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SCIENCE. 



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In all he published 134 papers from his own 

 pen, and under his direction over 400 were pub- 

 lished by the pupils— numbering 123 — who 

 worked in his laboratory under his direction. 

 Of these pupils 45 are already professors and 17 

 Privatdocenten. 



Strieker lived very much apart and went 

 very little into society. What interested him 

 he fought for, regardless of consequences. Per- 

 haps his position in Vienna in later years may 

 be summed up in the words of one of his as- 

 sistants — Georg Kapsammer — from whose short 

 biographical notice of Strieker most of the 

 above facts are taken : ' ' Strieker's life was one 

 rich in work, rich in results, rich in disputes ; 

 rich in luck and honors it was not." 



GENERAL. 



Pbofessob William James, of Harvard 

 University, has been appointed Giflford lec- 

 turer to the University of Edinburgh for the 

 years 1899-1901. He will give two courses of 

 ten lectures each on 'Natural Religion.' Pro- 

 fessor James has also been elected corre- 

 spondent of the Institute of France (Acad, des 

 Sciences morales et politiques). 



Professor J. M. Schaeberle has resigned 

 his position as astronomer at the Lick Observa- 

 tory. The Regents of the University of Cali- 

 fornia have accepted the resignation, to take 

 effect after one year, with leave of absence and 

 salary for the year. 



M. Deslandees, whose astrophysical work 

 is well known, has been transferred from the 

 observatory at Paris to the astrophysical ob- 

 servatory at Meudon. 



The freedom of the city of Edinburgh will 

 be conferred on Lord Lister on June 15th. 



The University of Aberdeen has conferred 

 its LL.D. on Dr. Charles Chree, Superintendent 

 of Kew Observatory. The University of Edin- 

 burgh has conferred the same degree on Mr. 

 Horace T. Brown, F.R.S. ; Professor D. G. 

 Ritchie and Professor J. V. Carus, of Leipzig. 



Dr. H. M. Fernando will, says Nature, 

 probably be the Director of the Bacteriological 

 Institute to be opened in Colombo shortly. 

 The final plans for the building have been com- 

 pleted, and the work will be taken in hand at 



once. It is expected that the Institute will be 

 opened by the beginning of next year. 



The Council of the University of Paris has 

 appointed MM. Milne-Edwards and Blanchard 

 delegates from the University to the approach- 

 ing meeting of the International Zoological 

 Congress. 



M. KuNCKEL d'HerctjlAis, the French nat- 

 uralist, has, at the request of the Argentine Re- 

 public, been entrusted with the establishment 

 and conduct of a bureau of economic entomol- 

 ogy at Buenos Ayres. 



The Council of the Linnsean Society has, as 

 we have already announced, decided to award 

 the Society's gold medal for the year to Mr. G. 

 C. Wollich, in recognition of his valuable scien- 

 tific labors connected with the investigations of 

 the biological conditions of the deep sea. Re- 

 garding this event the London Times relates 

 that it is now nearly forty years since Mr. Wol- 

 lich accompanied Sir F. L. McClintock in her 

 Majesty's ship Bulldog on an expedition de- 

 spatched by the British government for the pre- 

 paratory survey of the route for the telegraph 

 cable between England and America. Not- 

 withstanding that dredging was foreign tothe ob- 

 ject of the expedition, Mr. Wollich obtained 

 materials, slender and fragmentary as they 

 were, which led to his discovery of the existence 

 of a deep-sea fauna. Though some of his opin- 

 ions and conclusions have not survived the test of 

 subsequent research, many of them have been es- 

 tablished on conclusive proof. Dr. John Murray, 

 of the Challenger ; Dr. Giinther, President of the 

 Linnsean Society, and Mr. George Murray, of 

 the Botanical Department of the British Mu- 

 seum, have all borne testimony recently to the 

 value of Mr. Wollich's work. 



A committee, with the Mayor of Boulogne 

 as Chairman, has been formed for the purpose 

 of erecting a monument to the memory oj: 

 ' Duchenne de Boulogne.' 



A BUST of the late Professor P. Schiitzen- 

 berger was unveiled at the Paris Ecole de 

 physique et de chimie industrielles, of which 

 he was the first Director, on April 3d. 



We regret to record the death of Dr. Georg 

 DragendorfF, professor of pharmacy at Rostock, 

 at the age of 62 years, and of Dr. F. Sand- 



