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revealed, Prof. Nathorst declared that the buoy could not have 
been carried from the Pole to King Charles Island, and 
Captain Svedenborg was of opinion that it had been thrown out 
empty. A search is, it is stated, to be made next year at King 
Charles Island. 
A MARBLE bust of Prof. Emil Du Bois Reymond has been 
presented to the Physiological Institute of the University of 
Berlin by the professor’s widow. 
THE new Paris Institute of Biological Chemistry, facing 
the Pasteur Institute, towards the erection and endowment of 
which Baroness Hirsch gave 80,000/., is now, so far as the 
exterior is concerned, completed. 
Pror. R. BuRCKHARDT, of Basle, and Prof. V. Uhlig, of 
Prague, have been elected members of the Academy of Sciences 
of Halle. 
Tue death is announced, at the age of forty-five, of Dr. 
Kowalowsky, professor of hygiene in the University of Warsaw, 
and of Canon Carnoy, professor of the natural sciences at the 
University of Louvain. 
In connection with the Glasgow Lecture Association a special 
science lecture will be given to school children during the 
Christmas holidays by Prof. McKendrick, F.R.S. 
PRor. GEORG STEINDOREF, the director of the Aegyptolo- 
gische Sammlung at Leipzig, has, it is stated, obtained leave of 
absence for six months to enable him to undertake a scientific 
journey to Africa. 
Dr. L. A. Bauegr, of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 
is at present in Europe for the purpose of inspecting various 
magnetic observatories and the comparison of the Coast and 
Geodetic Survey instruments with observatory standards. 
THE announcement is made that Mr. W. H. Twelvetrees has 
been appointed geologist to the Government of Tasmania. 
During recent years Mr. Twelvetrees has devoted conside rable 
attention to the geological formation of Tasmania, with special 
reference to mining operations, and has been a frequent con- 
tributor of papers to the Australian Institute of Mining 
Engineers and to the Royal Society of Tasmania. 
THE Corporation of Glasgow has just appointed Dr. R. M. 
Buchanan bacteriologist to the city. He will devote the whole 
of his time to the duties of the office, and a laboratory has been 
assigned to him in the Sanitary Chambers. 
Ir is announced in the Péoreer Maz! that Mr. Douglas Fresh- 
field has arrived at Darjeeling, accompanied by two Swiss 
guides, intent on exploring the great snowfields of Kinchiniunga. 
THE tenth International Congress of Hygiene and Demo- 
graphy will be held in Paris from August 9 to 17, 1900. 
THE second International Congress on Hypnotism will be 
held in Paris from August 12 to 16, 1900, under the presidency 
of Dr. Jules Voisin. The questions proposed for discussion are : 
(1) The formation of a vocabulary concerning the terminology of 
hypnotism and the phenomena connected therewith ; (2) the re- 
lations of hypnotism with hysteria; (3) the application of 
hypnotism to general therapeutics; (4) the indications for 
hypnotism and suggestions in the treatment of mental disease 
and alcoholism; (5) the application of hypnotism to general | 
pedagogy and mental orthopedics ; (6) the value of hypnotism 
as a means of psychological investigation ; (7) hypnotism in 
relation to the (French) law of November 30, 1892, as to the 
practice of medicine ; (8} suggestion and hypnotism in relation 
to jurisprudence; (9) special responsibilities arising from the 
practice of experimental hypnotism. 
NO. 1562, VOL. 60] 
IN compliance with the request made by Russian men o1 
science to the Russian imperial authorities, the scientific ex- 
ploration of the coast-line of the Pacific in the Far East is to be 
undertaken. It has been arranged that a distinguished zoologist 
and member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society 
shall undertake the exploration at the cost of the Society, in 
conjunction with the Ministry of Agriculture. The expedition 
intends to make investigations with a view to classifying the 
marine fauna and flora on the coast of the Russian territory, 
and the conditions of zoological life will also be investigated 
upon the Liao-Tong peninsula, and in the adjacent regions of 
Manchuria and Korea. The period for these investigations has 
been fixed at two years, and the cost of the expedition is esti- 
mated at 12,000 roubles. The Geographical Society has pro- 
mised to make a grant of 7500 roubles towards this sum, and 
the Ministry of Agriculture and Imperial Domains will con- 
tribute the remaining 4500 roubles. The Ministry of Agriculture 
has been led to take a part in this expedition in the expectation 
that its results will be of great service in developing the coast 
industries of the Amur and the Island of Saghalien, and also 
in the districts which have been acquired lately by the Russian 
Government. The Geographical Society also entertains great 
hopes of the successful results of this expedition, in view of the 
fact that the previous expeditions sent by it to investigate the 
Black, Azov, and Marmora seas were particularly successful. 
The expedition to the Far East will work in conjunction with 
the Society for Exploring the Amur Territory, and intends to 
establish at Vladivostock a zoological station for studying the 
marine fauna of the district. 
Science states that the late Richard B. Westbrook, of Phila- 
delphia, has made a bequest of 10,000 dollars, taking effect on 
the death of his widow, to the Wagner Institute of Science. 
The sum is to be used as an endowment of a special lectureship 
to ‘‘ secure the full and fearless discussion by the most learned 
and distinguished men and women in our own and other 
countries of mooted or disputed questions in science, and 
especially the theories of evolution.” 
A YEAK ago Cornell University secured 30,000 acres of 
woodland in the Adirondack Mountains for the exclusive use of 
the University’s forestry department. The land has been 
divided into a number of sections, and several seed beds have 
been laid out in which there has been planted over a million 
small trees of different varieties. The students of forestry will 
study the theory of the subject from October to April, and from 
then until Commencement they will study the practical side of 
forestry. Cornell University is, according to the Sczentific 
American, the only college in the United States which has a 
forestry department. 
THE Sczentific American states that the men of science who 
have been investigating the Wyoming fossil beds are having 
remarkable success, and a large number of boxes containing 
fossil remains have been sent to the State University, and the 
work of restoration will soon be begun under the direction of 
Prof. Wilbur C. Knight. 
DuRING this summer a number of field parties in connection 
with the United States Fish Commission have been engaged, in 
various States, in ichthyological and other investigations. A 
camping party under the direction of Dr. Charles H. Gilbert 
has, says Scéence, systematically examined the coastal streams of 
Oregon, with reference to their fish fauna; the eastern tribu- 
taries of the Sacramento have been visited by Mr. C. Rutter ; 
a comprehensive study of the biological and physical features of 
the Wabash basin has been begun under the direction of Prof. 
B. W. Evermann; a party in charge of Mr. W. P. Hay has 
explored: the Monongahela basin in West Virginia; Dr, P. H. 
