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of the authors, and the mottoes or pseudonyms which in four 
instances were employed. ‘To three of the papers a silver medal 
is awarded and to six a bronze medal: 
Honorable Mention with Silver Medal. . 
Pror. A. L. HERRERA and DocToR VERGARA LOPE, of the City of Mexico: 
‘‘T.a Atmosfera de las altitudes y el bienstar del hombre.” 
_ Mr. C. L. Mapspren—‘' Geo ”—Helsigor, near Copenhagen, Denmark: Thermo- 
graphical Studies. 
Mr. F. A. R. Russet, of London, Vice-President of the Royal Meteorological 
Society of Great Britain: ‘‘ The Atmosphere in Relation to Human Life and Health.” 
Honorable Mention with Bronze Medal. 
M. E. Despuraux-Dex and M. Maurice Drsos—‘‘Spes’’—of Rouen, France: 
‘‘Htudes des courents aériens continentaux et de leur utilization par des erostats 
long-courriers.” 
Doctor O. Jesse, of Berlin: ‘ Die leuchtenden Nachtwolken.” 
Doctor A. LoEwy, of Berlin: ‘‘ Untersuchungen uber die Respiration und 
Cirkulation unter verdiinnter und verdichteter Sauerstoffarmer und sauerstoff- 
reicher Luft.” . 
Mr. ALEXANDER McADIE—“ Dalgetty ”—of Washington: ‘‘The known prop- 
erties of atmospheric air considered in their relationships to research in every 
department of natural science, and the importance of a study of the atmosphere 
considered in view of these relationships; the proper direction of future research 
in connection with the imperfections of atmospheric air and the conditions of that 
knowledge with other sciences.” | 
Mr. Hiram §S. Maxim, of Kent, England: ‘‘ Natural and Artificial Flight.” 
Doctor FRANZ OPPENHEIMER and DocToR CARL OPPENHEIMER—“ E pur si 
muove ’—of Berlin, Germany: ‘Ueber atmospharische Luft, ihre Higenschaften 
und ihren Zusammenhang mit dem menschlichen Leben.” 
Honorable Mention. 
Mr. E. C. C. Dary, of University College, London: ‘‘ The decomposition of the 
two-constituents of the atmosphere by means of the passage of the electric 
spark.” 
PROFESSOR F. H. BiGELow, of Washington: “Solar and Terrestial Magnetism 
and their Relation to Meteorology.” 
Doctor J. B. Coan, of Yorkshire College, Leeds, England: ‘The Air of 
Towns.” 
Dootor F. J. B. Corpetro, U.S. N., of Washington: ‘“ Hypsometry.” 
PROFESSOR EMILE DuctaAux, of the French Institute, Paris, France: “Sur 
Vactinométrie atmosphérique et sur la constitution actinique de )’atmosphere.”’ 
PROFESSOR DOcTOR GIESELER, of Bonn, Germany: ‘ Mittlere Tagestempera- 
turen von Ponn, 1848-88.” 
Doctor Lupwié ILosvay von Nagy Inosva, Professor in the Royal Joseph 
Polytechnic School, Budapest, Hungary: ‘‘ Ueber den unmittelbar oxydirenden 
Bestandtheil der Luft.” 
Doctor A. MAGELASEN, of Christiania, Norway: “ Ueber den Zusammenhang 
und die Verwandschaft der biologischen, meteorlogischen und kosmischen 
Erscheinungen.” ; 
Doctor A. Marcuse, of the Royal Observatory, Berlin, Germany: “ Die 
atmospharische Luft.” 
PROFESSOR C. NEES, of the Polytechnic School, Copenhagen, Denmark: “ The 
use of kites and chained air-balloons for observing the velocity of winds, etc.” 
SURGEON CHARLES SMart, U.S. A., Washington: ‘‘ An Essay on the Proper- 
ties, Constitution and Impurities of Atmospheric Air, in Relation to the Promo- 
tion of Health and Longevity.” 
Doctor F, Viautt, of the Faculty of Medicine, Bordeaux, France: “ Décou- 
verte d’une nouvelle et importante propriété physiologique de l’Air atmosphérique 
(action hématogéne de lair raréfié),” 
(Signed) 8. P. Langley, G. Brown Goode, John 8. Billings, M. 
W. Harrington. August 9, 1895. 
