July 19, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



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ent, and it is hoped that there will be a full 

 attendance of American physiologists, more 

 especially as at the preceding meeting 

 at Liege there was only one representative 

 of the United States. The following are the 

 resolutions adopted at the first International 

 Congress in 1889: 



1. An International Congress of Physi- 

 ologists shall be held triennially, with the 

 object of contributing to the advancement 

 of Physiology hj affording physiologists of 

 various nationalities an opportunity of per- 

 sonally bringing forward experiments, and 

 of exchanging and discussing their views 

 together, and of becoming personally ac- 

 quainted one with another. 



2. Membership of the Congress shall be 

 open to all professors and teachers of bio- 

 logical science, belonging to a Medical Fac- 

 ulty or any other similar scientific body, as 

 well as to all scientific men engaged in bio- 

 logical research. 



3. The sessions of the Congress shall be 

 devoted to physiological communications 

 and demonstrations. Fvirther communi- 

 cations relating to original research in An- 

 atomy, General Pathology and Pharma- 

 cology are acceptable in so far as thej^ pre- 

 sent features of general biological interest. 



4. It is desirable tokeep the communica- 

 tions as far as possible demonstrational and 

 experimental in character. 



5. No official report of the work of the 

 Congress shall be published. 



The following regulations were discussed 

 and adopted for conducting business at the 

 sessions of the Congress: 



1. The languages recognized as ofl&cial at 

 the Congress are English, French and Ger- 

 man. 



2. At each sitting two Presidents for the 

 next sitting are chosen by the meeting, on 

 the proposal of the Chairman. 



3. At the opening of the Congress the 

 meeting elects for each of the ofl&cial lan- 

 guages a General Secretary, who shall su- 



perintend the prepai'ation of the minutes of 

 the meetings. 



4. The minutes are written in the three 

 ofl&cial languages by three Secretaries chosen 

 at each sitting by the President in the chair. 

 Each person who makes a communication 

 shall sign the protocol of his own commiini- 

 cation. The President in the chair shall 

 confirm the correctness of the minutes for 

 the whole sitting. 



5. The length of a communication may 

 not exceed fifteen minutes. "When that 

 period has been exceeded the President 

 must ask the meeting whether it desires the 

 communication to continue further. 



6. A motion backed by three members 

 for the closure of a communication or of a 

 discussion must be immediately put to the 

 vote. 



7. The press shall not be ofi&cially ad- 

 mitted to the Congress ; each member is free 

 to send private communications to scientific 

 journals. 



THE YEEKES OBSEEVATOEY. 



A peogeaSi recently issued from the 

 TJniversitj'' of Chicago gives the following 

 details concerning the site and building of 

 the Yerkes Observatory : 



" The Observatory has been located about a mile 

 from the town of William's Bay, at Lake Geneva, 

 Wisconsin, in an ideal rural region, free from the dust 

 and smoke of ci\'ilizatiou and removed from the 

 tremors of railroad traffic. Lake Geneva is about 70 

 miles from Chicago, and is reached by a branch of the 

 Northwestern Eailroad. The site of the Observatory 

 includes 50 acres of timbered land, fronting on the 

 Lake, in the midst of one of the most beautiful regions 

 in the country. The buildings will stand on a gently 

 sloping hill, which rises some 200 feet above the 

 water, and as Lake Geneva is 400 feet above Lake 

 Michigan, the Observatory will be approximately 1300 

 feet above sea level. It is confidently believed that 

 the favorable conditions of the site, and the estab- 

 lished steadiness of the atmosphere in this region, vpill 

 insure the very best seeing. ' ' 



"The Observatory building will be of the form of a 

 Roman T, with the great dome at the foot of the 

 letter, the small domes for the 16-inch and 12-inch 



