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tion to Franz Josef Land, of which he was 
leader. At the second meeting Dr. Sven Hedin 
will describe the results of his four years’ ex- 
plorations in Central Asia. Lieutenant Peary 
has promised to go to England about the end of 
November, and it is to be hoped that he will 
appear before the Society early in December. 
Other papers which may be expected are by Sir 
W. Martin Conway, on his recent expedition to 
Spitzbergen; by Mr. E. A. Fitsgerald, on his 
explorations on and around Mount Aconcagua ; 
Mr. Warington Smyth, on the Hastern Malay 
Provinces of Siam, and Dr. John Murray, F. 
R.S., on his recent investigations in the Scot- 
tish lakes. There will bea special meeting early 
in 1898 in connection with the 400th anniver- 
sary of the discovery of the Cape route to India 
by VascodaGama. Special afternoon meetings 
are being arranged for and Christmas lectures 
to young people. Under the auspices of the 
Society and the London University Extension a 
series of twenty-five educational lectures is be- 
ing given in Gresham College by Mr. H. J. 
Mackinder, M.A., on the geography of Great 
Britain and the British seas. 
THE principal medal of the Royal Photo- 
graphic Society, London, has been awarded to 
Professor Gabriel Lippmann, Paris, for his 
work in color photography by the interference 
method. 
WE regret to record the deaths of Dr. Justin 
Winsor, Librarian of Harvard University and 
President of the American Library Association, 
on October 21st, aged sixty-six years; of Pro- 
fessor John Foster, emeritus professor of natu- 
ral philosophy in Union College, with the 
faculty of which he had been connected since 
1836, aged eighty-three years; of Mr. HE. P. 
Franz, formerly assistant to Professor Schaef- 
fer at University College, London, in con- 
junction with whom he carried out important 
researches in neurology; and of Mr. William 
Scott, a well-known horticulturist and arbori- 
culturist, director of the Royal Gardens and 
forests, Mauritius, at Stirling on the 3rd of 
October, aged thirty-eight years. He was 
home on leave after an unbroken residence in 
the tropics extending to sixteen years. 
WE take from the British Medical Journal the 
SCIENCE. 
[N. §. Von. VI. No. 148. 
following details regarding the late Professor 
Charles Smart Roy, whose death we were re- 
cently compelled to record. Born at Arbroath, 
Scotland, in 1854, he enjoyed a thorough educa- 
tion in training and research at St. Andrew’s, 
in London andinGermany. Appointed George 
Henry Lewes student in 1880, he came to Cam- 
bridge and worked at the pathology of the 
heart,spleen and kidneys in Dr. Michael Foster’s. 
laboratory, where he gave a course of lectures 
on physiology to advanced students. On the 
election of Dr. Greenfield to the chair of general 
pathology in the University of Edinburgh, Dr. 
Roy was chosen to succeed him as Director of 
the Brown Institution. During the tenure of 
this office he visited the Argentine Republic for 
the purpose of investigating the causes of an 
epizootic disease then raging among cattle in the 
Province of Entre Rios. He held the director- 
ship for two years and a-half, when in 1884 he 
was elected to the newly-established professor- 
ship of pathology in the University of Cam- 
bridge. At first the teaching of pathology was. 
carried on in rooms belonging to the Physiolog- 
ical Laboratory, but in 1889 the old chemical 
laboratory was transformed and refitted to ac- 
commodate the department of pathology. In 
this building, with the help of such able students 
as Griffiths, Hankin, Adami, Hunter, Wes- 
brook, Kanthack, Lorrain-Smith, Lloyd Jones, 
Cobbett and others, much brilliant work in 
pathology and bacteriology has been carried on 
under Professor Roy’s direction. He invented 
many ingenious pieces of apparatus for physio- 
logical purposes, some of which, such asthe on- 
cometer and oncograph and the tonimeter, are 
universally known among investigators, and 
will continue to be called by hisname. His re- 
searches on the heart, carried out with Pro- 
fessor Adami and independently, have thrown 
new light on that perplexing organ ; it is, per- 
haps, on these that his reputation will chiefly 
rest. 
A COMMITTEE has been appointed at the 
Johns Hopkins University to arrange and exe- 
cute a memorial to Professor J. EH. Humphrey 
and Dr. F. 8. Conant, who died from pernicious 
malarial fever, contracted at Port Antonio, Ja- 
maica, where they were conducting the Marine 
Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University. 
