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for the ensuing year: Sir Benjamin Baker, 

 Sir Frederick Bramwell, Lord Halsbury, Dr. 

 W. C. Hood, Lord Lister, Mr. George Matthey, 

 Sir James Crichton Browne (treasurer) and 

 Sir Wrlliam Crookes (honorary secretary). 



The Association of American Physicians 

 has elected the following oiSeers : President, 

 Dr. Williara T. Councilman, Boston; vice- 

 president. Dr. Edward Trudeau, Saranac 

 Lake, N". Y.; recorder. Dr. Solomon Solis- 

 Cohen, Philadelphia; secretary. Dr. Henry 

 Hun, Albany; councilors, Drs. Victor C. 

 Vaughan, Ann Arbor, Mich., and George M. 

 Kober, Washington, D. C. 



The Carnegie Institution has made a grant 

 of $500 for a research assistant to Dr. M. 

 Gomberg, junior professor of chemistry in the 

 University of Michigan. Mr. Lee H. Cone, 

 who has been doing graduate work in the 

 university since September, 1902, has been 

 appointed to that position for the year 1903^. 



The British Medical Journal states that 

 Professor Zakharofi of the faculty of medi- 

 cine of the University of Warsaw, and di- 

 rector of the Veterinary School of that city, 

 is likely to fall a victim to his zeal for scien- 

 tific research. In making a necropsy of the 

 brain of a dog which had died of rabies, he 

 inflicted a slight cut on one of his fingers, to 

 which he paid no attention. About a fort- 

 night later symptoms of hydrophobia ap- 

 peared, and he was taken to the Pasteur In- 

 stitute, which is under the direction of Pro- 

 fessor Palmyski. There is said, however, to 

 be no hope of Professor Zakharoff's recovery. 



President Pritchett, of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, is to give the com- 

 mencement address at the University of Vir- 

 ginia on June 15. 



Professor Wm. T. Sedgwick, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, recently gave 

 the annual address before the alumni asso- 

 ciation of the medical department of the Uni- 

 versity of Buffalo, his subject being 'Protec- 

 tion- of the Public Health by the Filtration of 

 Municipal Water Supplies.' 



The Wild Flower Preservation Society of 

 America held a meeting under the auspices 

 of the Olivia and Caroline Phelps Stokes 



Fund for the Protection of Native Plants in 

 the Museum Building of the New York Bo- 

 tanical Garden on May 16, when Mr. Charles 

 Louis Pollard delivered an illustrated lecture 

 on 'Vanishing Wild Flowers.' 



Professor G. Eomiti, of Pisa, celebrated on 

 March 5, the twenty-fifth year of his incum- 

 bency of the chair of anatomy at Siena and 

 Pisa. He was presented with a souvenir 

 volume of the ' Archivio Italiano di Anatomia 

 ed Embriologia ' and a gold medal. 



The hundredth anniversary of the birth of 

 Liebig was celebrated on May 12 by the Uni- 

 versity of Giessen and the Technical School 

 of Darmstadt. 



The London Times states that a representa- 

 tive committee has been formed for the pur- 

 pose of raising a memorial to the late Sir 

 Henry Bessemer. The extraordinary indus- 

 trial development of the world in recent years 

 is largely due to the metallurgical process 

 which bears the name of Bessemer, and it has 

 long been felt that his life's work should be 

 suitably commemorated in the center of the 

 British empire. The objects of the memorial 

 are as follows : (1) The erection (and, if neces- 

 sary, the endowment) of metallurgical teach- 

 ing and research work in connection with 

 the University of London, equipped for the 

 testing of ores and metallurgical products by 

 modern methods and for the investigation of 

 new methods and processes. (2) The founda- 

 tion of international scholarships for post- 

 graduate courses in practical work in connec- 

 tion with proposals now under the considera- 

 tion of the board of education. The com- 

 mittee includes leading representatives of the 

 metallurgical, engineering and mining in- 

 dustries and professions, and of education 

 ■authorities. A meeting to inaugurate the 

 fund will be held at the Mansion-house on 

 June 29 next, particulars of which will be 

 published later. 



Mr. Abraham Follett Oslee, known for 

 his work in meteorology, died at Birmingham 

 on April 26, at the age of ninety-five years. 

 He had been a member of the Eoyal Society 

 since 1855. 



