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of Techology will place, as a memorial, a bust 

 of the late President Walker in the corridor of 

 the Rogers Building. The memorial will be 

 designed by Mr. D. C. French. 



At the regular January meeting of the Re- 

 gents of the Smithsonian Institution, Mr. Charles 

 D. Walcott was, as already noted, appointed 

 Assistant Secretary of the Institution, and 

 placed in charge of the U. S. National Museum, 

 his official designation being 'Acting Assistant 

 Secretary in Charge of the National Museum.' 

 At an adjourned meeting of the Regents, Mr. 

 Richard Rathbun was appointed Assistant Secre- 

 tary ' with duties connected with the bureaus 

 of the institution other than the National 

 Museum,' and was placed in charge of the office 

 and exchanges. By these appointments the 

 position and duties of the late Dr. Goode are 

 divided between two officials, of whom the last 

 appointed performs certain additional duties. 



It is stated in Nature that Lady Prestwich is 

 collecting material for a biography of the late 

 Sir Joseph Prestwich, and will be grateful to 

 friends if they will forward to her any letters 

 they possess, addressing to Shoreham, near 

 Sevenoaks. They will be at once copied and 

 carefully returned. 



One of the silver medals of the Veitch me- 

 morial fund of London has been awarded to 

 Professor L. H. Bailey for distinguished ser- 

 vices to horticulture. 



The Chanute prize of $100 for the best mono- 

 graph on kites has been awarded by the Aero- 

 nautical Society to Professor C. F. Marvin, of 

 the United States "Weather Bureau. 



The Royal Society of New South Wales has 

 awarded its bronze medal and a money prize of 

 £25 to J. Milne Curran for a paper on the oc- 

 currence of precious stones in New South 

 Wales, with a description of the deposits in 

 which they are found. 



The University of Cambridge will confer the 

 degree of LL. D. on Dr. Fridjof Nansen. 



Dr. Julian Apaeicio has been appointed 

 Director of the Meteorological and Astronomi- 

 cal Observatory of San Salvador in the room of 

 the late Dr. Don Alberto Sanchez. 



Professor J. Franz, astronomer at the Kon- 



igsberg Observatory, has been appointed Direc- 

 tor of the Observatory at Breslau and professor 

 at the University in the place of Professor T. 

 Galle, who has retired. 



Dr. F. Foli has retired from the Directorship 

 of the Royal Observatory, Brussels. 



M. Jean Peerin has been nominated by the 

 Paris Academy of Sciences to the Joule Scholar- 

 ship of the Royal Society, which is awarded al- 

 ternately in England and in other countries. 



We regret to record the deaths of Professor 

 W. Wallace, professor of moral philosophy in 

 the University of Oxford, who was killed on 

 February 19th by a fall from a bicycle, and of 

 Professor Charles Tomlinson, F. R. S., a writer 

 and lecturer on scientific subjects, who died at 

 Highgate, England, on February 15th. 



Professor A von Kolliker, professor of 

 anatomy in the University of Wiirzburg, will 

 celebrate his eightieth birthday and the fifteenth 

 anniversary of the commencement of his career 

 of a teacher on July 6th. 



Among the lectures given at the Royal Institu- 

 tion, London, during the present month were the 

 following : February 11th, Dr. J. W. Gregory, 

 of the British Museum (Natural History), the 

 first of a course of three lectures on ' The 

 Problems of Arctic Geology.' Friday evening 

 discourse, February 12th, by Professor John 

 Milne, F. R. S., on ' Recent Advances in Seis- 

 mology.' February 19th, Mr. G. Johnstone 

 Stoney, on ' The approaching return of the 

 great swarm of November Meteors. ' 



Professor J. J. Stevenson, President of the 

 New York Academy of Sciences, will give a 

 public lecture before the Academy at Columbia 

 University this evening. The subject is ' A Talk 

 on Coal,' and the lecture will be illustrated. 



The department of paleontology of the 

 University of Kansas will send to the coming 

 international exposition at Brussels copies of 

 large restorations of seven extinct animals, 

 based upon the material in the museum and 

 prepared by or under the direction of Dr. Wil- 

 liston. 



We learn from Nature that a German ant- 

 arctic meteorological station will be established 



