Dkoembee 30, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



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form with the Bulletin of the Central Bureau 

 of the International Council, is divided into 

 three series, dealing respectively with fisheries, 

 with hydrography and with plankton. Of the 

 fisheries series one memoir is now published, 

 viz., C. G. Joh. Petersen, on the larval and 

 post-larval stages of the long rough dab and 

 the genus Pleuronectes (with two plates) ; of 

 the hydrographic series three memoirs, Martin 

 Ejiudsen, on the organization of the Danish 

 hydrographic researches, H. J. Hansen, ex- 

 perimental determination of the relation be- 

 tween the freezing point of 'sea-water and its 

 specific gravity at 0° C, Niels Bjerrum, on 

 the determination of chlorine in sea-water 

 and examination of the accuracy with which 

 Knudsen's pipette measures a volume of sea- 

 water; and of the plankton series two me- 

 moirs, Ove Paulsen, plankton investigations in 

 the waters round Iceland, C. H. Ostenfeld, on 

 two new marine species of Heliozoa occurring 

 in the plankton of the North Sea and the 

 Skager Rak. The memoirs are of interest as 

 being amongst the first fruits of the interna- 

 tional scheme of cooperative research. They 

 are, however, all short memoirs, dealing with 

 what may be considered as side issues of the 

 main investigations, the reports upon which 

 must be looked for at a later date. The 

 Danish commission, which is appointed by the 

 Danish Board of Agriculture, consists of Pro- 

 fessor C. G. Joh. Petersen (chairman), C. P. 

 Drechsel, C. IT. Ostenfeld and Martin Knud- 

 sen (secretary). 



Nature states that a list of awards to ex- 

 hibitors from Great Britain and Ireland at the 

 St. Louis International Exhibition has been 

 received from the secretary of the Royal Com- 

 mission appointed for the exhibition. The 

 number of grand prizes gained by Great 

 Britain is 121, while 238 gold medals, 162 

 silver medals, and 132 bronze medals have 

 been awarded to British exhibitors, making 

 a total of 653. Among these awards are the 

 following : — ^Department of Liberal Arts : 

 photography, grand prize, Sir "W. de W. 

 Abney, K.C.B., F.R.S. ; the Royal Observatory, 

 Greenwich; the Royal Photographic Society; 

 the Solar Physics Observatory; and Sir Ben- 

 jamin Stone; gold medal, the Geological 



Photographs Committee of the British Asso- 

 ciation; the Cretan Exploration Fund; and 

 the Survey of India. Maps and apparatus 

 for geography, grand prize. Board of Agri- 

 culture and Fisheries; Ordnance Survey of 

 Great Britain and Ireland; Royal Geograph- 

 ical Society; Admiralty (Hydrographical De- 

 partment) ; the Survey of India ; Palestine Ex- 

 ploration Fund. Chemical and pharmaceut- 

 ical arts, grand prize, low temperature research 

 exhibit of the British Royal Commission; Sir 

 William Ramsay, KC.B., F.R.S.; gold medal. 

 Dr. Ludwig Mond, F.R.S. ; the Owens College; 

 Royal College of Science, London. Awards 

 to collaborators, gold medal. Professor James 

 Dewar, F.R.S. (low temperature research ex- 

 hibit) ; Mr. T. Wilton and Dr. A. R. Garrick. 

 Various applications of electricity: awards to 

 collaborators, grand prize, Lord Kelvin (for 

 important contributions to electrical engineer- 

 ing) ; gold medal. Professor Hugh Langbourne 

 Callendar, F.R.S., Mr. W.'du Bois Duddell. 

 Theory of agriculture: grand prize, the 

 Rothamsted Experimental Station (Lawes 

 Agricultural Trust) ; gold medal. Board of 

 Agriculture and Fisheries ; Royal Agricultural 

 Society. Department of Horticulture: appli- 

 ances and methods of pomology, grand prize. 

 Board of Agriculture and Fisheries; Royal 

 Horticultural Society; the British Royal Com- 

 mission ; gold medal. Dr. Henry. Department 

 of Forestry: appliances and processes used in 

 forestry, gold medal. Forest Department, 

 India ; silver medal, the Royal Scottish Arbori- 

 cultural Society. Department of Mines and 

 Metallurgy: ores and minerals, grand prize, 

 Home Ofiice (Mining Department) ; Depart- 

 ment of. Agriculture and Technical Instruc- 

 tion for Ireland. Geological maps and plans 

 of mines, grand prize. Geological Survey of 

 India. Mining literature, grand prize, the 

 Iron and Steel Institute; the Geological Sur- 

 vey of India; gold medal, the Institution of 

 Mining Engineers. Fishing equipment and 

 products : grand prize. Marine Biological Asso- 

 ciation of the United Kingdom, for an exhibit 

 prepared at their Plymouth laboratory illus- 

 trating the life-history and the food of fishes, 

 and a gold medal for publications. Depart- 

 ment of Anthropology: ethnography, grand 



