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connection with the physical sciences, pure or 
applied, or as engineers interested in research 
in these departments, who wish to join this Con- 
gress may apply either to Dr. Thurston or to the 
Secretary of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers for circulars giving the form of or- 
ganization and a statement of the questions to 
be discussed, as well as for cards of ‘adherence ’ 
to the several divisions of this Congress. 
Dr. R. BURCKHARDT, professor of paleontol- 
ogy at Basle, and Dr. V. Uhlig, professor‘of geol- 
ogy in the German Technical Institute of Prague, 
have been elected members of the academy of 
sciences at Halle. 
THE Physiological Institute of the University 
of Berlin, has been presented, by his widow, 
with a marble bust of Emil Dubois-Reymond. 
AMBROSE P. S. Stuart died at his residence 
in Lincoln, Nebraska, September 18,1899. He 
was born November 22, 1820, in Sterling, Wor- 
cester county, Mass. He graduated from Brown 
University in 1847, with the degree of A.B., 
and spent three years subsequently at Heidel- 
berg. He taught school for a number of years, 
and in 1865 became instructor in chemistry in 
the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard Uni- 
versity. Later he was professor of chemistry 
in the Pennsylvania State College, and still 
later in the University of Illinois. Heremoved 
to Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1875, where he en- 
gaged in business, amassing a considerable for- 
tune. Throughout his life he maintained his 
interest in scientific matters, and despite his 
advancing years was a familiar figure in the 
meetings of scientific societies. 
THERE will be, on October 17th, civil service 
examinations for the position of nautical expert 
in the Hydrographic Office of the Navy De- 
part with a salary of $1000, and for the position 
of ornithological clerk in the division of Bio- 
logical Survey, Department of Agriculture, with 
a salary of $660. Candidates for the latter 
position should be between 20 and 25 years of 
age. 
THE late Richard B. Westbrook of Phila- 
delphia has made a bequest of $10,000, taking 
effect on the death of his widow, to the Wagner 
Institute of Science. Thesumisto be usedasan 
endowment of a special lectureship to ‘‘ secure 
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the full and fearless discussion by the most 
learned and distinguished men and women in 
our own and other countries of mooted or dis- 
puted questions in science, and especially the 
theories of evolution.”’ 
Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE has given $50,000 to 
the City of Oakland, Cal., the city having 
undertaken to guarantee at least $4,000 an- 
nually for its support. 
Tue schooner Julia E. Whalen, Captain 
Noyes, has arrived from a cruise to the Galapa- 
gos Islands and to Cocos and Clipperton Island 
west of Ecuador. The vessel had not touched 
any inland port since she sailed from San Fran- 
cisco, October 30th, last. She carried members 
of a scientific expedition under direction of 
Robert E. Snodgrass, assistant in entomology 
and Edmund Heller, student in zoology, sent 
by Stanford University, under the patronage of 
Timothy Hopkins, of San Francisco. A large 
collection of specimens, including birds, mam- 
mals, invertebrates, and fish, was obtained. 
Aboard the vessel were eighteen live land tor- 
toises taken from Duncan and Albemarle 
Islands, some of them weighing four hundred 
pounds; also 220 fur sealskins and 2,300 skins 
of hair seals. 
A CABLEGRAM states that the British Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science at its 
present meeting has granted £1,000 toward the 
expenses of the British antarctic expedition. 
THE steamer Antarctic, which left Helsing- 
borg, Sweden, on May 25th last with an expe- 
dition under Professor A. G. Nathorst, was 
spoken off The Skaw, the northern extremity 
of Jutland, Denmark, on the 11th ult., on her 
return from her search along the northeast 
coast of Greenland for Andrée. No traces of 
the missing eronaut had been found. 
INFORMATION has been received from the 
captain of the icebreaker Ermack, arrived in the 
Tyne, to the effect that he met the Prince of 
Monaco’s yacht Princess Alice on August 21st, 
in Advent Bay, Spitzbergen. The yacht had 
been aground six days in the Red Bay, and 
after discharging 200 tons of coal and stores 
was floated. There is no leakage, but the ves- 
sel has received some small damage. 
TuHE death has taken place at Leith of Mr. 
