Members and Correspondants of the Académie des Sciences, Paris

Abstract

IN an obituary notice of the late Sir George Greenhill, published in NATURE of Feb. 26, it is stated that he was “a corresponding member of the Paris Academy of Sciences.” Sir George was not a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences. He was a ‘Correspondant’ of that Academy pour la section de mécanique, elected in 1921. Similarly, it is stated in the same issue in the obituary notice of the American paleontologist Walcott, that that distinguished American was “a corresponding member” of the Academy of Sciences of Paris. He was not, but was elected by that Académie as ‘Correspondant’ in the section of mineralogy in 1918. In 1919 he vacated that place on being elected one of the twelve ‘membres associés étrangers’ of the Academy.