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of age, was elected a member of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences fifty years ago. This 

 jubilee was celebrated by the Academy on 

 January 24th, a speech being made by the 

 President and a gold medal being presented to 

 M. Faye. In the evening a dinner was given 

 to M. Faye, at which he was presented with the 

 insignia of the Grand Cross of the Legion of 

 Honor. 



The Matteucci Medal of the Italian Society 

 of Sciences has been awarded to Professor 

 Rowland, in recognition of his work in spec- 

 trometry. 



The London Society of Engineers has 

 awarded the following premiums for papers 

 read during the year: The President's gold 

 medal to Mr. George Thudichum for his paper 

 on ' The Ultimate Purification of Sewage ; ' 

 the ' Bessemer Premium ' to Mr. D. B. Butler 

 for his paper on ' The Effect of Admixtures of 

 Kentish Ragstone, etc., upon Portland Ce- 

 ment ; ' the ' Rawlinson Premium ' to Mr. 

 W. G. Wales for his paper on ' Discharging 

 and Storing Grain,' and a ' Society's Premium' 

 to Mr. M. A. Pollard- Urquhart for his paper on 

 ' Examples of Railway Bridges for Branch 

 Lines.' 



The lectures at the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity by Sir Archibald Geikie on the principles of 

 geology, which we have already announced, 

 will be given daily, beginning Wednesday, April 

 21st. In addition to the six lectures which 

 compose this course, strictly intended for geol- 

 ogists. Sir Archibald Geikie will give one public 

 lecture during his stay in Baltimore. 



Dr. Alexander C. Abbott, professor of 

 hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania, has 

 been appointed chief of the bacteriological divi- 

 sion of the Philadelphia bureau of health. 



M. FiLHOL has been elected a member of the 

 section of anatomy and zoology of the Paris 

 Academy, in the room of the late M. Sappey. 



Mr. Middlbton Wake, the Sandars reader 

 in bibliography at Cambridge, will deliver four 

 lectures on 'The Invention of Printing,' with 

 special reference to book illustration. 



The Berlin Academy of Sciences has made a 

 grant of 600 marks to Professor H. E. Ziegler, 



of Freiburg, for his studies in the mechanics of 

 development. 



According to the British Medical Journal the 

 subscriptions in France and other countries for 

 a statue to Pasteur now amount to more than 

 £10,000. M. Paul Dubois has been selected as 

 the sculptor, and the site for the statue will 

 probably be the space between the Rue de 

 Medicis and the Luxembourg Gardens. More 

 than £20,000 has already been spent in the 

 erection of statues of Pasteur in various parts 

 of France. 



The city of Mexico has given the name of 

 Pasteur to the gardens situated in front of the 

 National School of Medicine in that city. 



The following resolutions were adopted by 

 the staff of the United States National Museum, 

 February 6th: 



"Whereas, Major Charles E. Bendire, of 

 the United States Army, Honorary Curator of 

 the Department of Oology in the United States 

 National Museum, has been removed by death, 



^^ Resolved: That in Major Bendire's death 

 the National Museum suffers the loss of an 

 officer who took the keenest interest in his 

 special branch of work; whose constant aim 

 was to improve and develop the department 

 under his charge; and to whose unfailing in- 

 terest the present admirable condition of the 

 oological collection is due. 



^'■Resolved: That in his death the National 

 Museum has lost a valued member of its scien- 

 tific staff whose place it will be difiicult to fill, 

 and American ornithology has been robbed of 

 one of its most earnest workers. ' ' 



Professor Galileo Ferearis died at Rome 

 on February 7th, aged fifty years. He was 

 principal and professor of applied physics of 

 the Museo Industriale of Turin and a member 

 of the Italian Senate. He made important con- 

 tributions to electrical science, especially to the 

 phenomena of alternating currents. 



We regret to record the deaths of Professor 

 Siitherberg, of Stockholm, the pioneer in the 

 Swedish system of curative gymnastics, aged 84; 

 of Dr. David Kirnaldy, an engineer, on Jan- 

 uary 25th, at the age of 76, and of Dr. Her- 

 mann von Nordlinger, formerly professor of 



