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Dr. O. VON DER HEYDE, assessor of forestry, 
in the German Empire, who has been examin- 
ing the management of forests in India and 
Japan, is at present in the United States. 
WE regret to learn that Professor Ernst Mach 
of the University of Vienna is prevented by ill- 
ness from giving his lectures this winter. 
Dr. WALTER J. HOFFMAN died at Reading, 
Pa., on November 8th, at the age of fifty-three 
years. When a surgeon in the U. S. Army he 
made studies on the North American Indians, 
and later when connected with the American 
Bureau of Ethnology published numerous im- 
portant researches on the subject. 
Dr. W. C. ARNISON, professor of surgery in 
the University of Durham, died on November 
4th, aged 62 years. He was formerly lecturer 
in botany and vegetable physiology. He had 
been president of the section of surgery of the 
British Medical Association, and was the author 
of numerous contributions to the medical 
press. 
THE death is announced, at the age of 96 
years, of Dr. Gonzalo Aréstegui, at one time 
professor of surgery in the University of Ha- 
vana. 
A MEMORIAL of Dr. Miller, who it will be 
remembered fell a victim to the plague in 
Vienna on October 23, 1898, was recently un- 
veiled in the quadrangle of the General Hos- 
pital of that city. Professor Nothnagel deliv- 
ered an address. 
WE learn from Natural Science that Dr. Kish- 
inouye and other Japanese zoologists have 
hired a two-storied building on the shores of 
the Inland Sea, with the view of converting it 
into a biological station. Professor J. Tjima 
has returned from a zoological expedition to 
Formosa. 
Mr. ‘ANDREW CARNEGIE has offered to give 
$125,000 for a building for the Polytechnic 
Library Society, of Louisville, Ky., for the con- 
struction of a building, provided that the city 
appropriates at least $10,000 a year for running 
expenses. He has also offered $50,000 to estab- 
lish a public library at Houston, Tex., on con- 
dition that the city appropriate $4,000 for 
maintenance. 
SCIENCE. 
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THE Council of the Senate of Cambridge 
University, having regard to the extensive and 
valuable collections procured for the University 
by the Torres Straits Expedition, propose that 
a further grant of 1007. (making 5507. in all) 
be made from the Worts Travelling Scholars’ 
Fund to Dr. A. C. Haddon towards the ex- 
penses of the expedition. 
REUTER’S agency reports that, according to 
advices received in London, Dr. Donaldson 
Smith, who left England for East Africa some 
time ago, has safely arrived at Hargeisa, in So- 
maliland, with his Somali escort. Dr. Smith, 
who ig accompanied by Mr. Carlisle Fraser, 
states that it is his intention to push on to Lake 
Rudolph as quickly as possible and then ex- 
plore the unknown country to the west. It is, 
therefore, unlikely that anything more will be 
heard of the expedition for a considerable time. 
Dr. Von HOHNEL, professor of botany in 
Polytechnic Institute at Vienna, has returned 
from an expedition to Brazil with valuable col- 
lections. y 
Natural Science states that the Danish expedi- 
tion to East Greenland, under the leadership of 
Lieut. Amdrup, returned to Copenhagen on 
September 13th. It had investigated and 
mapped the tract between 65° 50’ and 57° 22/7 
N. lat., hitherto unvisited by Europeans. At 
one time it was inhabited by many Esquimaux, 
all of whom have now perished. A collection 
of their skulls and other relics was brought 
home. Botanical, geological, and zoological 
observations were made, as well as anthropo- 
logical measurements on living Esquimaux in 
other parts. Depots were left at 60° 6’ and 
67° and 15/ N. lat. 
A STEAMSHIP has been held in quarantine 
outside New York City containing two cases of 
bubonic plague. There was also one death on 
the voyage. The steamship came direct from 
Santos, Brazil. It is commonly supposed that 
there is no chance that the bubonic plague will 
become epidemic under proper sanitary condi- 
tions, but its development in widely separated 
places causes some apprehension. 
THE St. Petersburg correspondent of the 
London Times telegraphs that rich auriferous 
deposits have lately been discovered on the 
