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just completed. Further particulars may be 

 obtained from the secretary of the committee, 

 Mr. Guy Marshall, British Museum (Natural 

 History), South Kensington, London. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 As a result of the recent tentative agreement 

 between Columbia University and the Pres- 

 byterian Hospital, New York, the appoint- 

 ments of Dr. Theodore C. Janeway as attend- 

 ing physician and of Dr. William G. MacCal- 

 lum as pathologist to the hospital have been 

 announced. Dr. Janeway is professor of the 

 practise of medicine in the College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons and Dr. MacCallum is 

 professor of pathology. They succeed Dr. W. 

 Gilman Thompson and Dr. Eugene L. Opie, 

 respectively, at the hospital. 



At the last meeting of the Eumford Com- 

 mittee of the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences the following appropriations were 

 made : To Professor D. F. Comstock, of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $100 

 in aid of his research on the possible effect of 

 the motion of the source on the velocity of 

 light. To Professor G. N. Lewis, of the same 

 institution, $150 in aid of his research on the 

 free energy changes in chemical reactions. 

 To Professor E. W. Wood, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, $150 in furtherance of his 

 researches on the optical properties of vapors. 



The following fifteen candidates have been 

 nominated by the council of the Royal So- 

 ciety for election to membership : Professor 

 H. T. Barnes, Professor A. J. Brown, Pro^ 

 fessor J. B. Cohen, Professor W. E. Dixon, 

 Professor P. G. Donnan, Major E. H. Hills, 

 Dr. W. H. Lang, Professor J. B. Leathes, Pro- 

 fessor E. A. Minchin, Professor E. Muir, Mr. 

 E. D. Oldham, Mr. E. I. Pocock, Professor A. 

 W. Porter, Mr. H. W. Eichmond and Mr. G. 

 G. Stoney. 



M. Eugene Tisserand has been elected a 

 member of the Paris Academy of Sciences in 

 ■succession to the late Professor Tannery. 



The British Medical Journal notes various 

 honors conferred on Dr. Paul Ehrlich, director 

 of the Institute for Experimental Thera- 

 peutics at Frankfort. The Emperor of Eus- 



sia has conferred upon him the Order of St. 

 Anne First Class, with a badge set in dia- 

 monds. The King of Spain has bestowed on 

 him the Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso 

 XII. The German Emperor has nominated 

 him a member of the senate of the recently 

 founded Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science; on this body he is the 

 only representative of medicine. The St. 

 Petersburg Institvite of Experimental Thera- 

 peutics has elected him an honorary member. 

 The municipal authorities of Buenos Aires 

 have given Professor Ehrlich's name to a 

 street in the suburb of San Fernando. 



A PORTRAIT of Sir William Crookes by Mr. 

 E. A. Walton, as we learn from Nature, was 

 presented to the Royal Society before the ordi- 

 nary meeting on February 16. The presenta- 

 tion was made on behalf of the subscribers by 

 Professor Meldola representing about 130 

 fellows of the society who had contributed to 

 the fund. Sir Archibald Geikie, as president, 

 accepted the portrait on behalf of the society. 

 Sir William Crookes expressed his thanks to 

 the subscribers for the honor they had con- 

 ferred upon him. In the course of his re- 

 marks he said that in two years he hoped to 

 celebrate the jubilee of his fellowship, as his 

 election dated from 1863. 



Professor W. W. Watts, F.R.S., has been 

 elected president of the Geological Society of 

 London. The following awards of medals and 

 funds have been made: WoUaston medal. Pro- 

 fessor Waldemar C. Brogger; Murchison 

 medal, Mr. R. H. Tiddeman; LyeU medals, 

 Dr. F. A. Bather and Dr. A. W. Eowe; Bigsby 

 medal. Professor O. Abel; Wollaston fund, 

 Professor 0. T. Jones; Murchison fund, Mr. 

 E. S. Cobbold; Lyell fund. Dr. C. G. Cullis; 

 Barlow-Jameson fund, Mr. J. F. N. Green. 



We learn from Nature that the Lanne- 

 longue prize, founded last year by Professor 

 Lannelongue, of Paris, has been presented to 

 Sir Victor Horsley, F.R.S. The prize is a 

 gold medal and the sum of $1,000, and it is 

 awarded to the person who had contributed 

 most to the progress of surgery in the ten 

 years before the date of the award. It is open 

 to surgeons of all nations, and is to be 



