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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. II. No. 36. 



Science, wliich convenes on the evening of 

 September 4th, there will be in addition 

 to the address of the president, Sir Douglass 

 Galton, three public lectures, one by Pro- 

 fessor Sylvanus P. Thompson on Magnetism 

 in Rotation, one on The Work of Pasteur and 

 its Various Developments by Professor Percy 

 F. Franklin and a lecture to workingmen 

 by Dr. Alfred H. Fison on Color. 



The eleventh International Congress of 

 Americanists will meet at the city of Mexico 

 from the 15th to the 20th of October. The 

 meeting will be under the patronage of the 

 President of Mexico and the most distin- 

 guished scholars and statesmen of the coun- 

 try. The Congress has for its object the 

 study of the ethnography, languages and 

 history of North and South America, with 

 special reference to the period preceding the 

 advent of Columbus. 



The Berlin Academy of Sciences an- 

 nounces that the Steiner prize (4,000 M. 

 and an additional prize of 2,000 M.) will be 

 awarded for a paper in continuation of J. 

 Steiner's work on curved surfaces, which 

 must be submitted before the close of the 

 year 1899. 



The Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau states 

 that the ' Accademia dei Lencei ' at Rome 

 has elected as correspondents, Professor 

 Luciani, of Rome; Dr. Stefani, of Flor- 

 ence; Professor v. Kolliker, of Wurzburg; 

 Dr. Jordan, of Paris; Dr. Salmon, of Lon- 

 don; Professor Ivanovitch, of St. Petersburg, 

 and Professor Newcomb, of Washington. 



Pkoeessoe Bergh has been elected corre- 

 spondent of the Paris Academy in the place 

 of Huxley. 



The Intercolonial Medical Congress of 

 Australasia announces its first meeting for 

 February 3, 1896. 



With the September number, the Amer- 

 ican Journal of Psychology enters upon its 

 seventh volume. The preceding volumes 

 (1887-189.5) have been edited by President 



G-. Stanley HaU (Clark University). For 

 the future, the editorial responsibility of 

 the Journal will be shared by President 

 Hall, Professor E. C. Sanford (Clark L"ni- 

 versity) and Professor E. B. Titchener 

 (Cornell University). A cooperative board 

 has been formed, which includes the names 

 of Professor F. Angell, Professor H. Beaunis, 

 Professor J. Delboeuf, Dr. A. Kirsch- 

 mann, Professor 0. Kuelpe, Dr. A. Waller, 

 F. R. S., and Professor H. K. Wolfe. The 

 Journal will be devoted exclusively to the 

 interests of experimental psychology (psy- 

 chophysiology, psychophysics, physiolog- 

 ical psychologj', etc.). Each number will 

 contain, as heretofore, original articles, re- 

 views and abstracts of current psycholog- 

 ical books and monographs, and notes upon 

 topics of immediate psychological impor- 

 tance. Contributions may be addressed to 

 any one of the three editors. 



De. Thomas Henderson Chandler, dean 

 of the Harvard Dental School, died on 

 August 27th, at the age of 71 years. 



A Spanish translation of Maize : A Botan- 

 ical and Economic Study, by J. W. Harsh- 

 berger (No. II. of the monograph series 

 issued by the botanical department of the 

 University of Pennsylvania) has been made 

 by Dr. Nicolas Leon, of Guadalupe, Hidal- 

 go, Mexico. 



D. Appleton & Co's preliminary an- 

 nouncements for the autumn include the 

 following publications: A new edition of the 

 Natural History of Selbourne, by Gilbert 

 White, in two volumes with an introduction 

 by John Burroughs and illustrations by 

 Clifton Johnson with the text and new let- 

 ters of the Buckland edition, a translation 

 of Dr. William Hirsch's Genie und Entartung, 

 Psychology of Number by Dr. J. A. McClellan 

 and Professor John Dewj"-, TJie Story of The 

 Earth by H. G. Seelej', and a new and re- 

 vised edition of The Stm by Professor C. A. 

 Young. 



