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SGIENGE. 



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George Koddiok, M.D., Professor of Surgery, 

 McGill University, Montreal, president of Brit- 

 ish Medical Association, 1897; Siegmund Eosen- 

 stein, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine, 

 University of Leiden; Herman Snellen, M.D., 

 Professor of Ophthalmology, University of 

 Utrecht ; and Sir Richard Thorne, K.C.B., 

 F.R.S., Principal Medical OflBcer, Local Gov- 

 erment Board, London. In introducing Pro- 

 fessor Bovvditch, the Dean of the Faculty of Law 

 said: ' ' The metropolitan University of Scotland 

 rejoices to offer her degree to one who is justly 

 regarded as a pioneer and leader of scientific 

 enterprise in the United States of America. 

 The researches which the distinguished tenant 

 of the chair of physiology in Harvard Univer- 

 sity has himself prosecuted have added not a 

 little to the advancement of that science, nota- 

 bly those into the laws regulating the growtli of 

 children, the force of ciliary motion and the 

 innervation of the vascular system. But, more 

 than this, he has stimulated others to carry on 

 research, and has so efficiently trained his 

 countrymen in the most approved methods, 

 that we are justified in largely attributing to 

 his influence the present position of the Ameri- 

 can school of physiologists. I now beg you to 

 confer upon the distinguished American the 

 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws." 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science has begun the celebration of its 

 fiftieth anniversary as we go to press. The 

 meeting promises to be notable and to give an 

 impulse to the work of the Association that will 

 last for many years. Beginning with the ad- 

 dress of the president in this number Science 

 will publish full reports of the meeting. 



The French Association for the Advancement 

 of Science has just held its annual meeting at 

 Nantes. The President, M. Grimeaux, the emi- 

 nent chemist, made an address entitled ' La 

 chemie des infiniment petits,' reviewing the 

 work of Pasteur and his pupils. Reports were 

 presented by the Secretary and Treasurer. The 

 latter showed that the funds of the Association 

 amounted to over 1,200,000 fr., and the in. 

 come for the year to over 100,000 fr. More 



than 40,000 fr. were granted for scientific pur- 

 poses. 



Over four hundred papers have already been 

 promised for the several sections of the Associa- 

 tion of German Men of Science and Physicians 

 which meets at Diisseldorf from September 19th 

 to 24th. 



The German Pathological Society will hold 

 its first meeting at Diisseldorf in connection 

 with the meeting of German Men of Science 

 and Physicians. Professor Virchow is presi- 

 dent of the Society. 



The funeral of the late Dr. James Hall 

 took place in Albany on August 15th. The 

 pall-bearers were Professor Lewis Boss, of 

 Albany ; Professor B. K. Emerson, of Am- 

 herst, Mass. ; Professor J. 0. Smock, of Tren- 

 ton, N. J. ; Professor William H. Niles, of 

 Boston ; Dr. F. J. H. Merrill and Professor J. 

 M. Clarke, of Albany ; Mr. G. K. Gilbert, of 

 Washington, and Professor A. S. Bickmore, of 

 New York. A memorial address was given in 

 the cathedral by Father Walworth, who had 

 been Dr. Hall's friend for fifty years. 



Professor John Comfort Fillmoeb, of 

 Pomona College, California, died suddenly on 

 August 14th, at Taftville, Conn., while on his 

 way to attend the meeting of the American 

 Association in Boston, where he was to have 

 read a paper on ' The Harmonic Structure of 

 Indian Music' For the past ten years Profes- 

 sor Fillmore has been engaged in the study of 

 primitive folk-song. Gifted with great clear- 

 ness of perception, a courage that knew no fear 

 of untrodden ground, and possessed of a thor- 

 ough musical education, he was well equipped 

 for the new problems which he met and mas- 

 tered in his field of research. To him belongs 

 the honor of inaugurating ' the ethnological 

 method of scientific treatment of our music 

 system,' to quote the words of a learned Ger- 

 man authority, speaking of Professor Fillmore's 

 work. His demonstration that the chord line, 

 as that of the least resistance, was the line 

 along which folk song was built, thus showing 

 that harmony is fundamental to all music, 

 ranks among the valuable contributions of 

 science during recent years. A. C. F. 



We regret also to record the deaths of the 



