Januaby 7, 1898.] 



SCIENCE. 



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prepared. It will be published in an early 

 issue of Science. 



H. C. BuMPUS, 



Secretary. 

 Brown University, Providence, R. I. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 The meeting of the American Society of 

 Naturalists at Ithaca, reported above, was un- 

 usually well attended, owing to the large 

 number of affiliated societies meeting with it. 

 In addition to the Physiological Society, the 

 Morphological Society and the Psychological 

 Association, which met last year at Boston, 

 there was not only the Association of Anato- 

 mists, which last year postponed its meeting 

 till the spring, but there were also two new 

 societies — the Association for Botanical Mor- 

 phology and Physiology, and Section H., An- 

 thropology, of the American Association. The 

 proceedings of all these societies, which will be 

 fully reported in this Journal by the Secre- 

 taries, were crowded with excellent papers. 

 The meeting at New York next winter will 

 undoubtedly be the most important in the 

 history of the American Society of Naturalists 

 and affiliated societies. 



The Royal Society has received, through Pro- 

 fessor Anderson Stuart, telegraphic information 

 that the expedition sent out to bore a coral reef 

 at Funafuti has returned to Sydney, having 

 carried the bore down to 698 feet, without 

 reaching the bed rock. 



At a meeting of the Board of Managers of the 

 National Geographic Society on December 31, 

 1897, Alexander Graham Bell was elected Presi- 

 dent of the Society. This election fills the va- 

 cancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Gardiner 

 G. Hubbard. 



The Parkin Prize of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences has been awarded to Dr. A. D. Waller, 

 of London, for his investigations on the relations 

 of nervous activity and carbon dioxide. The 

 prize is of the value of about $600. 



M. Rambaud, French Minister of Education, 

 Senator, and professor of contemporary history 

 at the Sorbonne, has been elected a member of 

 the Academy of Moral Sciences, in the room of 

 the late Due d'Aumale. 



The Berlin Academy of Sciences has appro- 

 priated three thousand Marks for the publica- 

 tion of a map of the Arabian desert of Egypt. 



The office of Astronomer Royal of Ireland, and 

 the professorship of astronomy in the Univer 

 sity of Dublin, has been conferred upon Mr. C. 

 J. Joly, fellow of Trinity College. 



"William Harper, Chief of the Bureau of In- 

 formation of the Philadelphia Commercial Mu- 

 seums, has returned to Philadelphia after a trip 

 around the world taken in the interest of th& 

 Museums. 



The death is announced of Dr. Friedrich A. 

 T. Winnecke, who some years ago made im- 

 portant contributions to the astronomy of posi- 

 tion at the observatories at Bonn, Pulkova and 

 Karlsruhe. On the establishment of the Univer- 

 sity of Strassburg, at the end of the Franco-Ger- 

 man War, he was made director of the observa- 

 tory, but his health broke down, and since that 

 time he has been unable to accomplish any 

 scientific work. 



We regret also to record the deaths of the fol- 

 lowing men of science : M. Imbault Huart, the 

 French Consul at Canton, at the age of forty 

 years, who was a high authority on the lan- 

 guages and geography of the Far East, espe- 

 cially of Formosa, on which he published an 

 elaborate work ; Dr. Giacomo Sangalli, profes- 

 sor of pathological anatomy in the University 

 of Pavia, and Senator of the Kingdom of Italy, 

 aged 76 ; Dr. Franz Ritter von Schneider, pro- 

 fessor of chemistry in the University of Vienna. 



Ground was formally broken for the Museum 

 Building of the New York Botanical Garden 

 by President Samuel MacMillan, of the Depart- 

 ment of Public Parks, on December 31st, with 

 a nickel-plated pick and shovel presented to 

 him at the site for the purpose by Messrs. 

 Parker and Parshley, of the John H. Park.er 

 Co., contractors, in the presence of Messrs. 

 Fallows and Ward, representing Mr. R. W. 

 Gibson the architect, and Dr. Britton, Mr. 

 Henshaw and Mr. Nash, of the Garden staff, 

 and others. Appropriate remarks were made 

 by President MacMillan and by Dr. Britton. 

 The contract for the construction and equip- 

 ment of the Museum Building, Power House 

 and minor buildings has been awarded by the 



