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luncheon will be served in Memorial Hall, and 

 later in the afternoon the corporation will give 

 a garden party and tea in the Hemenway Gym- 

 nasium. At eight o'clock in the evening Presi- 

 dent Eliot will address the Association in 

 Saunder's Theatre. 



A ciECULAE has been issued by Professor 

 Foster, President of the Fourth International 

 Congress of Physiologists, which meets at 

 Cambridge from August 21st to 26th, giving 

 information regarding accommodations. Many 

 of the colleges have offered rooms for the use 

 of members which will be furnished free of 

 charge, beyond a small sum for attendance. 

 Ladies cannot, however, reside in the colleges, 

 but lodgings in the town are provided at a cost 

 of less than 11.00, including light and attend- 

 ance, and meals can be taken in the college 

 halls. Those wishing to secure lodgings or ho- 

 tel accommodation should address Dr. Shore, 

 the Local Secretary, at the Physiological Labo- 

 ratory, Cambridge. 



There will be held, as we have already noted, 

 a biological exhibition in connection with the 

 visit of the British Association to the city of 

 Bristol. It is proposed to hold this exhibition 

 in the gardens of the Bristol and "West of Eng- 

 land Zoological Society, and to offer as complete 

 an exhibition as possible of recent investiga- 

 tions into the life history of animals and plants. 

 A working committee has been formed and Sir 

 John Lubbock has consented to open the ex- 

 hibition. 



At a meeting of the Washington Academy of 

 Sciences, held on May 27th, nineteen new mem- 

 bers were elected. Most of these were nomi- 

 nated by a committee acting on behalf of the 

 Medical Society of the District of Columbia, 

 recently added to the group of affiliated scien- 

 tific societies represented in the Academy. 



A TRIO of eminent German travelers and 

 anthropologists are now in this country for the 

 purpose of study. Dr. Karl von den Steinen, 

 widely known through his travels in South 

 America, and his two important works and 

 minor publications relating thereto, has recently 

 reached the eastern United States after a trip 

 through the Southwest. Dr. Paul Ehrenreich, 

 of Berlin, is now in New York en route to the 



Pueblo country. Dr. Albrecht Wirth, of 

 Frankfort, known through researches in East- 

 ern Africa, and more recently through a work 

 on Formosa, has just returned from the Far 

 East, through Corea and Siberia. He is now in 

 Washington. 



Dr. F. W. True and Professor W. H. 

 Holmes, of the United States National Mu- 

 seum, have recently gone to Omaha to super- 

 vise the final installation of the Smithsonian 

 exhibit and to attend the formal opening of the 

 Exposition. The Smithsonian exhibit at 

 Omaha is rather more limited than were the 

 displays at Nashville and Atlanta, owing to 

 limitations in space and funds ; but the arrange- 

 ment is considered highly effective and satis- 

 factory. 



The Geological Department of the Johns 

 Hopkins University has just closed an encamp- 

 ment of several weeks near Cumberland, Mary- 

 land, in the heart of the Appalachian Moun- 

 tains. Work was suspended in Baltimore 

 during the period of the camp, special courses 

 being given at Cumberland, both by the regular 

 corps of instructors and by lecturers secured 

 from the scientific bureaus in Washington. 

 Complete instrumental outfits employed in 

 geological, topographical, climatological, hy- 

 drographical and agricultural investigations 

 were installed at the camp, special lectures 

 being given upon their uses. In addition to 

 practical work along geological and topo- 

 graphical lines, meteorological observations 

 were taken twice daily by the students under 

 the direction of an observer detailed by the 

 United States Weather Bureau, the streams 

 were gauged and the velocity and volume of 

 their outflow determined, and the conditions of 

 the soils in their temperature and moisture con- 

 tents were examined daily under competent 

 supervision. Among those who were present 

 at the camp and who aided Professor Clark and 

 his associates in the work of instruction were 

 Messrs. Bailey Willis, H. M. Wilson, O. L. 

 Fassig, E. G. Paul and C. W. Dorsey, of the 

 Washington bureaus. It is planned to con- 

 tinue practical field work in this manner in 

 subsequent years. 



The fourth annual address before the Botan- 



