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above names are arranged in alphabetical 

 order. The adjudicators are of opinion that 

 the following essays are deserving of honor- 

 able mention, namely, " On Energy Accelera- 

 tions and Partition of Energy," by C. W. Eol- 

 lett, B.A., Trinity Hall ; " On Some Problems 

 in the Theory of Metallic Eeflection," by H. 

 E. Hasse, B.A., St. John's College; "The 

 Geometry of Apolar Triads," by W. P. Milne, 

 B.A., Clare College; " Perpetuant Syzygies of 

 the nth. Kind," by H. T. PL Piaggio, B.A., 

 St. John's College; " The Eeflection of Plane 

 Waves of Light at the Surface of a Medium 

 of Special Periodic Character," by C. J. T. 

 Sewell, B.A., Trinity College. 



The eighth lecture in the Harvey Society 

 course will be delivered by Professor Eoss G. 

 Harrison, of Yale University, at the New 

 York Academy of Medicine building, on Sat- 

 urday evening, March 7, at 8 :30 p.m. Sub- 

 ject: "Embryonic Transplantation and the 

 Development of the Nervous System." 



At the February meeting of the Philadel- 

 phia Section of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety, Professor Leonard P. Kinuicutt, of the 

 Worcester Polytechnic Institute, gave a re- 

 sume of the work of the past ten years in 

 sewage treatment, illustrated by slides. He 

 has been asked to give a similar lecture be- 

 fore the Syracuse section of the society at 

 their March meeting. 



On January 30 Professor Koch delivered a 

 lecture, illustrated with lantern slides, on 

 sleeping sickness and the means of combating 

 the disease, in the presence of the German 

 Emperor and Empress. 



Sir Dyce Duckworth, lecturer at St. Bar- 

 tholomew's Hospital and president of the Brit- 

 ish Section of the Medical Entente, delivered 

 a lecture on February 18 in French at the 

 Faculty of Medicine in Paris, under the presi- 

 dency of the dean, M. Landouzy, on diathesis 

 — that is to say, the natural predisposition to 

 certain maladies. It is intended that this lec- 

 ture shall be followed by others, both in Lon- 

 don and Paris. 



Mr. a. Watt, meteorological secretary of 

 the Scottish Meteorological Society, delivered 

 a lecture on the climate of the British Isles 



to the Eoyal Scottish Geographical Society, 

 in Edinburgh, on February 19. 



Professor G. Hellmann, director of the 

 Eoyal Prussian Meteorological Institute, will 

 deliver a lectm-e on " The Dawn of Meteorol- 

 ogy," at the meeting of the Eoyal Meteorolog- 

 ical Society, on March 11, in the rooms of the 

 Institution of Civil Engineers, London. 



A committee has been appointed from the 

 senior class of Harvard University to procure 

 a portrait of the late Professor N. S. Shaler 

 to be hung in the living room of the Union. 



The sum of £1,000 has been collected among 

 the patients and friends of the late Dr. W. S. 

 Playfair, and is to be presented to King's Col- 

 lege Hospital with a view to erecting a 

 memorial to him at the institution with which 

 he was associated for thirty-five years. 



Donations of £1,000 each, in memory of the 

 late Mr. Walter K. Foster, have been promised 

 towards the building fund of the new museum 

 of archeology and of ethnology at Cambridge 

 University by Mrs. Walter K. Foster, Mr. E. 

 Bird Foster, Mr. C. F. Foster and Mrs. E. 

 Eawlings. Mr. Foster, in whose memory this 

 gift has been made, bequeathed to the univer- 

 sity in 1891 a valuable collection of prehis- 

 toric and Anglo-Saxon antiquities. 



Othniel Foster Nichols, a prominent civil 

 engineer, known for his work on foundations, 

 bridges, tunnels and steel construction, died 

 on February 3, aged sixty-three years, at his- 

 home in Brooklyn. 



The death is announced of Mr. George E. 

 Davenport, of Medford, Massachusetts, a stu- 

 dent of North American ferns, at the age of 

 seventy-four years. 



Lieutenant-general Sir Eichard Strachey, 

 F.E.S., died on February 12, at ninety-one 

 years of age. 



The death is announced of Dr. Johannes 

 Friedrich August von Esmareh, professor of 

 surgery at the University of Kiel and surgeon- 

 general during the Franco-German war, in his 

 eighty-sixth year. 



The deaths are announced of Dr. A. 

 Eiimpler, professor of agricultural chemistry 

 in Breslau, and Dr. Einaldo Ferrini, professor 

 of technological physics at Milan. 



