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tary of the Smithsonian Institution would be 
pleased to be advised by letter or, in urgent 
cases, by telegraph. The Secretary would also 
be glad to correspond with officers who expect 
to visit regions where interesting animals occur. 
Public recognition of gifts is made, the names 
of donors being placed upon the labels at- 
tached to the cages or pens, and a notice of the 
gifts, with the names of the donors, is also 
made a part of the annual report of the Secre- 
tary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
A list of the most important animals that can 
be collected in different countries is appended 
hereto, and concise directions for boxing, ship- 
ping and feeding are given. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 
A CABLEGRAM from Cairo dated July 27th 
states that Mr. N. R. Harrington, instructor in 
Western Reserve University, has died at Ata- 
bara of typhoid fever. Mr. Harrington was a 
member of the Senff zoological expedition of 
Columbia University, which was on its way to 
the upper Nile for the purpose of studying the 
embryology of Polypterus. 
Reports from the Hider, carrying the party 
of men of science taken to Alaska by Mr. E. H. 
Harriman, state that the trip has been in every 
way successful. The steamship is now return- 
ing from Kodiak to Sitka. 
MaAsor MARCHAND is to be presented with 
the grand gold medal of the French Geograph- 
ical Society for 1900. Silver replicas will be 
given to all the officers of his mission. Major 
Marchand has been appointed to the 4th Regi- 
ment of Marines and his subordinates have also 
been reincorporated in the army. 
Mr. H. N. Dickson, of New College, Oxford, 
has been given the Johnson Memorial Prize of 
the University for his work on ‘The Currents 
in the North Sea.’ 
Dr. E. A. DE SCHWEINITZ, Director of the 
Bio-chemic Laboratory of the U. S. Department 
of Agriculture and Dean of the Columbian 
Medical School, Washington, and Dr. R. de 
Schweinitz, professor of ophthalmology, of 
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, at- 
tended a meeting of the Paris Academy of 
Medicine on June 12th. 
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Dr. E. PFLUGER, professor of physiology at 
Bonn, well known for his physiological 
researches and as editor of the Archiv fiir 
die gesammte Physiologie, commonly known as 
Pfliiger’s Archiv, recently celebrated his 70th 
birthday. 
Dr. VY. VON LANG, professor of physics in the 
University of Vienna, has been elected General 
Secretary of the Vienna Academy of Sciences. 
THE Linnzean Society of London has elected 
the following foreign members: M. Adrien 
Franchet, of Paris; Dr. E. C. Hansen, of Co- 
penhagen; Professor Seiichiro Ikeno, of the 
University of Tokyo; Dr. Eduard von Martens, 
of the University of Berlin, and Professor G. O. 
Sars, of the University of Christiania. 
THE Liverpool Section of the Society of 
Chemical Industry proposes to collect £300 for 
the establishment of a lectureship to commem- 
orate the services to applied chemistry of the 
late Dr. Ferdinand Hurter. 
THE Right Rev. Charles Graves, F.R.S., Lord 
Bishop of Limerick, has died at the age of 87 
years. He was formerly professor of pure 
mathematics at Trinity College, Durham, and 
has made many contributions to mathematics. 
THE American Anthropologist publishes an 
obituary notice, by Mr. A. R. Spofford, of Mr. 
Manning F. Force, who died at Sandusky, 
Ohio, on May 8th, at the age of 75. He was 
one of comparatively few Americans who, 
while engaged in other pursuits—he was a 
Judge in the Superior Court—took an interest 
in science and contributed to its advancement. 
His work on the Mound-Builders of the West is 
a standard authority on this subject. 
THE annual meeting of the corporation of the 
Marine Biological Laboratory will be held at 
the laboratory at Woods Holl, Mass., on Tues- 
day, August 8, 1899, at 12 o’clock, noon, for 
the election of officers and trustees, to act on 
an alteration of the by-laws and to transact 
such other business as may come before it. 
An International Hydrographic and Biological 
Congress for the discussion of the conditions of 
the North Sea and North Atlantic Ocean met 
at Stockholm on June 16th. 
THE German Anthropological Society and 
