Dbcejiber 9, 1898.] 



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ington, D. C, Secretary of The Association of Amer- 

 ican Anatomists. 



Dr. F. S. Lee, Columbia University, New York 

 City, Secretary of The American Physiological So- 

 ciety. 



Dr. Livingston Farrand, Columbia University, New 

 York City, Secretary of the American Psychological 

 Association. 



Mr. W. W. Newell, Cambridge, Mass., Secretary of 

 The American Folk-Lore Society. 



Dr. W. F. Ganong, Smith College, Northampton, 

 Mass., Secretary of the Society for Plant Morphology 

 and Physiology. 



Dr. H. M. Saville, American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York, Secretary of Section H (Anthro- 

 pology ) of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. 



Professor William Trelease, Director of 

 the Missouri Botanical Garden, and Mrs. Zelia 

 Nuttall have been elected honorary members 

 of the Sociedad Scientifica (Antonio Alzate), of 

 Mexico. 



M. Levy, the mining engineer, Paris, and 

 Professor Lindstrom, Director of the Natural 

 History Museum of Stockholm, have been 

 elected corresponding members of the Berlin 

 Academy of Sciences. 



The Munich Academy of Sciences has elected 

 the following members: Professor Fuchs, of 

 Berlin (mathematics); Professor Barrais, of 

 Lille (geology); Professor Lie, of Christiania 

 (mathematics); Professor Hartig, of Munich 

 (botany) ; Professor Pringsheim, of Munich 

 (mathematics), and Professor Oberhummer, of 

 Munich (geography). 



Professor G. Frederick Wright, of Ober- 

 lin College, has made plans for a trip around 

 the world in 1900, for the purpose of studying 

 geological phenomena. He will visit Hawaii, 

 Japan, cross Asia, following the line of the new 

 Siberian railroad, studying especially the Sibe- 

 rian glacial drift, a field as yet untouched; 

 thence, after a study of the region around the 

 Caspian Sea, he will return to the United 

 States, the whole trip occupying about nine 

 months. 



Professor James E. Keeler, the recently 

 appointed Director of the Lick Observatory, was 

 given a reception and banquet on October 15th, 

 at San Francisco, by the members of the faculties 



of the University of California. There were 

 about sixty present. Addresses of welcome 

 were made by the President of the University 

 and Professor Soule, and Professor Keeler 

 replied. 



Dr. William C. Keauss, of Buffalo, N. Y., 

 has been elected President of the American 

 Microscopical Society. 



A FURTHER grant of £250 has been made 

 from the Worts Travelling Scholars' Fund of 

 Cambridge University to Dr. Haddon, towards 

 defraying the expenses of the scientific expedi- 

 tion to the Torres Straits under his direction 

 for the purpose of making anthropological in- 

 vestigations. 



The French Institute announces as the sub- 

 ject of the Crouzet prize (3,000 fr.) for 1901, 

 ' The Theory of Evolution in Nature and in 

 History.' 



The French Geographical Society held a 

 special session on November 19th in honor of 

 the explorer M. Gentil. M. Milne- Edwards, 

 who presided, after congratulating M. Gentil 

 on his remarkable explorations in the neighbor- 

 hood of Lake Tchad, announced that the So- 

 ciety had awarded to him its large gold medal 

 for the year 1899. 



The monument erected to Charcot, the great 

 French neurologist, before the Saltpetriere 

 Hospital, Paris, was unveiled on December 4th. 

 M. Leygues, the Minister of Public Instruction, 

 made an address. 



Sir George Stokes was elected Lucasian 

 professor of mathematics at Cambridge on Oc- 

 tober 28, 1849, and the current academical year 

 is thus the 50th year of his tenure of the chair. 

 The Council of the University, having regard 

 to the acknowledged eminence of Sir George 

 Stokes and to the rarity of such an event as a 

 50 years' tenure of a professorship in the Uni- 

 versity, are of opinion that some formal celebra- 

 tion of the completion of this period should be 

 held towards the end of the present academic 

 year, and that a number of distinguished men 

 of science, and also representatives of univer- 

 sities and other learned bodies at home and 

 abroad, should be invited to participate in the 

 celebration. They have considered various 

 dates that are suitable for the celebration, and 



