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1. To expend, or allocate and direct the ad- 

 ministration of, such funds as may be voted 

 by Parliament for scientific investigations into 

 questions affecting the common interests of 

 the sea fisheries of the United Kingdom. 



2. To dravsf up such schemes of investiga- 

 tions as the council shall from time to time 

 deem desirable for the solution of practical 

 problems affecting the sea fisheries generally. 



3. To arrange for such statistical investiga- 

 tions as the council may deem desirable with 

 the departments charged with the duty of 

 collecting fishery statistics, and to place so 

 far as practicable such statistics on a uniform 

 basis throughout the United Kingdom. 



4. To arrange for the coordination of 

 schemes of investigations under their direction 

 with any similar schemes undertaken by other 

 nations interested in fisheries frequented by 

 British fishermen. 



5. To select, direct and, if necessary, to 

 equip any agents for the conduct of such 

 investigations as they may require to be 

 carried out. 



6. To take over or acquire vessels properly 

 equipped for fishery investigations. 



Y. To present to the treasury and to each of 

 the ministers having charge of fishery depart- 

 ments an annual report on the progress of the 

 investigations under their direction and on 

 the results from time to time obtained. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The honor of knighthood has been con- 

 ferred on Professor A. G. Greenhill, F.E.S., 

 the eminent mathematician of the Ordinance 

 College, Woolwich. 



Sm William Eamsay was made an honorary 

 doctor of medicine at the University of Jena 

 on the occasion of the celebration of the three 

 hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its foun- 

 dation. 



Dr. Georg Quincke, professor of physics at 

 Heidelberg, and Dr. Priedrich Hildebrand, 

 professor of botany at Preiburg, have cele- 

 brated the fiftieth anniversary of their doc- 

 torates. 



Dr. Eeye, professor of mathematics at 

 Strasburg, has retired from active service. 



Dr. Henry M. Hurd, superintendent of the 

 Johns Hopkins Hospital, has been appointed 

 a member of the Maryland state lunacy com- 

 mission, vice Dr. Charles P. Bevan, retired. 



Professor G. W. Wilson, of Upper Iowa 

 University, Payette, Iowa, has held during 

 July and August a research scholarship at the 

 New York Botanical Garden. 



A prize founded in honor of the late J. P. 

 Moebius, the neurologist, will be conferred for 

 the first time nest year. 



M. Antoine Henri Becquerel, the eminent 

 Prench physicist, has died at the age of fifty- 

 six years. 



Kansas City has begun work upon its 

 new Zoological Gardens, which it is said wiU 

 be completed in the course of the next five 

 years at a cost of about $500,000. 



Mrs. Eeid, widow of the late Thomas Eeid, 

 who was president of the Bermuda Natural 

 History Society and mayor of Hamilton, has 

 given $2,500 to the Bermuda Aquarium and 

 Biological Station. 



Press dispatches state that Count Zeppelin 

 has announced that he intends to found an 

 institute for the investigation of the problems 

 of air navigation in the interest of German 

 industry, defence and science. The contribu- 

 tions made by the public, he says, are now far 

 beyond the sum necessary to replace the de- 

 stroyed airship and beyond the sum he intends 

 to accept toward the recuperation of his pri- 

 vate fortune which was spent in airship ex- 

 periments. All of the surplus now on hand 

 and all further contributions will be added 

 to the endowment of the institute. The Bank 

 of Stuttgart, which is receiving the subscrip- 

 tions, has $500,000 deposited to Count Zep- 

 pelin's credit, and about $250,000 has been 

 subscribed but not yet paid. 



A CONGRESS on thalassotherapy, or treatment 

 of disease by sea air, sea bathing, etc., will be 

 held nest September at Abbazia, near Piume, 

 on the southern coast of Austria. 



At a meeting consisting of representatives 

 of temperance organizations interested in the 

 International Anti-alcohol Congress, which 

 has been held during the past twenty years 



