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graph Company, and the replica for University 

 College, London, required a comparatively 

 small part of the fund. £5,000 were devoted 

 to endowing the Pender Electric Laboratory of 

 University College, £1,650 for endowing schol- 

 arships in Glasgow University, and £210 for the 

 John Pender Gold Medal of the Glasgow and 

 West of Scotland Technical College. 



The Soci6te Franjaise d'Hygiene invites sub- 

 scriptions for the erection of a memorial bust of 

 the late Dr. Prosper de Pietra Santa, who was 

 the founder and Permanent Secretary of the So- 

 ciety and editor of the Journal de Hygiene. 



The report of the Council of the British 

 Medical Association shows that the number of 

 members is 17,746, an increase of 791 since 

 last year. The number of new members, 1,473, 

 is the largest recorded in any one year since 

 the Association was founded. The revenue of 

 the past year amounted to £40,433. The As- 

 sociation has purchased during the year, for 

 £79,000, the freehold of the property on the 

 Strand which they have held on lease. The 

 sum of £366 has been allotted for scientific 

 grants and £450 for scientific scholarships. A 

 scholarship has been founded as a meraorial 

 of the late Mr. Ernest Hart, to be called 

 ' The Ernest Hart Memorial Scholarship for 

 Preventive Medicine.' The scholarship, which 

 will be of the annual value of £200, will be 

 tenable for two years. Mr. Hart, it will be re- 

 membered, was the editor of the British Med- 

 ical Journal, the organ of the Association. 



The annvial meetings of the British Society of 

 Chemical Industry were commenced at Univer- 

 sity College, Nottingham, on July 13th. The 

 President, Professor Clowes, made an, address, 

 and the medal of the Society was awarded to 

 Dr. W. H. Perkin, who in 1856 discovered ani- 

 line purple, a discovery which laid the founda- 

 tion of the extensive coal-tar industry of the 

 present time. The Society has now 3,196 mem- 

 bers and its income last year was £4,738. 



The Latin- American Scientific Congress will 

 next meet in 1901 at Montevideo. 



The Revue Scientifique has published a prelim- 

 inary list of papers, some sixty in number, to be 

 presented at the approaching meeting of the 

 French Association for the Advancement of 



Science, which will be held at Nantes from the 

 4th to the 11th of August. Many of the papers 

 are of interest, although the most prominent 

 French men of science do not seem to attend 

 the meetings of the Association. 



Mr. Edwaed Dodson, of the Natural His- 

 tory Museum, London, has left England to join 

 Mr. H. S. Cavendish, the African explorer, who 

 is now at Beira. 



De. E. Lewis Stuetevant, widely known 

 as an expert on scientific agriculture, in which 

 capacity he was connected with the United 

 States government for many years, died at 

 Framingham, Mass., on July 30th, aged fifty-six 

 years. 



Professor John Caird, the well-known 

 writer on philosophical subjects, died on July 

 30th, aged seventy-eight years. His resignation 

 from the principalship of the University of 

 Glasgow was to have taken effect on August 1st. 



Dr. Bbattie Croziee's Civil List pension of 

 £50 has been increased to £100 in order to en- 

 able him to complete his ' History of Intel- 

 lectual Development on the Lines of Modern 

 Evolution,' the first volume of which appeared 

 in 1897. 



Nature states that the French Soci6te d' En- 

 couragement has awarded the grand prize of 

 12,000 francs to M. Moissan for his numerous 

 reseai'ches in chemistry ; the prize of 2,000 

 francs for the experimental study of the proper- 

 ties of metals and alloys to M. C. E. Guil- 

 laume ; the prize of 1,000 francs for an investi- 

 gation of albuminoids to M. Fleurent ; a prize 

 of 2,000 francs to M. Cord for his work on the ag- 

 riculture and geology of the soils in the depart- 

 ment of Lozere ; an encouragement of 500 francs 

 to M. Capredon for his work on metallurgical 

 chemistry ; of 500 francs to M. A. Bigot for his 

 work on enamels ; of 1,000 francs to M. Pages 

 for his work on the agriculture of the Cantal 

 Department ; and 500 francs to M. Mazel for 

 his work on the agriculture of the Vivarais 

 district. 



We learn from the London Times that news 

 has been received at Cambridge of the arrival 

 of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition 

 to Torres Straits at Murray Island. The expe- 

 dition reached Thursday Island on April 23d, 



