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on information being rendered ; and that if the offer is not 

 satisfactory, the holder is at liberty to reject it. In the same 

 connection we learn that an order has been issued to the na- 

 val officers of the German government instructing them to j^ay 

 some attention to such scientific subjects, particularly an- 

 thropological, as may come within their notice, and that the 

 facts and collections thus secured may be transmitted to any 

 scientific body in Germany. 18 A, JVbvember 9, 1872, 605. 



NEAV COERESPOXDIIS^G MEMBERS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



SCIENCES OF PARIS. 



At a recent election held by the Academy of Sciences of 

 Paris for three correspondents in the section of zoology, Pro- 

 fessor Steenstrup, of Copenhagen, Professor Dana, of New 

 Haven, and Dr. William B. Carpenter, of London, were chos- 

 en. 4 D, August^ 1873, 159. 



HONORS TO AMERICAN SCIENTISTS. 



Among the many instances in which American scientists 

 have received appreciative honors from Europeans, perhaps 

 none is more remarkable than the recent election, by the 

 Royal Society of London, of four Americans to its list of 

 foreign associates. This honor, which is perhaps the most 

 distinguished that is known in the scientific world, has fallen 

 simultaneously to Professor Xewcomb, of Washington Observ- 

 atory ; Professor Newton, of Yale College ; Mr. Kutherford, 

 of New York ; and Professor Young, of Dartmouth College. 

 It has been happily said that " we have here a remarkable 

 quartet of astronomers, each distinguished in an entirely dif- 

 ferent department of research an encouraging symptom of 

 the healthy condition of science in America." 



AMERICAN AND FOREIGN TECHNICAL SCHOOLS. 



An admirinoj notice is Q;iven bv the editor of the Chemical 

 N'eios of the reports of two technical schools namely, the 

 Poyal Rhenish Westphalian Polytechnic School at Aix-la- 

 Chapelle, and the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hobo- 

 ken. Both are equally prominent as to the scale upon which 

 they are carried on, although the first is conducted directly 

 under the authority of the Prussian government, with a staff 

 of forty teachers and four hundred students, and the other 



