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thropy and in affairs made addresses. 

 Men eminent in scientific research 

 were not so well represented as they 

 should have been, but the names of 

 Professor Bailey, of Cornell, Professor 

 Wesbrook, of Minnesota, and Dr. W J 

 McGee were on the program. 



The American Chemical Society em- 

 phasized its national character by 

 meeting in San Francisco. The Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement 

 of Science had also planned a visit to 

 the Pacific coast and to Hawaii, but 

 transportation across the sea could not 

 be arranged. The chemists had a spe- 

 cial train from Chicago, which carried 

 over a hundred to California, where 

 arrangements were made for elaborate 

 entertainments and excursions and a 

 scientific program under the presidency 

 of Professor Bancroft, of Cornell. 



The International Geological Con- 

 gress met this year at Stockholm, the 

 International Zoological Congress at 

 ±>uda Pesth, the first International 

 Congress of Entomology and the Inter- 

 national Congress of Anatomists at 

 Brussels, and the International Physi- 

 ological Congress at Vienna. These 

 meetings were attended by scientific 

 men from all parts of the world, in- 

 cluding large numbers from this coun- 

 try. The Zoological Congress met last 

 time in Boston and the Geological 

 Congress will hold its next meeting in 

 Canada. America and American sci- 

 entific men are taking an increasing 

 share in these international congresses, 

 which within the past few years have 



assumed an important part in the ad- 

 vancement of science. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 

 We regret to record the deaths of 

 Dr. Charles Anthony Goessmann, since 

 1869 professor of chemistry at the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 known for his important contributions 

 to agricultural chemistry; of William 

 Earl Dodge Scott, curator of ornithol- 

 ogy at Princeton University, and of 

 Dr. Paul Mantegazza, the eminent 

 Italian anthropologist. 



The national memorial to Grover 

 Cleveland is to take the form of a 

 tower to be erected at Princeton as 

 part of the buildings of the graduate 

 school, with which Mr. Cleveland was 

 closely identified during the last years 

 of his life. The tower will be about 

 150 feet high and 40 feet square. It 

 will cost $100,000, of which sum $75,- 

 000 have already been given. 



Professor Joseph A. Holmes, of 

 the U. S. Geological Survey, formerly 

 professor of geology and natural his- 

 tory at the University of North Caro- 

 lina and state geologist, has been ap- 

 pointed by President Taft director of 

 the newly-established Bureau of Mines. 

 — Among the representatives appointed 

 to attend the opening of the Mexican 

 National University on September 22 

 are Professor F. W. Putnam and Ro- 

 land B. Dixon, from Harvard Univer- 

 sity, and Professor Franz Boas, from 

 Columbia University. 



