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ing an address will be given by Professor W. 

 Stroud on ' Eange-Finders.' The Mayor and 

 Corporation will give another large conver- 

 sazione on Tuesday evening, and on the Wed- 

 nesday evening a concert will take place in St. 

 George's Hall with the Permanent Orchestra 

 and the Festival Choral Society, under the con- 

 ductorship of Mr. Fredk. Cowan. 



During the week there will be a textile ex- 

 hibition at the Technical College, which will il- 

 lustrate the various processes of the local indus- 

 tries, and the machinery employed can be seen in 

 motion. There will be a reception at the Col- 

 lege on Thursday afternoon, September 6th, and 

 the smoking concert in honor of the President 

 will also be given at the Technical College, 

 after Professor Gotch's lecture on Friday. 



Excursions to places of interest in the neigh- 

 borhood will be made on Saturday, the 8th, 

 and on Thursday, the 13th ; among the places 

 selected are Bolton Priory, Ripon and Foun- 

 tains Abbey, Malham, Clapham and Ingleton, 

 the Nidd Valley, Farnley Hall, Haworth, 

 Ilkley, Knaresboro' and Harrogate. In ad- 

 dition to a number of smaller guides to the 

 places to which excursions are to be made, the 

 usual guide book will be provided by the Pub- 

 lications Committee. This book will be divided 

 mainly into three sections. The first will 

 deal with the history of Bradford and the de- 

 velopment of the Bradford trade, the second 

 section with the Bradford industries and in- 

 stitutions, and the third part, which is under 

 the sectional editorship of Mr. J. E. Wilson, 

 will deal with the scientific material of the 

 locality, the flora, fauna, geology, meteorology, 

 climate and public health. There will be in 

 addition a number of pages devoted to the top- 

 ography of the district, for which Mr. J. H. 

 Hastings is responsible. 



honorary foreign member in the place of the 

 late Carl Friedrich Rammelsberg. 



Professoe Charles F. Chandler, of Co- 

 lumbia University, and Professor J. Mark Bald- 

 win, of Princeton University, have been given 

 by Oxford University its newly created D.Sc. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



On June 12th and 13th the delegates to the 

 conference on the International Catalogue of 

 Scientific Literature met in the rooms of the 

 Eoyal Society, London. 



The American Academy of Arts and Sciences 

 has elected Sir Archibald Geikie, F.R.S., an 



The degree of doctor of engineering has 

 been conferred on Mr. J. Elfreth Watkins, of 

 the U. S. National Museum, by the Stevens 

 Institute of Technology, in recognition of his 

 long and valuable studies in the history of the 

 development of railroad engineering in the 

 United States. 



At the last meeting of the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh, according to Nature, the following 

 were elected as British Honorary Fellows : Dr. 

 Edward Caird, master of Balliol College, Ox- 

 ford ; Dr. David Ferrier, professor of neuro- 

 pathology. King's College, London ; Dr. G. F. 

 Fitzgerald, professor of natural and experi- 

 mental philosophy. Trinity College, Dublin ; 

 Dr. Andrew Russell Forsyth, Sadlerian profes- 

 sor of pure mathematics in the University of 

 Cambridge ; Dr. Archibald Liversidge, profes- 

 sor of chemistry in the University of Sydney ; 

 Dr. T. E. Thorpe, principal of the Government 

 Laboratories, London ; and, as Foreign Hon- 

 orary Fellows : Dr. Arthur Auwers, secretary, 

 Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences ; Professor 

 Wilhelm His, Leipzig ; and Professor Adolf 

 Ritter von Baeyer, Munich. 



Dr. S. Gabriel has been appointed assistant 

 director in the newly built chemical laboratory 

 of the University of Berlin. 



The managers of the Royal Institution, Lon- 

 don, on the occasion of the retirement from 

 office of the honorary secretary, passed a unan- 

 imous resolution to place on permanent record 

 an expression of their.high appreciation of the 

 admirable way in which he has performed the 

 duties of that ofBce, and of his signal services 

 to the Institution generally. 



The formal opening by Lord Lister of the 

 new clinical laboratories at the Westminister 

 Hospital took place on June 12th. Among those 

 present were Sir John Wolfe Barry, Chairman 

 of the House Committee, Lord Kelvin, Dr. 

 Church, the President of the Royal College of 



