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istry, to be established at Stockholm by the 

 Xobel Institute. 



PiiOFESsoR E. E. Barnard, of Yerkes Ob- 

 servatory, will join Professor George E. Hale 

 at the branch of the observatory on Mt. Wil- 

 son, Cal. He will take with him the Bruce 

 10-inch photographic telescope and will spend 

 the rest of the winter and next summer in 

 making photographs of the sun. 



M. ViEiLLE has been elected a member of the 

 Paris Academy of Sciences in the Section of 

 Mechanics, and M. Dastre a member in the 

 Section of Medicine and Surgery. 



Professor Tanmann, of Gottingen, has re- 

 ceived from the German Society of Engineers 

 the sum of 5,000 Marks for experiments on 

 the melting point of alloys. 



The superintendent of government labora- 

 tories for the Philippines, Dr. Paul C. Freer, 

 formerly professor of chemistry at the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, is at present in the 

 United States on a leave of absence. 



Mr. George V. Nash and Mr. Norman 

 Taylor returned late in December to the New 

 York Botanical Garden from an exploring 

 tour around the island of Inagua in the Ba- 

 hamas. The expedition secured a valuable 

 collection of living and preserved plants, in- 

 cluding many massive specimens of the few 

 cacti native to the island. 



Dr. C. Hart Merriam, chief of the Biolog- 

 ical Survey of the Department of Agriculture, 

 lectured at Stanford University on December 

 15. He has since returned to Washington. 



Mr. Charles F. Lu.mmis, of Los Angeles, 

 Cal., lectured before the New York Society 

 of the Archeological Institute of America on 

 December 22, his subject being ' The Primitive 

 Music of the Southwest.' 



Lord Rayleigh delivered a lecture at the 

 Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, on December 

 13, on ' The Density of Gases.' 



A wixuow in the cathedral at Norwich in 

 memory of the late William Cadge, an 

 eminent surgeon of the city, was unveiled on 

 December 6, by the president of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons. 



Mr. Eugene G. Blackford, of Brooklyn, 

 a fish merchant who made many contributions 



to ichthyology and did much to promote its 

 study, died on December 28, at the age of 

 sixty-five years. 



Mr. Francis H. Nicholas, a newspaper 

 correspondent of New York City, has died in 

 Tibet, where he was making explorations. 



We regret also to record the deaths of M. 

 Bernard Renault, assistant in paleontology in 

 the Paris Museum of Natural History, at the 

 age of sixty-eight years ; of Dr. I. N. 

 Goroschankin, professor of botany at Moscow 

 at the age of sixty years ; of M. Andre Lefevre, 

 professor of ethnology at Paris School of 

 Anthropology at the age of seventy years, and 

 of Dr. Karl Koester, professor of pathology 

 at Bonn. 



Mr. Robert H. Sayre, president of the 

 Board of Trustees of Lehigh University, has 

 presented the institution with an annex to the 

 Sayre Observatory founded by him in 1860. 

 The building, designed by Professor C. L. 

 Thornburg, contains a zenith telescope, made 

 by Warner and Swasey and presented to the 

 university by Mr. Sayre. 



One of the most valuable contributions of 

 scientific material yet made to the New York 

 Botanical Garden has recently been received 

 from Sir William Dyer, director of the Royal 

 Gardens at Kew, England, consisting of many 

 thousand herbarium and museum specimens 

 of lichens, duplicates from the famous lichen 

 herbarium formed by the Rev. W. A. Leighton, 

 of Luciefelde, Shrewsbury, and presented by 

 him to the Royal Gardens in 1882. 



The British Medical Journal states that at 

 a sitting of the Paris Academic de Medecine 

 held on December 14 the names of the suc- 

 cessful candidates for the various prizes of- 

 fered for medical researches of one kind or 

 another were announced. The Audiffred prize 

 of £960 for the best work on tuberculosis was 

 not awarded, but sums varying from £60 to 

 £20 were given, by way of encouragement, to 

 Dr. Armand Delille, of Paris, for an investi- 

 gation of the part played by the poisons gen- 

 erated by Koch's bacillus in tuberculous men- 

 ingitis and tuberculosis of the nerve centers; 

 to Dr. Nattan-Laurier, of Paris, for a research 

 on mammary tuberculosis; to Dr. Pautrier, 



