Maech 16, 1898.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Mr. W. Whittaker, President of the Geological 

 Society. An illuminated address was pre- 

 sented in the name of the old students by Dr. 

 E. D. Roberts and Mr. Strahan. Professor 

 Hughes has also been presented with a loving- 

 cup by his former students. 



A BUST of the geologist Freiherr H. von 

 Foullon, who was killed in the Solomon Islands 

 in 1896, has been placed in the Geological Insti- 

 tute of the University of Vienna. 



Mayok Van Wyck, of New York, has ap- 

 pointed Mr. Michael C. Murphy, a Tammany 

 politician, to the presidency of the health 

 board of the city. 



The Ninth International Congress of Hy- 

 giene and Demography will, as we have already 

 announced, be opened at Madrid on April 10th 

 and will be continued for one week. The ex- 

 hibition of hygiene will, however, be open for 

 three months. Scientific papers must be sent 

 before March loth. They may be written in 

 Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, 

 English or German, but must be accompanied 

 with a short summary written either in Spanish 

 or in French. The Spanish railways and 

 steamship companies have made a reduction of 

 50 per cent, to all attending the Congress. 



The American Neurological Association will 

 hold its twenty-fourth annual meeting on May 

 26, 27 and 28, 1898, in New York, at the Acad- 

 emy of Medicine. 



The Senate Committee on Commerce has au- 

 thorized Senator Quay to report as a separate 

 bill the amendment to the Sundrj' Civil Bill pro- 

 posed by Senator Penrose in aid of the indus- 

 trial exposition proposed to be held in Phila- 

 delphia in 1899. The bill appropriates $200,- 

 000 for a government exhibit and provides for 

 the admission of foreign articles free of customs 

 duties. 



Appeopkiations have been proposed in the 

 Massachusetts Legislature giving $4,000 for a 

 forest survey of the State and $2,000 for a sur- 

 vey of the lakes and ponds. 



It is reported that the Duke of the Abruzzi 

 has had a conference with Captain Sverdrup on 

 the subject of his projected expedition to the 



Arctic regions. The Duke will leave next- 

 summer for Spitzbergen in order to explore the 

 country, but the expedition will not start until 

 1899, and its first objective will be Franz Josef 

 Land. Should the conditions of the ice be 

 favorable, depots will be established, and an 

 attempt will be made to reach the Pole by 

 means of sledges and dogs. In the event of 

 this, however, proving impracticable, the ex- 

 pedition will confine itself to an exploration of 

 Franz Josef Land. On the advice of Captain. 

 Sverdrup, the Duke will ask the Danish gov- 

 ernment for a supply of dogs from Greenland, 

 as these are considered to be the best. 



The Evening Post reports that the great 

 painter, Mr. G. F. Watts, is an associate of 

 the Society for the Protection of Birds, and 

 feels strongly about the fashion of using the 

 plumage of birds for millinery purposes. He 

 is now painting a picture representing an angel 

 with bowed head and desparing figure bending 

 over a marble tomb covered with birds' wings,, 

 while a spirit of evil grins below. 



The publishing house of G. T. H. Fischer, 

 Cassel, announces several new additions to its 

 series of zoological charts prepared under the 

 supervision of the late Professor Rudolph 

 Leuckart and Dr. Carl Chun. 



Subscriptions to the fund being collected as a 

 memorial to the late Edmund Drechsel should 

 be sent to Professor Kronecker, Bern, not Ber- 

 lin, as given in a recent issue of this Jouenal.. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The will of the late Amos R. Eno contains 

 several public bequests, including $50,000 to- 

 Amherst College. 



Miss Helen Gould, New York, has given 

 $20,000 to Rutgers College. 



Me. Andeew Caenegie has given $50,000' 

 for a technical school at Dumferline, Scot- 

 land. 



De. Geoege S. Fulleeton has resigned the 

 Vice-Pro vostship of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. He will retain the professorship of 

 philosophy, but will take a year's leave of 



