April 7, 1905.] 



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come a source of income in the near future. 

 Work has not been suspended on account 

 of lack of funds and much has been ac- 

 complished toward the instrumental equip- 

 ment during the year past. The Keeler 

 Memorial Telescope of 30 inch aperture is 

 now ready to be set up, and the large (Porter) 

 spectroheliograph is almost completed. The 

 30 inch objective is well under way, and other 

 instruments will be installed during the year 

 under the directorate of Dr. Schlesinger. 



OwiNO to the appointment of Dr. C. H. 

 Wind, director of the Dutch Meteorological 

 Institute, to a professorship in the University 

 of Utrecht, Dr. E. Van Everdingen has been 

 made acting director of the institiite. 



TiiE Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg 

 has awarded its Lomonsoff prize to Professor 

 N. A. Menschutkin for his researches in theo- 

 retical chemistry and its IvanofE prize to Pro- 

 fessor P. N". LebedefF, of Moscow, for his work 

 on light pressure. 



The French Societe d'encouragement pour 

 I'industrie nationale has awarded the Lavoisier 

 medal to M. Tleroult in recognition of his elec- 

 trometallurgical researches. 



The Leopoldo-Carolinische Akademie of 

 Halle has awarded the gold Cothenius medal 

 to Professor E. von Leyden, of Berlin, for his 

 services to scientific medicine. 



Aberdeen University will confer the Doc- 

 torate of Laws on Mr. J. T. Merz, author of 

 ' European Thought.' 



The thirteenth ' James Forrest ' lecture of 

 the British Institution of Civil Engineers will 

 be delivered by Colonel R. E. B. Crompton on 

 April 10, on 'Unsolved Problems in Electrical 

 Engineering.' 



Professor Richard Andree, the ethnologist 

 and geographer, long editor of Globus, has 

 celebrated his seventieth birthday, in Munich. 



Professor Francis E. Lloyd, Teachers Col- 

 lege, Columbia University, has received a 

 grant of $500 from the Carnegie Institution 

 to aid him in continuing his studies on 

 stomatal action and transpiration in desert 

 plants. He will spend three months at the 

 Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tucson, Ariz., 

 for this purpose. 



Dr. Alfred Ernst, associate professor of 

 botany' at Zurich, has been given the Swiss 

 subvention of $1,000 for botanical studies at 

 Buitenzorg. 



A MEMORUL tablet for the late Dr. N. S. 

 Davis was presented by the senior medical 

 class of the Northwestern University Medical 

 School, on March 24, in Davis Hall. 



We regret to record the death of Dr. Em- 

 merich Meissl, section chief in the Department 

 of Agriculture at Vienna; of Di*. Richard 

 Sadebach, director of the Botanical Museum at 

 Hamburg, and of Father Timoteo Bertelli, the 

 Italian geophysicist. 



There will be on May 3 and 4 a civil serv- 

 ice examination for topographic draftsman in 

 the Panama Canal work, at salaries of from 

 $900 to $1,500. 



To secure promptness in the delivery of the 

 reference cards issued by the Concilium Bib- 

 liographicum of Zurich, Dr. H. H. Field has 

 placed a stock series in the American ^luseum 

 of Natural History. Any worker in biology, 

 who does not receive the cards directly from 

 Zurich, by writing to the museum will receive 

 by return mail cards bearing upon such minor 

 subjects as he may indicate, at the same terms 

 as though the delivery were made from Zurich, 

 and with an obvious saving of considerable 

 time. Communications bearing upon this 

 matter should be addressed to the American 

 Museum of Natural History, Department of 

 Books and Publications. 



Oxford convocation has passed a decree au- 

 thorizing the contribution by annual instal- 

 ments of a sum not exceeding £1,000 towards 

 the expense of printing that portion of the 

 British Section of the International Astro- 

 graphic Catalogue, which has been carried out 

 at the University Observatory, the Treasury, 

 on the representations of the Royal Society, 

 contributing the other moiety. 



Mr. Alexander Fry has bequeathed his ento- 

 mological collection to the British Museum of 

 Natural History. 



Nature states that the collection of birds' 

 eggs possessed by the British (Natural His- 

 tory) Museum has been largely augmented by 



