374 JVEIVS [NOVEMBER 



We learn from Science that Dr. R. Burckhardt, professor of palaeontology at 

 Basle, and Dr. V. Uhlig, professor of geology in the German Technical Institute 

 of Brag, have been elected members of the Academy of Sciences of Halle. 



Brofessors D. J. Cunningham and W. C M'Intosh have been appointed 

 as scientific members of a commission to incpiire into inland fisheries in Ireland. 



Ernst Ebermayer resigns his professorship of forestry in the University of 

 Miinchen. 



W. von Ahles resigns his professorship of botany in the Technical Institute 

 in Stuttgart. 



A bacteriologist is wanted for the Glamorgan County Council and Cardiff 

 Corporation, who shall also lecture on bacteriology in the University College, 

 Cardiff. The salary is <£300. Applications have to be sent before 6th 

 November to Mr. W. E. R. Allen, County Offices, Cardiff. 



During October the Swiney Lectures on Geology in connection with the 

 British Museum (Nat. Hist.) were delivered by Dr. R. H. Traquair, who chose 

 for his subject the " Bleistocene Mammalia." Since the Natural History 

 Museum is still without a lecture-theatre, the course was given at the Museum 

 of Bractical Geology. After next year, when Dr. Traquair's appointment 

 terminates, the post will be open to any doctor of medicine or science of the 

 University of Edinburgh. 



A curious thing about this lecturing at Jermyn Street is that the audience 

 is far smaller than it used to be at South Kensington. However convenient 

 Jermyn Street may be for the agriculturist in search of water, or the mining 

 speculator who wants an analysis of a new sample of ore, it is, in the opinion 

 of the Swiney lecturer, more remote from the ordinary student of natural 

 science than is South Kensington. This tells against those who wish to keep 

 all the Survey collections in their present confined quarters. 



A circular from an influential committee formed at the Dover meeting of the 

 British Association is headed with the words : " It is at least probable that the 

 closing year of the nineteenth century, in which science has played so great a 

 part, may, at Baris, during the great World's Fair — which every friend, not of 

 science only, but of humanity, trusts may not be put aside or even injured 

 through any untoward event, and which promises to be an occasion not of 

 pleasurable sight- seeing only, but also, by its International Congresses, of 

 international communing in the search for truth — witness the first select Witen- 

 agemote of the Science of the world." 



It proceeds to say that, " Following upon the hopes and counsels of Sir 

 Michael Foster's Fresidential Address and upon the reunions of the British and 

 French Associations, it is felt that the time is now ripe for some more permanent 

 organisation which should maintain, develop, and utilise the good relations thus 

 so fully initiated. It is therefore proposed to form a General and Advisory 

 Committee consisting of members of the British Association, the Association 

 Francaise, and of other representatives of Fure and Applied Science, Education, 

 Art, etc., with the object of promoting arrangements for an International 

 Meeting or Assembly in connection with the Baris Exposition of 1900." 



"It is widely felt that there is not only room but need for some organisation 

 which would bring together, for each of the leading Departments and Con- 

 gresses of the Exposition, the specialist, the educationalist, and the intelligent 

 public ; and this on all grounds, from those of personal convenience, and 

 economy of time, money, and effort, to the highest considerations of scientific 

 progress and international amity." 



Names of those willing to join the General Committee of this proposed 

 Baris International Assembly, which, we learn, has been warmly welcomed in 

 France, and has received a munificent beginning to a guarantee fund in Britain, 



