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such as by sending her letters from him 

 (which will be carefully copied and returned), 

 or by furnishing any information about his 

 life, anecdotes illustrative of character, etc. 



Dr. August Hoch, physician to the Bloom- 

 ingdale Asylum and assistant professor of 

 psychiatry in the Cornell Medical College, is 

 to succeed Dr. Adolf Meyer as director of 

 the Pathological Institute of the New York 

 State Hospitals for the Insane. 



As has been noted in Science, an Academy 

 of Sciences at Heidelberg has been established 

 with an endowment of a million Marks, given 

 by Herr Lanz, of Mannheim. The original 

 members of the academy are the following 

 professors in the university : Biitschli, Cur- 

 tius, Klebs, K(3nigsberger, Kossel, Lenard, 

 Nissl, Wolf, Wiilfing. 



The University of Geneva has conferred 

 on Lord Lister the honorary degree of doctor 

 of medicine. 



Dr. C. W. Stiles, TJ. S. Public Health and 

 Marine Hospital Service, has been elected a 

 foreign corresponding member of the Acad- 

 emy of Medicine of Turin. 



Professor B. Br.iuner, of Prague, and Mme. 

 Curie, of Paris, have been elected members of 

 the Krakau Academy of Sciences. 



Mr. J. LuNT, astrophysical assistant at the 

 Cape Observatory, has been given the honor- 

 ary degree of D.Sc, by the University of Man- 

 chester. 



The medical students of Glasgow Univer- 

 sity met in the Union on June 25 to make a 

 presentation to Professor John Cleland, whose 

 intention to retire from the chair of anatomy, 

 which he has occupied for thirty-two years, 

 has been announced. 



Dr. Christi.\ni BXumler, professor of path- 

 ology at Freiburg, is about to retire from ac- 

 tive service. 



Dr. Wilhelm Ebsteix, professor of med- 

 icine at Gottingen, has celebrated the fiftieth 

 anniversary of his doctorate. 



Mr. Stephen Dows Thaw has been ap- 

 pointed assistant at the Allegheny Observa- 

 tory, and Mr. Dinsmore iVlter has been ap- 



pointed fellow in astronomy at the same 

 institution. 



Dr. Alfred Nippold has been promoted to 

 be observer, and Professor T. H. Arndt to be 

 chief of division in the Meteorological Insti- 

 tute at Berlin. 



Dr. V. A. Moore, director of the State Vet- 

 erinary College, Cornell University, is spend- 

 ing several wesks in Denmark, Germany and 

 England. He is investigating European 

 methods of controlling diseases of cattle. 



Dr. W. S. Bruce, of the Scottish Oceano- 

 graphical Laboratory, Edinburgh, has char- 

 tered a steam trawler, and is having her re- 

 fitted for a scientific expedition to Prince 

 Charles Foreland, Spitzbergen. 



The Christiania correspondent of the Lon- 

 don Times reports that Dr. Nansen has now 

 completed his preparations for the cruise 

 which he is about to make in northern waters 

 for the purpose of continuing his study of 

 ocean currents and sea temperature, which 

 have an important bearing on the questions of 

 the fisheries and the climate of Norway. The 

 voyage will be made in a small private yacht, 

 which has been furnished with ice sheathing 

 and is otherwise suitably equipped. Dr. 

 Nansen intends to be away till the end of the 

 autumn, and the cruise will cover the Nor- 

 wegian sea towards Iceland and will possibly 

 be continued to Greenland. 



The Society for the Promotion of Agricul- 

 tural Science meets at Portland, Ore., on 

 August 17, under the presidency of Professor 

 Thomas F. Hunt, of the Pennsylvania State 

 College. 



Dr. Hermon C. Bumpus, director of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York; Mr. Gifford Pinchot, United States 

 forester, and Professor J. W. Toumey, of Yale 

 University, were among the speakers in a pro- 

 gram of illustrated talks on " Our Forests and 

 their Conservation," given at Bar Harbor on 

 July 27. 



Frank Carney, Ph.D. (Cornell), professor 

 of geology in Denison University, delivered a 

 course of lectures on " Geographic Influences " 

 in the University of Virginia during the sum- 

 mer session. 



