February 18, 1898.] 



SCIENCE. 



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livered at the annual meeting, by Professor 

 Simon Newcomb; 'Orthogonal Group in a 

 Galois Field, ' by Dr, L. E. Dickson; a valuable 

 review of Weber's Algebra, by Professor James 

 Pierpont; 'Shorter Notices; 'Notes;' and 'New 

 Publications. ' 



The Romanes lecture of Oxford University 

 will be delivered by Sir Archibald Geikie in the 

 Sheldonian Theatre on June 1st, on ' Types of 

 Scenery and their Influence on Literature.' 



Mk. F. W. Dyson, of the Royal Observatory, 

 Greenwich, London, writes to the London 

 Times that the photographs of the solar eclipse 

 taken by the Astronomer Royal, Professor 

 Turner, Captain Hills, Mr. Newall and Dr. 

 Copeland have all been developed and that 

 the results are excellent. Captain Hills has 

 succeeded in photographing the spectrum of 

 the reversing layer, and Professor Turner has 

 obtained marked results as to the amount of 

 polarization of the corona. 



Professor Hitzig, of Halle, has been elected 

 an honorary member of the London Neurolog- 

 ical Society, in the room of the late Professor 

 du Bois-Reymond. 



It is reported in Nature that, after sixteen 

 years as professor of geography at the Royal 

 University of Turin, Professor Guido Cora has 

 resigned his charge, in order to devote himself 

 entirely to scientific researches in geography 

 and related sciences. He has transferred his 

 residence (and the direction of his periodical 

 Cosmos) to Rome, Via Goito, 2. 



The physico-mathematical section of the 

 Berlin Academy of Sciences has appropriated 

 700 Marks to Professor Fr. Dahl, of Kiel, for the 

 arrangement of the zoological material collected 

 by him in Raltim ; 500 Marks to Dr. Philipp 

 Fauth, of Landstuhl, for the publication of 

 drawings of the planets Jupiter and Mars, and 

 1,200 Marks to Dr. K. Holtermann, of Berlin, 

 for the publication of a work on the fungi of 

 the East Indies. 



Peopessor Edmund J. James, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, has been nominated by the 

 Bureau of Education to represent the United 

 States at the International Congress of Com- 



mercial Instruction, to be held at Antwerp next 

 April. 



It is proposed to hold an International In- 

 dustrial and Commercial Congress in Brazil, 

 from May to October, 1899. 



A CONFERENCE of representatives of the 

 National and State Boards of Health to consider 

 questions of general sanitation will probably 

 be arranged in connection with the Interna- 

 tional Health Exposition, to be held at the 

 Grand Palace, New York City, from April 25th 

 to May 21st. 



It has been decided to hold at Earl's-court, 

 London, from May to October next, a universal 

 exhibition intended to illustrate the inventions,, 

 industries, manufactures and applied arts of to- 

 day. An endeavor will be made to render it 

 international in its scope, and sections have 

 been devoted to France, Germany, Russia, 

 Austria-Hungary, Switzerland, Turkey, Bosnia 

 and the United States. The exhibition will be 

 the fourth of the series held at Earl's-court^ 

 under the management of the London Exhibi- 

 tions (Limited). 



The Council of the Sanitary Institute of Great 

 Britain has accepted an invitation from the 

 Lord Mayor and City Council of Birmingham 

 to hold its seventeenth congress and exhibition 

 in that city in September next. 



An exhibition of the collections of the Jesup 

 North Pacific expedition, made during the sum- 

 mer and autumn of 1897, will be opened in the 

 American Museum of Natural History on Feb- 

 ruary 15th. A lecture on the general results of 

 the expedition will be given, at 8 p. m., in the 

 museum. 



Mr. H. S. H. Cavendish, already known for 

 his explorations in Somaliland, is about to start 

 with a caravan of four hundred natives to in- 

 vestigate the country west and northwest of 

 Lake Rudolf, in equatorial Africa. 



Me. G. B. Sutton, of Newark Valley, has 

 presented to Cornell University a collection of 

 the woodpeckers of North America, together 

 with an oil painting representing a forest scene. 

 The woodpeckers, representing 24 species and 11 

 sub-species, are mounted in natural attitudes 

 upon an artificial beech stump, about 3.3 meters- 



