Ai'ini. 14, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



The secretary reported that thirty-one ap- 

 plications for grants had been received, the 

 total amount asked for being nearly $l),UO0. 

 After a thorough discussion and extended de- 

 liberation, the board found itself obliged to 

 refuse a number of applications of high merit 

 to which it would have been very glad to 

 extend aid, had the resources of the fund per- 

 mitted. It was voted to make the following- 

 new grants : 



No. 117, $100 to Professor E. Salkowski 

 and Dr. C. Neuberg, Berlin, Germany, for an 

 experimental study of glycuronic acid. (Ap- 

 plication 966.) 



No. 118, $200 to Professor Th. Boveri, 

 Wiirzburg, Germany, for an experimental 

 study of the early development of sea urchin 

 eggs. (Application 981.) 



No. 119, $100 to Professor J. P. ^NIcMur- 

 rich, Ann Arbor, Mich., for the study of Ac- 

 tinians from the Malayan Archipelago. (Ap- 

 plication 984.) 



No. 120, $50 to Professor E. H. Archibald, 

 Syracuse, N. Y., for researches on the elec- 

 trical conductivity of solutions of organic 

 bodies in the liquefied halogen hydrides. (Ap- 

 plication 987.) 



No. 121, $200 to Professor A. Debierne, 

 Paris, France, for the isolation and study of 

 Actinium. (Application 988.) 



No. 122, $200 to Dr. Er. Nusl and J. J. 

 Eric, Prague, Austria, for perfecting an in- 

 strument for the determination of latitude 

 and time without the use of levels. (Appli- 

 cation 991.) 



No. 123, $200 to Professor E. C. Jeffi-cy, 

 Cambridge, Mass., for the study of cupres- 

 sineous conifers. (Application 998.) 



No. 124, $150 to Professor P. Bachmetjew, 

 Sofia, Bulgaria, for the study of the anabiotic 

 condition in warm-blooded animals. (Appli- 

 cation 999.) 



Charles S. Minot, 



Secretary. 



MEDALS AND AWARDS OF THE ROYAL 

 GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. 



The London Times states that with the 

 approval of the king, the council of the Koyal 

 Geographical Society has decided to award the 



two royal medals for this year to Sir Martin 

 Conway (Founder's Medal) and Captain C. 

 H. D. Ryder. RE. (Patron's Medal). 



During a long series of years Sir Martin 

 Conway has devoted himself to the exploration 

 of various mountain regions of the world — • 

 the Alps, the Himalayas and the Andes ; and, 

 further, has done useful work among the 

 islands of Spitsbergen. In a series of papers 

 and maps contributed to the society, as well 

 as in separate publications, he has made, as a 

 result of these explorations, large and valuable 

 contributions to geographical knowledge. 



Captain Ryder's claim to a Royal Medal 

 rests mainly on the important and extensive 

 work which he accomplished while acting as 

 principal survey officer on the recent Tibet 

 Mission. Not only did he execute a large 

 amount of survey work and mapping while 

 on the main expedition, but as survey officer 

 in the expedition into Western Tibet he sur- 

 veyed and mapped the Upper Brahmaputra to 

 its source, as well as the Sutlej and the Gartok 

 tributary of the Indus. He also surveyed the 

 whole of the line of mountains lying north 

 of the Himalayas, and proved that there is no 

 peak that can approach Mount Everest in 

 altitude. Before these experiences Captain 

 Ryder, in 1899-1900, carried out a careful sur- 

 vey of the province of Yunnan, the results of 

 which, comprising a map radically altering 

 those previously compiled, he contributed to 

 the society. 



This year an award is again made of the 

 Victoria Research Medal, which was instituted 

 on the death of Queen Victoria, and is be- 

 stowed as occasion may arise in recognition 

 of distinguished service to the cause of geo- 

 graphical research, as distinguished from ex- 

 ploration. The new recipient — the third to 

 receive the medal — will be Mr, J. G. Bar- 

 tholomew. During many years Mr. Bartholo- 

 mew has done much to raise the standard of 

 cartography in Great Britain. He has edited 

 and issued large atlases of England and Scot- 

 land; he has planned and issued the first vol- 

 ume of a great physical atlas which will take 

 the first place among works of its kind; he has 

 for years been collecting material for a com- 



