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[N. S. Vol. XVII. No. 430. 



Professor Kooh has been elected a foreign 

 associate to the Paris Academy of Sciences 

 in succession to the late Eudolf Virchow. 



Sir David Gill, astronomer royal at the 

 Cape, is to direct an expedition to complete 

 the scientific survey of Rhodesia. 



Dr. Hugh M. Smith, the newly appointed 

 deputy commissioner of fish and fisheries, 

 has left Washington for Japan, where he will 

 make a series of investigations into the fish- 

 eries with reference to saving the terrapin 

 industry of the United States. 



Dr. L. a. Bauer returned to Washington 

 from Porto Eico on March 16. A series of 

 magnetic observations was successfully carried 

 out on the Coast Survey steamer Blake on 

 her trip from Baltimore to Porto Eico; a 

 temporary magnetic observatory was put in 

 operation on Vieques Island, to the east of 

 Porto Eico and on the homeward trip via 

 Havana, magnetic observations were obtained 

 at two stations in Santo Domingo and at four 

 in Cuba. 



Dr. a. E. Ortmann, now of Princeton Uni- 

 versity, has accepted the position of curator 

 of invertebrate zoology at the Carnegie Mu- 

 seum, Pittsburgh. He will assume the duties 

 of his office on July 1, and asks that there- 

 after all correspondence be addressed accord- 

 ingly. 



At a meeting of the American Geographical 

 Society in New York on March 17, the Cullum 

 gold medal was awarded to the Duke of the 

 Abruzzi in recognition of his services to geog- 

 raphy by his ascent of Mount St. Elias in 

 1 897, and his Arctic explorations in the region 

 of Pranz Josef Land in 1899-1900. The Duke 

 of the Abruzzi is the sixth explorer to be thus 

 honored by the society, the previous recipients 

 of the medal having been Commander Peary, 

 Dr. Nansen, Sir John Murray, Dr. T. C. 

 Mendenhall and Dr. A. Donaldson Smith. 



The University of Halle has conferred a 

 gold medal on Professor J. P. Pawlow, of St. 

 Petersburg, for his research on digestion. 



As we have reported a gold medal was pre- 

 sented to Professor von Esmareh, the eminent 

 surgeon, on the occasion of his recent birth- 



day. Medical journals state that it is now 

 proposed to give a bronze replica of the medal 

 to persons or societies that have distinguished 

 themselves in the first aid or Samaritan move- 

 ment, as it is called in Germany. The first 

 medal was presented to Prince Henry of 

 Prussia, February 14. 



The Medical Club of Philadelphia wiU give 

 a reception to Dr. William Osier, of the Johns 

 Hopkins Medical School, at the Hotel Bel- 

 levue on March 27. 



Professor Ira N. Hollis, who holds the 

 chair of engineering of Harvard University, 

 has been elected president of the Boston So- 

 ciety of Civil Engineers. 



Professor E. Mazelle has been appointed 

 director of the Astronomical-meteorological 

 Observatory at Triest. 



Nature states that Dr. J. W. Gregory, 

 F.E.S., professor of geology in the University 

 of Melbourne, has met with an accident, neces- 

 sitating an operation under chloroform. He 

 was conducting scientific investigations in 

 Tasmania at the time, and considerable 

 anxiety has been felt concerning him. The 

 latest news is, however, reassuring. 



Dr. George F. Barker, emeritus professor 

 of physics at the University of Pennsylvania, 

 lectured before the Chemical Club of Co- 

 lumbia University on March 19, his subject 

 being ' Eadium.' 



Sir Egbert Ball began a course of three 

 lectures at the Eoyal Institution on March 

 17, his subject being ' Great Problems in 

 Astronomy.' Friday evening discourses are 

 announced on the 20th by Professor E. A. 

 Schaf er on the ' Paths of Volition,' on the 

 27th by Professor Herdman on the ' Pearl 

 Fisheries of Ceylon,' and on April 3 by Lord 

 Eayleigh on ' Drops and Surface Tension.' 



It is proposed in Vienna to erect a monu- 

 ment to the African explorer. Dr. Holub, who 

 died last year. 



A committee representing Cambridge Uni- 

 versity and the Eoyal Society has been formed 

 to secure a memorial of the late Sir George 

 Gabriel Stokes. 



