1895.] Scientific News. 1045 
W. L. Bryan Ph. D. (Clarke) to be Professor of Philosophy and — 
Vice-President, University of Indiana. Dr. John A. Bergstrom to be 
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Pedagogy; E. H. Lindley to 
be Instructor in Philosophy. 
Warner Fite Ph. D. (Penna.) to be Instructor in Philosophy, Wil- 
liams College. 
J. H. Hyslop Ph. D. (Johns Hopkins) to be Professor of Logic and 
Ethics, Columbia College 
Dr. J. Allen Gilbert of Yale to be Assistant Professor of Psychology 
in the University of Iowa. 
Drs. E. B. Titchenor and J. E. Creighton have been made full Pro- 
fessors in the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell. 
Dr. Hillebrand has been made Assistant Professor of Experimental 
Psychology in the University of Vienna. 
Dr. Hugo Miinsterberg, Professor of Experimental Psychology in 
Harvard University for the past three years, has returned to Germany. 
He has not yet decided whether he will make his home permanently in 
the United States or in Germany. 
Report of the Committee Appointed by the Smithsonian 
Institution to Award the Hodgkins Fund Prizes.—The Com- 
mittee of Award for the Hodgkins prizes of the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion has completed its examination of the two hundred and eighteen 
papers submitted in competition by contestants. 
The Committee is composed of the following members 
Dr. S. P. Langley, Chairman, ex-officio; Dr. G. Brown Goode, ap- 
pointed by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Assistant 
Surgeon-General John S. Billings, by the President of the National 
Academy of Sciences ; Professor M. W. Harrington, by the President 
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 
The Foreign Advisory Committee, as first constituted, was repre- 
sented by Monsieur J. Jansen, Professor T. H. Huxley, and Professor 
von Helmholtz; and after the recent loss of the latter, Dr. W. von 
Bezold was added. After consultation with these eminent men, the 
Committee decided as follows: 
First prize, of ten thousand dollars, for a treatise embodying some 
new and important discoveries in regard to the nature or properties 
of atmospheric air, to Lord Rayleigh, of London, and Professor Wm. 
Ramsay, of the University College, London, for the discovery of 
Argon, a new element of the atmosphere. 
