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expense foi- the exhibition of scientific ap- 

 paratus, specimens, etc. The railroads gen- 

 erally are making reductions on the plan of 

 one rate and a third for the round trip, but 

 unfortunately no reductions have as yet been 

 made for railroads west of the Mississippi. 

 Members from the West can, however, se- 

 cure the reduction from points east of the 

 Mississippi. 



A CIRCULAR issued by Mr. William Kent, 

 Vice President, and Prof. Harold S. Jacobj^, 

 Secretary of the Section of Mechanical 

 Science and Engineering of the A. A. A. S., 

 recommends that the papers read before 

 the Section relate more especiallj' to the 

 application of scientific methods to the vari- 

 ous engineering problems, while the more 

 strictly' technical subjects and the descrip- 

 tion of finished projects which appeal only 

 to one branch of engineers belong rather 

 to the different engineering societies. It 

 has been suggested that short papers be 

 presented giving information regarding the 

 following questions: Have you any ex- 

 perimental data which either confirm or 

 throw doubt upon formulas or constants 

 hitherto generally received ? Have you any 

 data upon subjects hitherto considered 

 doubtful, as, for example, the strength of 

 unstayed surfaces'? What subjects should 

 engineering laboratories undertake to in- 

 vestigate, with a view to obtaining data 

 which will be of general importance, and 

 how would you propose to make such tests 

 (including a description of the apparatus)? 

 It is hoped that many brief resumes of 

 investigations or experiments relating to 

 different subjects of interest to the Section 

 may be offered for this meeting. 



It was announced in the preliminary cir- 

 cular of the A. A. A. S. that the State 

 Weather Service Association would meet 

 in Springfield, Mass., but it is now found 

 impracticable to meet with the A. A. A. S., 

 on account of the difficulty in securing rep- 

 resentation of the various State services, 



three of the four preceding State Weather 

 Service Conventions having been held in 

 Eastern cities. Indianapolis, lud., has there- 

 fore been selected for the place of meeting 

 this year, and a large attendance of State 

 Weather Service Directors is promised. 

 The convention will be held October 15th 

 and 16th. 



The Linnsean Society of N"ew York has 

 published the abstract of its proceedings for 

 the year ending March 26, 1895. There 

 were held during the year 1-4 meetings of 

 the Societj^, at which the average attend- 

 ance of members was seven and of visitors 

 six. There were read 16 papers, of whicli 

 nine related to ornithology and the re- 

 mainder chiefly to mammology. The offi- 

 cers elected for the ensuing year are: Presi- 

 dent, J. A. Allen ; Vice-President, Frank 

 M. Chapman; Secretary, Walter W. Gran- 

 ger, and Treasurer, L. S. Foster. There 

 are appended to the proceedings two papers, 

 one bj^ Dr. Juan Gunlach, entitled ' Notes 

 on Cuban Mammals,' and one bj^ Mr. W. 

 L. Sherwood, on ' Salamanders found in the 

 Vicinity of ISTew York City, with Notes 

 upon Extra-limital or Allied Species.' 



Professor Mendeleeff will visit Lon- 

 don during the present month, in connec- 

 tion with the work of making standards 

 of Russian weights and measures. 



In England Mr. James Blyth, the well- 

 known agriculturist, has received a baro- 

 netcy, and Mr. Hei-bert Gardner, President 

 of the Board of Agriculture, has been made 

 a peer. 



A STATUE of M. Boussingault has been 

 erected in the Court of the Conservatoire 

 des Arts et Metres in Paris, in which insti- 

 tution he was professor of agricultural 

 chemistry for forty years. 



The Medical Record states that The Char- 

 cot Monument Fund now amounts to over 

 40,000 francs, nearlj' half of which sum has 

 been contributed by foreigners. 



