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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXII. No. 830 



Dr. George E. Hale, director of the Mount 

 Wilson Solar Observatory, and on Dr. Bailey 

 Willis, of the U. S. Geological Survey, and 

 the degree of doctor of medicine and surgery 

 on Dr. Theodore W. Richards, professor of 

 chemistry in Harvard University. 



It is reported that the Nobel prize for phys- 

 ics will be awarded to Professor J. D. van der 

 Waals, of Amsterdam, for his work on gases 

 and liquids. 



Professoe Edward B. Poulton, Professor 

 T. H. Morgan and Dr. L. O. Howard have 

 been elected correspondents of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



The Eoyal Society of Edinburgh has elected 

 honorary fellows as follows: British — ^Pro- 

 fessor J. G. Frazer, Sir Joseph Larmor, 

 F.R.S., Dr. Alfred Eussel Wallace, O.M., 

 E.E.S.; foreign — Professor Hugo de Vries, 

 Amsterdam; Mr. F. A. Forel, Morges; Pro- 

 fessor Karl F. von Goebel, Munich; Professor 

 J. C. Kepteyn, Groningen; Professor Elie 

 MetehnikofP, Paris; Professor A. A. Michel- 

 son, F.R.S., Chicago; Professor W. Ostwald, 

 Leipzig; Professor F. W. Putnam, Harvard 

 University, and Professor A. F. L. Weismann, 

 Freiburg. 



At the meeting of the trustees of the Car- 

 negie Foundation for the Advancement of 

 Teaching, held in New York City last week. 

 President A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard 

 University; President W. L. Bryan, of Indi- 

 ana University, and President J. M. Taylor, 

 of Vassar College, were elected trustees to fill 

 vacancies caused by the retirement of Dr. 

 Woodrow Wilson, formerly president of 

 Princeton University; Dr. C. C. Harrison, 

 retiring provost of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and Dr. L. Clarke Seelye, formerly 

 president of Smith College. No other infor- 

 mation in regard to the action of the trustees 

 appears to have been made public. 



The Royal Society's medals will this year 

 be awarded as follows : The Copley medal to 

 Sir Francis Galton, F.R.S., for his researches 

 on heredity; the Rumford medal to Professor 

 Heinrich Rubens, for his researches on radia- 

 tion, especially of long wave-length; a Royal 



medal to Professor Frederick O. Bower, 

 F.R.S., for his treatise on the origin of a land 

 flora; a Royal medal to Professor John Joly, 

 F.R.S., for his researches in physics and geol- 

 ogy; the Davy medal to Professor Theodore 

 W. Richards, for his researches on the deter- 

 mination of atomic weights; the Darwin 

 medal to Mr. Roland Trimen, F.R.S., for his 

 South African bionomic researches, in large 

 part undertaken as the outcome of correspond- 

 ence with Charles Darwin; the Sylvester 

 medal to Dr. Henry F. Baker, F.R.S., for his 

 researches in the theory of Abelian functions 

 and for his edition of Sylvester's " Collected 

 Works " ; the Hughes medal to Professor John 

 A. Fleming, F.E.S., for his researches in elec- 

 tricity and electrical measurements. 



Officers of the Royal Society have been 

 nominated by the council as follows : Presi- 

 dent, Sir Archibald Geikie, K.C.B. ; treasurer, 

 Mr. Alfred Bray Kempe; secretaries. Sir 

 Joseph Larmor and Dr. John Rose Bradford; 

 foreign secretary. Sir William Crookes; other 

 memhers of the council, Mr. L. Fletcher, Dr. 

 W. H. Gaskell, Sir David Gill, K.C.B., Dr. E. 

 H. Griffiths, Professor W. M. Hicks, Professor 

 F. S. Kipping, Major P. A. MacMahon, Mr. 

 H. R. A. Malloek, Dr. C. J. Martin, the Duke 

 of Northumberland, K.G., Professor W. J. 

 Pope, Professor J. H. Poynting, Professor E. 

 Rutherford, Mr. A. E. Shipley, Mr. M. R. 

 Oldfield Thomas and Mr. Harold W. T. 

 Wager. 



Professor Joseph Baker Davis, who has 

 been a member of the faculty of the engineer- 

 ing department of the University of Michigan 

 since 1872, resigned at the October meeting of 

 the regents. In recognition of his services to 

 the university he has been made professor 

 emeritus. 



The studentship on the foundation of the 

 late Professor Tyndall for scientific research 

 on subjects tending to improve the conditions 

 to which miners are subject has been awarded 

 for the ensuing year to Dr. T. L. Llewellyn, of 

 Bargoed, Wales, for research regarding the 

 cause and cure of the disease in miners knovro 

 as nystagmus. 



