November 4, 1898.] 



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cerued with scientific papers, and M. Darboux 

 of that concerned with the other arrangements. 



On September 20th a general meeting of the 

 German Botanical Society was held, in connec- 

 tion with the Congress of German Men of Sci- 

 ence and Physicians. The session was chiefly 

 devoted to memorial notices of members who 

 had died during the preceding year. The 

 record represented a heavy loss to botanical 

 science. 



The annual general meeting of the London 

 Mathematical Society will be held on November 

 10th. We learn from Nature that Lord Kelvin 

 has acceded to the request of the Council, and 

 will be nominated for the office of President. 

 Professor H. Lamb, F.E.S., will be nominated 

 for a Vice-Presidentship. Professor Elliott, 

 F.R.S., has chosen, for the subject of his ad- 

 dress, ' Some secondary needs and opportuni- 

 ties of English mathematicians.' 



The Botanical Gazette states that Mr. M. A. 

 Carleton is now in Russia, as an agent of the U. 

 S. Department of Agriculture, to study the 

 cereals of the region. 



Me. R. H. W. T. Hudson, of St. Johns Col- 

 lege, is this year senior wrangler at Cambridge 

 University. The Bidletin of the American Math- 

 ematical Society calls attention to the fact that 

 he is the son of Professor W. H. H. Hudson, 

 professor of mathematics in King's College, 

 London. 



The Royal College of Surgeons, of England, 

 has awarded Drs. G. T. Brodie and Cartwright 

 Wood £50 each from a research grant for their 

 investigations. Dr. Brodie is at present en- 

 gaged on the chemistry of diphtheria antitoxin, 

 and Dr. Cartwright on diphtheria toxins and 

 antitoxins and a method of examining water 

 bacteriologically. 



Professor Foster is giving this term at 

 Cambridge University a course of lectures on 

 the history of physiology. The first lecture of 

 the course, given October 24th, was on Claude 

 Bernard. 



We have to record the death of Dr. J. Crocq, 

 professor of pathology in the University of 

 Brussels and a member of the Belgian Senate ; 

 of Heinrich Theodor Richter, the metallur- 



gist, lately Director of the School of Mines at 

 Freiburg ; of Dr. C. G. Gibeli, professor of 

 botany and Director of the Botanical Institute 

 at Turin ; of the geographer Francisco Coello 

 de Portugal, in Madrid, and of Dr. B. Kotula, 

 known for his researches on the distribution of 

 plants. 



The Civil Service Commission announces that 

 on November 22, 1898, examinations will be 

 held for the position of statistical field agent, 

 U. S. Fish Commission. The chief subjects of 

 the examination are commercial fisheries and 

 the compilation of statistics. The salary is not 

 given in the notice sent us. Vacancies in the 

 grade of electrical engineer will be filled by ex- 

 amination, on December 3d. One of the vacant 

 positions is in New York, with a salary of $1,800 

 per year. The other is at Fort Caswell, with 

 a salary of $900. 



The International Otological Congress will 

 meet in the Examination Hall of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons, London, in August, 1898. 



The Eastern Association of Physics Teachers 

 met in Boston on October 29th. The subject for 

 special discussion was the relation of mathe- 

 matics and physics in secondary schools, papers 

 on which were presented by Professor A. B. 

 Kimball and Dr. Levi L. Conant. 



The Council of the Institution of Civil Engi- 

 neers of Great Britain have made the following 

 awards, out of the trust funds at their disposal 

 for the purpose, for original papersdealtwith dur- 

 ing the year 1897-98. The formal presentation 

 took place at the Institution on Tuesday, Novem- 

 ber 1st, at 8 p.m.: Telford medals and premiums 

 — A. H. Preece (London) and H. C. Stanley 

 (Brisbane, Queensland); Watt medals and pre- 

 miums— H. L. Callendar, M.A., F.E.S. (Lon- 

 don), and J. T. Nicolson (Montreal, Canada); 

 George Stephenson medals and premiums— 

 Whately Eliot (Plymouth), W. O. E. Meade- 

 King (London) and W. P. Marshall (Birming- 

 ham); the Crampton prize— E. W. Anderson 

 (Erith) ; Telford premiums — L. B. Atkinson 

 (Cardiflf), Henry Fowler (Horwich), W. L. 

 Strange (Bombay), F. J. Waring, C.M.G. (Lon- 

 don), D. W. Brunton (Denver, U. S.), Wilfred 

 Airy, M.A. (London), E. M. Bryant, B.Sc. 

 (Newcastle-on-Tyne), D. B. Butler (London) 



