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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XX. No. 502. 



Dr. George F. Shr.^dy, who has been editor 

 of the Medical Record since its establishment 

 thirty-eight years ago, has retired and is suc- 

 ceeded by Dr. Thomas L. Stedman. 



The Middlemore prize of the British Med- 

 ical Association for the best original work on 

 ophthalmology during the past two years has 

 been awarded to Mr. J. H. Parsons. 



The Academy of Sciences, Berlin, has made 

 a number of subsidies including 2,300 Marks 

 to Professor Adolf Engier for the continua- 

 tion of his work, ' Das Pflanzenreich ' ; 1,020 

 Marks to Dr. Emil Warburg for his investiga- 

 tion on the specific heat of gases at high tem- 

 peratures, and 1,000 Marks to Professor Walter 

 Kaufmann for investigations on electrons. 



Dr. Judson F. Clark, of the Bureau of 

 Forestry and instructor in the New York 

 State College of Forestry at the time of its 

 discontinuance, has been appointed provin- 

 cial forester of Ontario. 



Dr. Hans Battermann, astronomer at the 

 Berlin Observatory, has been made director of 

 the observatory and professor of astronomy at 

 Konigsberg. 



Captain Arthur Mostyn Field, E.N., has 

 been selected for the appointment of hydrog- 

 rapher of the British navy on the retirement 

 of Eear-Admiral Sir William J. L. Wharton, 

 KC.B., F.R.S. 



A committee has been formed in Bourg to 

 erect a monument in memory of the astron- 

 omer Jerome Lalande. 



The British Medical Journal reminds us 

 that July twentieth was the hundredth anni- 

 versary of the birth of Sir Richard Owen at 

 Lancaster, where an inscription on a house 

 in Thurnham Street records the place of his 

 birth. 



De. Franz Hilgendorf, curator in the Mu- 

 seum of Natural History of Berlin, died on 

 July 6, at the age of sixty-four years. 



By the will of the late Frances Skinner 

 Willing, of Chicago, the Mark Skinner Li- 

 brary at Manchester, Vt., will receive $40,000 

 as an endowment fund. 



There will be a civil service examination 

 on September 7, to fill a vacancy in the position 



of laboratory assistant in pharmacology in the 

 • Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of 

 Agriculture, at $750 per annum. 



Eepeesentatives of the principal South 

 American states met at Rio Janeiro from 

 June 5 to 12, to consider measures of sanitary 

 prophylaxis. 



Seventy-four members of the British Insti- 

 tution of Electrical Engineers have signified 

 their intention of attending the Electrical 

 Congress at St. Louis. Among them are the 

 president, R. J. Gray Esq., Professor John 

 Perry and Dr. R. T. Glazebrook. 



The American Neurological Association 

 will hold its next annual meeting at St. Louis, 

 on September 15, 16 and 17, 1904, under the 

 presidency of Dr. James W. Putnam, of 

 Boston. 



Nature states that arrangements have been 

 made which will make it unnecessary to close 

 the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn 

 Street, for a month in autumn as heretofore; 

 the museum will therefore remain open to 

 students and visitors daily. 



The Ziegler relief expedition arrived at 

 Vardo, Norway, on board the Frithjof, on 

 July 3, on its return from the north. Owing 

 to ice and fog it did not succeed in reaching 

 the America_, having on board -the Ziegler- 

 Fiala arctic expedition. The Frithjof will 

 sail north again as soon as possible. 



We learn from Nature that the following 

 excursions have been arranged in connection 

 with the Cambridge meeting of the British 

 Association which opens on August 17 : 



Audley End and Saffron Walden. — Audley End 

 Hoiise will be visited by permission of the Lord 

 Howard de Walden; the church and museum in 

 Saffron Walden form other items in the program. 



Brandon and Didlington Hall. — The most at- 

 tractive features of this excursion will be the flint 

 knapping industry at Brandon, Lord Amherst's 

 Egj'ptian collections, rare books and illuminated 

 MSS. at Didlington Hall. 



Cromer. — Mr. Clement Reid, F.R.S., has ar- 

 ranged an attractive itinerary for those inter- 

 ested in the geology of the Norfolk coast. 



Dylies of Cambridge. — This excursion includes 

 an inspection of the well-known Fleam Dyke and 

 Devil's Ditch, under the guidance of Professor 



