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Gardiner Greene Hubbard was duly held iu 

 Washington on January 21st, in accordance 

 with the arrangements that we had previously 

 announced. Mr. Alexander Graham Bell pre- 

 sided, and addresses were made in behalf of the 

 different institutions and scientific movements 

 in connection with which Mr. Hubbard was 

 prominent. The speakers were Surgeon-Gen- 

 eral George M. Steruburg ; Professor S. P. Lang- 

 ley; President W. L. Wilson, of Washington 

 and Lee University; President B. L. Whit- 

 man, of Columbian University ; President D. C. 

 Gilman, of Johns Hopkins University ; Dr. 

 Marcus Benjamin, Major J. W. Powell, Mr. 

 A. W. R. SpoflTord and General A. W. Greely. 



We regret to record the following deaths 

 among men of science : Professor Ernst Lud- 

 wig Taschenberg, known for his contributions 

 to popular economic entomology on January 

 20th, at the age of seventy-nine years ; Dr. 

 Necker, Privatdocent in astronomy at Konigs- 

 berg, who died at Cairo, as the result of an 

 accident on December 23d, aged thirty years ; 

 and M. Ernst Bazin, inventor of the roller 

 steamer, for which much has been claimed. 



Cablegrams to the daily papers report that 

 the weather was extremely favorable for the 

 various parties observing the total eclipse of the 

 sun in India on January 22d. Fuller information 

 must be awaited before any details can be given, 

 but it is expected that the photographic results 

 will be especially valuable. 



The German Association of Men of Science 

 and Physicians will this year hold its annual 

 meeting in Leipzig, under the presidency of 

 Professor Waldeyer. 



A LOCAL reception committee has been formed 

 in Cambridge for the fourth International Con- 

 gress of Zoology, which opens on August 23d, 

 with Professor Newton as chairman aud Mr. 

 Adam Sedgwick as vice-chairman. 



The International Fishery Congress convened 

 at Tampa, Fla., on January 19th, with dele- 

 gates from nearly all the States and from several 

 foreign countries in attendance. There were 

 present a large number of men of science, and 

 important papers were promised in the program. 

 We hope to give, in a subsequent number, a re- 

 port of the scientific work of the Congress. 



The following item from the Martinsburg 

 Democrat should be of interest to the President 

 of the United States and to Senator Elkins : 

 "Between the hours of 8 and 9 o'clock on 

 Tuesday night last, people residing in the 

 neighborhood of King and Raleigh streets were 

 startled by a war of words between George M. 

 Bowers and his brother, John S. Bowers, who 

 are not on amicable terras. The wordy contest 

 soon resulted in a fisticuff, in which a severe 

 wound was inflicted by George M. Bowers upon 

 his brother, extending almost from ear to ear. 

 So severe was the injury that the services of 

 Dr. Morison were required to dress the wound, 

 as the injured brother bled profusely. No 

 arrests were made. This is the same gentle- 

 man who is a candidate for Fish Commissioner 

 of the United States." 



The Committee of the French Chamber of 

 Deputies appointed to consider the organization, 

 at the Exposition of 1900, of a section for uni- 

 versities and high schools has reported, 

 urgently recommending such a section, to be 

 called ' Section of Science and Letters.' 



The Geological Society of London will this 

 year award its medals and funds as follows: 

 The Wollaston medal to Professor F. Zirkel ; 

 the Murchison medal and part of the fund to 

 Mr. T. F. Jamieson ; the Lyell medal and part 

 of the fund to Dr. W. Waagen ; the balance of 

 the Wollaston fund to Mr. E. J. Garwood ; the 

 balance of the Murchison fund to Miss J. Don- 

 ald ; the balance of the Lyell fund to Mr. Henry 

 Woods and Mr. W. H. Shrubsole ; and a part 

 of the balance of the Barlow-Jameson fund to 

 Mr. E. Greenly. 



At a meeting of the managers of the Royal 

 Institution, held on January 6th, Professor E. 

 Ray Lankester was elected Fullerian profes- 

 sor of physiology in the place of Professor 

 Waller. If nothing has interfered with the 

 program Professor Lankester began on Janu- 

 ary 18th a course of eleven lectures at the 

 Institution on the ' Simplest Living Things.' 

 On January 20th Professor Dewar will de- 

 liver the first of a course of three lectures on the 

 ' Halogen Group of Elements,' and on January 

 22d Professor Patrick Geddes began a course of 

 three lectures on ' Cyprus.' The Friday even- 



