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taken in connection with the skull. In Dr. Hepburn's instrument a graduated 

 bar has been arranged to present zero at its centre, from which the figures 

 proceed in duplicate in opposite directions. Opposite the centre of the 

 graduated bar a straight pair of callipers has been introduced. Dr. Hepburn 

 stated that, so far as he was aware, this was the only form of callipers to which 

 the principle of a third limb had been applied. At the same meeting Professor 

 Sir William Turner gave communications on the Craniology of the People of 

 the Empire of India, the Hill Tribes of the North-East Frontier and the People 

 of Burma, and on Decorated and Sculptured Skulls from New Guinea. 



At the annual general meeting of the Marine Biological Association, held in 

 the rooms of the Royal Society on June 28, the president, Prof. E. Bay 

 Lankester, in the chair, it was noted that seventeen naturalists and eleven 

 students had worked in the laboratory during the past year. 



The Science Section of the Women's International Congress was held in 

 the Westminster Town Hall on June 29, and Mrs. Ayrton occupied the chair. 

 Astronomy was represented by Mile. Klumpke from the Paris Observatory ; 

 geology by Miss Raisin, of Bedford College ; chemistry by Miss Dorothy 

 Marshall, of Girton ; bacteriology by Mrs. Percy Frankland ; and biology by 

 Miss Ethel Sargant. 



The forty-eighth meeting of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science will be held at Columbus, Ohio, from the 21st to the 26th of 

 August, under the presidency of Prof. Edward Orton. Ten societies in 

 affiliation with the Association will meet at the same time. 



The fourth international congress of Psychology will be held at Paris from 

 the 20th to 25th August 1900, under the presidency of Prof. Th. Ribot. Prof. 

 Ch. Richet will be vice-president, and Pierre Janet general secretary. 



It is a cause for much gratification that the Government has conditionally 

 promised £45,000 for the Antarctic expedition. This still leaves much to be 

 raised, since the best authorities declare the minimum necessary to be £100,000. 

 The Queensland Parliament is to be asked for £1000. 



The Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases sends out their newly appointed 

 lecturer, Major Ross, to the West African Coast to investigate malaria and other 

 diseases. 



The New Mexico Biological Station in charge of Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell is 

 being conducted this summer at Las Vegas. Geological, anthropological, and 

 botanical, as well as zoological, work is being carried on. 



Col. W. S. Brackett, of Peoria, 111., has organised an expedition of twelve 

 mountaineers to explore the geological features of the almost unknown region 

 between Buffalo Hump, in Idaho county, and the Nez Pierce Pass, in the Bitter 

 Root range. 



The United States Fish Commission is about to send out an expedition on 

 the "Albatross," in charge of Prof. Agassiz, to explore portions of the Pacific 

 Ocean. Some of the islands to be visited are the Marshall, Society, Friendly, 

 Fiji, and Gilbert groups. It is expected that the trip will require eight months. 

 The party will leave San Francisco in August. 



There are already four polar expeditions under way, or almost ready to 

 start, and to these must soon be added that of Capt. Bernier, a Frenchman. 

 His course will be toward Franz Josef Land, for the part lying to the east of 

 Cape Mary Harmsworth. After pushing on as far north as possible, he will 

 disembark with all the provisions, dogs, reindeer, sledges, etc. He intends 

 to pass the winter at Petermann's Land, and at the first opportune moment 

 to make a dash for the pole. 



Prof. W. A. Setchell, of the University of California, and some other botanists 

 have gone on an expedition to study the flora of the Aleutian Islands. 



