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Professor Oliver J. Lodge, D.Se., LL.D., F.G.S8., 
University College, Liverpool. 
Hugh Robert Mill, D.Se., F.R.S.E., London, Eng. 
Professor Henry A. Miers, F.R.S., F.G.S., Magdalen 
College, Oxford. 
Professor John Milne, F.R.S., F.G.S., Isle of Wight. 
Robert Munro, M.A., M.D., Edinburgh. 
L. C. Miall, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., Yorkshire Col- 
lege, Leeds. 
Professor Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., F.R.A.S., Fins- 
bury Technical College, London. 
Professor Meslans, University of Nancy, France. 
Dr. Donald Macalister, M.A., M.D., Cambridge. 
John L. Myres, M.A., F.S.A., Oxford. 
Professor Edward B. Poulton, F.R.S., F.L.8., Uni- 
versity of Oxford. 
W. H. Preece, C.B., F.R.S., M.Inst.C.E., Wim- 
bledon Common, Surrey. 
Professor W. C. Roberts-Austen, C.B., Royal Mint 
London. 
E. G. Ravenstein, F.R.G.S., F.S.S., London. 
Wm. Ramsay, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S., University 
College, London. 
Arthur W. Rucker, M.A., D.Sce., F.R.S., Professor 
of Physics in the Royal College of Science, London. 
Robert Saundby, M.D., F.R.S.P., Birmingham. 
A. C. Seward, M.A., F.G.S., Cambridge, Eng. 
Professor C. S. Sherrington, M.D., F.R.S., Univer- 
sity College, Liverpool. 
Sir William Turner, M.B., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., 
University of Edinburgh. 
Professor W. H. Thompson, M.D., Queen’s College, 
Belfast. 
Professor William Cawthorne Unwin, F.R.S., 
M.Inst.C.E., City and Guilds of London Inst. 
Professor F. E. Weiss, B.Sc., F.L.S., Owens Col- 
lege, Manchester. 
Professor H. Marshall Ward, D.Sc., F.R.S., F.L.S., 
Cambridge, University. 
Professor W. G. Adams, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., 
King’s College, London. 
Professor Henrici, Ph.D., F.R.S., City and Guilds 
of London Institute. 
Professor Major P. A. McMahon, R.A., F.R.S., 
Artillery College, Woolwich. 
H. W. Seton-Karr, Esq., Wimbledon, Surrey. 
Professor John Perry, D,Sc., F.R.S., London, Eng. 
Walter Garstang, M.A., F.Z.S., Marine Biologieal 
Laboratory, Plymouth. . 
The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Berkeley, Abingdon. 
Professor E. M. Crookshank, King’s College, 
London. 
G. Griffith, M.A. (Asst.Gen.See. ), Harrow. 
Professor H. McLeod, F.R.S., F.C.8., Royal Indian 
Civil Engineering College. 
Professor C. Lloyd Morgan, 
University College, Bristol. 
Professor 8. P. Thompson, B.A., F.R.S., D.Sc., 
F.R.A.S., City and Guilds of London Technical Col- 
lege. 
Dr. A. W. Waller, F.R.S., London, Eng. 
W. T. Blanford, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., London, 
Eng. 
F. C. Selous, Esq., Wargrove, Bucks. 
Sir Malcolm Fraser, General Agent for Western 
Australia. 
Dr. D. Noel Paton, Edinburgh. 
John A. Campbell, M.D., F.R.S., Carlisle, Eng. 
Sir George S. Robertson, K.C.S.I., London, Eng. 
F.G.S., Principal, 
SCIENCE. 
LN. S. Vou. VI. No. 136. 
Professor Anderson Stuart, University of Sydney, 
New South Wales. 
Major-General Webber, C.B., R.E., M.Inst. C.E. 
The following men of science from the 
Continent are to be present: 
Professor Dr. Anton Dohrn, Zoological Station, . 
Naples. 
Professor Yves Delage, University of Paris. 
Gustave Gilson, University of Louvain, Belgium. 
A. Gobert, Brussels. 
Professor Dr. Albert Ladenburg, Breslau. 
Professor Meslans, University of Nancy, France. 
Professor P. Magnus, University of Berlin. ¢ 
Dr. Ph. Pauli, Frankfurt-am-Main. 
Dr. van Rijckevorsel, Netherlands. 
Professor C. Runge, Hannover. 
Professor Charles Richet, Paris. 
Professor Bohnslav Brauner, University of Prag. 
Professor Braun, University of Strassburg. 
Professor Fittica, University of Marburg, Germany. 
Professor K. Hiirthle, University of Breslau. 
Professor Penck, University of Vienna. 
A. B. MacaLium. 
DE VOLSON WOOD. 
ProressoR DE Yorson Woop, whose 
death was recently noticed in this Jour- 
NAL, waS @ man of unusual attainments 
and was for nearly half a century identi- 
fied with the promotion of that systematic 
technological education which has come to 
play so important a réle in the civilization 
of the present day. He was born in 1832, 
and passed the years of his youth on the 
farm of his father near Smyrna, N. Y. 
He early displayed the capacities of a suc- 
cessful student and teacher of mathematics. 
The neighbors used to say that “ the stones 
on Mr. Wood’s farm are covered with fig- 
ures which his son De Volson had used in 
the solution of problems ;” and he began 
teaching school at the age of 17. After 
some preliminary studies in a private acad- 
emy and at Cazenovia Seminary, he went 
to Albany State Normal School in 1852 and 
was graduated from that Institution at the 
end of the following year. During 1853-4 
he was principal of the public school of 
Nopanoch, N. Y.; and during 1854-5 he 
served the Albany Normal School as assist- 
ant professor of mathematics. He then 
