568 



SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. IV. No. 94. 



an energetic worker for spreading scientific 

 knowledge. In the evening the Physical and 

 Mathematical Society held a special commem- 

 oration meeting before a distinguished gather- 

 ing of visitors of both sexes. 



The following is an official list of men of sci- 

 ence who are expected to attend as delegates 

 the sesquicentennial celebration of Princeton 

 College : 



Henri Moissan, Member of the French Academy of 

 Sciences and professor of chemistry in the University 

 of Paris. 



Felix Klein, professor of mathematics in the Uni- 

 versity of Gottingen. 



Joseph John Thomson, Cavendish professor of Nat- 

 ural philosophy in the University of Cambridge. 



A. A. W. Hubrecht, professor of zoology in the 

 University of Utrecht, Holland. 



Edvpard Baynall Poulton, Hope professor of zoology 

 in the University of Oxford. 



Wilhelm Dorpfeld, First Secretary of the German 

 Archaeological Institute, Athens, Greece. 



Sir J. William Dawson, emeritus professor of ge- 

 ology in McGill University, Montreal, Canada. 



J. "Willard Gibbs, professor of mathematical physics 

 in Yale University. 



George Lincoln Goodale, Fisher professor of Nat- 

 ural History and director of the Botanic Garden in 

 Harvard University. 



George William Hill, President of the American 

 Mathematical Society. 



Herman von Hilprecht, Curator of the Babylonian 

 antiquities in the University of Pennsylvania. 



S. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution. 



Joseph LeConte, President of the American Geo- 

 logical Society and professor of geology and natural 

 history in the University of California. 



John W. Mallet, professor of chemistry in the 

 University of Virginia. 



Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell, Philadelphia. 



Simon Nevrcomb, editor of the Nautical Almanac 

 and professor in Johns Hopkins University. 



Henry A. Eowland, professor of chemistry and di- 

 rector of the physical laboratory in Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



Members of the Biological Section of the New 

 York Academy of Science have subscribed $250 

 to the Huxley Memorial Fund. 



The Council of the New York Academy have 

 extended an invitation to Prof. Henri Moissan, 

 the distinguished French chemist, who represents 



the University of Paris at the Princeton sesqui- 

 centennial, to lecture before the Academy and 

 the other scientific societies of New York. 



At the meeting of the New York Academy 

 upon Monday evening, October 5th, the num- 

 ber of honorary members was increased to 43 

 by the election of Prof Felix Klein, of Got- 

 tingen ; Prof. J. J. Thompson, of Cambridge, 

 and Prof. Henri Moissan, of the University of 

 Paris. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia has conferred the Hayden Memorial 

 Geological award for 1896 on Prof Giovanni 

 Capellini, of the University of Bologna. 



Mr. E. Gerrard, who, for more than fifty 

 years, has been an attendant in the British Mu- 

 seum, has retired. 



With the October number Science Progress 

 becomes a quarterly, instead of a monthly, as 

 hitherto. The journal, conducted by Mr. 

 Henry C. Burdett and edited by Mr. J. Bret- 

 land Farmer, with the cooperation of an able 

 editorial committee, was founded two and a-half 

 years ago, and has maintained a uniformly high 

 standard of scientific excellence. 



A NEW medical monthly journal is to be 

 started shortly in Edinburgh. The prospectus 

 has not yet been issued, but it is understood 

 that the journal is to represent and be owned 

 by the Scottish medical profession. 



Sir George M. Humphry, professor of sur- 

 gery and formerly professor of anatomy at Cam- 

 bridge University, died on September 24th. 



The death is announced of Mrs. Darwin, the 

 widow of Charles Darwin. 



Mr. Henry D. Van Nostrand, a New York 

 business man, died on October 9th. He had 

 made contributions to conchology and leaves a 

 collection of shells of great value. 



Natural Science states that G. A. Baer, of 

 Paris, has gone to Peru to investigate the in- 

 sect fauna. 



Dr. R. DeC. Ward, of Harvard University,, 

 has exhibited in the museum of the University 

 a collection of about seventy photographs which 

 he has taken to show the damage done by the 

 St. Louis tornado. May 27, 1896, with special 

 reference to its scientific aspects. 



