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GENERAL. 



Peofessoe Geoege H. Daewin, of Cam- 

 t)ridge, England, was elected a foreign honorary 

 member of the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences at its meeting of May 11th, in place of 

 the late Professor J. J. Sylvester. 



Peofessoe Nicholas Senn, of Chicago, has 

 been appointed Assistant Surgeon-General of 

 the army with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. 



Peofessoes Metchnie;op and Roux, of Paris, 

 have been elected honorary members of the 

 Imperial University of Kieif. 



The council of the Institution of Civil Engi- 

 neers, London, have made the following awards 

 for papers read and discussed before the insti- 

 tution during the past session : Watt medals 

 and premiums to Messrs. H. L. Callendar and 

 J. T. Nicolson, B.Sc. ; a Telford medal and 

 premium to Mr. A. H. Preece ; George Ste- 

 phenson medals and premiums to Messrs. 

 Whately Eliot and W. O. E. Meade-King ; a 

 Crampton prize to Mr. E. W. Anderson ; Tel- 

 ford premiums to Messrs. L. B. Atkinson, 

 Henry Fowler and W. L. Strange. 



The meeting of the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science in 1899 will be 

 held at Dover, September 13th-20th. The meet- 

 ing of the French Association will be held at 

 nearly the same time at Boulogne, so as to en- 

 able the two associations to interchange visits. 

 The preliminafy arrangements for these meet- 

 ings have already been made, and Professor 

 Michael Foster will be nominated President for 

 the meeting of the British Association at 

 Dover. The meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion in 1901 will be held at Glasgow. An 

 important exhibition will be open in that 

 city at the same time. The place of meeting 

 for the previous year is not yet fixed, but we 

 understand that an invitation to hold it at 

 Bradford, Yorkshire, will be presented to the 

 Association at the Bristol meeting next Sep- 

 tember. 



At a recent meeting of the General Com- 

 mittee of the Philosophical Society, Washing- 

 ton, a special committee, consisting of the 

 President of the Society, Mr. Frank H. Bigelow; 

 the Chairman of the Committee on Communi- 



cations, Mr. J. H. Gore, and a Past- President, 

 Dr. William H. Dall, was appointed to con- 

 sider new lines of work' and activity appropriate 

 to the usefulness of the Society in the future. 



The death is announced, in Nature, of Dr. 

 Karl Ludwig Fridolin , von Sandberger, who 

 until recently was professor of mineralogy and 

 geology in the University of Wiirzburg, and 

 Director of the Mineralogisches Institut. Al- 

 though known for his many important contri- 

 butions to mineralogical science, to the study 

 of ore deposits and to the microscopic structure 

 of eruptive rocks, he was likewise distinguished 

 for his researches on the fossil Mollusca of 

 various formations in the Rhenish provinces and 

 other parts of Germany. His published works 

 date back to 1847. During the years 1850-56 

 he issued, in conjunction with his brother. Dr. 

 Guide Sandberger, 'Die Versteinerungen des 

 rheinischen Schichten-systqms in Nassau,' a 

 work remarkable for the beauty of its illustra- 

 tions and the fidelity of its descriptions, and 

 one which was honored by the award of the 

 Wollaston Fund, which was given to the 

 authors by the Council of the Geological So- 

 ciety in 1855. In 18.63 Dr. Fridolin Saudberger 

 published ' Die Conchylien des Mainzer Tertiar- 

 beckens ; ' in 1870-75 he issued, in two volumes, 

 ' Die Land-und Siisswasser-Conchylien der 

 Vorwelt ; ' and in 1882-85, ' Untersuchungen 

 liber Erzgange, ' an authoritative work on the 

 subject of mineral veins. In the course of his 

 long labors he turned his attention to the Mol- 

 lusca of many different formations, from those 

 of Devonian age to those of Pliocene and Pleis- 

 tocene deposits. In later years his work be- 

 came more concentrated on mineralogical 

 science. In 1875 he was elected a foreign 

 member of the Geological Society of London. 

 He was born in 1826, and died at Wiirzburg on 

 April 11th. 



We regret to record the deaths of Dr. Her- " 

 mann Kammerer, professor of chemistry at the 

 Industrial School at Nuremberg, on April 

 12th, at the age of fifty-eight years ; of Dr. 

 Samuel Gorden, President of the Royal Acad- 

 emy of Medicine of Ireland, and President of 

 the Royal Zoological Society of Dublin ; and of 

 M. Demontzey, Correspondent of the Paris 



