Febeuaet 19, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



291 



THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL 

 CONGRESS 



A LETTER recently received from Professor 

 von Graff contains some information concern- 

 ing the eighth International Zoological Con- 

 gress, which wUl be held in Graz, Austria, 

 in August, 1910, under his presidency. The 

 exact dates are not yet determined, but the 

 meetings will follow those of the Anatomical 

 Congress to be held the same month in Brus- 

 sels. 



Graz is a city of about 130,000 inhabitants, 

 beautifully situated at an elevation of 1,500 

 feet in the foot-hills of the Styrian Alps, and 

 will be best approached by those coming from 

 the west by the picturesque mountain road 

 from Innsbruck. It has narrow, crooked 

 streets in the older parts of the city and fine, 

 new University buildings for the third edu- 

 cational institution of the empire. The city 

 is overlooked by a fine park and it is proposed 

 to have the evening meals served in one of the 

 beautiful resorts in the neighborhood. 



The present plans are to have the sessions 

 occupy the week, from Monday to Friday, the 

 general sessions coming in the morning, 

 those of the sections in the afternoon. The 

 number and character of the sections can not 

 be stated at present, as they depend on the 

 number of papers presented. On Saturday 

 the plan is to make an excursion to Leoben, a 

 beautifully situated village in the Styrian 

 Erzberg, spending the night there. 



On Sunday the train is taken over the new 

 alpine railroad! to Trieste. Monday forenoon 

 is given to a visit to the Zoological Station at 

 Trieste, founded by the late Professor Claus 

 and famous for the character and amount of 

 its work. Then a visit is made to the pic- 

 turesque villa of Miramar, associated with the 

 name of the unfortunate Maximilian, of Mex- 

 ico. Eovigno with its zoological station is 

 reached in the afternoon, and in the evening 

 of Monday the steamer is taken for the four 

 days trip down the beautiful and compara- 

 tively little known Dalmatian coast, with its 

 mountainous background, its picturesque cos- 

 tumes and its magnificent remains of the 

 later Eoman empire. Stops wiU probably be 

 made at Sebenico, Spalato, Ragusa and Cat- 



taro, and from the latter place a ride of only 

 a few hours takes one over the border and 

 into the strange city of Cetinge, in Herze- 

 govina. Friday brings the party back to 

 Trieste, but arrangements may possibly be 

 made, allowing those who wish, to stop over 

 longer in Daknatia. Those who return with 

 the party will reach Vienna on Saturday, and 

 the Congress will finally disband on Sunday. 

 Those who are interested should write to 

 Professor L. von Graff, Graz, Stiermark, Aus- 

 tria, asking that the circulars, when issued, be 

 sent them. Already several Americans have 

 signified their intention to attend. 



PROPOSED LINCOLN SCHOOLS OF SCIENCE 



The Minnesota Academy of Science has 

 passed the following resolution: 



Wheeeas : This meeting of the Minnesota Acad- 

 emy of Science takes place near the date of the 

 one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abra- 

 ham Lincoln, and 



Whebeas: It is suitable and incumbent on the 

 American people, in gratitude for the great service 

 and sacrifice rendered by him to the fundamental 

 elements of American civilization, to perpetuate 

 his name and to honor it by inscribing it in con- 

 spicuous places where the youth may frequently 

 be reminded of the excellence of his character, and 



Wheeeas : The American Congress has by a 

 commission appointed for this purpose, after long 

 and extended consideration, recommended the con- 

 struction of a great thoroughfare from Washing- 

 ton City to the battlefield of Gettysburg, and 



Wheeeas: Still there seems to be room and 

 opportunity to commemorate the name of Lincoln 

 in a line of science in which he was a prominent 

 actor, and 



Wheeeas : It was by his signing and approving 

 of the act of Congress of 1861 establishing the 

 state schools known as Colleges of Agriculture and 

 Mechanic Arts, to the maintenance of which this 

 nation is committed, and which have since been 

 called " National Schools of Science," of the United 

 States, that the science of agriculture and mechan- 

 ics have been benefioed and firmly established in 

 the educational curricula of the country, therefore. 



Resolved, That it is the opinion of the members 

 of the Minnesota Academy of Science that the 

 name of Lincoln ought to be applied by Congress 

 to these schools, and that all the literature and 

 all the researches from such schools that may 

 hereafter be published ought to be labeled and 



