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the same conditions and in the same manner 

 as the by-laws of the section. 



Charles L. Parsons, 



Secretary 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



A BRONZE statue of Lord Kelvin by Mr. 

 Bruce-Joy is to be erected at Belfast. 



Sm William Christie, astronomer royal 

 since 1881, is about to retire and will be suc- 

 ceeded by Professor F. W. Dyson, astronomer 

 royal for Scotland. 



Dr. OsCjVR Bolza, until recently professor 

 of mathematics in the University of Chicago 

 and still honorary professor there, has been 

 appointed honorary professor at Freiburg, 

 where he will hereafter reside. 



It is proposed to present a portrait to the 

 College of Physicians of Dr. James Tyson, 

 who has recently retired from the chair of 

 medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. 



Geheimrath F. E. Schulze, professor of 

 zoology in the University of Berlin, has cele- 

 brated his seventieth birthday. A fine por- 

 trait of this eminent man of science has been 

 issued, which will be a source of gratification 

 to his many friends and admirers in America. 



Dr. Franz Mertens, professor of mathe- 

 matics at Vienna, and well known for his 

 contributions to the theory of numbers, has 

 celebrated his seventieth birthday. 



Dr. Johann Justus Rein, professor of geog- 

 raphy at Bonn, has retired from active service. 



Dr. J. W. Spencer has spent the summer in 

 Norway studying certain erosion features. 



An International Congress of Tuberculosis 

 is to be held in Home next September under 

 the presidency of Professor Guido Baccelli. 



Dr. Henry FAmriELD Osborn, president of 

 the American Museum of Natural History, 

 will make the address at the opening of Co- 

 lumbia University, his subject being " Hux- 

 ley on Education." 



The original laboratory of Liebig in Gies- 

 sen is to be purchased and preserved as a me- 

 morial to the eminent chemist. An anony- 

 mous donor has guaranteed 60,000 Marks for 

 this purpose. 



A MONUMENT in memory of Dr. Niels Fin- 

 sen, to whom we owe the light treatment of 

 lupus and other diseases, was recently un- 

 veiled at Copenhagen. 



Nature states that a granite obelisk erected 

 in the parish churchyard of Forfar to the 

 memory of George Don, the Scottish botanist, 

 was unveiled last week by Mr. G. Claridge 

 Druce, who gave an address on Don's achieve- 

 ments as a botanist. 



William Harmon Niles, Meredith professor 

 of geology at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, to which chair he was appointed 

 in 1871, known for his valuable contributions 

 to geology, died on September 13, at the age 

 of seventy- two years. 



Mr. John Langton, formerly Hunterian 

 professor of pathology and surgery at the 

 Royal College of Surgeons, London, died at 

 the age of seventy years. 



Mr. C. a. Brereton, a well-known British 

 engineer, has died at the age of fifty-nine 

 years. 



Dr. F. p. Gulliver, secretary of Section E 

 — Geology and Geography — American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, writes 

 that it was impossible to arrange for a summer 

 meeting of Section E at an earlier date than 

 September 15. Between 40 and 50 geologists 

 and geographers had previously expressed 

 their desire to attend such a meeting, but 

 September 15 proved to be too late for many 

 of them, so that it has been decided to give 

 up the meeting for this year. It is hojied, 

 however, that the plans made for this summer 

 meeting at Nantucket and Marthas Vineyard 

 may be carried out at some future time. 



The American Electrochemical Society will 

 hold its next semi-annual meeting in Chicago 

 on October 13, 14, 15. 



A Reuter message from Paris states that a 

 private conference of the official delegates of 

 the various governments at the Pure Food 

 Congress has arranged to make certain meth- 

 ods of analysis international, with the conse- 

 quence that when any food is in future sub- 

 mitted to an analytical test it will have to 

 conform to that international standard. 



