Luly, 
work is complete, of exceptional merit, and indispensable to 
political economists, statesmen and financiers. 
In chemistry the Jecker prize was given to M. Etard for his 
numerous and important discoveries in organic chemistry, among 
which may be cited his experiments upon the action of chloro- 
chromic acid on organic substances, his researches on strychnine, 
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on the ptomaines and on nicotine. 
The “ Prix Lacaze” was awarded to M. L. Cailletet for his in- 
vestigations into the liquefaction of gases. He was the first to 
show the possibility of liquefying what are called the permanent 
gases, and science owes also to him a simple apparatus with 
which these experiments can be carried on without danger. To 
be continued. 
— The French Society for the Advancement of Science, which 
will meet at Blois in September (4-11), has before it the duty of 
distributing a sum of about 4800, being the first five years accu- 
mulation of the legacy left to it in 1878, by M. Girard, to enable 
it to give rewards once in every five years to the person or per 
sons who have most contributed to advance science upon the 
question of the antiquity of man with regard to geological for- 
mations. 
_ — The number of applications for tickets for the British Asso- 
ciation meeting this year is 772, and the council have ses 
not to receive any more prior to the meeting at Montreal, when 
members and associates will be elected as usual. 
— The Council of the British Association have resolved to re- 
ceive the standing committee and fellows of the American sca 
ciation on the footing of honorary members at the Montr 
meeting. 
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PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
BiotoGcicaAL Society oF WasHINGTON, May 3.—Commumica 
tions were made by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, U.S.A., 0 
rence of a pair of free ribs on the occipital bone of $ 
mouthed black bass, Micropterus salmoides ; by Mr. Se i Dr. 
der, observations upon the muskrat, Fiber sibethicus ; an 
Theodore Gill on the system of the Squali. 
Boston Soctety oF NaturaL History.—The ann 
ual meeting 
de by the 
curator, secretary and treasurer, followed by the ee 
officers for 1884-5, and of candidates for membership. | the com- 
award of the grand Walker prize was announced, an paste 
mittee on the annual Walker prize made its repon yan 
it to Dr, Tuttle for his essay on the anatomy and interesting 
of Lunatia heros. Mr. F. W. Putnam spoke of Some america 
recent discoveries relating to the antiquity of man 1n 
