March 13, 1908] 



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The Hon. Dr. Justice Mukerjee, vice-chan- 

 cellor of the Calcutta University; Professor 

 A. Schuster, F.E.S.; the Eev. Father E. La- 

 font, S.J., C.I.E., late rector of St. Xavier's 

 College, Calcutta; Mr. T. H. Holland, F.R.S., 

 director of the Geological Survey of India; 

 Dr. G. Thibaut, CLE. 



Mr. Norman Taylor, -who has been an aid 

 in the New York Botanical Garden for sev- 

 eral years, has been appointed custodian of the 

 plantations. 



Mr. Benjamin Kidd has been appointed to 

 deliver the Herbert Spencer lecture for 1908 

 before the University of Oxford in May or 

 June next. Three lectures have already been 

 given, namely, in 1905 by Mr. Frederic Har- 

 rison, in 1906 by Mr. Auberon Herbert and 

 in 1907 by Mr. Francis Galton, F.R.S. 



At the Royal Institution on March 7, Pro- 

 fessor J. J. Thomson, of Cambridge Univer- 

 sity, gave the first of six lectures on " Electric 

 Discharges through Gases." 



Professor Hans Gadow, of the University 

 of Cambridge, England, will give a series of 

 six illustrated lectures at the University of 

 Illinois from March 16 to 21. The general 

 subject of the lectures will be " Coloration of 

 Amphibians, Reptiles and Birds." 



The anniversary meeting of the Geological 

 Society of London was held on February 21 

 when officers were elected as follows : Presi 

 dent, Professor W. J. Sollas, F.R.S. ; vice 

 presidents, Mr. Frederick W. Rudler, I.S.O., 

 Dr. Aubrey Strahan, F.R.S., Dr. J. J. H 

 Teall, F.R.S., and Dr. A. Smith Woodward, 

 F.R.S.; secretaries, Professor E. J. Garwood 

 and Professor W. W. Watts, F.R.S.; foreign 

 secretary. Sir Archibald Geikie, F.R.S.; treas- 

 urer, Mr. Horace W. Monckton, F.L.S. The 

 following awards of medals and funds were 

 made in accordance with the announcement 

 already made: The Wollaston medal to Pro- 

 fessor Paul von Groth, of Munich; the 

 Murchison medal to Professor A. C. Seward; 

 the LyeU medal to Mr. Richard Dixon Old- 

 ham; the Wollaston fund to Mr. H. H. 

 Thomas; the Murchison fund to Miss Ethel 

 G. Skeat; and the Lyell fund to Mr. H. J. 

 Osborne White and Mr. T. F. Sibly. 



The second in the series of university lec- 

 tures at Western Reserve University was given 

 by President Charles Sumner Howe, of the 

 Case School of Applied Science, on March 3. 

 President Howe's subject was " The more re- 

 cent developments in astronomy." 



On the evening of March 6, Professor 

 George B. Shattuck, of Vassar College, lec- 

 tured before the Stamford Scientific Society 

 on " A Cruise in the West Indies." 



Dr. LeRoy McMaster, of Washington Uni- 

 versity, gave a lecture on the " Detection of 

 Ozone, Nitrogen Peroxide and Hydrogen Per- 

 oxide in Gas Mixtures " at the monthly meet- 

 ing of the St. Louis Section of the American 

 Chemical Society, held on February 10 at the 

 Academy of Science building, St. Louis. 



Harvard University has received $9,753.64, 

 representing the subscriptions of sixty-two 

 friends of the late Professor Charles Follen 

 Folsom, of the Medical School. At the desire 

 of the subscribers the money is to be used to 

 found in the medical school a teaching fellow- 

 ship in hygiene or mental diseases, the incum- 

 bent to receive the income of the fund. Addi- 

 tional subscriptions not yet paid in will in- 

 crease the fund by $1,430 within the next year. 

 Professor Folsom graduated from the univer- 

 sity in 1862 and until 1885 was a teacher in 

 various capacities in the medical school. 

 From 1891 to 1903 he was a member of the 

 board of overseers. 



At the commemoration day exercises of 

 Johns Hopkins University, on February 22, a 

 portrait of Henry Newell Martin, formerly 

 professor of biology, was presented to the uni- 

 versity by his old students. The presentation 

 speech was made by Dr. William H. Howell, 

 dean of the medical school. 



Dr. D. B. St. John Roosa, president of the 

 Post-graduate Medical School of New York 

 City, known for his work on diseases of the 

 eye and ear, died on March 8, at the age of 

 seventy years. 



Me. W. a. Shenstone, F.R.S., senior sci- 

 ence master at Clifton College, known for 

 his researches in chemistry, has died at the 

 age of fifty-eight years. 



