434 NATURAL SCIENCE [December 
T. Duka ; Japan, Prof. E. Yamaguchi; Mexico, Senor Don Francisco del Paso y 
Troncoso ; Netherlands, Prof. D. J. Korteweg; Norway, Dr J. Brunchorst ; 
Sweden, Dr E. W. Dahlgren ; Switzerland, Drs J. H. Graf and J. Bernoulli ; 
United Kingdom, Sir John Gorst, Professors M. Foster, A. W. Riicker, and 
H. Armstrong, Sir Norman Lockyer and Dr L. Mond ; United States, Dr C. 
Adler ; Cape Colony, Mr R. Trimen ; India, Lieut.-General Sir R. Strachey and 
Dr W. T. Blanford; Natal, Sir Walter Peace; New Zealand, Hon. W. P. 
Reeves ; Queensland, Hon. Sir Horace Tozer. The chief decisions were: that 
the catalogue be published in the double form of cards and books; that 
geography be limited to mathematical and physical, excluding political and 
general geography ; that a separate schedule be provided for each of the following 
branches of science,—Mathematics, Astronomy, Meteorology, Physics, Crystal- 
lography, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Geology (including Petrology), Geography, 
Palaeontology, Anatomy, Zoology, Botany, Physiology, (including Pharmacology 
and Experimental Pathology), Bacteriology, Psychology, Anthropology ; that 
Italian should be added to the list of languages not requiring translation, the 
others being English, French, German, and Latin. The following were appointed 
a Provisional International Committee :— Professors Armstrong, Descamps, 
Foster, Poincare, Riicker, Waldeyer, and Weiss, and Dr 8S. P. Langley ; the 
delegates were requested to organise local committees in their respective 
countries, to discuss matters connected with the catalogue, and to report within 
six months to the committee just mentioned; and this committee is to 
fraine a report not later than July 31, 1899. As regards future working, there is 
to be a Central Bureau with a Director, and as many Regional Bureaux as can be 
persuaded to act; these are the workers. But there are to be International 
Conventions held in 1905, 1910, and every tenth year afterwards, to reconsider 
and, if necessary, revise the rules now drawn up. There is also to be an 
International Council, which shall meet in London once in three years at least ; 
this is to be the supreme authority over the Central Bureau. It is recommended 
that the International Council shall appoint for each science included in the 
catalogue five persons to form an International Committee of Referees, so far as 
possible representative of the constituent regions. It shall be the duty of the 
director of the Central Bureau to consult the appropriate committee or com- 
mittees, by correspondence or otherwise, on all questions of classification not 
provided for by the catalogue regulations; or, in cases of doubt, as to the 
meaning of those regulations. There are a good many more cumbrous rules, but 
those we have last quoted are about enough to wreck any scheme less difficult and 
less enormous than the present one. It is to be hoped that the director will not 
do his “ duty,” but go ahead. 
THE Royal Society has awarded its medals as follows :—Copley Medal, Sir 
William Huggins ; Royal Medals, Rev. John Kerr and Mr Walter Gardiner ; 
Rumford Medal, Prof. Oliver Lodge ; Davy Medal, Prof. Johannes Wislicenus ; 
Darwin Medal, Prof. Karl Pearson. 
GENERAL regret is felt that Sir John Evans should have found it necessary to 
resign the treasurership of the Royal Society. Regret has also been expressed 
that the Council should not have found a more eminent man of science than Mr 
A. B. Kempe, the mathematician, to succeed him. 
THE Mineralogical Society, at its anniversary meeting on November 15, 
elected the following officers for the ensuing year :—Prof. A. H. Church, president ; 
Prof. G. D. Liveing and Dr Hugo Miiller, vice-presidents. 
THE late Mrs Stainton has bequeathed to the Entomological Society, London, 
such entomological works from her husband’s library as were not already in its 
possession. Many of these are old and scarce. 
