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the Association and the nine societies affiliated 

 ■with it will hold their regular sessions on Tues- 

 day, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The 

 general committee will meet on Thursday even- 

 ing for the election of officers and agreement on 

 time and place for the next meeting. 



Two of the prizes created by the wall of Al- 

 fred Noble will be awarded to Dr. Niels R, 

 Finsen, of Denmark, for discovering the light 

 treatment for lupus, and to Professor I. P. 

 Pavlov, the Russian physiologist, for his re- 

 searches in nutrition. 



Nature quotes from a London daily the state- 

 ment that Professors Haeckel, Conrad and 

 Fraas, of Jena, Halle and Stuttgart Universi- 

 ties respectively, announce that the sum of 

 1,500Z. has been placed at their disposal as a 

 prize for the best work on the question, "What 

 do we learn from the principles of the theory 

 of heredity in reference to the inner political 

 development and legislation of States ?' ' Manu- 

 scripts must be in German and sent not later 

 than December 1, 1902, to Professor E. Haeckel, 

 Jena. 



The University of Glasgow has appointed 

 John Ferguson, professor of chemistry, F. O. 

 Bowers, professor of botany, andR. M. Wenley, 

 formerly of the University of Glasgow and now 

 professor of philosophy at the University of 

 Michigan, as representatives at the bi-centen- 

 nial celebrations of Yale University. 



E. R. Buckley, assistant superintendent of 

 the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History 

 Society and instructor of commercial geography 

 in the University of Wisconsin, has been ap- 

 pointed State geologist of Missouri. 



The Baly Gold Medal of Royal College of 

 Physicians of London for special distinction in 

 the science of physiology has been awarded to 

 Dr. F. W. Pavy, F.R.S. 



Pkofessor a. C. Haddon expects to retire 

 from the chair of zoology at the Royal College 

 of Science, Ireland, in order to devote himself 

 more exclusively to anthropological work. 



Dr. Ernst Mach, professor of philosophy in 

 the University of Vienna, has been compelled 

 by ill health to retire from the active duties of 

 his professorship. 



Professor E, Haeckel, of Jena, has made 

 public the announcement that owing to the 

 state of his health, his advanced age and pres- 

 sure of work, he will not in future make any 

 public addresses or attend any scientific con- 

 gresses. 



Professor Ed. Suess, the eminent geologist, 

 gave on July 13 a formal lecture to his present 

 and former students on the occasion of his re- 

 tirement from the chair of geology. He has 

 reached his seventieth year and his forty-fourth 

 year as a university teacher. A scholarship 

 has been established in the University at Vienna 

 in his honor. 



In honor of the sixtieth birthday of Dr. A. 

 Kirchhof, of the University of Halle, and at the 

 same time of his twenty -fifth year of service to 

 the university, a fund amounting to 12,500 

 Marks has been collected for the furtherance of 

 geographical research. 



The Saxon Academy of Sciences at Leipzig 

 has elected to membership Dr. Arthur von Oet- 

 tingen, honorary professor of physics at Leipzig, 

 and Dr. E. Ernst Abbe, honorary professor of 

 meteorology and astronomy at Halle. 



Professor A. R. Crook, who holds the chair 

 of mineralogy and petrography at Northwestern 

 University, is at present engaged in explora- 

 tions in Mexico. He is intending to ascend 

 Mount Orizaba. 



Dr. Charles E. Brown, of the Milwaukee 

 Public Museum, is continuing his studies, begun 

 several years ago, in the department of anthro- 

 pology of the Field Columbian Museum, Chi- 

 cago. 



The town of Amalfi has arranged to have this 

 month a celebration in honor of Flavio Gioja, 

 who lived in that city six hundred years ago, 

 and is supposed to have invented or improved 

 the compass. 



A MEDALLION of Charles Hermite, the great 

 mathematician, who died this year, will be 

 placed in the Court of Honor of the Sorbonne. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that a portrait of Dr. Thomas Young, from the 

 painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, has been 

 placed in the Victoria Hall, Milverton, Somer- 

 set, with the following insci'iption : ' ' Thomas 



