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Clerk, Professor A. Dendy, Professor H. H. 

 Dixon, Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, Professor W. 

 Gowland, Mr. J. H. Grace, Professor D. J. 

 Hamilton, Mr. C. I. Forsyth Major, Mr. E. 

 N. Nevill, Mr. W. H. Elvers, the Hon. Ber- 

 trand Eussell, Dr. Otto Stapf, and Dr. J. F. 

 Thorpe. 



Among those recently elected members of 

 the Athenaeum Club, under the provision 

 vphich enables the committee to elect a cer- 

 tain number of persons " of distinguished 

 eminence in science, literature, the arts, or 

 for public services," is Dr. John Rose Brad- 

 ford, F.E.S., physician to University College 

 Hospital, London, and professor of medicine 

 in the medical school. 



Officers of the London Institute of Chem- 

 istry have been elected as follows : President, 

 Dr. P. F. Frankland, F.E.S. ; Vice-presidents, 

 Dr. M. O. Forster, F.E.S., Mr. Oscar Gutt- 

 mann, M.I.C.E., Mr. Egbert Grant Hooper, 

 Mr. David Howard, Mr. Herbert Jackson, and 

 Sir William Eamsay, F.E.S. Hon. Treasurer, 

 Mr. A. G. Salamon. 



Dr. Arthur Keith, lecturer on anatomy at 

 the London Hospital Medical College, has been 

 appointed conservator of the museum of the 

 Eoyal College of Surgeons, in succession to 

 the late Professor C. Stewart. 



A MEETING was held in Birmingham on 

 March 5, as we learn from the London Times, 

 to consider what steps should be taken to 

 assist Dr. Hall-Edwards, the surgeon radiog- 

 rapher who recently had his hand removed in 

 consequence of dermatitis caused by the 

 Eontgen rays. Sir Oliver Lodge presided, 

 and proposed that a fund should be raised 

 which should be invested, and that a com- 

 mittee be appointed to control it. Dr. Hall- 

 Edwards had been a genuine enthusiast on the 

 subject, and his painful condition was the 

 result of his persistent and vigorous work in 

 the cause. He had received a communication 

 to the efFect that the king was interested in 

 the matter and in ssnnpathy with Dr. Hall- 

 Edwards, but if a pension were granted it 

 could only be a small one. The Bishop of 

 Birmingham supported the motion, which was 



carried, and at the close of the meeting it was 

 announced that £309 had been promised. 



Drs. Eduardo Liceaga, Jose Terres, Manuel 

 Toussaint and Octavio Gonzales Fabela have 

 been appointed a commission by the National 

 Medical Academy of Mexico to decide whether 

 the theses in typhus fever submitted to that 

 body deserve the $10,000 prize offered by the 

 government. 



Dr. Eeginald Heber Fitz, Hersey professor 

 of the theory and practise of physic in the 

 Harvard Medical School, will retire from 

 teaching at the close of the present academic 

 year. 



Professor Bosanquet has announced his 

 intention to resign the chair of moral phi- 

 losophy at St. Andrew's University at the end 

 of the current academical year. 



It is proposed to make a grant of £30 from 

 the Worts fund to Mr. A. E. Hinks, of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, towards defraying his ex- 

 penses in traveling on the continent of Europe 

 with the view of investigating the methods 

 used in the study of astronomy and geodesy 

 in certain observatories and institutions. 



Mr. Frank Leverett, of the United States 

 Geological Survey, is now in Europe, with the 

 purpose of making, in connection with his 

 studies in the United States, a comparative 

 study of the glacial formations of Europe. 

 This study wiU embrace the deposits in and 

 around the Alps, as well as those of the Scan- 

 dinavian ice-field in Scandinavia, Germany 

 and Eussia, and the British deposits. 



Professor W. Sampson Handley gave the 

 Himterian lecture on " The Natural Cure of 

 Cancer " at the Eoyal College of Surgeons on 

 March 13. 



The council of the British Academy have 

 appointed the Eev. Professor S. E. Driver, 

 fellow of the academy, regius professor of 

 Hebrew in the University of Oxford, to de- 

 liver the inaugural course of Schweich lec- 

 tures under the Leopold Schweich Fund, re- 

 cently endowed, "for the furtherance of 

 research in the archeology, art, history, lan- 

 guages and literature of ancient civilization, 

 with reference to Biblical study." Dr. Driver 



