1897] NEWS 285 



The Brazilian Government has decided to offer two prizes of $110,000 each 

 to the discoverer of a bacillus of yellow fever and its precise characters, and to 

 the investigator who shall determine the most efficacious means of dealing with 

 the disease. The Medical Institute of Rio de Janeiro, the Pasteur Institute of 

 Paris, and the Hygienic Institute of Berlin are conjointly to make the award. 

 Dr Sanarelli is likely to be recipient of the first prize. 



Dr H. H. Field's Concilium Bibliographicum is again showing promising 

 activity. We have received a parcel of slips relating to the contents of Natural 

 Science. Dr Field is, we are glad to say, restored to health. 



A bronze statue was unveiled at Crevalcore, near Bologna, on Sept. 8, to 

 Marcello Malpighi, the famous anatomist and microscopist. Dr Vallardi promises 

 a volume " Malpighi e l'opera sua " as a memorial of the event. 



The University of California, having $4,000,000 promised or received, has 

 advertised for plans, the competition for which is international. 



Science states that Peoria, Illinois, is to have a University on the death of Mr 

 Washington Corrington of that city, who is now eighty-five years of age, and 

 will leave a sum of over $1,000,000 for the new foundation. 



Various donors have subscribed $100,000 to Hope College, Holland, Mich. 

 The Laman Missouri Educational Association has received a gift of $10,000 from 

 .Mr D. A. Beamer. 



The Indiana Academy of Science is now receiving State aid in the printing 

 and publication of its Proceedings. It now holds much the same relation to the 

 State that the National Academy of Sciences bears with respect to the Congress 

 of the United States. 



A bill for providing for a geological survey of the State of West Virginia 

 was passed by the legislature last session. The commissioners will be the 

 governor, treasurer, and president of the West Virginia University, the president 

 of the State Board of Agriculture, and the director of the West Virginia Agri- 

 cultural Exjjerimeut Station, who will serve without compensation, except out- 

 of-pocket expenses. They will appoint a geologist of repute and such assistants 

 as may be necessary. The survey is to examine the geological formation of the 

 State, with especial reference to economics ; soils and adaptability to particular 

 crops ; forests ; physical features with reference to occupations, industrial de- 

 velopment, and prosperity of the people ; and to make geological and economic 

 maps, and special reports on the geology and resources. 



The American Association for the Advancement of Science will meet next 

 year — its fiftieth anniversary — at Boston, under the presidency of Prof. F. W. 

 Putnam. The Vice-Presidents for the sections are as follows : — Geology, H. L. 

 Fairchild of Rochester ; Zoology, A. S. Packard of Providence ; Botany, W. G. 

 Farlow of Cambridge ; Anthropology, J. McKeen Cattell of New York City. 

 M v L. O. Howard of Washington was elected Permanent Secretary. A con- 

 siderable number of papers have already been entered, a full list of which will 

 be found in the American Journal of Science for September. 



Apart from the President's Address, the addresses of the Presidents of the 

 Section, especially interesting to the readers of this Journal, are those of 

 Dr G. M. Dawson, Prof. Miall, Dr Keltie, Sir Win. Turner, Prof. Michael 

 Foster, and Dr Marshall Ward. Dr Dawson dealt with the Ancient Rocks of 

 North America, tracing the history of the discovery, differentiation, and clas- 

 sification of the Palaeozoic formations. Prof. Miall protested that we study 

 animals too much as dead things, and are content, many of us, to name and 

 arrange them, according to our own notions of their likeness or unlikeness, and 

 to record their distribution. Dr Keltie gave a sketch of recent progress in 



