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CotoneL J. W. Orriry, C.1.E., has been appointed 
president of the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers 
Hill, in the place of Colonel Pennycuick, C.S.I., resigned. 
THE Committee of the British Association Table at the 
Naples Zoological Station announce that the Table is fully 
occupied until the middle of April next, but that applications 
for its occupancy from then until the end of August 1900, 
should be sent at once to the Hon. Secretary of the Committee, 
Prof. Howes, F.R.S., at the Royal College of Science, South 
Kensington. Mr. Kyle will occupy the table from now until 
Christmas, when he will be succeeded by Mr. M. D. Hill, who 
will continue investigations on the reproduction processes of 
Crustacea, and in March Prof. Herdman will go out and 
devote a month to the study of the Tunicata of the Bay. 
THE Harveian Oration was delivered at the Royal College of 
Physicians by Dr. J. Vivian Poore on Wednesday last. 
AN address will be given to the North-west London 
Chemical Society, on October 24, by Dr. Lauder Brunton, 
F.R.S., who will take as his subject ‘‘ Biliousness and Gall 
Stones.” On November 2, Sir J. Burdon-Sanderson will 
deliver an introductory address to the Middlesex Hospital 
Medical Society. To this all past and present students of the 
hospital are invited. 
A TELEGRAM from Amsterdam, dated October 12, states 
that a violent earthquake has occurred in the south side of 
the Island of Ceram, in the Dutch East Indies, causing the 
death of some thousands of persons and the complete destruc- 
tion of the town of Amhei. Details, however, are wanting. 
AT a meeting of the Finance Committee of the Lincolnshire 
County Committee, held on the 13th inst., it was resolved that 
the County Committee be recommended to give their consent to 
the erection, within the grounds of Lincoln Castle, of an 
observatory for the preservation and use of certain astronomical 
instruments offered to the county by the executors of the late 
Canon Cross, of Appleby. The recommendation was made 
that the committee’s consent should be given subject to the 
condition that the buildings shall not be commenced until 
sufficient funds have been raised for their erection and the future 
maintenance of the instruments. It is proposed to raise the 
funds by public subscription. We trust there will be a hearty 
response to the appeal that is to be issued. 
AT a meeting of the Council of the London Mathematical 
Society it was resolved that the president (Lord Kelvin), the 
three vice-presidents, the treasurer, and the two secretaries 
should be nominated for the same offices at the annual meeting 
on November 9 next. Of the other members, Messrs. W. H. H. 
Hudson, D. B. Mair, and W. D. Niven, C.B., retire from office, 
and Messrs. W. Burnside,H. M. Macdonald and E. T. Whittaker 
were nominated to fill the vacancies. The Council also em- 
powered the secretaries to publish an ‘‘ Index” to the first 
thirty volumes of the Proceedings, on the lines of the similar 
index to the first fifty volumes of the AZa/hematesche Annalen. 
Mr. Tucker was further authorised to draw up a complete list 
of members from the foundation of the Society in 1865. 
Tue Council of the Royal Photographic Society have decided 
to institute a series of monthly meetings, extending from 
November to April, to be especially devoted to illustrated 
lantern lectures. The meetings will be held on the first Tuesday 
in the month, and the first will take place on November 7. 
THE second Traill-Taylor Memorial Lecture will be delivered 
on November 14 at the rooms of the Royal Photographic 
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Society by Major-General Waterhouse, who will take as his. 
subject ‘‘ The Teachings of the Daguerreotype.” 
THE third International Congress of Photography is to be 
held in Paris from July 23 to July 28, 1900. Its purpose will 
be to re-examine decisions arrived at by the two last Congresses 
on problems before the Society, and to see if such are 
capable of further improvement or perfection. To inquire into 
the various new photographic questions arising since the last 
meeting. Practical demonstrations of working methods, lectures 
on special subjects, and visits to scientific and industrial insti- 
tutions also form part of the programme. Those intending to 
be present are requested to address the General Secretary, M. 
S. Pector, 9 Rue Lincoln, Paris. : 
THE magnetic survey of Maryland has now been practically 
completed, the distribution of stations being such that on the 
average there is one station for every hundred square miles, The 
expenses of the work, with the exception of this year, have been 
entirely borne by the Maryland Geological Survey. 
A SCIENTIFIC and commercial mission, under the direction of 
M. Ernest Milliau, Director of the Laboratory of Technical 
Experiments in connection with the Ministry of Agriculture, 
Paris, has been sent to Russia and Roumania with the object of 
taking measures for facilitating and extending business relations 
with those countries, especially with regard to the exportation of 
olive oils. 
A BACTERIOLOGICAL institute has recently been established 
at Vladivostok, and a similar institute is shortly to be opened 
at Merv in Central Asia. 
OwING to the prevalence of enteric fever in Natal, every man 
ordered for military service in that Colony has, says the Lancet, 
been given the option of being inoculated with anti-typhoid 
serum, and 70 per cent. of the troops have accepted the offer. 
THE late Prof. O. C. Marsh’s executors are about to sell his 
valuable collection of orchids, objects of art, antiquities, &c., 
for the benefit of the Yale University. 
ACCORDING to the Sczentific American, Japan is to send out 
an Arctic Expedition. The Japanese Government wishes, says 
our contemporary, to develop in the Japanese the spirit of 
adventure and discovery which has rendered the English nation 
so powerful. 
THE New York Zoological Park, situated in Bronx Park, is 
to be opened to the public this month. The Scéentzfic American 
states that the specimens which will be ready for public inspec- 
tion will form but a small part of the exhibit, and that these 
will be very interesting. 
THE return, after an absence of two years, of Mr. A. J. Stone, 
of New York, is announced. Mr. Stone has been travelling in 
the Arctic regions during the time mentioned, studying the geo- 
graphical distribution of animals. It is reported that during five 
months of travel last winter he covered 3000 miles of coast and 
mountain entirely above the Arctic circle. 
Science announces the return from Manila of the Johns 
Hopkins University Commission, which, under the direction of 
Dr. S. Flexner, has spent the past summer in studying tropical 
diseases. 
THE death is announced, from Vienna, of Dr. Oscar Baumann, 
who had acquired some reputation as an African explorer. In 
1885 Dr. Baumann joined the Austrian Congo expedition, sub- 
sequently visiting the island of Fernando Po, the Cameroons, 
and parts of East Africa. Other expeditions followed, in one 
of which he fell into the hands of hostile Arabs, and was only 
released on the payment of a ransom, . He was entrusted with 
