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the council for election by the society at the 

 next anniversary: President, Sir William 

 Iluggins, K.C.B., O.M., D.C.L., LL.D.; treas- 

 urer, Alfred Bray Kempe, M.A. ; secretaries. 

 Professor Joseph Larmor, D.Sc., D.C.L., 

 LL.D., Sir Archibald Geikie, Kt., D.C.L., 

 Sc.D., LL.D. ; foreign secretary, Francis Dar- 

 win, M.A., M.B. Other members of the 

 council — George Albert Boulonger, F.Z.S., 

 Professor John Rose Bradford, M.D., D.Sc, 

 Professor Hugh Longbourne Callendar, LL.D., 

 Frank Watson Dyson, M.A., Professor Harold 

 Baily Dixon, M.A., Sir Michael Foster, 

 K.C.B., D.C.L., Professor Percy Faraday 

 Frankland, Ph.D., Sir Robert Giffen. K.C.B., 

 LL.D., Professor William Dobinson Hallibur- 

 ton, M.D., F.R.C.P., Ernest William Hobson, 

 Sc.D., Professor John Wesley Judd, C.B., 

 LL.D., Professor George Downing Liveing, 

 M.A., Professor Augustus Edward Hough 

 Love, M.A., Adam Sedgwick, M.A., William 

 Xapier, Shaw, Sc.D., Captain Thomas Henry 

 Tizard, R. N., C.B. 



Professor John U. Nef, head of the De- 

 partment of Chemistry of the University of 

 Chicago, has been elected a member of the 

 Royal Society of Science at Upsala, Sweden. 



Professor E. J. Marey, of Paris, and Pro- 

 fessor Camillo Golgi, of Padua, have been 

 elected foreign corresponding members of the 

 Vienna Academy of Sciences. 



The Denny gold medal of the British In- 

 stitute of Marine Engineers has been pre- 

 sented to Mr. C. W. Barnes for his paper on 

 ship electric lighting. 



Dr. Fran'cis Ram.\ley, of the Department 

 of Biology at the University of Colorado, at 

 Boulder, has obtained leave of absence and 

 will sail from San Francisco on December 22 

 for Japan. He will visit various botanical 

 centers in the far east for purposes of study 

 and for securing collections. During his ab- 

 sence the department will be in charge of Mr. 

 Chanccy Juday, M.A. (Wisconsin). 



Dr. Maxim ii-ian Jh:R7.or,, professor of pathol- 

 ogy and bacteriology in the Chicago Poly- 

 clinic, has been appointed pathologist in the 

 Bureau of the Government Laboratory, Ma- 



nila, and will sail from San Francisco about 

 December 30. 



Mr. De Wixtox has resigned the acting 

 superintendency of the Gardens of the London 

 Zoological Society. 



Sir John Gi'nn" delivered the presidential 

 address before the British Institute of Marine 

 Engineers on November 23. 



The New York Alumni Club of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin will entertain President 

 Charles R. Van Tlise at dinner at the Murray 

 Hill Hotel. 



Professor Dicey, of Oxford, delivered the 

 Sidgwick Memorial Lecture at Newnham Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, on Saturday, November 21. 

 His subject was ' The Relation of Law and 

 Opinion as illustrated by the History of the 

 Combination Laws during the Nineteenth 

 Century.' 



^Ir. Cloldsley Rutter, of the U. S. Bureau 

 of Fisheries, died on November 28, at Oakland 

 City, Indiana, at the age of 36, after a short 

 illness from erysipelas. Mr. Rutter was a 

 graduate of the Indiana State Normal School 

 and of Stanford University. He was a young 

 man of unusual ability and energy, and had 

 made very important studies of the salmon of 

 our Pacific Coast, on which subject he was a 

 recognized authority. 



Dr. Cyrus Edsox, at one time health com- 

 missioner of New York City, died on De- 

 cember 2, at the age of forty-six. 



Professor Heixrich Moeiil, director of the 

 Meteorological Institute at Cassel, died on 

 October 14. 



Dr. Gary de Hough's collection of flies, 

 especially Muscida; (10,000 specimens), has 

 been purchased for the Zoological Museum of 

 the University of Chicago. 



A special fund of $10,000 is being collected 

 by the New Y''ork Botanical Garden for the 

 purchase of plants, specimens and books and 

 for defraying the expenses of botanical ex- 

 ploration in the West Indies, Central America 

 and the Philippine Archipelago. The sum 

 of $8,781 had been contributed on December 1. 



There will be a meeting in the rooms of the 

 Board of Trade and Transportation, New 



