260 SCIENCE. 
Dr. WriLuiAM Z. RipLEy has recently been 
elected a corresponding member of the Societa 
Romana di Antropologié and of the Societé des 
Sciences Mathematiques et Naturelles de Cher- 
bourg. 
Nature states that Mr. J. S. Budgett, of 
Trinity College, Cambridge, who accompanied 
Mr. Graham Kerr on his expedition in search 
of Lepidosiren, has been successful in obtaining 
eggs and larvie of the Crossopterygian Ganoid 
Polypterus. From a short account of his inves- 
tigations, illustrated by sketches, which Mr. 
Budgett has sent to England, it appears that 
the larva is very minute, and possesses a 
‘cement organ’ on the dorsal surface of the 
head. 
TuE death is announced of M. N. Rieggen- 
bach, Correspondent of the Paris Academy of 
Science in the Section of Mechanics. 
THE will of Mr. George Averoff, who died, 
at Alexandria, on July 27th, gives large sums 
to educational and other public institutions. 
Among these is a bequest of £20,000 to create 
an agricultural school in Thessaly and one of 
£50,000 to the Polytechnic Schools at Athens. 
A BRITISH departmental committee, with Sir 
Hubert Maxwell as chairman, is investigating 
preservatives and coloring matter in food. 
THE Commissioners for the Exhibition of 
1851 have made appointments to Science Re- 
search Scholarships for the year 1899, on the 
recommendation of the authorities of the re- 
spective universities and colleges. The scholar- 
ships are of the value of £150 a year, and are 
ordinarily tenable for two years (subject to a 
satisfactory report at the end of the first year) 
in any university at home or abroad, or in some 
other institution approved of by the Commis- 
sioners. The scholars are to devote them- 
selves exclusively to study and research in 
some branch of science, the extension of which 
is important to the industries of the country. 
A limited number of the scholarships are re- 
newed for a third year where it appears that 
the renewal is likely to result in work of scien- 
tific importance. There were this year six stu- 
dents appointed for a third term, twelve reap- 
pointments and sixteen new appointments. Of 
the two classes first mentioned the place of 
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study is designated. This is as follows: Cam- 
bridge University, 6; Owens College, Man- 
chester, 8; Leipzig University, 3; Central 
Technical College, London; University College, 
London; Harvard University, Berlin University 
and the Marine Biological Laboratories, each 1. 
THE Labrador mail steamer reports that the 
Peary expedition steamer Diana passed Domino 
Run, northern Labrador, at two o’clock in the 
afternoon of July 24th. All on board were 
well at that time. The Diana hoped to reach 
Disco, Greenland, by July 29th. 
A REUNION of the British Institution of Elec- 
trical Engineers is arranged to be held in Switzer- 
land from the 1st to the 9th of September inclu- 
sive. The Times states that the members will 
assemble at Basle, and on September 2d will 
visit the Rheinfelden electrical power station, 
and will proceed on the same day to Zurich, 
where they will remain until September 6th. 
During that time visits will be made to estab- 
lishments and places of electrical interest, in- 
cluding the works of the Oerlikon Company, 
those of Messrs. Brown, Boveri & Co., the 
Dowson gas-generating station of the Zurich- 
Oerlikon Street Railway, Messrs. Escher, Wyss 
& Co.’s works, the municipal central electric 
lighting station and sub-station of Zurich, the 
new electrical power station at Schaffhausen, 
and the Falls of the Rhine. There will also be 
a visit to the iron and steel works of Messrs. 
George Fischer and to the National Museum at 
Zurich. In the evening of September 5th a 
banquet will be given to the visitors by the 
Swiss firms and the Schweizerischer Elektro- 
technisher Verein. On the evening of Septem- 
ber 6th the members will leave for Lucerne, 
where they will inspect the street railways, the 
Rathhausen Works, and the Stansstad-Engel- 
berg Railway. They will then proceed direct 
to Interlaken, via the Brinig Pass, and on 
September 8th will visit the Jungfrau Railway, 
via Lauterbrunnen and the Wengern Alp Rail- 
way, the power station at Lauterbrunnen also 
being inspected. On September 9th there will 
be a visit to the Kander Werk at Spiez (central 
station for light and power distribution) and to 
the Burgdorf-Thun Electric Railway, which will 
bring the reunion to aclose. In order to con- 
