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cides"; 3,000 francs to II. liouard, to enable 

 him to proceed to Corsica, Algeria and Tunis, 

 to collect material for his anatomical and 

 physiological studies; 2,000 francs to M. 

 Berget, for the construction of an apparatus 

 for the study of the distribution and intensity 

 of gravity ; 2,000 francs to M. Bernard, to con- 

 tinue his studies of the variation of the solar 

 radiation and the illumination of the sky in 

 the immediate neighborhood of the sun; 2,000 

 francs to M. Blaringhem, for the continuation 

 of his experimental researches on the varia- 

 tion of species; 2,000 francs to M. Estanave, 

 for the continuation of his researches on 

 stereoscopic projection by direct vision, stereo- 

 radiography and autostereoscopy ; 2,000 francs 

 to M. Mathias, to enable him to continue in 

 the cryogenic laboratory of Leyden his re- 

 searches on liquids and on the law of corres- 

 ponding states at low temperatures. 



The death is announced of Mrs. Jane L. 

 Gray, the widow of Asa Gray, who since her 

 husband's death, has lived in the curator's 

 house of the Harvard Botanical Garden. 



Dr. William Hunter, government bacteriol- 

 ogist in Hong Kong, known for his valuable 

 studies on the diseases of the Chinese, died on 

 June 9, at the age of twenty-four years. 



Dr. a. Herzog, professor of mechanics at 

 the Zurich Polytechnicum, has died at the age 

 of fifty-seven years. 



The death is also announced of M. Henri 

 de Parville, an engineer, but knovm as a writer 

 on popular science and formerly as the editor 

 of La Nature. 



Sm Franxis Galton has made a further do- 

 nation of £500 to the maintenance of the Lab- 

 oratory for National Eugenics under the 

 direction of Professor Karl Pearson, of the 

 University of London. 



A NUMBER of public bequests are made by 

 the will of Miss Emma Sarah Wolfe, includ- 

 ing £1,000 each to the Eoyal Anthropological 

 Institute, the Eoyal Geographical Society 

 and the Eoyal Archeological Society. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has made an addi- 

 tional gift of £19,000 to Liverpool for two 

 branch libraries. 



The sixth annual meeting of the American 

 Breeders' Association is called for December 

 S, 9 and 10, at Omaha, Nebraska, in associa- 

 tion with the National Corn Show held at that 

 place December 6 to 18. A program of ad- 

 dresses by breeders of livestock, breeders of 

 plants and scientific men engaged in the 

 study of the heredity of plants, animals and 

 men is being prepared. Arrangements are 

 being made to have many of the addresses il- 

 lustrated with stereopticon views and moving 

 pictures. 



A meeting of the Italian Congress of the 

 History of Medicine and Natural Science wiU 

 be held at Venice towards the end of Septem- 

 ber. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that the fourth series of lectures on scientific 

 microscopy at the Institute for Microscopy of 

 the Jena University, will be held from Oc- 

 tober 11 to 16. In addition to the lectures, 

 practical demonstrations will be given on the 

 Abbe refraction apparatus test plate and 

 apertometer, and on photomicrography with 

 ultra-violet light, with monochromatic visible 

 light and with incident light (for metal- 

 lography), and on ultramicroscopy of firm 

 colloids of colloidal solutions and of the cells 

 and fibers. Further particulars can be ob- 

 tained from Dr. Ehlers, Beethovenstrasse 14, 

 Jena. The first of these courses was held in 

 Jena in 1907, the second in Vienna in 1908 

 and the third in Berlin in March last. The 

 fifth course will be given at Leipzig in March, 

 1910. 



The movement of the population of the 

 German Empire is now for the first time, 

 with the figures for 1907, made the subject 

 of a separate volume in the publications of 

 the Imperial Statistical Office. According to 

 an abstract in the London Times there is a 

 marked decline in the birth rate, which fell 

 to 33.2 per 1,000 inhabitants, as compared 

 with 34.08 in 1906. The death rate fell to 

 18.98 as compared with 19.20 in 1906. The 

 excess of births over deaths was 882,624 as 

 compared with 910,275 in 1906. The excess, 

 however, of births over deaths (natural in- 



