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Academy of Natural Sciences the following 

 officers, Councillors and members of the Finance 

 Committee, to serve during 1899, were elected : 



President, Samuel G. Dixon, M.D. ; Vice Presidents, 

 Thomas Meehan, Eev. Henry C. McCook, D.D.; Ee- 

 cording Secretary, Edward J. Nolan, M.D. ; Corre- 

 sponding Secretary, Benjamin Sharp, M.D. ; Treas- 

 urer, George Vaux, Jr.; Librarian, Edward J. Nolan, 

 M.D. ; Curators, Henry A. Pilsbry, Henry C. Chap- 

 man, M.D., Arthur Erwin Brown, Samuel G. Dixon, 

 M.D. ; Councillors to serve three years, Charles E. 

 Smith, Uselma C. Smith, John Cadwalder, William 

 Sellers ; Finance Committee, Charles Morris, Chas. 

 E. Smith, Uselma C. Smith, William Sellers, Charles 

 Roberts ; Councillor for unexpired term of two years, 

 Charles Schaffer, M.D. 



The following standing committees were ap- 

 pointed for the year : 



Publications : Thomas Jleehan, Charles E. Smith, 

 Henry A. Pilsbry, Henry Skinner, M. D., Edward J. 

 Nolan, M. D. 



Library : Arthur Erwin Brown, Thomas A. Robin- 

 son, Henry C. Chapman, JL D., Dr. C. Newlin Peirce 

 and Charles Schaffer, M. D. 



Instruction and Lectures : Uselma C. Smith, Eenj. 

 Smith Lymann, Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., Philip P. 

 Calvert and Charles Morris. 



Committee of Council on By-Laws : Isaac J. Wis- 

 tar, Theodore D. Rand, Arthur Erwin Brown and 

 Benjamin Sharp, M. D. 



The Ninth International Congress of Oph- 

 thalmology will be held at Utrecht from August 

 14 to 18, 1899. The scientific work of the 

 Congress will be divided among three sections, 

 as follows : (1) Anatomy, Pathological Anatomy 

 and Bacteriology ; (2) Optics and Physiology ; 

 (3) Clinical and Operative Methods. 



The annual meeting of the Board of Man- 

 agers of the New York Zoological Society was 

 held on January 17th, with the Hon. Levi P. 

 Morton, the President of the Society, in the 

 chair. The Chairman of the Executive Com- 

 mittee, Professor Henry F. Osborn, reported 

 the important progress in the construction of 

 buildings and other installations, to which we 

 recently called attention. It was announced 

 at the meeting that Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt 

 had contributed $5,000 toward the building fund. 



The Finance Committee of the Philadelphia 

 City Council has reported favorably upon a 

 proposed loan of $200,000 by the city for 



the buildings and equipments of the Phila- 

 delphia Museums. The bill will probably 

 be passed by the Council, and this insures the 

 raising of the $300,000 required under the Act 

 of Congress appropriating $300,000 towards the 

 aid of the exposition of manufactured products 

 of the United States to be held in Philadelphia 

 next autumn. $50,000 has been appropriated 

 by the State Legislature and $50,000 has been 

 collected by private subscription. The United 

 States government has also appropriated a 

 further sum of $50,000 for the purchase of sam- 

 ples of foreign goods to show the kind of goods 

 that should be exported. Dr. W. P. Wilson, 

 Director of the Museums, will be Director-Gen- 

 eral of the Exposition. 



A chemical and pharmaceutical laboratory 

 has been opened in Rajkote, in western India. 

 30,000 rupees have been given for the con- 

 struction of the building by Azam Laxmon 

 Meran. The equipment is paid for by the state. 

 Mr. H. L. Lee has been appointed director of 

 the laboratory. 



M. Emilb Dubois has introduced into the 

 French Chamber of Deputies a bill providing 

 for the creation in each department of France 

 of one or more bacteriological laboratories, with 

 a view to the repression and prevention of con- 

 tagious diseases, particularly tuberculosis. 



E. C. Simmons, ex-Mayor of Kenosha, Wis. , 

 has offered to build and present to that city a 

 library building and to purchase 25,000 vol- 

 umes for it. The estimated cost of the gift is 

 $100,000. 



The Amesbury (Mass.) public library will 

 receive $10,000 by the will of the late Mary 

 A. Barnard. 



The corner stone of the School of Practical 

 Horticulture was laid at Hyeres on January 

 8th, in the presence of M. Viger, the French 

 Minister of Agriculture. 



The Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, has 

 secured, through the generosity of Mr. Stanley 

 E. McCormick, a valuable collection of articles 

 from the Moqui tribes of the Pueblo Indians. 

 It was made by a missionary and represents the 

 arts of the tribes from their earliest association 

 with the pioneers up to the present time. 



A telegram from Sydney has been received 



