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 The Committee of Administration of the Paris International 

 Exhibition of 1900 have adopted a scheme of arrangement of the 

 exhibits according to the nature of the objects, instead of by 

 nationalities. The exhibits will be arranged in groups, contain- 

 ing between them 120 classes. The subjects of the groups are : 

 education and teaching, literature, science and art, instruments 

 and processes ; machinery and mechanical processes ; civil 

 engineering, construction, means of transport ; agriculture, 

 horticulture, arboriculture, forestry, sport, &c. ; alimentary pro- 

 ducts ; mines and metallurgy ; decoration and furniture of public 

 and private buildings ; yarns, fabrics, clothing ; industrial 

 chemistry ; miscellaneous industries ; social economy, hygiene, 

 public charities ; colonisation ; naval and military. 



Prince Albert of Monaco gave an account of his investi- 

 gations in the Atlantic at the meeting of the Royal Geographical 

 Society on Monday. From 1885 to 1889 Prince Albert made 

 some long cruises in the Uirondelle, a little sailing schooner of 

 200 tons, which took him as far as the American coasts, and he 

 explored depths as great as 1600 fathoms without help of any 

 power greater than the arms of his fourteen sailors. The 

 HirondeUe being shattered by storms, he built a stronger steam- 

 vessel, the Princess Alice, 560 tons, to carry on the same 

 research with better appliances. The work of this second period 

 opened up to him fields of labour altogether beyond his reach 

 without the aid of a still larger and more powerful vessel, so 

 he commissioned Messrs. Laird, of Liverpool, to build him 

 another Princess Alice, which is expected to set out on her first 

 voyage in a few weeks. After giving the results of the more 

 important of his observations with respect to currents, depth and 

 pressure, temperature, salinity, light, and ocean deposits, Prince 

 Albert proceeded to treat of the organic life inhabiting the 

 waters of the open ocean, and described the principal apparatus 

 employed by him for biological investigations. 



Mr. VV, H. Preece, C.B., F.R.S., was elected president of 

 the Institution of Civil Engineers at the annual general meeting 

 held on Tuesday. 



Mr. J. J. H. Teall, P'.R.S., has been elected into the 

 Athenteum Club, under the rule which empowers the annual 

 election of nine persons " of distinguished eminence in science, 

 literature, the arts, or for public services." 



The Royal Photographic Society's International Exhibition 

 was opened by the Prince of Wales at the Crystal Palace on 

 Monday. A large number of interesting photographs, many of 

 them illustrating scientific applications of photography, are in- 

 cluded among the exhibits. 



The annual reception and exhibit of recent progress in science of 

 the New York Academy of Sciences was held on April 13 and 14. 

 Though not so large as former exhibitions, it was characterised 

 by the president of the Academy, Prof. Henry F. Osborn, as 

 the most complete and diversified of any, representing nearly all 

 the leading educational institutions of the United States, and 

 containing exhibits from very many of the States and many 

 foreign countries. Addresses were delivered by the recording 

 secretary, Prof. Richard E. Dodge, President Osborn, Prof. 

 George E. Hale, of the Yerkes Observatory, on " The Function 

 of Large Telescopes," Mr. Morris K. Jesup, president of the 

 Museum, and Mr. Charles E Tripler, who exhibited liquid air 

 obtained by his apparatus. Among the objects included in the 

 exhibition, the fine array of photographs of stars and star spectra 

 was noticeable. In the department of photography some excellent 

 colour photographs were shown, including a demonstration of 

 colour photographs by the Joly process, shown by the Joly-Zambra 

 Company. — In electricity, apparatus was exhibited for the trans- 

 mission of signals without intervening wires. The feature of the 



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palDeontological exhibition was the caudal vertebrae and limb bones 

 of the gigantic Dinosaur Camarasaurus, the largest land animal 

 that ever lived. The bones exhibited were the largest yet 

 found, and were recently exhumed. Several new kinds of ap- 

 paratus were shown in the physics section. Specially important, 

 in an economic sense, was the stremmatograph, an instrument 

 to measure compression and extension of rails of a railroad 

 during the passing of trains, exhibited by Mr. P. II. Dudley. 

