Sir Archibald Geikie,
The Eminent Zoologist, elected to the Presidency of the Royal Society.

By the will of the late Grace M. Kuhn, Harvard University receives $175,000 to endow a department of biological chemistry.—The Draper's Company will erect for Oxford University an electrical laboratory at a cost of £22,000 and will give an additional sum of £1,000 for its equipment.