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 XIV. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



ANOTHER HODGKIXS GOLD MEDAL AWARDED. 



IX March last, Secretary Langley of the Smithsonian Institution 

 appointed a Committee to consider whether any discovery had 

 been made since the award of the first Hodgkins Gold Medal in 

 1899, under the general terms of the gift, " The increase and 

 diffusion of more exact knowledge in regard to the nature and pro- 

 perties of atmospheric air in connection with the welfare of man," 

 which would render it proper that such a medal should be again 

 awarded. This Committee consisted of the following distinguished 

 men of science : — Mr. Eicbard Eathbun, Assistant Secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, Chairman ; Doctor A. Graham Bell, for 

 Electricity ; Doctor Ira Eemsen, for Chemistry ; Doctor Charles 

 D. Walcott, for Geology ; Professor E. C. Pickering, for Astronomy; 

 Doctor Theodore X. Gill, for Biology ; Professor Cleveland Abbe, 

 for Meteorology ; Mr. William H. Holmes, for Anthropology ; and 

 Mr. S. W. Stratton, for Physics. 



Owing to the absence of Mr. Eathbun, Doctor Eemsen served as 

 Chairman at a meeting of the Committee held at the Smithsonian 

 Institution in Washington, April 15th, 1902. At this meeting 

 the following resolution was unanimously adopted : — 



" That the Committee recommend to the Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution that it is desirable that one of the 

 Hodgkins Gold Medals be struck, and that it be awarded to 

 J. J. Thomson, of Cambridge, England, for his investigations 

 on the conductivity of gases, especially on the gases that 

 compose the atmospheric air." 



The finding of the Committee being approved by the Secretary, 

 steps were at once taken to have the second Hodgkins gold medal 

 struck, under the personal supervision of its designer, Monsieur J. 

 C. Chaplain, of Paris. The medal (shown in the accompanying 

 photographic illustration*) has recently been received by the 

 Institution, and has been despatched to Professor Thomson through 

 the Department of State. 



* [We regret that want of space prevents our reproducing the beautiful 

 photograph sent.] 



LANDOLT-BORNSTEIN, PHYSIKALISCH-CHEMISCHEN TABELLEN. 



We are requested by Professor Bornstein to inform our readers 

 that he and Prof. Meyerhoffer are preparing a new edition of the 

 Pliysikdlisch-diemischen Tabellen (edited by Landolt and Bornstein, 

 1883 andl894), and would like to receive from English physicists 

 and chemists any corrections, emendations, or additions, in order to 

 render the new edition more perfect. 



Professor Bornstein's address is : Wilmersdorf b. Berlin. Land- 

 hausstrs. 10. 



Professor Meyerhoffer's address is : Berlin W. Dhlandstrs. 162. 



