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leave of absence for seventeen months, whicli 

 he will spend in study and in travel abroad, 

 and also in research at the Naples Zoological 

 Station. 



Sir Philip Magnus, M.P., is engaged in an 

 inquiry for the Cardiff Education Authority 

 with reference to possible improvements in the 

 technical instruction and other branches of 

 education in the city. 



The council of the Eoyal Geographical So- 

 ciety has awarded the Founder's Medal to Dr. 

 Francisco Moreno, who has for twenty years 

 been occupied in exploring South America, 

 especially Patagonia and the southern Andes, 

 and the Patron's Medal to Dr. Roald Amund- 

 sen, the Norwegian explorer, who recently 

 completed the northwest passage for the first 

 time in a ship. The Murchison bequest has 

 been awarded to Captain G. E. Smith for his 

 various important surveys in British East 

 Africa; the Gill Memorial to Mr. C. Raymond 

 Beazley for his work in three volumes on ' The 

 Dawn of Modern Geography,' the result of 

 many years' research ; the Back bequest to Mr. 

 C. E. Moss for his important researches on 

 the geographical distribution of vegetation in 

 England; and the Cuthbert Peek Fund to 

 Major C. W. Gwynn, C.M.G., D.S.O., E.E., 

 for the important geographical and carto- 

 graphical work which he carried out in the 

 Blue Nile region and on the proposed Sudan- 

 Abyssinian frontier. 



The Tiedemann Prize, awarded every fourth 

 year by the Senckenberg Society at Frankfort 

 a. M. to the German writer who has produced 

 the best work along the lines of comparative 

 anatomy and physiology has been awarded 

 this year to Dr. E. Buchner of Berlin for his 

 researches on fermentation. 



On the invitation of President Schurman, 

 Professor Burt G. Wilder, of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, will give a memorial address on May 28, 

 to commemorate the one hundredth anni- 

 versary of the birth of Louis Agassiz. 



The Princeton correspondent of the New 

 York Evening Post states that Professor Alex- 

 ander T. Ormond will lecture on philosophical 

 and educational subjects before the Johns 

 Hopkins University, the University of Vir- 



ginia, the University of Tennessee, Grant Uni- ' 

 versity of Chattanooga, Vanderbilt University, 

 the University of Georgia, Tulane University, 

 the University of North Carolina, and the 

 University of South Carolina. 



Professor W. P. Bradley, of Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity, who designed the liquid air plant re- 

 cently installed for the Sheffield Scientific 

 School, Tale University, lectured on March 21 

 on ' Liquid Air as prepared and used at the 

 Cryogenic Laboratory of Wesleyan College.' 



At the meeting of the Davenport Academy 

 of Sciences on March 30, Professor Herbert 

 Osbom, of the Ohio State University, gave a 

 lecture on ' Eccentricities of Insect Life,' 

 illustrated by a series of lantern slides. 



On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary 

 of his graduation in medicine. Professor Ernst 

 Haeckel of Jena was made a privy medical 

 councilor with the title of Excellenz. He 

 practised in Berlin before taking up the work 

 in natural science which made him famous. 



The building erected by Mr. Andrew Car- 

 negie for the United Engineering Societies 

 was dedicated this week. On Tuesday after- 

 noon addresses were made, if the announce- 

 ments of the program were carried out, by 

 Mr. Andrew Carnegie and President Arthur 

 T. Hadley. In the evening there was to be 

 a reception at which the officers of the dif- 

 ferent societies would receive in their rooms. 

 On Wednesday afternoon addresses were an- 

 nounced by Dr. Samuel Sheldon, president of 

 the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 

 neers; Dr. Frederick R. Hutton, president of 

 the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 

 neers, and Dr. John H. Hammond, president 

 of the American Institute of Mining Engi- 

 neers. The John Fritz medal was to be pre- 

 sented to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and 

 medals for distinguished services to Dr. Ralph 

 W. Pope and Professor Frederick R. Hutton. 

 Meetings of the societies were to be held on 

 Thursday and Friday. 



The American Electro-chemioal Society will 

 meet at the University of Pennsylvania on 

 May 2, 3 and 4, 1907. 



The College of Physicians of Philadelphia 

 announces that the next award of the Alvar- 



