Apeil 15, 1898.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Willy Kuhne, of Heidelberg, and Professor 

 Charles Emile Picard, of Paris. 



Provision is made in the Sundry Civil Ap- 

 propriation Bill, reported to the Senate for the 

 representation of the United States at the Paris 

 Exposition of 1900, the expenses being limited 

 o 1750,000. An immediate appropriation of 

 $200,000 is made. The United States exhibi- 

 tion is to be under the supervision of a Com- 

 missioner-General, an Assistant Commissioner- 

 General and twelve experts. 



A BILL now before the British House of Com- 

 mons provides £800,000 for a building for the 

 Science and Art Museum, South Kensington. 



We learn from Nature that at the meeting of 

 the Manchester Literary and Philosophical So- 

 ciety on Tuesday the President presented the 

 Wilde medal for 1898 to Sir Joseph Dalton 

 Hooker, G.C.S.I., F.R. S. ; the Dalton medal 

 to Dr. Edward Schunck, F.E.S., and the Wilde 

 premium for 1898 to Mr. John Butterworth. The 

 Wilde lecture, ' On the Physical Basis of Psy- 

 chical Events,' was afterwards delivered by 

 Professor Michael Foster. 



As we go to press the New York Academy 

 of Sciences is holding its iifth annual reception 

 and exhibition in the American Museum of 

 Natural History. We hope to give an account 

 of the exhibits and to publish the lecture before 

 the Academy given by Professor Hale, Director 

 of the Yerkes Observatory. 



DuEiNG the month of March the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia received sev- 

 eral gifts, including a valuable collection of 

 lichens from Dr. John W. Eckfeldt, a collection 

 of fossil molluscs from Jamaica, by Mr. S. 

 Schumo, and a collection of butterflies and 

 moths from Honduras by Dr. H. Griffith. 



Peinceton University has received from 

 Mr. J. B. Hatcher a collection of fossil shells 

 from the Straits of Magellan, and other collec- 

 tions have been forwarded. At the time of the 

 ■writing of the last letter the party expected to 

 start on March 1st for an eight months' trip 

 into the interior of Patagonia. 



Peofessoe a. E. Veeeill, of Yale Univer- 

 sity, and a party of students have gone to the 

 Bermuda Islands to study the coral formations 



and to collect specimens which will be deposited 

 in the Peabody Museum. 



De. H. a. Cuppt, Director of the University 

 of Chicago Press, states in Printer's Ink that 

 the Botanical Gazette, the Journal of Geology 

 and the Astrophysical Journal have each an issue 

 of 1,000 copies. 



The Academy of Sciences of Naples offers a 

 prize of 500 francs for an essay on stereo- 

 chemistry. The time limit is June 30, 1899, 

 and the language English, Italian or French. 



The Societe des Secours des Amis des Sci- 

 ences of Paris held its annual meeting at the 

 Sorbonne on April 2d, M. Joseph Bertrand 

 presiding. M. E. A. Martel made an address 

 on the caves of Europe. 



The annual exhibition of the German Agri- 

 cultural Society will be held this year from June 

 16th to 21st, at Dresden. Foreigners will be 

 admitted to compete in the sections of agri- 

 cultural machinery and implements, and of 

 fertilizers and feeding stuiis, but the section of 

 animals will be restricted to exhibits bred in 

 Germany. Applications for the programs of 

 the exhibition should be addressed to Das 

 Direktorium, Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesell- 

 schaft, Berlin, S. W., Kochstrasse, 73. 



The International Aeronautical Committee 

 appointed at the Paris Meteorological Congress 

 of 1896, met at Strasburg on March Slst. The 

 program included a discussion of the four first 

 international balloon ascensions, plans for future 

 ascensions and a discussion of the use of kites 

 and balloons for meteorological purposes. The 

 last discussion was opened by Dr. A. Lawrence 

 Botch. The conference met under the presi- 

 dency of Dr. Hergesell, Director of the Mete- 

 orological Bureau of Alsace-Lorraine, and there 

 were about forty men of science present from 

 France, Austria, Russia, Germany and America. 



At the instance of the Prince of Monaco, 

 Captain Chares, a Portuguese man of science, 

 has established two meteorological stations on 

 the Azores — one on the island of San Miguel, 

 which is connected with the main land by cable, 

 and one on the island of Flores, one hundred 

 miles farther to the west, from which a cable to 

 America is planned. It is expected that the 



