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C. Arthur, Purdue University, J.afayette, 

 Ind.; Dr. W. J. Beal, Agricultural College, 

 Mich.; Professor F. M. Webster, University 

 of Illinois, Ui'bana, 111. 



The following eminent foreign physiolo- 

 gists have been elected honorary members of 

 the American Physiological Society: Th. W. 

 Engelmann, professor of physiology in the 

 University of Berlin; A. Dastre, professor 

 of physiology at the Sorbonne, Paris; J. 

 N. Langley, professor of physiology, Cam- 

 bridge University; C. S. Sherrington, pro- 

 fessor of physiology. University of Liverpool; 

 Fr. Ilofmeister, professor of physiological 

 chemistry at the University of Strasburg; J. 

 P. Pawlow, director of the Physiological Labo- 

 ratory at the Imperial Institute for Experi- 

 mental Medicine, St. Petersburg. 



M. L. Troost, honorary professor of chem- 

 istry at the University of Paris, is this year 

 president of the Academy of Sciences in suc- 

 cession to if. E. L. Mascart, professor of 

 physics at the College de France. 



At the recent annual meeting of the Torrey 

 Botanical Club Judge Addison Brown re- 

 signed the presidency after fifteen years of 

 service. Dr. PL IT. Rusby, of the College of 

 Pharmacy, was elected as his successor. 



A c.vBLEGR.^M to the New York Sun states 

 that Ambassador Choate on February 10 at- 

 tended the annual meeting of the Royal As- 

 tronomical Society to receive the society's 

 gold medal on behalf of Lewis Boss, director 

 of tlic Dudley Observatory at Albany, N. Y. 

 Professor Herbert Turner, who presided, paid 

 a tribute to Professor Boss. He added that 

 at present a feature of the world's astronom- 

 ical research was the steady work done in the 

 United States. It was a pleasure to the so- 

 ciety for the third time in five years to recog- 

 nize this work. Mr. Choate suitably acknowl- 

 edged the gift on behalf of the recipient. 



It is said that Professor Francis G. Pea- 

 body, Plummer professor of christian morals, 

 has been selected by the University of Berlin 

 to he Harvard's first lecturer under the ar- 

 rangement recently entered into between Har- 

 vard and Berlin to exchange professors. 



Mk. Robert T. Hill, accompanied by Dr. 

 E. O. Hovey, of the American Museum of 

 iSTatural History, and a corps of assistants, 

 lias left upon an expedition for the purpose of 

 studying the geography and geologj- of the 

 Western Sierra Madre of Mexico. The party 

 expects to do valuable reconnaissance work 

 in this interesting field in continuance of the 

 investigations upon the mountains and deserts 

 of the Southern Cordilleras, which Mr. Hill 

 carried on for many years while associated 

 with the Geological Survey, and of Professor 

 Hovey's studies of volanic phenomena. The 

 expedition is fully equipped for topographic, 

 photographic and geologic work. It is 

 financed by an anonymous Xew York cap- 

 italist. 



Mr. Walter II. Gilbert, chief clerk in the 

 president's office of Columbia University, has 

 been appointed assistant secretary of the Car- 

 negie Institution. 



Dr. W. M. Wheeler, curator of inverte- 

 brate zoology at the American Museum of 

 Natural History, will give, at Columbia Uni- 

 versity, during March, a series of lectvires on 

 the social insects — wasps, l ees and ants. 



Sir William Tihselton-Dyer, director of 

 the Royal Botanic Gardens, at Kew, took 

 the chair at the opening lecture of the year, 

 delivered, at the West India Committee- 

 rooms, Loudon, Oil January 25, by Mr. 

 W. G. Freeman, superintendent of the 

 Colonial Economic Collections at the Imperial 

 Institute, on ' The West Indian Fruit In- 

 dustry.' 



We learn from I'he British Medical Journal 

 that the Danish government has issued a 

 stamp bearing the head of the late Professor 

 Finsen with the object of placing within 

 reach of the poorer classes a means of sub- 

 scribing to the national nionunieut hy which 

 it is proposed to commemorate the work of 

 the Danish investigator. On the occasion of 

 the Christmas and New Year holidays the 

 Danish postmaster-general also issued four 

 million illustrated postcards. The profits on 

 tlie sale of these postcards are to form the 

 basis of a fund for the erection of a sanato- 

 rium for indigent consumptives. 



