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UPON the recommendation of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, the trustees of Columbia College, New York, have awarded the Barnard medal for meritorious service to science, for the five-year period ending with the year 1909, to Prof. Ernest Rutherford, F.R.S., Langworthy professor of physics and director of the physical laboratory in the University of Manchester, for meritorious service to science resulting especially from his investigations of the phenomena of radio-active materials. The medal is “of gold, nine-tenths fine, of the bullion value of not less than two hundred dollars.” Previous awards of the medal are:—1895, Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay; 1900, Prof. W. C. von Rontgen; 1905, M. Henri Becquerel.