May 19, 1905.] 



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gion between the equator and lat. 25° jST., and 

 between the meridian of Greenwich and long. 

 40° W. A new edition of these charts has 

 now been issued (' Observations oceanograph- 

 iques et meteorologiques dans la Region du 

 Courant de Guinee,' 1855-1900. (1) Texte 

 et Tableaux, pp. iv + 116, (2) Planches, VIII. 

 Utrecht, 1904). R. DeC. Ward. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Sir Patrick Manson has been invited to 

 give the Lane lectures at the Cooper Medical 

 College, California, this year. He will lec- 

 ture on some aspect of tropical diseases. 



Professor J. N. Langley, of Cambridge, 

 will give one of the general lectures at the 

 meeting of the Association of German Scien- 

 tific Men and Physicians, which opens at 

 Meran on September 24. His subject will be 

 ' Recent Researches on the Nervous System.' 



Lord Rayleigh is about to retire from the 

 professorship of natural philosophy at the 

 Royal Institution, which he has held for 

 eighteen years. He will be made honorary 

 professor. Lord Rayleigh has given twenty- 

 three Friday evening discourses and twenty- 

 one courses of afternoon lectures at the insti- 

 tution. 



Lord Lister celebrated his seventy-eighth 

 birthday on April 5. 



Professor Eugene W. Hilgard, of the de- 

 partment of agriculture of the University of 

 California, has been granted leave of absence 

 for next year. Professor Hilgard, who is 

 seventy-two years of age and has held his 

 chair in California for thirty-one years, is 

 privileged to retire with two thirds salary, 

 according to the statutes of the university. 



A MARBLE portrait bust is to be installed at 

 Brussels in honor of Dr. Beco, secretary-gen- 

 eral of the Belgian Department of Public 

 Health. 



A gold medal in honor of Professor Pozzi, 

 the eminent French surgeon, by the sculptor 

 Chaplain, is to be presented to him by his 

 colleagues and pupils. 



The students of Jefferson Medical College 

 will at the approaching commencement pre- 



sent to Dr. Forbes a life-size portrait of him- 

 self. Dr. Forbes has taught anatomy in 

 Philadelphia for forty-nine years. 



The health of Lord Kelvin is much im- 

 proved and he was expecting to be able to 

 leave London shortly for a change of air. 



Professor H. E. Gregory, who has been ill 

 with inflammatory rheumatism, has much im- 

 proved, and expects to resume his university 

 duties in the course of several weeks. 



Sir Richard Douglas Powell has been 

 elected president of the Royal College of 

 Physicians in succession to Sir William 

 Church. 



Mr. John Gavey, C.B., engineer-in-chief 

 to the Post Office, has been nominated for 

 election as president of the British Institution 

 of Electrical Engineers for 1905-6. Dr. R. 

 T. Glazebrook, F.R.S., director of the National 

 Physical Laboratory, and Mr. J. E. Kings- 

 bury, of the Western Electric Company, have 

 been nominated for the office of vice-president. 



Professor Thomas M. Gardner has re- 

 signed his chair in the faculty of mechanical 

 engineering at Cornell University. 



Mr. E. T. Newton, F.R.S., paleontologist 

 to the British Geological Survey, retired on 

 May 4, after forty years of service. He is 

 succeeded by Dr. F. L. Kitchin. 



We learn from Nature that the Baly medal, 

 given every alternate year on the recommenda- 

 tion of the president and council of the Royal 

 College of Physicians of London for distin- 

 guished work in the science of physiology, 

 especially during the two years immediately 

 preceding the award, has been awarded to 

 Professor Pavlov, of St. Petersburg. The 

 Bisset Hawkins gold medal for 1905, given 

 triennially for work deserving special recogni- 

 tion as advancing sanitary science or pro- 

 moting public health, has been awarded to Sir 

 Patrick Manson, K.C.M.G. 



The Jacksonian prize of the Royal College 

 of Surgeons has been awarded to Mr. H. J. 

 Patterson for his essay on ' The Diagnosis and 

 Treatment of such Affections of the Stomach 

 as are Amenable to Direct Surgical Inter- 

 ference.' 



