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the sympathy of the board in their bereave- 

 ment. 



ORIGINAL PUBUCATIONS OF EDWARD G. GARDINER 



" Beitriige zur Kenntniss des Epitrichiums und 

 der Bildung des Vogelschnabels," Inaugural-Dis- 

 sertation, Leipzig, 1884. Also in ArcMv fiir 

 Mikroskopische Anatomie, Bd. XXIV., 1885, pp. 

 289-338, Taf. XVII.-XVIII. 



" Notes on the Structure of the Quills of the 

 Porcupine," Technology Quarterly, Vol. I., p. 392, 

 1889. 



" The Origin of Death," Technology Quarterly, 

 Vol. IV., p. 178, 1891. 



" Weismann and Maupas on the Origin of 

 Death," Biological Lectures delivered at the Ma- 

 rine Biological Laboratory of Woods Hole, Vol. I., 

 Ginn & Co., Boston. 



" Early Development of Polychosrus caudatus, 

 Mark," Journal of Morphology, Vol. XI., No. 1, 

 pp. 155-171, 1895. 



" The Growth of the Ovum, Formation of the 

 Polar Bodies and Fertilization in Polychairus 

 caudatus," Journal of Morphology, Vol. XV., No. 

 1, pp. 73-110, Plates 9-12, 1898. 



For a number of years prior to his death Dr. 

 Gardiner had been engaged upon a monograph of 

 the Turiellaria acoela, which was to have been his 

 principal scientific work, but which was never 

 completed. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 As we have already announced would be the 

 case, Sir E. Eay Lankester relinquished the 

 directorship of the Natural History Depart- 

 ments of the British Museum on December 31. 

 The trustees have not yet appointed a new 

 director of these departments and it appears 

 to be very uncertain whether they have any 

 intention of doing- so. The keepership of the 

 Zoological Department, which was also held 

 by Sir Eay Lankester, likewise remains un- 

 filled. 



M. BouEGET, of the Toulouse Observatory, 

 has been appointed director of the Marseilles 

 Observatory, to succeed M. Stephan, who has 

 retired. 



The council of the Institution of Electrical 

 Engineers has elected Lieutenant-Colonel E. 

 E. B. Crompton, C.B., to the presidency of 

 the institution, vacant by the death of Lord 

 Kelvin. 



Professor E. S. Lull, curator in vertebrate 

 paleontology, Peabody Museum, Yale Univer- 

 sity, was elected president of the A merican 

 Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists at the 

 meeting in New Haven on December 28. 



Professor Marston T. Bogert, of Colum- 

 bia University, has been elected president of 

 the Chemists' Club, New Tork. 



The council of the Geological Society of 

 London has made the following awards : the 

 Wollaston medal to Dr. Paul Groth, professor 

 of mineralogy in the University of Munich; 

 the Murchison medal to Mr. A. C. Seward, 

 professor of botany in the University of Cam- 

 bridge; the Lyell medal to Mr. E. D. Oldham, 

 formerly of the Geological Survey of India; 

 the Wollaston Fund to Mr. H. H. Thomas, of 

 the Geological Survey of England; the Mur- 

 chison fund to Miss Ethel G. Skeat, while the 

 Lyell fund is divided between Mr. H. J. Os- 

 borne White and Mr. T. F. Sibly for their 

 respective work on the Cretaceous and Carbon- 

 iferous rocks of England. 



The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 

 has decided to confer the Mary Kingsley me- 

 morial medal on Mr. Joseph Chamberlain " in 

 recognition of the great work he inaugurated 

 by the establishment of schools of tropical 

 medicine." 



Mr. Morris K. Jesup, president of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, has 

 been made a corresponding honorary member 

 of the Senckenbergische Naturforschende 

 Gesellschaft in appreciation of his gift of the 

 Diplodocus skeleton to the Senckenberg Mu- 

 seum at Franlcfurt on the Main, Germany. i 



Dr. Emil Fischer and Dr. J. H. van't Hoff, 

 professors of chemistry in the University of 

 Berlin, have been given the honorary degree 

 of doctor of engineering by the Technical In- 

 stitute at Brunswick. 



We learn from Nature that Sir Norman 

 Lockyer has been unanimously elected presi- 

 dent and an honorary member of the Pen- 

 zance Natural History and Antiquarian So- 

 ciety in recognition of his services to the 

 study of the circles and other prehistoric re- 

 mains in west Cornwall. 



