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brarian and Secretary. The portraits, both of 

 Mr. Fraley and Professor Lesley, were painted 

 by Mrs. Margaret Lesley Bush Brown, daughter 

 of Professor Lesley. 



Me. C. S. Tomes, F.B..S., has been admitted 

 a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of 

 England. 



Lieutenant Robert E. Peary, U. S. N., 

 was the guest of honor at the Geographical So- 

 ciety's annual dinner in Philadelphia on May 

 18th. 



There is a vacancy in the position of Photo- 

 grapher in the United States Naval Observatory 

 at Washington, for which an examination chiefly 

 based upon practical questions in photography 

 and experience in the subject, will be held on 

 June 7th. The salary of this position is $1,200 

 per annum. 



There is also a vacancy in the grade of aid. 

 Department of Biology, United States National 

 Museum, with a salary of $50 per month, for 

 which an examination will be held on June 

 15th. The subjects of the examination can be 

 obtained by addressing the United States Civil 

 Service Commission, Washington. 



Professor E. O. Kendall has presented to 

 the University of Pennsylvania his mathemat- 

 ical library of about one thousand volumes. 



The New York Medical Record quotes a re- 

 port that Mrs. Caroline Croft left $100,000 to 

 Drs. Henry K. Oliver and John Collins Warren, 

 of Boston, for the purpose of making investi- 

 gations to ascertain some method of curing 

 cancer, consumption and other diseases which 

 are now regarded as incurable. 



An Audubon Society for the State of Indiana 

 was organized at Indianapolis on April 26th. 

 The meeting was addressed by the Governor of 

 the State, the President of the University of 

 Indiana and others. 



The regular spring field meeting of the Indi- 

 ana Academy of Science was held at Blooming- 

 ton, April 28th-30th, under the auspices of the 

 Faculty of Sciences of Indiana University. 

 Among the excursions was one to the caves east 

 of Mitchell, the blind fish of which have been 

 described by Professor C. H. Eigenmann. 



The House Committee on Interstate and 



Foreign Commerce has favorably reported the 

 Senate bill appropriating $350,000 for the Com- 

 mercial Museums' Exposition at Philadelphia. 



The Presidents of the Institute of Chemistry, 

 the Society of Chemical Industry, and the So- 

 ciety of Public Analysts, London, have issued 

 invitations to a reception on Tuesday, May 24th. 



The Royal Colonial Institute, London, will 

 hold its annual conversazione at the Natural His- 

 tory Museum, Cromwell-road, on June 29th. 



The Lord Mayor of London gave a banquet 

 on May 4th to the medical profession at the 

 Mansion House. Speeches were made by Sir 

 Samuel Wilkes, President of Royal College of 

 Physicians ; Sir William MacCormack, President 

 of the Royal College of Surgeons ; Sir William 

 Turner, Lord Lister and others. 



The Organizing Committee of the Thirteenth 

 International Medical Congress, held its first 

 meeting on April 23d. The ofiicers of the 

 Committee are : President, Professor Brouar- 

 del ; Vice-Presidents, Professors Bouchard and 

 Marey; General Secretary, Professor Chaufifard ; 

 Treasurer, M. Duflocq. The formal opening of 

 the Congress has been provisionally fixed for 

 August 2, 1900. 



The Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain 

 held its spring meeting in the Hall of the In- 

 stitution of Civil Engineers, London, on May 

 5th and 6th. The President, Mr. E. P. Martin, 

 occupied the chair, and a number of interesting 

 papers were presented. The autumn meeting 

 of the Institute will be held in Sweden. 



We have noted the donation made to Aber- 

 deen, by Miss Cruickshank, of a sum of £15,000, 

 for the formation of a botanic garden. We 

 learn from the British Medical Journal that 

 this sum it to be handed over to trustees, who 

 will also form the Board of Management. These 

 trustees are the Principal and the professors of 

 botany and mathematics in the University. 

 The money is to be employed by them in the 

 laying out and maintaining of a botanic garden, 

 with all the necessary appurtenances, including 

 provision for the teaching and study of botany 

 as a pure science, and as applied to arts and 

 industries, and, in their discretion, the provis- 

 ion of a house as a residence for the keeper of 

 the garden. The keeper may, if the trustees 



