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son, R. H. Thurstou, J. S. Ames and George F. 

 Barker, and President W. L. Wilson. 



The American delegates to the Congress of 

 Tuberculosis now meeting at Berlin are Dr. 

 Boyd, of the Navy ; Dr. Vaughan, of the Ma- 

 rine Hospital Service ; Dr. De Schweinitz, of 

 Department of Agriculture ; Dr Stiles, scientific 

 attache to the embassj' at Berlin. 



Me. Feank a. Flowee, Chief Statistician of 

 the State of Wisconsin, has been appointed 

 Chief of the Agricultural Division of the Census. 



Oxford University has conferred the honor- 

 ary degree of M.A. upon Mr. Roland Trimen, 

 F.R.S., formerly Curator of the South African 

 Museum, Cape Town, and late President of the 

 Entomological Society of London. 



Lord James, of Hereford, has been elected 

 chairman of the governing body of the Imperial 

 Institute, London, in the room of the late Lord 

 Herschel. 



Professor George F. Barker, of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, and Professor Carl 

 Barns, of Brown University, are among the 

 American delegates attending the Jubilee of Sir 

 George Stokes, of Cambridge. 



President William L. Wilson, of Washing- 

 ton and Lee University, has been chosen by the 

 Regentsof the Smithsonian Institution to repre- 

 sent them at the approaching celebration of the 

 centennial of the Royal Institution of Great 

 Britain. 



The St. Petersburg Geographical Society has 

 awarded its great gold medal to Dr. G. Radde, 

 Director of the Caucasian Museum at Tiflis. 



Major Ross, who has recently been appointed 

 lecturer at the newly established school of 

 tropical diseases at University College, Liver- 

 pool, has given a lecture before the Biological So- 

 ciety of that city on the relations of the malarial 

 parasite to the mosquito, to which his own re- 

 searches have been such an important contribu- 

 tion. 



The death is announced of Sir Frederick 

 McCoy, F.R.S., professor of natural sciences at 

 Melbourne University. We learn from the 

 London Times that he was born in Dublin in 

 1823 and that he was educated for the medical 

 profession at Dublin and Cambridge Universi- 

 ties, but early devoted himself to natural 



science. Sir R. Griffith invited him to make 

 the paleoutological investigations for the Geo- 

 logical map of Ireland for the boundary survey, 

 the results of which he published in 1844. 

 Afterwards he joined the Imperial Geological 

 Survey of Ireland, and Sir R. Peel's govern- 

 ment appointed him professor of geology in the 

 Queen's University in 1850. Professor McCoy 

 undertook, in conjunction with Professor Sedg- 

 wick, a large work on paleozoic rocks and 

 fossils ba.sed on the Woodwardian collection at 

 Cambridge. In 1854 he was appointed the 

 first professor of natural science in Melbourne 

 University, and held the chair till his death. 

 His services to Victoria were considerable, no- 

 tably in regard to the Geological Survey of the 

 colonj', as a member of various commissions, 

 and as the founder of the Melbourne National 

 Museum. In 1880 he was elected F.R.S., and 

 was one of the first to receive the honorary de- 

 gree D.Sc. from Cambridge. In 1886 he was 

 made a C.M.G., and in 1891 he was promoted 

 to be K.C.M.G. Sir F. McCoy also received 

 the Order of the Crown of Italy from King 

 Victor Emanuel, the Emperor of Austria's great 

 gold medal for arts and sciences, the Murchison 

 medal of the Geological Society of London, and 

 many similar distinctions. 



Dr. Ludwig Steumpell, professor of phil- 

 osophy and pedagogy at Leipzig, has died at the 

 age of 87 years. He was an eminent repre- 

 sentative of the Herbartiau School. 



Me. H. B. Hewetson, an eminent English 

 oculist, has died at the age of 49 years. He 

 was the author of numerous scientific contri- 

 butions, being a member of the Zoological, 

 Linuiieau and Geographical Societies and a 

 member of the Ornithologists' Union. 



Dr. Theodoe von Hessling, formerly pro- 

 fessor of anatomy in the University of Blunich, 

 has died at the age of 83 years. 



The Rev. T. Neville Hutchinson, died on May 

 6th at the age of 73 years. Mr. Hutchinson was 

 science master at Rugby from 1866-83 and did 

 much to introduce the study of science in the 

 English public schools. 



The Secretaries of the Sections of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Science 

 are sending to members notices of the Colum- 



