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of as may be desig-nated. The award and all matters con- 

 nected therewith are to be determined by a committee to 

 be selected in an appropriate manner by the Academy. 

 The recog-nition is not confined to naturalists. 



Prof. Moissan. — Prof. Henri Moissan, the well-known 

 chemist, who fills the chair of toxicolog-y in the Paris 

 school of Pharmacy, arrived in this country September 

 20th. He comes to represent the University of France at 

 the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Princeton Col- 

 leg-e, October 20th. 



PERSONALS. 



A building- 25x97 feet for the Massachusetts General 

 Hospital, Boston, at a cost of over $20,000, will soon be 

 ready for use. It includes well fitted laboratories of chem- 

 istry, bacteriolog-y and histology. 



The next meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science will be held in Detroit (1897). Dr. 

 Wolcott Gibbs of Newport, is the new president. 



The proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, contains the biographical sketch of John 

 Adam Ryder, by Harrison Allen, M. D., and the list of his 

 published scientific papers by H. F. Moore, Ph. D. 



The officers of Section G. of the A. A. A. S. for the next 

 year are G. F. Atkinson, Vice-President; F. C. New- 

 combe, Secretary. 



The officers of the Botanical Club for the next year are 

 S. M. Tracy, President; L. R. Jones, Vice-President; E. 

 S. Burgess, Secretary. 



Professor A. N. Prentiss, formerly professor of Botany 

 at Cornell University died at his home in Ithaca, Aug. 14. 



A Post Graduate course of bacteriology has been estab- 

 lished at the Sidney University, N. S. W. 



