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suns of various ages and exhibiting the process 

 of evolution in different stages, so it may be 

 that the progress of research will lead us to 

 recognize the existence of atoms of matter in 

 like case, some recently formed, and some very 

 ancient; and the vfhole argument seems to 

 lead to an atomic astronomy of surpassing 

 interest. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



M. Amagat, of the Paris Polytechnic School, 

 has been elected a member of the Paris Acad- 

 emy of Sciences in the section of physics, and 

 Dr. H. A. Lorentz, professor of physics at 

 Leiden, has been elected a correspondent in 

 the same section. 



Lord Kelvin and Lord Lister have been 

 elected honorary menitiers of the Royal So- 

 ciety of K'ew South Wales. 



Lord Lister, in recognition of his ' long 

 and valuable services to the country and par- 

 ticularly to surgery by the discovery and 

 application of the antiseptic treatment,' has 

 been admitted to the honorary freedom of the 

 Merchant Taylors' Company, London. 



Dr. W J McGee has been appointed chief 

 of the Department of Anthropology and Eth- 

 nology at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 



Dr. Ppiilip Henry Pye-Smith, F.E.S., has 

 been reelected chancellor of the University of 

 London. 



Dr. G. von Escherich, professor of mathe- 

 matics, has been made rector of the University 

 of Vienna. 



The University of Groningen has conferred 

 an honorary doctorate of mathematics and as- 

 tronomy on Dr. C Easton, director of the 

 Observatory at Rotterdam. 



Dr. p. Hofmann, professor of experimental 

 hygiene at Leipzig, has celebrated the twenty- 

 fifth anniversary of his professorship. 



Dr. B. E. Livingston, instructor in plant 

 physiology in the University of Chicago, has 

 been granted a research scholarship in the 

 New York Botanical Garden, beginning Sep- 

 tember 1, 1903. 



For the Michigan State Geological Survey 

 Dr. A. W. Grabau will continue his studies of 

 the Dundee and Traverse Limestones of the 

 state, which are proving of great economic 

 value. The survey has just issued a report 

 on Portland cement, clay and coal, and soon 

 expects to issue one on gypsum by Professor 

 G. P. Grimsley. Dr. P. E. Wright, of the 

 Michigan College of Mines and Geological 

 Survey, is conducting some investigations of 

 the copper-bearing rocks of the Porcupine 

 Mountains. Mr. Leon J. Cole has prepared 

 a study of the growth of the St. Clair Delta. 

 Mr. Robert Muldrow is mapping the quad- 

 rangle around Detroit for the U. S. Geological 

 Survey in conjunction with the State Survey. 

 Mr. Lane's papers on the water supply of 

 Michigan being entirely exhausted, the State 

 and U. S. Geological Surveys are actively en- 

 gaged in preparing for revised and extended 

 editions. Messrs. R. E. Horton, W. M. 

 Gregory and W. F. Cooper are engaged in 

 this work. 



The present board of visitors of the Royal 

 Observatory, Greenwich, is composed as fol- 

 lows : Sir W. Huggins, Professor H. H. 

 Turner, Professor W. G. Adams, Professor J. 

 Larmor, Sir J. N. Lockyer, Lord Eayleigh, 

 Lord Rosse, Sir A. Riicker, Sir W. Abney, 

 Sir R. Ball, Professor R. B. Clifton, Dr. J. 

 W. L. Glaisher, Professor G. H. Darwin, Rear- 

 Admiral Sir W. J. L. Wharton, Mr. W. D. 

 Barber. 



Dr. J. E. DuTTON and Dr. J. L. Todd, prin- 

 cipals of the Trypanosoma Expedition of the 

 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, have 

 returned to England from Senegal, where they 

 have been investigating trypanosomiasis, a 

 human disease similar to the tsetse fly disease 

 which is the chief cause of mortality among 

 the horses. 



The following British civil list pensions 

 have geen granted: £100 to Mrs. Adelaide 

 Fanny Eyre in consideration of the services 

 of her late husband, Mr. Edward John Eyre, 

 the Australian explorer and Governor of 

 Jamaica; £120 to Mrs. Zare Elizabeth Blacker 

 in recognition of the services of her late hus- 

 band, Dr. A. Barry Blacker, who lost his life 



