December 6, 1901.] 



SCIENCE. 



901 



To all this must be added the influence of 

 his personality. His thorough scholarship and 

 his great modesty, his unwavering truthfulness 

 and sound judgment, with his genuine defer- 

 ence for the opinions of others, his dignity of 

 character and kindness of heart, and his man- 

 liness united with his gentleness, all conspired 

 to make him a great intellectual and moral 

 force, a noble example of high thinking and of 

 simple life, throughout all branches of the 

 University and wherever he was known. 



Speaking for themselves and for the bodies 

 which they represent, the members of the 

 Council desire to enter on the records of the 

 Council this minute, expressing their apprecia- 

 tion of the great merit of their colleague and 

 their sense of the great loss which they indi- 

 vidually, and the University as a whole, have 

 sustained in the death of Professor Richmond 

 Mayo Smith. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Section H (Anthropology) of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science will 

 hold its winter meeting at the Field Columbian 

 Museum, Chicago, on Tuesday and Wednesday, 

 December 31 and January 1, 1901-2. Members 

 of the section who wish to present papers will 

 please inform the Secretary, Mr. George Grant 

 MacCurdy, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 

 Hotel del Prado, Midway Plaisance, will be the 

 headquarters of the Section. 



The completion of fifty years since M. Ber- 

 thelot began the teaching of chemistry at the 

 College de France was celebrated on November 

 24. Addresses were made by scientific and 

 public men, and a gold medallion was presented 

 by President Loubet. 



Arrangements have been made to present 

 the eminent French surgeon, M. Odilon-Marc 

 Lannelongue, with a gold medal in celebration 

 of his scientific jubilee. 



The Royal Society's medals will this year be 

 awarded as follows : The Copley Medal to Pro- 

 fessor J. Willard Gibbs, Yale University, For. 

 Mem. R.S., for his contributions to mathe- 

 matical physics ; a Royal Medal to Professor 

 William Edward Ayrton, F.R.S., for his con- 

 tributions to electrical science ; a Royal Medal 

 to Dr. William Thomas Blanford, F.R.S., for 



his work in connection with the geographical 

 distribution of animals ; the Davy Medal to 

 Professor George Downing Liveing, F.R.S., for 

 his contributions to spectroscopy ; and the 

 Sylvester Medal to Professor Henri Poincare, 

 For. Mem. R.S., for his contributions to mathe- 

 matical science. 



In celebi'ation of the hundred and fifteenth 

 anniversary of its foundation, the Gottingen 

 Academy of Sciences has made the following 

 elections : Honorary members : Professors Abbe 

 (Jena) and Neumayer (Hamburg) ; non resi- 

 dent members : W. Waldeyer (Berlin), Gaston 

 Darboux (Paris), W. Zittel (Munich) and J. 

 Wislicenus (Leipzig) ; corresponding members : 

 Aurelius Voss (Wiirzburg), Hugo Seeliger (Mu- 

 nich), Max Planck (Berlin), Karl Runge (Han- 

 over), Arthur Schuster (Manchester), Swante 

 Arrhenius (Stockholm), Giovanni Ciamician 

 (Bologna), Emil Fischer (Berlin), Wilhelm Ost- 

 wald (Leipzig), Walther Spring (Liege), Her- 

 mann Minkowski (Zurich), Charles Barrois 

 (Lille), Lazarus Fletcher (London), Michel Levy 

 (Paris), Victor Uhlig (Vienna), Friedrich v. 

 Recklinghausen (Strassburg), Karl Chun (Leip- 

 zig), Giov. Batt. Grassi (Rome), Herbert Lud- 

 wig (Bonn), Edmond Perrier (Paris). 



Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe has been appointed 

 visiting neurologist to the New York Hospital, 

 the position having been made vacant by the 

 resignation of Dr. Frederick Peterson, recently 

 appointed Commissioner in Lunacy. 



Dr. Tarleton H. Bean has been recom- 

 mended by the Fish and Fisheries Committee 

 of the St. Louis Exposition as chief of that 

 department. 



The lectureship in connection with the Cal- 

 ifornia Philosophical Union for the current year 

 has been offered to, and accepted by, Professor 

 R. M. Wenley, of the University of Michigan. 



Dr. Charles Herty, adjunct professor in 

 chemistry at the University of Georgia, has re- 

 signed in order to accept a position in the United 

 States Department of Agriculture. 



Dr. Nicholas Senn, professor of surgery in 

 the Rush Medical College of the University of 

 Chicago, has returned home from a tour of the 

 world, which included a trip across Siberia, via 

 the new Russian railroad. 



