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Sciences of Philadelphia, spent the three days from March 19 to 

 March 21 in that city. The hospitality of Philadelphians is pro- 

 verbial, and was greatly enjoyed. The gathering of scientific men was 

 thoroughly representative, and it was with renewed inspiration that 

 all those who attended upon this memorable occasion returned to their 

 homes. The Academy of Natural Sciences has reason to be proud of 

 the achievements of the past century, and enters upon its second 

 century with a prestige and an equipment, which insure success in its 

 future undertakings. Vivat Academiai 



On the afternoon of the ninth of April we had the pleasure of 

 welcoming as a visitor to the Museum Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, 

 who spent half an hour in a hurried examination of the Section of 

 Paleontology and of the Section of Mammals, which he particularly 

 wished to see. Both appeared to interest him greatly, and he found 

 some things which apparently surprised him, among which was the 

 mounted specimen of the Broad-lipped, or White Rhinoceros, taken 

 at Lado, which has been standing in this Museum for the past ten 

 years. " By George, Doctor, I thought that specimen was in England, 

 and never dreamed it was here!" But it has been here for a decade. 

 The giraffes shot by Mr. Childs Frick called forth expressions of great 

 admiration, in view of their beauty and the superbly life-like manner 

 in which they have been mounted. "Do you know, I had a strange 

 experience with one of those beasts," said the late President. "It 

 was standing out in the open, and I stalked it, and came up to within 

 seventeen feet of it, before it noticed me. It was sound asleep!" 



The Commission recently sent to this country from the Museum 

 von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik of Munich 

 spent the sixteenth and seventeenth of April in Pittsburgh. The 

 Commission is composed of the following persons: Reichsrat Dr. 

 Oskar von Miller, Member of the House of Lords of Bavaria, President 

 of the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure, Director of the Museum, and 

 Chairman of the Commission; Count von Podewils-Diirniz, former 

 Secretary of State of Bavaria, Honorary President of the Museum; 

 Geheimrat Prof. Dr. von Dyck, Rector Emeritus of the Konigliche 

 Bayerische Technische Hochschule; Hofrat Dr. Wilhelm von Borscht, 

 Lord Mayor of Munich; Herr Ph. Gelius, Architect of the Museum; 



