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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



are the physicists, Principal Riieker, 

 of the University of London, and Prin- 

 cipal Lodge, of the University of Liver- 

 pool; the chemist, Professor Ramsay; 

 the engineer, Dr. Thornycroft, and a 

 number of prominent physicians. 



The Albert medal of the London So- 

 ciety of Arts has for the present year 

 been awarded to Professor Alexander 

 Graham Bell, for his invention of the 

 telephone. — The eminent astronomer, 

 Professor Giovanni Schiaparelli, has 

 been elected an associate of the French 

 Academy of Sciences, and M. Amagat 

 a member of the section of physics. — 

 The Academy of Sciences of Vienna has 

 elected Lord Rayleigh a corresponding 

 member. 



President Eliot, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, was elected president of the 

 national Educational Association at 

 the recent Minneapolis meeting. — Dr. 

 William H. Forwood has succeeded Dr. 

 George M. Sternberg as surgeon-gen- 

 eral of the army. — Professor Jkaward 

 S. Holden has accepted the appoint- 

 ment of librarian of the Military Acad- 

 emy at West Point. 



Mr. F. H. Newell, chief hydrogra- 

 pher of the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 has gone to the West to supervise sur- 

 veys in connection with the work in 

 irrigation authorized by Congress. 

 Surveying parties are in the field in 

 California, Oregon, Washington, Mon- 

 tana, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona 

 and Colorado. — The American Museum 



of Natural History, New York city, 

 has sent an expedition to eastern Colo- 

 rado to examine the unexplored por- 

 tions of the Protohippus Beds in the 

 hope of securing a complete skeleton 

 of this animal. At the same time 

 search will be made in western Ne- 

 braska for the same fossil species of 

 horse, in the locality where Professor 

 Leidy first discovered it. The expenses 

 of these expeditions are defrayed by 

 the gift of Mr. William C. Whitney.— 

 The Windward is being fitted for its 

 fifth and last trip and will soon sail 

 via Etah for Cape Sabine on Smith 

 Sound, where it is expected that Lieu- 

 tenant Peary will be found. 



In honor of the late Alpheus Hyatt 

 a memorial fund is being collected for 

 field lessons in natural history. Pro- 

 fessor Hyatt was greatly interested in 

 extending the teaching of natural his- 

 tory to the schools, and this memorial 

 appears to be especially appropriate. 

 While the fund will be administered by 

 a board of trustees at Boston, contribu- 

 tions from Professor Hyatt's former 

 pupils or friends, wherever living, will 

 be welcome. The treasurer, to whom 

 subscriptions may be sent, is Mr. Ste- 

 phen H. Williams, 2 Tremont Street, 

 Boston. — Dr. Joseph Leidy, Jr., 1319 

 Locust Street, Philadelphia, is collect- 

 ing the correspondence of the late Pro- 

 fessor Joseph Leidy for publication. 

 He would be glad to possess copies or 

 the originals of any letters of interest 

 that may be in the possession of read- 

 ers of the Popular Science Monthly. 



