1896. NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, ETC. i39 



Mr. Frederick Chapman has been elected an Associate of the Linnean Society, 

 as a recognition of his work on the Foraminifera. We are glad that Mr. Chapman 

 has been so honoured, for we are inclined to value the A.L.S. highly, as, unlike the 

 fellowship of other societies, it cannot be bought. 



Professors W. G. Rontgen and K. V. Kupffer have been elected Correspond- 

 ing Members of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. 



The delegates to the International Conference on the Bibliography of Science, 

 with other invited guests, were received by the President of the Royal Society at 

 Burlington House, in the evening of Monday, July 13, and began their serious 

 discussions the next morning. On Tuesday evening they dined together at the Hotel 

 Metropole, the following day were received at the Mansion House, and on Thursday 

 attended a garden party given by Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Mond, where the beautiful 

 entertainment was hardly spoilt by the unfavourable weather. Since the meetings 

 of the Conference were strictly private, we are precluded from reporting the dis- 

 cussion, but we understand that it has been decided to establish a Central Bureau, 

 having its headquarters in London, and separate National Bureaux for each state 

 concerned. The National Bureaux will undertake the work of cataloguing the 

 literature, each for its own country, and of transmitting this preliminary catalogue 

 to the Central Bureau, which will prepare it for publication in final slip- and book- 

 form. As regards the further questions of organisation, language, and system of 

 classification, these are, for the present, referred to an organising committee, to be 

 appointed by the Royal Society, -which will enquire into the various questions, 

 possibly experimenting in some manner, and which, when it has arrived at certain 

 conclusions, will convene another conference, the date of which is not to be later 

 than January, 1898. It is, we believe, decided that the titles of all papers shall be 

 quoted in the original language, but that certain languages, as yet undecided, shall 

 also be translated into some more familiar tongue. 



A CIRCULAR of invitation to the Seventh International Congress of Geologists 

 has been issued by the Russian Organising Committee. The Congress will take 

 place at St. Petersburg, towards the end of August, 1897, under the honorary 

 presidency of the Grand Duke Constantine, and the acting presidency of Dr. A. 

 Karpinsky, Director of the Geological Committee of Russia. The General Secretary 

 is Professor Th. Tschernyschew. The session will last about a week, and the pro- 

 ceedings of the Congress will not be distributed among sections, as at Zurich, but 

 will be devoted to the discussion of various broad principles. Some communications, 

 however, will be made with reference to the important geological studies and 

 explorations now being carried on in Russia. For those geologists who wish to read 

 little papers on subjects interesting to themselves, it is proposed to have special 

 meetings of various scientific societies, at which such minor matters can be dis- 

 cussed. Numerous excursions are announced : — to the Ural Mountains, to the 

 Volga, to Esthonia, to Finland, etc. After the Congress a long excursion will be 

 made, first to Moscow, where it will divide into three parts, one going to the basin 

 of the Donetz, the second to Nijni-Novgorod, and the third to Kiev ; meeting again, 

 the members will proceed to Tiflis, Bakou, Batoum, Kertch, and various parts of the 

 Crimea, ending at Sebastopol. Among other places that may be visited as variants 

 from this excursion are the Caucasus and Mount Ararat. Those geologists who 

 intend to go on any of these excursions should send notice before October to the 

 Secretary, when they will receive a detailed plan of the excursions, with an approxi- 

 mate estimate of the expense. The latter item will be greatly lessened by the 

 gracious act of His Majesty the Czar in granting to all geologists who shall, in due 

 time, have intimated their intention of attending the Congress, tickets giving free 

 passage, first-class, over all Russian railways, both before and after the meeting of 

 the Congress. 



Another so-called International Congress ! This time it is on sea-fishery and 

 oyster-culture, and is to be held from September 3 to 7 at Sables-d'Olonne (Vendee), 



