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Cowell, for his contributions to the kmar 

 theory and gravitational astronomy. 



The Hopkins prize has been awarded by the 

 Cambridge Philosophical Society to Professor 

 J. H. Poynting, F.R.S., of the University of 

 Birmingham, for his researches on the trans- 

 mission of energy in the electric field and on 

 the pressure exerted by radiation. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation notes that in addition to the Nicho- 

 las Senn high school, the site for which has 

 been secured, Chicago schools are named after 

 the following physicians : Daniel Brainard, 

 William H. Byford, Nathan Smith Davis and 

 Charles Warrington Earle. 



Mr. F. W. Dyson, F.E.S., astronomer royal, 

 and Surgeon-General Sir Alfred Keogh, 

 K.C.B., rector of the Imperial College of 

 Science and Technology, have been elected 

 members of the Athenaeum Club for their 

 scientific work. 



M. G. BiGOURDAN has been appointed presi- 

 dent of the Bureau des longitudes, Paris. M. 

 B. Baillaud is the vice-president and M. H. 

 Andoyer, the secretary. 



Dr. Henry Skinner has resigned the editor- 

 ship of Entomological News, taking effect with 

 the number for December, 1910. He had been 

 editor continuously since March, 1890, since 

 which time the journal increased in size from 

 168 pages and no plates to 484 pages and 14 

 plates per annum. The journal is in charge 

 of the joint publication committee of the 

 Entomological Section of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and of the 

 American Entomological Society. This com- 

 mittee accepted Dr. Skinner's resignation 

 with regret and elected Dr. Philip P. Calvert 

 (associate editor since January, 1893) editor, 

 Ezra T. Cresson, Jr. associate editor, and Dr. 

 Skinner editor emeritus. 



At a meeting of the American Philosophical 

 Society on March 3, Professor F. M. Jaeger, 

 of the University of Groningen, will read a 

 paper " On Fluid Crystals and Bi-refringent 

 Liquids." 



Professor L. H. Bailey, dean of the Agri- 

 cultural College of the State of New York, 



appeared as the ninth lecturer upon the J. C. 

 Campbell Foundation of the Sigma Xi So- 

 ciety of the Ohio State University on the 

 evening of Wednesday, February 8. He spoke 

 upon the subject " The Country Life Move- 

 ment." 



Dr. M. p. Ravenel, head of the department 

 of bacteriology, represented the University of 

 Wisconsin at the meeting of the American 

 Association of School Hygiene, where he read 

 a paper on " The Function of University 

 Faculty Committees on Hygiene." 



Dr. M. B. Thomas, of Wabash College, re- 

 cently lectured to the Illinois State Horticul- 

 tural Society on " The Nature of Parasitic 

 Fungi and their Relation to Their Hosts." 



Thirty-seven professors from the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin appear on the program 

 of the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, the Wiscon- 

 sin Archeological Society, the Wisconsin 

 Mycological Society and the Wisconsin Nat- 

 ural History Society, which opened in Madi- 

 son, February 17. The opening address of the 

 first day was on " The Relation between Area 

 and Temperature of Lakes," by Dean Edward 

 A. Birge, of the college of letters and science. 

 Fifteen addresses were made by members of 

 the university departments of geology, botany 

 and zoology. 



Dr. Edward Hitchcock, for fifty years pro- 

 fessor of hygiene and physical education at 

 Amherst College, died on February 15, aged 

 eighty-two years. 



Professor Frank J. Phillips, head of the 

 department of forestry in the University of 

 Nebraska since 190Y, died on February 13, at 

 his home in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was a 

 graduate of the Michigan Agricultural Col- 

 lege and the University of Michigan, and had 

 spent several years in the United States For- 

 est Service before his connection with the 

 University of Nebraska. He was the author 

 of a number of important scientific papers 

 and was one of the most brilliant teachers that 

 the university has known. 



Dr. M. Wilhelm Meyer, known for his con- 

 tributions to astronomy, and his efforts to 



