NA TURE 



[June 25, 1896 



President of the Royal Society on the previous evening 

 at Burlington House, and they will be entertained at 

 dinner by the Society on the evening of the 14th at the 

 Hotel Metropole. On the 15th the delegates will be 

 received by the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House, 

 and on the afternoon of the i6th they will be entertained 

 by Dr. Ludwig Mond, F.R.S., at a garden party at his 

 house in Avenue Road. The total number of delegates 

 appointed to attend the Conference amounts to forty, 

 including representatives of the principal colonies of the 

 Empire and the principal Governments of the world. 



The following is a list of the delegates appointed to 

 attend the Conference. 



Austria.— Prof Dr. Edmund Weiss ; Prof. Dr. Ernst 

 Mach. 



Belgium. — Chevalier Descamps-David (President 

 Institut International de Bibliographie) ; M. de Wulf 

 (Member Institut International de Bibliographie) ; M. 

 Paul Otlet (Member Institut International de Biblio- 

 graphie). 



Brazil. — Dr. Joao Ribeiro (Professor " Gymnasio 

 Nacional"). 



Denmark. — Pi-of. Christiansen (Universitet, Copen- 

 hagen). 



France.— Prof A. Milne-Edwards (Membre de 

 I'Institut, &c.) ; Prof G. Darboux (Membre de I'lnstitut, 

 &c.) ; Prof Troost (Membre de I'Institut, &c.) ; Dr. J. 

 Deniker (Librarian, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris). 

 Germany. — (Names not yet received). 

 Greece. — M. Avierinos M. Averoff (Greek Consul 

 at Edinburgh). 



Hungary.- Prof August Heller (Librarian, Ungar- 

 ische Akademie, Buda-Pesth) ; Dr. Theodore Duka 

 (London). 



Italy. — General Annibale Ferrero (Italian Ambassador 

 in London). 



Japan. — Hantaro Nagaoka (Assistant Professor, 

 Science College, Tokio) ; Gakutaro Ozawa (Assistant 

 Professor, Medical College, Tokio). 



Mexico. — Senor Don Francisco del Paso y Ironcoso. 

 NETHERL.A.NDS.— Prof D. J. Korteweg (Universiteit, 

 Amsterdam). 



NoRW.\Y. — (Names not yet received). 

 Portugal.— The Portuguese Minister in London 

 (Senhor D'Antas). 



RUS.SIA. — Privy Councillor Stasovv (First Librarian, 

 Imper. Publicnaja Biblioteka, St. Petersburg). 



Sweden.— Dr. E. \V. Dahlgren (Librarian, Kongl. 

 Svenska Vetenskaps Akademie, Stockholm;. 



Switzerland.— The Swiss Minister in London 

 (M. Bourcart) ; Prof Dr. F. A. Forel (President du 

 Comite Central de la Societd Helvetique des Sciences 

 Naturelles). 



United Kingdom. — Representing the Government : 

 Right Hon. Sir John E. Gorst, M.P. (Vice-President of 

 the Committee of Council on Education). Representing 

 the Royal Society of London : Prof Michael Foster, 

 Sec. R.S., Prof H. E. Armstrong, F.R.S., Mr. J. Norman 

 Lockyer, C.B., F.R.S., Dr. Ludwig Mond, F.R.S., Prof 

 A. W. Riicker, F.R.S. 



United States.— Dr. John S. Billings (U.S. Army) ; 

 Prof Simon Newcomb, For. Mem. R.S. (U.S. Nautical 

 Almanac Office). 



Canada. — The High Commissioner for Canada (the 

 Hon. Sir Donald A. Smith, G.C.M.G.). 

 Cape Colony.— Mr. Roland Trimen, F.R.S. 

 India. — General Sir Richard Strachey, F.R.S. 

 Natal.— The Agent-General for Natal (Walter Peace, 

 C.M.G.). 



New South Wales.— (Appointment awaiting con- 

 firmation). 



New Zealand.— The Agent-General for New Zealand 

 (the Hon. W. P. Reeves). 



Queensland.— The Agent- General for Queensland. 



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NOTES. 



We are askeil to state that a zoologist with experience 

 of deep-sea dredging is required for the Belgian Antarctic 

 expedition. Intending applicants should communicate with 

 Lieut, de Gerlache, Commander of the expedition, at Sande- 

 fiord, Norway. 



PRor. Dr. G. Neumavek, the Director of the Deutsche 

 Seewarte, reached his seventieth birthday on Sunday last. We 

 join with German scientific papers in congratulating Prof 

 Ncumayer upon his numerous contributions to natural know- 

 ledge, and in the hope that science may have the benefit of his 

 assistance for many years to come. 



Dr. D. Gii.l, F.R.S., has been elected a Correspondant of 

 the Paris Academy of Sciences. 



We regret to announce that Sir Joseph Prestwich died on 

 Tuesday morning, after a short illness. By his death science has 

 lost a devoted student, whose numerous papers in the various 

 departments of theoretical, observational, and practical geology 

 testify to a career of earnest and careful work. He was born in 

 in 1S12, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1853. 



Mr. J. H. Maiden has been appointed Government Botanist 

 and Director of the Botanic Gardens at Sydney, in succession to 

 Mr. Charles Moore, who has recently retired after a service, in 

 these capacities, of nearly half a century. 



Major Arthur Griffiths, one of her Majesty's Inspectors 

 of Prisons, has been appointed by the Home Secretary to re- 

 present her Majesty's Government at the International Congress 

 of Criminal Anthropology to be held at Geneva in August next. 



With reference to the tornado at St. Louis on May 27, we 

 learn from Science that, with commendable promptness, the 

 Washington Weather Bureau issued, on May 29,aspeciaI_storm- 

 bulletin showing the weather conditions over the United States 

 on May 26-28. The Chicago Sh. a.m. forecast on May 27 pre- 

 dicted severe thunderstorms for Illinois and adjoining States 

 during the latter part of the day, and a special warning was 

 issued from Washington at loh. lom. on that morning. 



The Northern Province of Japan has recently been visited by 

 a series of destructive earthquakes. Within twenty hours, on 

 the 15th and i6th insts., no less than 150 shocks were felt. 

 Nearly the whole of the town of Kamaishi has been destroyed, 

 with the reported loss of one thousand lives. Three of the 

 shocks appear to have been of exceptional severity, for, according 

 to information we have received from Prof. Vicentini, they were 

 registered by his microseismograph at I'adua. The first pulsations 

 began there at loh. 45m. a.m. (Greenwich mean time) on the 

 15th, and lasted till oh. lom. p.m. ; the second continued from 

 7h. 2Sm. to Sh. 30m. p.m. ; the third and strongest began at 

 lih. 14m. p.m., and ended at oh. 2m. a.m. on the i6th inst. 

 The great sea-wave, which accompanied the earthquake, 

 extended over seventy miles of the north-east coast of Japan, 

 destroying -many towns, and drowning, it is feared, about ten 

 housand persons. 



A DEVOTED student of natural history, whose name is known 

 to most zoologists, and whose observations have greatly enriched 

 ornithology, has just passed away in the person of Lord Lilford. 

 Numerous notes by him on British birds, and on the ornithology 

 of .Spain and of the shores of the Mediterranean, have appeared 

 in the Zoologist and the Ibis, the journal of the British Ornith- 

 ologists' Union, of which he was President. Last year he 

 published an excellent volume on the birds of his native county, 

 Northamptonshire, with beautiful illustrations, and the thirty- 

 second part of his "Coloured Figures of the Birds of the 

 British Islands,'' which was issued only in April last, almost 



