February 13, 1903.J 



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Dr. T. S. Clouston has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Royal College of Physicians, Edin- 

 burgh. 



The Eoyal Meteorological Society held its 

 annual meeting on January 21, when Mr. 

 W. H. Dines, the president, made an address 

 entitled ' The Method of Kite-Flying from a 

 Steam Vessel, and Meteorological Observa- 

 tions obtained thereby off the West Coast of 

 Scotland.' The society now has 666 fellows. 

 Captain D. Wilson-Barker was elected presi- 

 dent for the ensuing year. 



Sir Michael Foster has reconsidered his in- 

 tention to resign his seat as representative of 

 London University in the House of Commons. 

 He proposed to resign, because he did not wish 

 to continue to vote with the unionist and 

 conservative party, but he received assurances 

 from graduates which lead him to retain his 

 seat. 



The prize of $200, annually given by Dr. 

 Frederick Peterson for the best original essay 

 on the etiology, pathology and treatment of 

 epilepsy, was awarded this year to Dr. Julius 

 Donath, of Budapest, Hungary, for his paper 

 on ' The Presence of Cholin in Epilepsy and 

 its Significance in the Production of the Con- 

 vulsive Attack.' 



The American Museum of Natural History 

 has sent Dr. E. O. Hovey to the Lesser An- 

 tilles again to supplement the studies which 

 he made last summer on Martinique and St. 

 Vincent. Dr. Hovey left New York by the 

 steamer Carihtee, of the Quebec line, on Feb- 

 ruary 4, and will remain in the Windward and 

 Leeward Islands two months or more. After 

 studying the changes which have taken place 

 on Martinique and St. Vincent as a result 

 of the great eruptions which have occurred 

 since last July, he will visit all the other im- 

 portant volcanic islands of the chain to photo- 

 graph their craters, solfataras and boiling 

 lakes, with the object of making his final re- 

 port upon the eruptions of 1902 in the West 

 Indies comprehend the entire series of Car- 

 ibbean volcanoes. He will make collections 

 of volcanic rocks and other materials for' the 



The Danish government is about to send 

 a commission to the Danish West Indies to 

 investigate their condition. Professor Ehlers, 

 of Copenhagen, will accompany the commis- 

 sion to investigate the diseases prevalent on 

 the islands. 



Two members of Baron Toll's polar expedi- 

 tion. Lieutenant Matissen, commander of the 

 yacht Zaria, and Lieutenant Kolchak, have 

 just arrived in St. Petersburg with nine men 

 of the Zaria's crew after an absence of two 

 and a half years. 



Professor Herbert Osborn, of the Ohio 

 State University, gave an illustrated lecture 

 on entomology before the Biological Club of 

 DePauw University at Greencastle, Indiana, 

 on the evening of January 28. 



Sir William Broadbent will give the third 

 Hughlings Jackson Lecture before the Neuro- 

 logical Society of London during the present 

 year. 



A meeting in memory of the late John 

 Wesley Powell will be held under the auspices 

 of the Academy and affiliated scientific so- 

 cieties of Washington, at the Columbian Uni- 

 versity, on the evening of February 16, be- 

 ginning at 8 :15 o'clock. On this occasion the 

 following addresses will be given : 



' Powell as a Soldier,' by Hon. D. B. Henderson. 



' Powell as an Explorer,' by Mr. Chas. R. Van 

 Hise. 



' Powell as a Geologist,' by Mr. G. K. Gilbert. 



' Powell as an Ethnologist,' by Mr. W J McGee. 



' Powell as a Man,' by Mr. S. P. Langley. 



The sum of $1500 has been collected to 

 erect in the Hunterian Museum of the Univer- 

 sity of Glasgow a memorial of the late Pro- 

 fessor John Young. He had been since 1866 

 keeper of the museum and professor of natural 

 history and lecturer on geology in the univer- 

 sity. 



A COMMITTEE has been formed in Germany 

 to erect a memorial at Munich to Professor 

 Pettenkofer in recognition of his important 

 contributions to sanitation and hygiene. 



Sir George Gabriel Stokes, the eminent 

 mathematician, died on February 1, in his 

 eighty-fourth year. Born in Ireland, he was 

 educated at Cambridge, where he was senior 



