topics. AU manuscripts should 

 be sent to the editor. 



Ix is announced that the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion of Washington will erect the laboratory 

 for the study of human nutrition which is 

 planned adjacent to the Harvard Medical 

 School. The work is under the direction of 

 Professor F. G. Benedict, of Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity. 



The Eumford Committee of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences has recently 

 made the following appropriations in aid of 

 researches on light and heat: To Professor 

 F. E. Kester, of the Ohio State University, 



$315, in aid of his research on the thermal 

 properties of gases flowing through porous 

 plugs; and $400 to Dr. Harry W. Morse of 

 Harvard University, in aid of his researches 

 on fluorescence. 



At Oxford University grants have been 

 made from the Craven Fund of £60 to Mr. 

 Giinther, M.A., feUow of Magdalen, to assist 

 his archeological investigations in Southern 

 Italy; of £70 to Mr. Burrows, M.A., of Christ 

 Church, to assist his investigations in Boeotia 

 with a view to determining the site of the 

 Delium; and of £40 to Mr. Dodd, B.A., Uni- 

 versity College, to assist his study ir. Germany 

 of the coinage and history of the Antonine 

 period. 



The British, Medical Journal states that the 

 colleagues of Professor Eamon y Cajal and 

 Professor Camillo Golgi, to whom was awarded 

 the Nobel Prize for medicine, intend to 

 mark their appreciation of the honor done 

 their distinguished countrymen. On Febru- 

 ary 22 a meeting was held in the Colegio de 

 Medicos, Madrid, at which it was agreed that 

 a public subscription should be opened for a 

 gold medal to be presented to Professor 

 Eamon y Cajal; that a volume containing re- 

 ports of original researches should be prepared 

 under the direction of a committee consisting 

 of Professors Calleja, Gomez Ocana, Oloriz, 

 Jimeno and San Martin, and that the govern- 

 ment should be asked to confer a life senator- 

 ship on Professor Eamon y Cajal. The com- 

 mittee appointed to make arrangements for do- 

 ing honor to Professor Golgi has decided that 

 a scholarship bearing his name should be 

 founded in connection with the University of 

 Pavia. 



Dr. John Collins Waeren, who has been 

 instructor and professor of surgery in the 

 Harvard Medical School since 1871, will be- 

 come professor emeritus at the close of the 

 present year. 



Dr. Eaymond Peael, instructor in zoology 

 in the University of Pennsylvania, has accept- 

 ed an appointment as biologist in the Maine 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono, 

 Maine, begiiming with the next academic 

 year. The appointment is made under the 



