426 NATURAL SCIENCE [June 



Report lest the establishment of a Biological Station in Christiania, as decreed by 

 the Storthing in 1897, should draw away from Bergen both workers and heljjers. 

 By its position and its Museum, Bergen seems to be the natural headquarters of 

 fishery investigations, and in these matters centralisation and co-operation are 

 better than the splitting up of forces. 



The Trustees of the Philadelphia Museums are about, says Science, to 

 consider the question of establishing branch museums in the principal cities 

 of the Union. 



The following are the candidates recommended by the Council of the Royal 

 Society for election this year : — H. F. Baker, M.A. Cantab., mathematician ; E. 

 W. Brown, M.A. Cantab., mathematical astronomer ; Dr A. Buchan, meteor- 

 ologist ; S. F. Harmer, M.A. Cantab., zoologist, specially known for his writings 

 on Polyzoa ; A. Lister, distinguished for his researches on Mycetozoa ; Lieut.- 

 General C. A. McMahon, a leading authority on Himalayan geology and in petro- 

 logy ; W. Osier, Professor of Medicine at John Hojikin's University, and a fore- 

 most representative of clinical medicine and j^athology ; Hon. C. A. Parsons, 

 M.A. Cantab., engineer ; T. Preston, M.A., Dublin, physicist ; E. W. Reid, M.B. 

 Cantab., Professor of Physiology at Dundee ; A. Scott, M.A. Cantal)., chemist ; 

 A. C. Sewai'd, M.A. Cantab., a leading palaeobotanist ; W. A. Shenstone, chemist ; 

 H. M. Taylor, M.A. Cantab., mathematician ; J. Wimshurst, electrician: 



The Reception Committee for the Fourth International Congress of Zoology 

 to be held in Cambridge during August announces that the Reception Room will 

 be at the Masonic Hall, Corn Exchange Street, Cambridge, and that it will be 

 open from 9 a.m. on Monday, August 22, for the issue of Cards of Membership, 

 for which the subscription is £1. If paid before that date it should be sent to 

 the Treasurers, Zoological Society of London, 3 Hanover Square, London, W. 

 The congress will ojien formally at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, August 23, and there will 

 be an informal reception at the Guildhall on the evening of Monday, August 22. 

 On the termination of the official business of the Congress about noon on Satur- 

 day, August 27, members are invited to adjourn to London in order to take 

 advantage of arrangements which are being made for their entertainment by the 

 Executive Committee in London. All correspondence relating to the business of 

 the Reception Committee should be addressed to the Secretaries (S. F. Harmer, 

 and A. E. Shipley), The Museums, Cambridge. 



The Museums Association is to hold its ninth annual meeting in Sheffield 

 during the first week in July, beginning on the 4th. The president-elect is 

 Alderman W. H. Brittain, of Sheffield, who hitherto has been the popular 

 treasurer of the Association, and will doubtless give a racy address. 



The American Association for the Advancement of Science will hold its fiftieth 

 anniversary meeting from August 22nd to the 27th at Boston, in which city its 

 first meeting was held. The attendance of foreign scientific men is specially 

 hoped for. An attempt is being made to induce all who have ever been members 

 of the Association to resume their membershii), at all events for this meeting. 



The tenth Congress of Russian Naturalists and Physicians will be held at 

 Kieft' from the 21st to 30th August, under the presidency of Prof. Rachmaninov. 



The ninth International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, which met at 

 Madrid, April 10-17, under the pi'esidency of Dr Julian Calleja, was attended hy 

 2000 members. 



Mr F. E. Beddard, Prosector of the Zoological Society, is delivering a course 

 of lectures on amphibians and reptiles, in the lecture room at the Gardens in 

 Regent's Park. The lectures are on Fridays at 5 p.m., and began on April 21st. 



The gold medal of the Linnean Society has been awarded to Mr G. C. 

 Wallich, whose investigations into deep-sea life are well known. It is nearly 



