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Dr. T. D. Saville, has been presented to Dr. 

 Knowles Boney. 



Ms. A. T. Bradlee has been awarded the 

 medal offered by the National Association of 

 Cotton Manufacturers for investigations upon 

 the effects of moisture in testing cotton yarns 

 and fabrics. 



In addition to those already named in Sci- 

 ence Dr. C. C. Abbot, director of the astro- 

 physical observatory of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, vyill attend the Australasian meeting 

 of the British Association as the guest of the 

 'New Zealand government. 



The foreign medical men who attended the 

 Aberdeen meeting of the British Medical As- 

 sociation included: Professor Stephane Leduc 

 of Nantes; Dr. E. Pontoppidan, professor of 

 medical jurisprudence at Copenhagen; Dr. 

 Clemens von Pirquet, professor of pediatrics 

 at Vienna; Dr. Umberto Gabbi, professor of 

 tropical medicine at the University of Eome; 

 Dr. Karl Jung, professor of psychiatry at the 

 University of Ziirich; Dr. Alban Bergonie, 

 professor of biological physics at the Univer- 

 sity of Bordeaux; Dr. H. Morestin, professor 

 of surgery in the University of Paris; Dr. 

 Eist, professor of clinical medicine in the 

 same university ; Dr. Fritz Prank, professor of 

 midwifery at Cologne; Professor D. S. Deme- 

 tiiades, of Athens; Professor Adolf Onodi, the 

 laryngologist of Budapest, and Dr. J. E. Mae- 

 leod, professor of physiology. Western Eeserve 

 University. 



Me. Watson Nightingale, B.S. (Mass. Inst., 

 '14), has been sent by the Bureau of Fisheries 

 to make a series of microscopic observations of 

 plant and animal life on the Grand Banks off 

 the coast of Labrador. 



Messrs. P. E. Matthes and F. C. Calkins, 

 of the U. S. Geological Survey, have returned 

 to the Tosemite region, in California, to re- 

 sume the geological and geographical studies 

 they began last year. 



The American Museum of Natural History 

 has sent two expeditions from the department 

 of vertebrate paleontology, the first in charge 

 of Mr. Barnum Brown, to the Eed Deer Eiver 

 of Alberta, Canada, to collect Cretaceous dino- 



saurs, and the second, in charge of Mr. Albert 

 Thomson to Agate, Nebraska, to secure addi- 

 tional Moropus skeletons. 



Professor J. C. Bose, of Calcutta, will de- 

 liver a lecture before the Eoyal Society of 

 Medicine, London, on October 30, on the modi- 

 fication of response in plants under the action 

 of drugs. 



The biennial Huxley lecture will be deliv- 

 ered by Sir Eondd Eoss, K.C.B., F.E.S., at 

 the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School on 

 October 1. 



We learn from Nature that it was decided 

 at a meeting of alpinists held at Zermatt on 

 July 25 to commemorate the fiftieth anniver- 

 sary of the first ascent of the Matterhorn 

 (falling on July 14 next) by the erection of a 

 marble statue of Mr. Edward Whymper at 

 the age he was when he first climbed the 

 Matterhorn. The pedestal is to be of granite 

 taken from the Matterhorn and the monu- 

 ment is to face the peak. The memorial wiU 

 also commemorate Lord Francis Douglas, Mr. 

 Hadow, the Eev. C. Hudson, and the guides, 

 Michel Croz and the two Tangwalders. The 

 cost will be borne by subscriptions. Mr. Justice 

 Pickford, president of the Alpine Club, is to 

 be invited to become the honorary president 

 of the memorial committee. Dr. A. Seller was 

 appointed treasurer, and Mr. J. Grande, of 

 Berne, honorary secretary. 



The death is announced of the Eev. Dr. 

 Stephen D. Peet, editor of the American Anti- 

 quarian and Oriental Journal, which he estab- 

 lished in 18Y8 and conducted for thirty-two 

 years. 



Dr. E. J. Anderson, professor of natural 

 history and geology at University College, 

 Galway, has died at the age of sixty-five years. 



The Eussian government's ice breaking 

 steamer Taimyr arrived at Nome, Alaska, on 

 August 4, and left the following day for 

 Wrangell Island to take off the twenty-one 

 men who found refuge there after the wreck- 

 ing of the Stefansson exploring ship Karluh 

 in the ice north of Herald Island last January. 

 The United States revenue cutter Bear sailed 

 for Wrangell Island via Point Barrow on 



