June 24, 1B98.] 



SCIENCE. 



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liibits of scientific and technical interest, and 

 various demonstrations were given during, tlie 

 •evening. 



The annual Congress of the Institute of 

 PuIdHc Health of Great Britain will be opened 

 at Dublin on August 18th, under the presidency 

 of Sir Charles Cameron. A health exhibition 

 will be held in connection with the Congress, 

 which will include, in addition to sanitary ap- 

 pliances, bicycles and tricycles and motor cars. 



The sixty-sixth annual meeting of the Brit- 

 ish Medical Association will be held at Edin- 

 burgh, on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 

 and Friday, July 26, 27, 28, 29, 1898. The 

 President is T. G. Roddick, M.D., profes- 

 sor of surgery in McGill University, Montreal, 

 and the President-elect, Sir Thomas Grainger 

 Stewart, M.D., LL.D., F.E.S.E., professor of 

 practice of medicine and clinical medicine in 

 the University of Edinburgh. The address in 

 medicine will be delivered by Thomas Richard 

 Eraser, F.R. S., professor of materia medica and 

 clinical medicine in the University of Edin- 

 burgh ; the address in surgery by Thomas An- 

 nandale, Regius professor of clinical surgery. 

 University of Edinburgh, and the address in psy- 

 chological medicine by Sir John Batty Tuke, 

 lecturer on insanity, School of Medicine of the 

 Royal Colleges, Edinburgh. The scientific 

 business of the meeting will be conducted in six- 

 teen sections. 



The triennial meeting of the German mete- 

 orological Society was held this year during 

 the week after Easter at Frankfort- on-the- 

 Maiu. In the absence of the President, Pro- 

 fessor Dr. Neumayer, Director of the Deutsche 

 Seewarte, presided. He reviewed the progress 

 of meteorology during the past twenty-five 

 years and concluded that Antarctic exploration 

 affords a profitable field for meteorological and 

 magnetic investigations. Among the dozen 

 papers presented one of the most interesting 

 was a study of the amount of sunshine in North 

 America as compared with that in Europe, by 

 Professor Dr. van Bebber. Two honorary 

 members were chosen : Dr. RykatchefF, Direc- 

 tor of the Central Physical Observatory at St. 

 Petersburg, and Professor Dr. Neumayer, who 

 mow retires from the direction of the Society, 



which he assisted to form in 1883. Eight cor- 

 responding members were elected : Messrs. 

 Paulsen, of Copenhagen ; Snellen, of Utrecht ; 

 von Konkoly, of Buda-Pest ; Hepites, of Bu- 

 charest ; Pernter, of Vienna ; Lancaster, of 

 Brussels ; Sapper, of Guatemala, and Rotch, of 

 Boston, U. S. A. 



At the coming convocation of the University 

 of the State of New York the leading chiefs 

 and sachems of the Iroquois, representing the 

 Five Nations, will be present on Wednesday, 

 June 29th, at a formal commemoration and rat- 

 ification of the election of the University as the 

 permanent wampum keeper of the Iroquois 

 League, and of the deposits in the fire-proof 

 State Capitol of these most precious relics of the 

 famous Five Nations. Brief speeches will be 

 made by representatives of the different tribes, 

 and some of' those most familiar with the his- 

 tory and traditions of the Indians say that the 

 event will be, probably, the last general gath- 

 ering of the Five Nations, and will, therefore, 

 be specially significant. 



Lord Lister, President of the Royal So- 

 ciety, has consented to perform the opening 

 ceremony of the new laboratories of physiology 

 and pathology erected and equipped at Uni- 

 versity College, Liverpool, by the Rev. S. A. 

 Thompson-Yates, at a cost exceeding £25,000. 

 The opening is fixed for October 8th, when 

 Victoria University will confer on Lord Lister 

 the honorary degree of Doctor of Science. 



Frederick C. Sayles, first Mayor of Paw- 

 tucket, R. I., has offered to present the city 

 with a free public library in memory of his wife, 

 Deborah Cook Sayles, and has purchased for 

 $22,500 a site for the same on Summer street. 



Women physicians will hereafter be eligible 

 to all official positions in Russia. They will 

 receive the same salaries andpensions as men. 



The Audubon Society of Illinois has secured 

 the conviction of a dealer in Chicago who had 

 in his possession native song birds. It was 

 claimed that the birds were taken in Mexico 

 and elsewhere, but the conviction was obtained 

 in spite of the fact that the place of capture 

 could not be proved. 



Recent issues of the London Times announce 

 the deaths of three English men of science, and 



