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at the age of 69 j^ears. He gave the Goulstonian, 

 Lumleian and Crooniaii lectures and the Har- 

 veian oration before the Royal College of Phy- 

 sicians, and contributed in many ways to the 

 advancement of medical science and education. 



We regret also to recoi'd the deaths of Pro- 

 fessor Karl Scheibler, the chemist at Berlin, 

 aged 72 years ; of Dr. Josef Wastler, docent in 

 geodesy in the Technical Institute at Graz, and 

 of Dr. H. A. Wahlforso, professor of chemistry 

 at Helsingfors, at the age of 60 years. 



A CABLEGRAM from Constantinople states 

 that in order to develop the agricultural re- 

 sources of the empire, the Sultan has consulted 

 with the United States Minister, Mr. O. S. 

 Straus, in regard to securing the services of 

 two American agricultural experts, who will be 

 attached to the Ministry of Mines, Agriculture 

 and Forests. 



Me. John Hamilton has been appointed 

 Secretary of Agriculture for the State of Penn- 

 sylvania by Governor Stone in the place of Mr. 

 Thomas J. Edge, who has been compelled to re- 

 sign. It is said that this change has been made 

 for political rather than for scientific reasons. 



A Civil Service examination for the posi- 

 tion of Computer in the Division of Forestry, 

 Department of Agriculture, at a salary of $1,000 

 per annum, will be held on May 16th and 17th. 

 The examination is chiefly on computation in 

 forestry. 



At the annual meeting of the California 

 Academy of Sciences otficers and trustees have 

 been elected to fill the various ofiices in the 

 Academy for the ensuing year as follows : Pres- 

 ident, Willam E. Ritter ; First Vice-President, 

 Chas. H. Gilbert; Second Vice-President, H. H. 

 Behr ; Corresponding Secretary, J. O'B. Gunn ; 

 Recording Secretary, G. P. Rixford ; Treasurer, 

 L. H. Foote ; Librarian, Louis Falkenau ; Di- 

 rector of the Museum, Charles A. Keeler ; 

 Trustees, William M. Pierson, George C. Per- 

 kins, C. E. Grunsky, William H. Crocker, 

 George W. Dickie, E. J. Molera, James F. 

 Houghton. The yearly report of the President, 

 William E. Ritter, showed the past year to have 

 been one of earnest activity in the various 

 working departments. The necessity is urged 

 ■of concentrating the efforts and the funds of 



the Academy toward making complete the 

 natural history collections of the State. Es- 

 pecial stress is laid upon the desirability of ex- 

 ploring the waters of the Pacific that wash the 

 California coast, and collecting into the store- 

 cases and exhibition galleries of the Museum 

 the scientific treasures of these waters. The 

 report mentions the gratifying commendation 

 which the improved style in which the Proceed- 

 ings are issued calls forth from both at home and 

 abroad. Here may be mentioned the highly 

 appreciated gift of $1,000 given to the publica- 

 tion fund by Mr. C. P. Huntington. The re- 

 port of the Librarian gives the number of vol- 

 umes in the library as nearly 10,000. The 

 crowded meetings held twice each month evince 

 the public interest in the popular scientific lec- 

 tures, which are open to all. The principal 

 event of the year was the definite movement, 

 appropriately initiated by the Society of Cali- 

 fornia Pioneers and heartily participated in by 

 the Academy, to secure from the State Legisla- 

 lature funds for the erection of a statue to the 

 late James Lick, to whom the Academy owes 

 an ever-growing debt of gratitude for his benefi- 

 cent gift to the institution. 



The fourteenth annual meeting of the Asso- 

 ciation of American Physicians will be held at 

 the Arlington Hotel, Washington, D. C, on 

 May 2d, Sd and 4th. 



The annual meeting of the Iron and Steel 

 Institute of Great Britain will be held on May 

 4th and 5th. Sir William Roberts- Austen, the 

 President-elect, will give an inaugural address, 

 and a program has been arranged that includes 

 papers by representatives from the United 

 States, Austria, Russia, Spain and Sweden. 



The Council of the Royal College of Surgeons 

 has decided to celebrate the centenary of its 

 foundation between March 22 and June 80, 

 1900. The College is also considering the ad- 

 visability of applying for power to grant at the 

 time diplomas of honorary fellowships, of which 

 not more than fifty shall be conferred. 



Plans are being made for the establishment 

 of an institute of bacteriology and experimental 

 medicine at Bucharest. 



The Prince of Monaco is building at Monaco 

 a Museum of Oceanography to contain the col- 



