JANUARY 14, 1904] 
NATURE. 25 
On 
Bavarian Academy in’ 1899. 
lated into English by the author’s distinguished pupil, 
Mrs. Maria Ogilvie-Gordon, and issued in a slightly 
abbreviated form in Mr. Walter Scott's Contemporary 
Science Series in 1go1. It will always remain a 
standard work of reference. 
Prof. von Zittel naturally received numerous 
honours. Many years ago he became a Privy Coun- 
cillor, and from 1899 until his death he was president 
of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences. He was 
elected.a foreign member of the Geological Society of 
London in 1889, and received the Wollaston medal in 
1894. He was made a foreign associate of the United 
States National Academy of Sciences in 1898, and a 
correspondant of the Paris Academy of Sciences in 
tgoo. His greatest joy was’ the ardent friendship with 
which he was honoured by his former pupils scattered 
through nearly all the civilised nations of the globe. 
A. S. W. 
NOTES. 
Tue fifth International Congress of Zoology, held at 
Berlin in 1901, selected Switzerland as the place of meeting 
for the sixth session, and elected Prof. T. Studer president. 
In accordance with this resolution, the congress will meet 
at Bern from August 14-19 of this year. Prof. Studer, Bern, 
is president of the general committee, and the vice-presi- 
dents are :—Prof. E. Beraneck, Neuchatel; Prof. H. Blanc, 
Lausanne; Dr. V. Fatio, Geneva; Prof. L. Kathariner, 
Fribourg; Prof. A. Lang, Ziirich; Prof. E. Yung, Geneva; 
Prof. F. Zschokke, Basel; and Prof. R. Blanchard, Paris. 
The secretaries are Prof. M. Bedot, Geneva; Dr. J. Carl, 
Geneva; and Dr. W. Volz, Bern. The general meetings 
will be held in the Palace of Parliament at Bern, and the 
sectional sittings in the new university. During the con- 
gress there will be an excursion to Neuchatel and to the 
Jura lakes, in order to visit the lake-dwellers’ settlements. 
The closing meeting of the congress will be held at Inter- 
Jaken. Afterwards the members of the congress will be 
invited to visit other Swiss cities. Communications or in- 
quiries referring to the congress should be addressed to the 
president of the Sixth International Congress of Zoology, 
Museum of Natural History, Waisenhansstrasse, Bern. 
The congress is open to all zoologists and to all who are 
interested in zoology. 
Tue Atti of the Lincei Academy announces the death, on 
November 25, of Angelo Maffucci, a member of the Academy 
since July, 1900. 
A new Pasteur Institute has, says the British Medical 
Journal, been established at New Orleans, where the anti- 
rabic treatment will be carried out without any expense to 
the patients. 
Ir is announced that Dr. Felix Kanitz died at Vienna on 
January 5. Dr. Kanitz, who was born at Budapest in 1829, 
was well known for his archzological and ethnographical 
labours in the Balkan peninsula. 
It is reported that the Goodwin Sands lightships are to 
be put in communication with the shore by means of wire- 
less telegraphy, and that the installation is to be completed 
in about a month. 
Cliff, Dover. 
Lieut. E. H. SuHackieton, late third lieutenant of the 
Discovery, and one of the three men who reached furthest 
south in a journey from the ship, has been appointed secre- 
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tary of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in suc- 
cession to Lieut.-Colonel F. Bailey. Lieut. Shackleton had 
to be invalided home from the Antarctic on account of 
hzemorrhage of the lungs. 
Tue death is announced of Dr. F. von Hefner-Alteneck, 
a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences and a well- 
known engineer. Dr. von Hefner-Alteneck was born at 
Aschaffenburg in 1845. After studying at Munich and 
Zurich he entered the firm of Siemens and Halske, with 
whom he remained until 1890. He became chief engineer 
of the firm, and was the inventor of many electric appli- 
ances produced by that house. 
Tur Geological Society of London has this year awarded 
its medals and funds as follows :—the Wollaston medal to 
Prof. Albert Heim, of Zurich; the Murchison medal to Prof. 
G. A. Lebour ; the Lyell medal to Prof. A. G. Nathorst, of 
Stockholm; the Wollaston fund to Miss E. M. R. Wood; 
the Murchison fund to Dr. A. Hutchinson; the Lyell fund 
to Prof. S. H. Reynolds and Dr. C. A. Matley ; the Barlow- 
Jameson fund to Mr. H. J. L. Beadnell. 
Baron Ertanp NorDENSKJOLD, who left Southampton on 
January 6 on an expedition to Bolivia, informed a repre- 
sentative of Reuter’s Agency that the expedition would last 
at least eighteen months, as he intended to penetrate the 
northern forests of Bolivia for the purpose of studying the 
hostile Indian tribes along the various tributaries of the 
Amazon, and the region to be traversed was practically un- 
known. He is accompanied by Lieut. D. de Bildt, a 
of the Swedish Minister in London, and Dr. Holmgren. 
son 
Ar a meeting on January 5, the Bath City Council had 
under consideration a letter from the National Trust relative 
to the quarrying in the Cheddar Cliffs, and unanimously 
adopted the following resolution :—'* That this council has 
heard with sincere regret of the damage which is being 
caused to the Cheddar Cliffs by the quarrying of stone there- 
from, and other works connected with such quarrying, and 
trusts that steps may promptly be taken for preserving in 
its original condition, so far as practicable, this most 
picturesque and interesting feature of the West of England.”’ 
Similar resolutions have also been passed by the Somer- 
set County Council and other public bodies in the district. 
Dr. NorpDENSKJOLD and the members of his South Polar 
Expedition arrived at Hamburg on January 6. The un- 
expectedly early return from the South Polar regions of 
this expedition has, the Times states, enabled Dr. Jean 
Charcot to recast the plans of the French expedition on 
board the Francais. He now proposes to explore the west 
coast of Graham Land and to carry out a very exhaustive 
scientific investigation of that region. From Flanders Bay, 
at the south-west end of Belgica Strait, Dr. Charcot intends 
to push south in the direction of Pitt Island and Adelaide 
Island, with Alexander Land as the great goal of the ex- 
pedition’s efforts. With the return of the Antarctic spring, 
if winter quarters have been taken up far enough south, 
Alexander Land will be the objective of these parties ; other- 
wise the excursions will be undertaken with the object of 
linking up the work of the French expedition with that 
which Dr. Nordenskjéld and his companions have accom- 
plished, working from the other, or eastern, side of the 
land masses in this part of the Antarctic region. It is Dr. 
Charcot’s definite intention to return at the end of the season 
The Francais, indeed, is only provisioned for 
two years, and Dr. Charcot states that if the expedition 
does not return in the early months of 1905, it must be 
concluded that they have been involuntarily detained, and 
a relief vessel must be dispatched to their assistance. 
