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at the University of West Virginia; of 

 Professor Franklin William Hooper, di- 

 rector of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 

 and Sciences; of Professor Albert 

 Smith Bickmore, emeritus head of the 

 department of public instruction of the 

 American Museum of Natural History; 

 of the Rev. Osmond Fisher, at one time 

 tutor of Jesus College, Cambridge, 

 known for his important contributions 

 to geology, and of Professor Paul 

 Eeclus, the distinguished Paris surgeon. 



Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president 

 emeritus of Harvard University, has 

 been elected a corresponding fellow of 

 the British Academy. — Professor Elie 

 Metchnikoff, assistant director of the 

 Institut Pasteur, will next year cele- 

 brate his seventieth birthday and the 

 fiftieth anniversary of his doctorate. A 

 committee has been formed, under the 

 presidency of Dr. Roux, director of the 

 Institut Pasteur, for the celebration of 

 the anniversary which will include the 

 publication of a " Festschrift." 



The following American scientific 

 men have accepted invitations to at- 

 tend the Australasian meeting of the 

 British Association as the guests of the 



Xew Zealand government: Dr. C. G. 

 Abbot, Smithsonian Institution; Dr. L. 

 H. Bailey, Cornell University; Mr. Ly- 

 man J. Briggs, Department of Agricul- 

 ture; Professor A. P. Coleman, Univer- 

 sity of Toronto; Dr. Edwin G. Conklin, 

 Princeton University; Dr. Charles B. 

 Davenport, Carnegie Institution ; Pro- 

 fessor William M. Davis, Harvard Uni- 

 versity; Dr. George A. Dorsey, Field 

 Museum of Natural History; President 

 G. C. Oreelman, Ontario Agricultural 

 College, Guelph; Professor B. T. Ely, 

 University of Wisconsin; Professor 

 E. C. Franklin, Stanford University; 

 Professor P. H. Hanus, Harvard Uni- 

 versity; President E. F. Nichols, Dart- 

 mouth .College; Dr. Ira Bemsen, The 

 Johns Hopkins University; Professor 

 William M. Wheeler, Bussey Institu- 

 tion, Harvard University. 



Mr. ' Asa G. Chaxdler has given 

 $1,000,000 and citizens of Atlanta 

 have guaranteed $500,000 for the es- 

 tablishment of an Atlanta University, 

 under the auspices of the Methodist 

 Church. It is said that a theological 

 school will be the first to be opened. 



