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ate of science by the University of 

 Tubingen. He has also been made an 

 honorary citizen of the cities of Con- 

 stance and Stuttgart, and has been 

 given the gold medal for art and 

 science by the King of Wittemberg. — 

 M. Bouchard has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Paris Academy of Sciences 

 to fill the vacancy caused by the 

 resignation of M. Becquerel to become 

 permanent secretary. M. Picard suc- 

 ceeds M. Bouchard in the vice-presi- 

 dency. 



The monument in honor of Robert 

 Bunsen, designed by Professor Volz, of 

 Karlsruhe, was unveiled at Heidelberg 

 on August 1. — The German emperor 

 has supported the medical and scien- 

 tific men in Berlin in objecting to the 

 form of the monument designed in 

 honor of Virchow. It is not a statue 

 of Virchow, but introduces as the chief 

 group a symbolic representation of his 

 lifework, in the form of a struggle be- 

 tween a giant and a fabulous beast, 

 while on a pedestal a medallion por- 

 trait of Virchow is placed. 



The San Jacinto Valley in Cali- 

 fornia will hereafter be known as the 

 Cleveland National Forest. It has 

 been so renamed by President Roosevelt 

 in honor of the president under whose 

 administration the first national for- 

 ests were created. In 1897, in honor 

 of Washington's one hundred and sixty- 

 nfth birthday anniversary, and upon 

 the recommendations of the National 

 Academy of Sciences, President Cleve- 

 land created thirteen national forests, 

 containing about 23,000,000 acres. The 

 San Jacinto forest was one of the orig- 

 inal thirteen so created. 



In connection with an article by Dr. 

 Philip B. Hadley on Johannes Miiller, 

 printed in the June issue of the 

 Monthly, there was reproduced a 

 portrait, which it appears was of 

 Johannes von Miiller, the Swiss histor- 

 ian. Our attention was called to this 

 error by Professor George H. Parker, 

 of Harvard University, by whose cour- 

 tesy we are able to give a portrait of 

 the great German physiologist. 



