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and on the following week-days at 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. On 

 Sunday, September 9, the Reception Rooms will be open 

 from 9 to 10.30 a.m., and from 3 to 5 p.m. 



The temporary Museum in connection with the 

 Sections is this year being made a special feature, more 

 particularly in regard to Geology, Botany and Zoology. 

 Joint meetings are being held, on certain days, of the 

 Geological and Botanical Sections, to take up the subject 

 of Carboniferous fossils, and it is proposed to form a col- 

 lection of fossils found in the neighbourhood to illustrate 

 <he papers as much as possible ; and also to display 

 photographs bearing on the subject, taken from the 

 Geological Society's collection in London. These ex- 

 ' ibits will form the nucleus of the Museum, but there 

 ill also be other collections bearing on the main sub- 

 ts dealt with by some of the other Sections. At the 

 unicipal Technical College there will be an Exhibition 

 during the week illustrative of the staple trades of the 

 <iistrict ; visitors will pass from room to room, and will 

 the gradual development, through innumerable pro- 

 ses, of the most elaborate fabrics from the unwashed 

 eces. On Thursday afternoon, September 6, the Ex- 

 bition will be opened by Mr. W. E. B. Priestley, the 

 airman of the College, and a Reception held, to which 

 visitors to the meeting will be invited. . 

 The preparations for the Excursions and Garden-parties 

 nearly complete, and full details will be given in the 

 t article. Ramsden Bacchus. 



NOTES. 

 Prof, R, Lipschitz, professor of mathematics in the Uni- 

 ersity of Bonn, has be^n elected a correspondant in the section 

 geometry of the Paris Academy of Sciences. 



Lord Kelvin has been elected Master of the Worshipful 

 jmpany of Clothworkers for the year 1900-1901. 



Sir John Evans. K.C.B., F.R.S., has been elected chair- 

 in of the Society of Arts for the ensuing year. 



Mr. Grant-Ogilvie, principal of the Heriot-Watt College, 

 been appointed director of the Museum of Science and Art, 

 linburgh- 



The sixty-eighth annual meeting of the British Medical 

 Association will be held at Ipswich during next week, com- 

 mencing on Tuesday. 



Dr. M. Armand Rufker, president of the sanitary, maritime, 

 and quarantine board of Egypt, has recieved from His Majesty 

 the Sultan of Turkey the Order and Insignia of the Medjidjieh 

 ■of the Second Class. 



A CONFERENCE on the housing of the working classes, 

 under the auspices of the Sanitary Institute, will be held on July 

 JO and 3J, in the lecture-room of the Royal Medical and Chir- 

 urgical Society. In connection with the conference an exhibition 

 of models and plans will be held in the Parkes Museum. 



It is stated in the Engineer that of the fifty- five ships 

 taking part in the naval manoeuvres this year, the Adrifnne, 

 Caviperdown, Jaseur, besides some others, are specially fitted 

 for wireless telegraphy. The Majestic and the Diadem have also 

 been fitted. Torpedo officers have charge of the installation in 

 •each case. 



The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the British Pharma- 

 ceutical Conference was opened in London on Monday, under 

 the presidency of Mr. E. M. Holmes. An attractive programme 

 containing illustrations of the house of the Pharmaceutical 

 Society where the meetings will be held, the president, and 

 places to be visited, appears as a supplement to the current 

 number of the Pharmaceutical Journal. 

 NO. 1604, VOL. 62] 



We learn from the British Medical Journal that the Madras 

 Government has passed an order sanctioning the excess expendi- 

 ture over the original grant of 6qo rupees incurred by Capt. 

 R. H, Elliott in connection with the prosecution of his researches 

 into the properties of snake venom, and has made him an 

 additional grant of 200 rupees to cover the cost of further experi- 

 ments. The Surgeon-General has been requested to report if 

 Capt. Elliott's services will be available for special duty at the 

 end of September when his tour of service terminates. 



Prof. Henry F. Osborn has been appointed to succeed the 

 late Prof. O. C. Marsh as palaeontologist in the United States 

 Geological Survey. Prof. Osborn's special field of work will be 

 to take charge of the vertebrate palaeontology of the survey, 

 especially with reference to the completion of the monographs 

 for which the illustrations were prepared under the direction 

 of Prof. Marsh. Prof. Osborn graduated from Princeton in 

 1877, and was professor of comparative anatomy there until 

 1890. He was appointed Da Costa Professor of Zoology at 

 Columbia University in 1891, and curator of vertebrate palaeon- 

 tology at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. 

 He is. a member of the National Academy of Sciences and other 

 scientific bodies, and is the author of numerous papers and 

 memoirs on fossil mammals and reptiles. 



The seventy-second annual meeting of the German Associa- 

 tion of Naturalists and Physicians will be opened at Aachen on 

 Monday, September 17. At the first general meeting, the ad- 

 vances of natural knowledge and medicine during the present 

 century will be surveyed. Prof, van 't Hoff will review the 

 progress of inorganic science ; Prof. O. Hertwig will discourse 

 on the development of biology ; Prof. B. Naunyn will deal with 

 internal medicine, including bacteriology of hygiene ; and Prof. 

 H. Chiari will speak on pathological anatomy in relation to 

 external medicines. At the second general meeting, to be held on 

 September 31, several scientific subjects of current interest will 

 be dealt with. Prof. J. Wolff will speak on the correlation be- 

 tween form and function of individual structures of organisms ; 

 Prof. E. V. Drygalski will describe the plan and purpose of the 

 German Antarctic expedition ; Prof. D. Hansemann will dis- 

 course upon cell-problems and their significance in the scientific 

 foundation of the treatment of disease ; and Prof. Holzaphel will 

 take as his subject the development of German coal-measures. 

 On September 19, the naturalists and physicians will meet in 

 separate groups. The questions to be brought before the former 

 group include the circulation of nitrogen in the organic world, 

 by Prof. M. W. Beyerink ; the latest investigations upon steel, 

 by Prof. E. F. Diirre ; and language and technical teaching from 

 a scientific standpoint, by Prof. Pietzker. The chief subject to be 

 discussed in the medical section is the neuron theory in its ana- 

 tomical, physiological and pathological aspects, by Profs. Ver- 

 wornand Nissl. The remainder of the meetings will be held in 

 the various sections of the Association, and as more than three 

 hundred communications will be made, there will be no lack of 

 subjects for discussion. In connection with the meeting, an ex- 

 hibition of physical, chemical, and .medical preparations and 

 apparatus will be held. 



In the course of his presidential address, delivered to the 

 Society of Chemical Industry on July 18, Prof. Chandler 

 referred to some of the work of American chemists, and the 

 development of chemical processes of manufacture. Many 

 important investigations in agricultural chemistry have been 

 conducted by the chemical division of the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, among them being the practical deter- 

 mination of the number and activity of the nitrifying organisms 

 in soil, the influence of a soil rich in nitrogen on the nitrogen 

 content of a crop, the manufacture of sugar from the sorghum 

 plant, and the comparative study of typical soils of the United 