 — The geological exhibit contained many interesting features ; 

 including specimens brought back from the excursion of 

 geologists after the geological congress in Russia last year, some 

 of the latest maps of the U.S. Geological Survey, a model of 

 the Franklin furnace zinc ore bed from New Jersey, gold- 

 bearing conglomerates from the so-called " banket " reefs near 

 Johannesburg, South Africa. Specimens of compressed marble 

 were shown, which had been subjected to the pressure of lOO 

 tons to the square inch without rupture or destruction of 

 cohesion. — Mr. H. E. Crampton, jun., exhibited some fine 

 specimens of fused or compound pupce and compound adult 

 moths. His recent products include some very perfect tandem 

 moths with two full sets of wings ; also moths which have the 

 head of one grafted upon the back of another. The exhibition 

 of ethnology included results of the Jesup North Pacific ex- 

 ploring expedition and collections of the Huichol Indians of 

 Mexico. The exhibits generally were designed to show the 

 progress made during tlie year. The department of philology, 

 however, having only been added to the exhibition this year, 

 took a wider range. 



It is announced in Science that at the recent annual meeting 

 of the New York Academy of Sciences the following elections 

 as Honorary and Corresponding Members were made : Hjnorary 

 — Prof. Arthur Auwers, Astronomer, Berlin ; Prof. W. K. 

 Brooks, Biologist, Baltimore ; Prof. D ivid Gill, Astronomer, 

 Cape Town ; Dr. George W. Hill, Mathematician, Nyack ; 

 Prof. E. Ray Lankester, Zoologist, Oxford ; Dr. Fridjof 

 Nansen, Explorer, Kristiania ; Prof. Albrecht Penck, Geo- 

 grapher, Vienna ; Prof. Wilhelm Pfeffer, Botanist, Leipzic ; 

 Prof. Hans Reusch, Geologist, Kristiania ; Prof. Rudolph 

 Virchow, Biologist, Berlin ; Prof. Karl von Zittel, Palaeonto- 

 logist, Munich. Corresponding— Vtoi. F. D. Adams, Geologist, 

 Montreal ; Prof. I. B. Balfour, Botanist, Edinburgh ; Prof. 

 George Baur, Paleontologist, Chicago ; Prof. William Car- 

 ruthers. Botanist, London ; Prof. T. C. Chamberlin, Geo- 

 logist, Chicago ; Prof. Wm. M. Davis, Geographer, Cambridge ; 

 Prof. Adrien Franchet, Botanist, Paris ; Prof. George E. Hale, 

 Astronomer, Chicago ; Prof. J. P. Iddings, Geologist, Chicago ; 

 Prof, Charles S. Minot, Biologist, Boston ; Prof. George 

 Murray, Botanist, London ; Prof. William B. Scott, Geologist, 

 Princeton ; Mr. Charles D. Walcott, Geologist, Washington ; 

 Prof. Charles O. Whitman, Biologist, Chicago ; Prof. Henry S. 

 Williams, Palaeontologist, New Haven. 



A very elaborate series of experiments on the tractive resist- 

 ance of express passenger trains running on the Northern of 

 France Railway shows (says Engineering) that the engine and 

 tender resistances amount to about half the total. The trains 

 on which the experiments wei^ made weighed, on the average, 

 160 tons, exclusive of the engine and tender, which weighed 85 

 tons more. 



The Royal Agricultural Society offers, in connection with the 

 meeting at Maidstone next year, a prize of 50/. for the best 

 machinery for washing hops with liquid insecticides, the machine 

 in question being worked by horse or mechanical power. Full 

 particulars of the regulations governing the proposed competitive 

 trials can be obtained on application to the Secretary, 13 Hanover 

 Square, London, ^V. 



