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was celebrated on November 19. Professor 

 Kohlrauseh, of Berlin, was the president of a 

 committee that presented him with an album 

 containing the autograph photographs of lead- 

 ing physicists. 



The Vienna Academy of Sciences has re- 

 elected Professor Eduard Suess as president. 



Corresponding members of the Academy of 

 Sciences at Gottingen have been elected as 

 follows : Professors Gustav Eetzius, of Stock- 

 holm; Ernst Wilhelm Benecke, of Strasburg; 

 Paul Ehrlich, of Frankfort, and Ewald Her- 

 ring, of Leipzig. 



Professor Henry S. Graves, director of the 

 Tale School of Forestry, has been commis- 

 sioned by the Bureau of Forestry to under- 

 take inspection work in the Philippines. He 

 will also undertake commissions in India for 

 the Forestry Bureau in the Philippines. He 

 will leave New York on December 3, and re- 

 turn early in May. During the winter Pro- 

 fessor Graves's courses will be conducted by 

 Dr. Bemhard E. Fernow, formerly director of 

 the Cornell School of Forestry. 



Foreign journals state that Dr. Francisco 

 de los Cobos, a physician of Buenos Aires, is 

 in Spain as representative of the scientific 

 societies of Argentina, seeking the support of 

 the Spanish Government for the creation of 

 a Hispano-American University. 



Dr. Catto has been awarded the Craggs 

 prize of the London School of Tropical Medi- 

 cine for his discovery of a new schistosomum 

 parasite of man. 



The Middleton Goldsmith lecture of the 

 New York Pathological Society was deliv- 

 ered at the New York Academy of Medi- 

 cine, on November 30, at 8:30 o'clock, by Dr. 

 Charles Wardell Stiles, chief of the Division 

 of Zoology, Hygienic Laboratory, TJ. S. Public 

 Health and Marine-Hospital Service. The 

 subject was : ' Zoological Pitfalls for the Path- 

 ologist.' 



The first ordinary meeting of the Royal 

 Statistical Society for the present session was 

 held at the Society of Arts, on November 15, 

 when Sir Francis Sharp Powell, Bart., M.P., 

 delivered an inaugural address. 



Dr. Henry S. Conaed, for four years Har- 

 rison fellow and now instructor in botany in 

 the University of Pennsylvania, is about com- 

 pleting his monograph of the water-lilies 

 (Nymphwa) , which has occupied a large part 

 of his time sin<5e 1899. The book will be 

 published by the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington. It is expected to appear in 

 December of this year, or early in January. 



The Walsingham medal, of Cambridge 

 University, for 1903, not having been ad- 

 judged, the Special Board for Biology and 

 Geology has agreed to recommend its award 

 as an additional medal for the present year, 

 and the medal has accordingly been adjudged 

 to Mr. E. P. Gregory, B.A., fellow of St. 

 John's, and Mr. Keith Lucas, B.A., fellow of 

 Trinity. Mr. Gregory's essay was entitled 

 ' The Eeduction of Division in Plants and its 

 Significance in the Physiology of Heredity.' 

 Mr. Lucas's essay was entitled ' The Aug- 

 mentor and Depressor Effects of Tension on 

 the Activity of Skeletal Muscle.' 



Mr. W. H. Pickering, late chief of the in- 

 specting staff of the Yorkshire and Leeds Min- 

 ing Districts, has been appointed chief in- 

 spector of mines in India. 



A chapter of the Scientific Society of the 

 Sigma Xi has been organized at the Case 

 School of Applied Science, with Professor J. 

 W. Langley as president. 



The ' Harben Lectures ' of the Eoyal Insti- 

 tute of Public Health, will be given in King's 

 College, London, on Friday, November 25, 

 December 2 and 9, by Professor John Mc- 

 Fadyean, M.B., B.Sc, principal of the Eoyal 

 Veterinary College, London, on ' Glanders.' 



Professor Marshall Ward, F.E.S., has 

 been elected president, and Professor Thom- 

 son, F.E.S., Professor Liveing, F.E.S., and 

 Dr. Hobson, F.E.S., vice-presidents of the 

 Cambridge Philosophical Society. 



Henry McCalley, of the Geological Sur- 

 vey of Alabama died at Huntsville, Alabama, 

 of pneumonia on the November 20, 1904, in 

 the fifty-third year of his age. Mr. McCalley 

 was graduated from the University of Vir- 

 ginia with the degrees B.S., C.E. and M.E. in 

 18'75. From 1878 to 1885 he was assistant in 



