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colonies, while Northwest Queensland is es- 

 pecially rich. 



Me. Hjalmar Lundbohm, of the Geological 

 Survey of Sweden, is now iu the United States, 

 with a view to studying the deposits of iron 

 ore. 



Dr. Benjamin M. Duggae, instructor in 

 botany (plant physiology) at Cornell Univer- 

 sity and Assistant Cryptogamic Botanist of the 

 Experiment Station, sailed on March 22d from 

 New York for Europe. He will spend the 

 year abroad iu study, principally with Dr. 

 Pfeffer in the laboratories for plant physiology 

 at Leipzig, and with Dr. George Klebs. He 

 will attend the meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science during 

 September. Mr. Duggar received the degree 

 of Doctor of Philosophy at Cornell University 

 last June. He will return in a year to resume 

 his work at Cornell. 



A MARBLE bust of the late I. H. Lapham, 

 the geologist, was, as we learn from the Amer- 

 ican Geologist, unveiled in the public museum 

 of Milwaukee on March 7th. It was presented 

 by Mr. John Marr. Several addresses were 

 made, including one on the life and work of 

 Lapham by Mr. John Johnston. 



A MONUMENT to Pasteur will be unveiled and 

 a Pasteur Institute opened at Lille on April 9th. 



A MONUMENT will be erected in October to 

 Charles Marc Sauria, said to be the original in- 

 venter of luoifer matches, at St. Lothair, a 

 small village in the Jura, where he spent his 

 life as a country physician. 



De. Angelo Knorr, docent in the Veteri- 

 nary School of Munich, died on February 22d, 

 from acute glanders contracted in the course of 

 an experimental research on mallein. 



Miss Elizabeth Beown, of Cirencester, Eng- 

 land, who made valuable contributions to as- 

 tronomy, died on March 6th. She observed 

 the total eclipses of the sun in 1887, 1889 and 

 1896, and had published both scientific and 

 popular accounts of the solar phenomena. 



We regret also to record the deaths of Dr. 

 Wilhelm v. Miiller, professor in the Institute of 

 Technology and member of the Academy of 

 Sciences of Munich ; of Dr. Friedrich v. Liih- 



mann, the mathematician, atStralsund ; of Dr. 

 Charles Fortuun, the mineralogist, in London, 

 and of P. V. Alfr. Feuilleaubois, known for his 

 researches on fungi, at Fontainbleau. 



A Reutee dispatch, dated March 16th, states 

 that the steamer ' Southern Cross ' has ar 

 rived at Port Chalmers from Victoria Land, 

 where she landed M. Borchgrevink and the 

 other members of the Antarctic expedition. 

 The explorers are 11 iu number. 



Me. A. W. Anthony and his party, who 

 have been making collections for the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, have been wrecked off the 

 coast of Lower California. No lives were lost, 

 but the collections could not be saved. 



The Union Pacific Railway offers to trans- 

 port geologists and paleontologists without 

 charge from Chicago or San Francisco to Wy- 

 oming, for the purpose of making explorations 

 during the coming summer. 



An expedition under Lieutenant Koslow is 

 being sent by the Russian Geographical Society 

 to make explorations in Central Asia. It will 

 cross the Nanschu Mountains and explore the 

 upper waters of the Yellow River. 



M. H. R. DuMONT has left to the Paris So- 

 ciety of Geography a travelling fund that will 

 yield 1,000 fr. i^er annum. 



A RADIOGEAPHIC institute has been opened 

 at Madrid under the direction of Di'. Mezquita. 

 It is said to have cost $400,000. 



The French Congiess of Learned Societies 

 met at Toulouse on April 4th under the presi- 

 dency of M. Levasseur. 



At the March meeting of the French Astro- 

 nomical Society M. Cornu made an address on 

 the applications of physics to astronomy. M. 

 Flammariou, the Secretary, reported that a 

 number of astronomers had written saying 

 that they had seen the phases of Venus with 

 the naked eye, the possibility of which has 

 been denied. The air throughout Europe has 

 been unusually clear for a long time. 



The first international congress of physicians 

 connected with life insurance companies will 

 be held at Brussels from the 25th to the 30th of 

 next September. All Europe and the United 

 States will be represented at this congress. 



