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Medicine, on Saturday, November 26, at 8 :30 



P.M. 



On November lY, Dr. H. W. Wiley ad- 

 dressed The New York Academy of Medicine, 

 on ' The Influence of Preservatives in Foods 

 on the Public Health ' ; on November 18, the 

 College of the City of New York, on 'The 

 Attitude of the Consumers towards Purity of 

 Poods ' ; on November 22, The National 

 Union, a fraternal insurance organization at 

 Detroit, Mich., on ' Pood-Quantity and 

 Quality.' 



At the Eoyal Institution, London, a Christ- 

 mas course of lectures, adapted to a juvenile 

 audience, will be delivered by Mr. Henry 

 Cunyngham, O.B., on ' Ancient and Modern 

 Methods of Measuring Time ' (experimentally 

 illustrated). The dates of the lectures are: 

 December 27, 29 and 31 and January 3, 5 

 and 7. 



The British Academy commemorated the 

 bicentenary of the death of Locke, on October 

 28. Papers by Professor Campbell Fraser, on 

 ' Locke as a Factor in Modern Thought,' and 

 by Sir Frederick Pollock, on ' Locke's Theory 

 of the State,' wete read by the secretary in 

 the absence of the authors. 



Dr. Thomas Messingee Deown, president of 

 Lehigh University and previously professor of 

 chemistry at Lafayette College and the Massa- 

 chiisetts Institute of Technology, died on No- 

 vember 16 at the age of sixty-two years. . 



Me. Frank McClean, F.R.S., a well-known 

 British engineer and astronomer, died on No- 

 vember 8, at the age of sixty-six years. 



The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 has been awarded six prizes for its exliibit at 

 the St. Louis Exposition. The awards are as 

 follows : Grand prize for general exhibit, gold 

 medal for mining engineering exhibit, silver 

 medal for special exhibit of drawing, silver 

 medal for special exhibit of photography, stu- 

 dents' work, etc., and a bronze medal for a 

 special exhibit of transparencies. 



Columbia University has been awarded 

 prizes at the St. Louis Exposition as follows : 

 Grand prizes to Oolmnbia University, for its 

 general exhibit, and to President Butler for 

 twenty educational monographs entitled ' Edu- 



cation in the United States.' Gold medals to 

 the Department of Botany, for its special ex- 

 hibit; to the Departments of Mining and 

 Metallurgy, for their special exhibits; to 

 Teachers College, for its special exhibit; to 

 Professor J. McKeen Cattell, for his mono- 

 graph on Scientific Societies and Associations ; 

 and to Professor Edward Delavan Perry, for 

 his monograph on The American University. 

 Bronze medals to the Department of Indo- 

 Iranian Languages for its special exhibit. 



Hobart College has been awarded a gold 

 medal for its astronomical exliibit at the 

 World's Fair. The distinguishing feature of 

 the astrononaical exhibit was a photographic 

 collection of the cometary discoveries, now 

 twenty-four in number, made by Professor 

 Brooks. 



The New York Evening Post states that the 

 Peabody Museum, of Yale University, has re- 

 ceived a collection of Indian relics from 

 Christopher Wren, of Plymouth, Pa. The 

 collection includes Indian pestles, scrapers and 

 other utensils. Professor Schuchert, the new 

 head of the museum, is planning an extensive 

 relabeling and reclassification of the objects in 

 the museum by which, for one thing, the verte- 

 brate fossils will be grouped together, and, as 

 far as possible, arranged topographically. 



The Free Museum of Science and Art of 

 the University of Pennsylvania has received a 

 gift of several rare collections of North 

 American Indian relics from Messrs. John 

 Wanamaker and Thomas Donaldson. 



The Eoyal Institution, London, has received 

 a gift of £750 from Ludwig Mond and a be- 

 quest of £100 under the will of Miss Harriet 

 J. Moore. 



An American Forest Congress, under the 

 auspices of the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion, will meet in Washington, January 2 to 6, 

 1905, under the presidency of James Wilson, 

 secretary of agriculture. The sessions of 

 the congress will be held in the National Rifles 

 Armory. On the afternoon of January 5, 

 President Roosevelt and other prominent men 

 will address a special meeting in the Lafayette 

 Theater. The subjects to be considered at 

 the congress are: (1) Relation of the Public 

 Forest Lands to Irrigation; (2) Relation of 



