June 1, 1900.] 



SCIENCE. 



877 



by the Eoyal Society for election into the So- 

 ciety : George James Burch, lecturer at Uni- 

 versity College Reading ; T. W. Edgeworth 

 David, professor of geology in the University of 

 Sydney ; John Bretland Farmer, professor of 

 botany, Royal College of Science, London ; 

 Leonard Hill, lecturer on physiology, London 

 Hospital Medical College ; John Home, senior 

 geologist of the Geological Survey of Scotland; 

 Joseph Jackson Lister, demonstrator of com- 

 parative anatomy in the University of Cam- 

 bridge ; James Gordon MacGregor, professor of 

 physics, Dalhousie College, Halifax, N. S.; 

 Patrick Manson, physician and medical ad- 

 viser to the Colonial Office ; Thomas Muir, 

 superintendent-general of education in Cape 

 Colony ; Arthur Alcock Rambaut, Radcliffe 

 Observer, late astronomer royal of Ireland ; 

 William James Sell, senior demonstrator of 

 chemistry. University of Cambridge ; W. Bald- 

 win Spencer, professor of biology in the Mel- 

 bourne University, and James Walker, pro- 

 fessor of chemistry, University College, Dundee. 



The Craggs Research Scholarship of £300 a 

 year has been awarded to Dr. G. L. Low, M.A., 

 M.B., CM., of the London School of Tropical 

 Medicine. 



M. CoRNU and M. Darboux Jean have been 

 nominated as candidates for election to the 

 permanent secretaryship of the Paris Academy 

 of Sciences. 



An informal reception will be given to Dr. 

 H. S. Pritchett, president- elect of the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, by the Technol- 

 ogy Club, on June 5th. 



Mr. Otto H. Tittmann, assistant superin- 

 tendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, will 

 go to Alaska, where hewill trace the boundary 

 line established by the modus vivendi of October, 

 1899, between the British government and the 

 United States. He will be absent for about two 

 months. 



President Oilman and Professor Paul 

 Haupt will represent the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity at the celebration connected with the 

 500th anniversary of the University of Cracow 

 on June 7th. Cambridge University will be 

 represented by Dr. Alexander Hill and Mr. C. 

 H. Monroe. 



Professor Harris, of the department of 

 geology, Cornell University, will take a class 

 with the steam launch the Orthoceras to Lake 

 Champlaiu for geological work. 



Dr. Albert B. Prescott, dean of the phar- 

 maceutical department of the University of 

 Michigan, was elected president of the Amer- 

 ican Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties at 

 its first meeting held in Washington, May 11th. 



SiGNOR Marconi left Southampton for New 

 York on May 26th. It is said that he will con- 

 duct extensive experiments on wireless teleg- 

 raphy in this country. 



Jonas Oilman Clark, the founder of Clark 

 University at Worcester, Mass., died on May 

 23d, at the age of eighty-five years. Mr. Clark 

 had no children and it is hoped that by his will 

 Clark University will be adequately endowed. 



Gardiner S. Williams, emeritus professor 

 of the science and art of teaching at Cornell 

 University, died on May 19th, at the age of 

 seventy-two years. 



The death is announced of Dr. Edmund 

 Atkinson, at the age of sixty-nine years. He 

 was associated, as assistant to the late Sir 

 Edward Frankland, with the early days of the 

 chemical laboratory of Owens College, Manches- 

 ter. Afterwards he was for many years profes- 

 sor of experimental science at the Royal Mili- 

 tary College, Sandhurst, and at the Staff Col- 

 lege. 



Dr. a. Clatjs, who recently resigned, on ac- 

 count of ill health, from the chair of chemistry, 

 in the University of Freiburg i.B., died on May 

 7th, aged 60 years. 



We must also record the death at Ealing, 

 England, of Brigade-Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colo- 

 nel William Center. Lieut. Colonel Center 

 joined the Indian Medical Department in 1865, 

 and from 1871 served in the Punjaub as chem- 

 ical examiner and professor in the Lahore Med- 

 ical School. In 1882 he was statistical ofiicer 

 in the sanitary department of the Government 

 of India, and afterwards received the appoint- 

 ment of civil surgeon, Lahore, and superin- 

 tendent of the lunatic asylum. From 1888 un- 

 til his retirement in 1893 he held one of the 

 chairs at Lahore Medical College. 



