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raphy), of Berlin; Pfeffer (botany), of Leip- 

 zig, and Tschermak (mineralogy), of Vienna. 



De. Wilhelm Foestee, professor of astron- 

 omy at the University of Berlin, and director 

 of the observatory, celebrated his seventieth 

 birthday on December 16. 



The council of the Geological Society of 

 London has made the following awards for the 

 present year: The Wollaston medal to Pro- 

 fessor Eosenbusch, of Heidelberg, the eminent 

 petrologist; the Murchison medal to Dr. 

 Charles Callaway, who has done much good 

 work on the older rocks of Britain; the Lyell 

 medal to Mr. P. W. Eudler, who recently re- 

 tired from the post of librarian and curator 

 of the Museum of Practical Geology, in which 

 he gave untiring assistance to the many who 

 sought his advice; the Prestwich medal, of 

 which the award is made this year for the 

 first time, to the fellow-worker and friend of 

 Prestwich, Lord Avebury; the Bigsby medal 

 to Dr. H. M. Ami, of the Canadian Geological 

 Survey. The balance of the Wollaston fund 

 has been awarded to Mr. L. L. Belinfante, the 

 assistant secretary of the society, in recog- 

 nition of his valuable services. The Murchison 

 fund is allotted to Mrs. Eobert Gray, of Edin- 

 burgh, whose collection of Girvan fossils, de- 

 scribed by H. A. Nicholson and E. Etheridge, 

 Jr., has been of great service to many geolog- 

 ists. The Lyell fund is divided between Mr. 

 S. S. Buekman, whose work on the paleontol- 

 ogy and stratigraphy of the lower oolitic rocks 

 is so well known, and Mr. G. E. Dibley, who 

 has done valuable work in collecting fossils 

 and working out their zonal distribution in 

 the chalk of Kent. 



The board of trade has appointed Professor 

 Wyndham Dunstan, F.E.S. (now director of 

 the Scientific and Technical Department of 

 the Institute), to be director of the Imperial 

 Institute at South Kensington. Professor 

 Dunstan will continue in charge of the scien- 

 tific investigation of economic products, and 

 will supervise any other branches of work car- 

 ried on by the Board of Trade in the building 

 at South Kensington, including the collection 

 of products of the empire so far as they will 

 be under the control of the board. 



John B. Henck, formerly professor of civil 

 engineering in the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, died in California on January 

 3 at the age of eighty-seven years. 



Dr. Bushrod Washington James, the Phil- 

 adelphia oculist and homeopathic physician, 

 author of books on Alaska and other scientific 

 topics, died on January 6, aged sixty-seven 

 years. 



Me. John Nathaniel Clark, known for his 

 work in ornithology, died at Old Saybrook, 

 Conn., on January 14, at the age of seventy- 

 two years. 



The death is announced of Dr. Henry Ed- 

 ward Schunck, near Manchester, on January 

 13, at the age of eighty-two years. He re- 

 tired from business at an early date, and de- 

 voted himself to the study of chemistry, pub- 

 lishing important papers on organic coloring 

 matters. He was fellow of the Eoyal Society, 

 and had been president of the Manchester 

 Literary and Philosophical Society and of the 

 Society of Chemical Industry. 



We regret also to record the deaths of Pro- 

 fessor Leonard Landois, professor of physiol- 

 ogy at the "University of Greifswald, and of 

 M. Goubet, the inventor of the submarine 

 torpedo boat bearing his name. 



Me. Carnegie has intimated to the provost 

 of Greenock that he is prepared to present to 

 a properly authorized authority in the town 

 the sum of $50,000 to defray the cost of the 

 erection of a memorial to James Watt. 



The annual meeting of the board of regents 

 of the Smithsonian Institution will be held at 

 Washington on January 28. 



At the annual meeting of the managers of 

 the New York Botanical Garden, two re- 

 search scholarships were established. It was 

 announced that forty-three investigators had 

 availed themselves of the privileges of the 

 garden during the past year. About 67,000 

 specimens have been received by the museum 

 and herbarium and about 90,000 specimens 

 have been added to the collection. 



At a meeting of the New York Zoological 

 Society on January 13, it was announced that 

 seven hundred thousand people had visited 



