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SCIEN&E. 



[N. S. Vol. XVIll. No. 405. 



From the famous quarry of Canon City, 

 Colorado, tlie same author* describes a new 

 Sauropod, Haplocanthus priscus, distinguished 

 by simple neural spines in the posterior cer- 

 vical and anterior dorsal vertebra;, thus totally 

 unlike either Camarasawus, Brontosaurus or 

 Diplodocus. The author regards it as the 

 most generalized member of this order yet 

 discovered in America, but that it is a member 

 of this order he believes is clearly shown in 

 the structure of the pelvis and by other char- 

 acters exhibited by the vertebrse, its nearest 

 affinities being to the Morosauridse. 



H. F. 0. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 The following is a list of those to whom the 

 Eoyal Society has this year awarded medals: 

 The Copley medal to Professor Eduard Suess 

 for his eminent geological services, and es- 

 pecially for the original researches and con- 

 clusions published in his great work 'Das 

 Antlitz der Erde.' A royal medal to Sir 

 David Gill for his researches in solar and 

 stellar parallax, and his energetic direction 

 of the Eoyal Observatory at the Cape of Good 

 Hope. A royal medal to Mr. Horace T. 

 Brown for his work on the chemistry of the 

 carbohydrates and on the assimilation of car- 

 bonic acid by green plants. The Davy medal 

 to M. Pierre and Madame Curie for their re- 

 searches on radium. The Hughes medal to 

 Professor Wilhelm Hittorf for his long con- 

 tinued experimental researches on the electric 

 discharge in liquids and gases. 



Lord Kelvin received the degree of D.Sc. 

 from the University of Wales on the occasion 

 of the Court of ISTovember 13. 



The Eoyal Asiatic Society has conferred its 

 triennial medal on Sir William Muir, lately 

 principal of the University of Edinburgh. 



Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has 

 resumed his official duties after a brief foreign 

 visit. 



* ' A New Sauropod Dinosaur from the Jurassic 

 of Colorado,' J. B. Hatcher, Proc. Biol. Soc. W(4S?i- 

 ington, February 21, 1903, Vol. XVI., pp. 1-2. 



Professor Geo. F. Atkinson, of Cornell 

 University, returned to America on November 

 14, after having made a study of fungi in vari- 

 ous European collections. 



Dr. L. McI. Luquer, of the department of 

 mineralogy of Columbia University, has ob- 

 tained leave of absence and will sail for 

 Europe early in February. 



Dr. E. D. Murray, of the U. S. Marine 

 Hospital Service, who has been at Laredo, 

 Texas, combating the epidemic of yellow fever, 

 has been seriously injured as the result of a 

 runaway accident. 



Mr. Ambrose Swasey, of Cleveland, Ohio, 

 has been nominated for president of the Am- 

 erican Society of Mechanical Engineers. The 

 society will hold its annual meeting in New 

 York, beginning on December 1, when the 

 president, Mr. James M. Dodge, will deliver 

 the annual address, the subject being ' The 

 Value of an Engineering Education to a 

 Young Man.' 



Mr. E. K. Kaye Gray gave the presidential 

 address before the British Institution of Civil 

 Engineers on November 12. 



Dr. Otto Augustus Wall has completed 

 his thirtieth year as professor of materia 

 medica and botany in the St. Louis College 

 of Pharmacy. On the evening of November 

 14, the graduates of the institution presented 

 the college with a life-size medallion of Pro- 

 fessor Wall, and a duplicate medallion was 

 presented to his family. The presentations 

 were accompanied by appropriate exercises, 

 followed with a banquet tendered Professor 

 Wall by the Alumni Association. 



Professor W. M. Scott, formerly state en- 

 tomologist (and pathologist) of Georgia, At- 

 lanta, Ga., has resigned to accept a position as 

 pathologist in the Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture. He has 

 already entered upon his new duties, which 

 relate to diseases of orchard fruits. Professor 

 Wilmon Newell, formerly of Iowa, recently of 

 the Texas Agricultural College, has been ap- 

 pointed as state entomologist of Georgia to 

 fill the vacancy caused by Professor Scott's 

 resignation. 



