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later connected with the U. 8. Geological Sur- 
vey, died at Springfield, Ohio, on July 18th. 
Dr. WILHELM WHITMANN, professor of me- 
chanical engineering in the School of Tech- 
nology at Munich, has committed suicide. 
Mr. J. W. HENDRIE, a Life Member of the 
California Academy of Sciences, has presented 
to the Academy, without condition or qualifica- 
tion, securities to the value of $10,000. By 
action of the Council and Trustees of the 
Academy, the gift has been set aside to be 
known as the Hendrie Publication Fund, the 
interest of which shall be applied towards the 
publication of the papers of the Academy. Each 
paper published from the income of this fund 
will bear the inscription, ‘Printed from the 
Hendrie Publication Fund.’ 
By the will of the late Frau M. Jankowska, 
of Warsaw, the Academy of Sciences at Cracow 
has received 20,000 roubles. 
PRINCE JOHANN LICHTENSTEIN has given the 
Vienna Academy of Sciences 25,000 florins for 
explorations in Asia Minor. The Academy has 
also received 18,000 florins for the increase of 
the Lieben foundation. 
ANDREW CARNEGIE has offered from Scot- 
land to give $50,000 towards a public library 
building at Steubenville, Pa., if the citizens 
will furnish a site and maintain it. Mr. Car- 
negie in his letter refers to his early days when 
a telegraph operator in Steubenville. His offer 
will be accepted. 
THE Union Pacific Scientific Expedition left 
Laramie on July 21st. The company was 
made up of twenty teams and nearly 100 men, 
including representatives from many leading 
colleges and universities. The expedition will 
remain in the field for forty days. 
A PARTY of between twelve and fifteen ad- 
vanced students of geology from the University 
of Chicago are to make a trip to Arizona and 
New Mexico during the later part of the sum- 
mer for field study. The party will leave 
Chicago on the 10th of August and be gone 
about five weeks. The party is under the di- 
rection of Professor Rollin D. Salisbury, and 
will in the course of its work make a trip to the 
Grand Caiion of the Colorado north of Flagstaff. 
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A party of fifteen from the University is now in 
the field in south-central Wisconsin, and another 
party is to go into thesame regionin August. <A 
party of students of botany, under the direction 
of Dr. Henry C. Cowles, will take a field course 
during the later part of the summer. These 
field courses, both in geology and botany, are 
reckoned as a regular part of the University 
work. 
Dr. F. W. SARDESON, of the University of 
Minnesota, accompanied by Rev. F. S. Moore 
and W. B. Stewart, has gone on a collecting 
expedition into the Big Horn River Valley of 
northwestern Wyoming. The rocks are Ter- 
tiary and locally are said to be very fossilifer- 
ous. The party will be gone until September. 
The expenses of the season will be met by sev- 
eral business men of Minneapolis and St. Paul. 
AMERICAN men of science visiting Paris may 
be interested to learn that there are meetings 
of naturalists held monthly at the Paris Mu- 
seum of Natural History. They are held at 4 
o’clock in the afternoon on the last Tuesday of 
the month. 
A NEUROLOGICAL Society was formed in Paris 
on June 8th, with Professor Joffroy as President. 
The Society will issue the Revue Neurologique, 
which will appear on the 15th of each month. 
A Coneress of Aerial Navigation with M. 
Janssen as President is being arranged to meet 
at Paris during the Exposition. There will be 
five sections devoted respectively to balloons, 
flying machines, scientific instruments, applica- 
tions to science and legal questions. 
THE British Colonial Office announces that 
the bubonic plague has spread from Hong Kong 
and Mauritius to Reunion. There were thirty- 
six cases at Mauritius during the week ending 
July 20th, of which twenty-nine resulted - 
fatally. 
WE learn from the London Times that the 
annual meeting of the Society of Chemical In- 
dustry was opened on July 12th, at Newcastle- 
on-Tyne. Mr. George Beilby, of Edinburgh, 
President of the Society, was in the chair. At 
the Durham College of Science, where the del- 
egates were welcomed to the city by the mayor, 
Professor C. F. Chandler, of Columbia Univer- 
