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[N. S. Vol. XIV. No. 345. 



The Royal Society has elected Professor 

 Franz von Leydig, of Bonn, a foreign member. 



The University of Basle has conferred the 

 honorary degree of Ph.D. on Dr. Eobert Bill- 

 wilier, director of the Meteorological Institute 

 of Bonn, and on Professor Alfred Wolfer, 

 director of the Astronomical Observatory at 

 Zurich. 



We learn from Nature that the French So- 

 cieted' Encouragement pour I'Industrie nation- 

 ale announces the following awards of prizes : 

 Grand gold medal to the Chamber of Commerce 

 of Lyons for the organization of the commer- 

 cial mission to China ; 2,000 francs to M. Hor- 

 sin-Deon for his work on beet root sugar ; 500 

 francs to M. R. Fosse for his works on /?-dinaph- 

 thol, and the same amount to M. Marcel Guich- 

 ard for his works on molybdenum ; 1,000 francs 

 to M. Triboudeau for his study of the Pas-de- 

 Calais, and 1,000 francs each to MM. Faure and 

 Thenard for memoirs on the utilization of waters 

 in agriculture. 



The Council of the Royal Society has awarded 

 the Mackinnon s.tudentship to Mr. J. J. R, 

 Macleod, M.B., demonstrator of physiology in 

 the London Hospital Medical College, for the 

 purpose of enabling him to carry out researches 

 in jDathological chemistry. The studentship is 

 founded under a bequest to the Royal Society 

 by the late Sir William Mackinnon, director 

 general of the Medical Department of the 

 Army, for the foundation and endowment of 

 prizes or scholarships for the special purpose 

 of furthering natural and physical science, and 

 of furthering original research and investiga- 

 tion in pathology. There were fourteen appli- 

 cations for the studentship which is of the 

 annual value of £150. 



Mr. H. N. Whitford has been appointed 

 collaborator in the Bureau of Forestry, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



C. E. Van Orstrand, of the Nautical Alma- 

 nac Office, has been transferred to be assistant 

 physical geologist in the U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey. 



Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania, has ap- 

 pointed Miss Myra L. Dock of Harrisburg a 

 member of the State Forestry Commission. 



Professor J. Behrens has been appointed 

 director of the agricultural experiment station 

 at Augustenberg, in Baden, and Dr. R. Meissner, 

 of Geisenheim, director of the station for grape 

 culture at Weinsberg, in Wiirtemberg. 



Mr. Harlan I. Smith, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, has returned from 

 a trip through the lower peninsula of Michigan, 

 where he made a survey of the recently dis- 

 covered ' Hauptman Earthwork,' a few miles 

 southwest of West Branch, Ogemaw County. 

 Three camp sites were also discovered along 

 Indian River in Cheboggan County. 



Dr. a. W. Niewenhuis, medical officer of 

 the Dutch colonial army, is at present in San 

 Francisco, after having spent several years in 

 scientific exploration in Borneo. 



Dr. Felipe Caldas, the Brazilian bacteri- 

 ologist, sailed on July 24, for Cuba, accom- 

 panied by Dr. Angel Bellinzaghi, his assistant. 

 They will conduct experiments with the serum 

 that Dr. Caldas discovered. 



Professor Herbert B. Adams, who was 

 connected with the department of history of the 

 Johns Hopkins University since the opening of 

 the University in 1876, has died at the age of 

 fifty-one years. 



Dr. p. Calvin Mensch, since 1894 professor 

 of the biological and chemical sciences at Ur- 

 sinus College, at Collegeville, Pa., died on July 

 30. 



Charles Mohr, Ph.D., whose death at his 

 home in Asheville, N. C. we announced last 

 week, was for many years connected with the 

 LT. S. Department of Agriculture, as special 

 agent of the Forestry Division, and with the 

 Geological Survey of Alabama, as botanist. His 

 most important works during the past ten years 

 have been : A study for the Forestry Division 

 of the long leaf pine, a monograph on which 

 was recently published by the Department of 

 Agriculture; The 'Plant Life of Alabama,' a 

 systematic account of the flowering plants and 

 ferns growing without cultivation in Alabama ; 

 and 'The Botanical Resources of Alabama,' 

 being an account of the useful and noxious 

 plants of the State. The ' Plant Life of Ala- 

 bama' was prepared under the joint auspices 



