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moose (Alces americanus), an equine deer (Cer- 
vus equinus),an orang utang (Simia satyrus), a 
loris (Nycticebus tardigradus), an ocelot (Felis 
pardalis), three bay lynxes (Lynx ruffus), a 
jaguarondi (felis jaguarondi), two black leop- 
ards (Felis pardus), a raccoon (Procyon lotor). 
At the 526th meeting of the Philosophical 
Society of Washington, held December 22, 1900, 
in the assembly room of the Cosmos Club, the 
following officers were elected for the calendar 
year 1901: President, C. D. Walcott, Geo- 
logical Survey; Vice-Presidents, R. Rathbun, 
Smithsonian Institution ; J. H. Gore, Columbian 
University ; C. Adler, Smithsonian Institution ; 
E. D. Preston, Coast Survey; Treasurer, B. R. 
Green, Library of Congress; Secretaries, J. F. 
Hayford, Coast Survey; C. K. Wead, Patent 
Office; General Committee, W. A. DeCaindry, 
War Department; G. W. Littlehales, Hydro- 
graphic Office; H. M. Paul, Navy Department ; 
F. W. True, National Museum; I. Winston, 
Coast Survey; J. E. Watkins, National Mu- 
seum; J. G. Hagen, Georgetown Observatory ; 
C. F. Marvin, Weather Bureau; L. A. Bauer, 
Coast Survey. 
AT the annual meeting of the Anthropological 
Society of Washington, on January 8th, the 
following officers were elected: President, W. 
H. Holmes; General Secretary, Hannah L. 
Bartlett; Treasurer, Perry B. Pierce; Curator, 
Mariana P. Seaman ; Councilors-at-large, Alice 
C. Fletcher, J. Walter Fewkes, and J. D. Mc- 
Guire. At the ensuing meeting of the Board 
‘of Managers the councilors were increased by 
the election of Weston Flint, F. W. Hodge, 
Walter Hough, George M. Kober, D. 8. Lamb, 
John H. McCormick, Edith C. Westcott and 
Thomas Wilson; and the organization was 
completed by selecting Walter Hough as Secre- 
tary to the Board, and designating the vice- 
presidencies as follows: Somatology, D. S. 
Lamb; psychology, Frank Baker; esthetology, 
W J McGee; technology, J. Walter Fewkes; 
sociology, George M. Kober; philology, J. W. 
Powell ; sophiology, Alice C. Fletcher. 
AT the annual meeting of the Columbia His- 
torical Society, held on January 7, 1901, officers 
for the ensuing year were elected as follows : 
President, John A. Kasson ; First Vice-President, 
SCIENCE. 
(N.S. Von. XIII. No. 317. 
Ainsworth R. Spofford ; Second Vice-President, 
A. B. Hagner; Treasurer, J. Dudley Morgan ; 
Recording Secretary, Mary Stevens Beall; Cor- 
responding Secretary, M. I. Weller; Curator, 
James F. Hood ; Chronicler, William B. Bryan ; 
Managers (for term expiring in 1905), Lewis J. 
Davis and J. Ormond Wilson. 
Ir will be remembered that at the fourth In- 
ternational Zoological Congress, held at Cam- 
bridge in 1898, it was decided that the fifth 
Congress, in 1901, should be held in Germany. 
Announcement has now been made, says Nature, 
that the meeting place will be Berlin, on 
August 12-16, and the president, Professor K. 
Moebius, director of the zoological collection of 
the Natural History Museum, with Professor 
F. E. Schulze, director of the Zoological Insti- 
tute, as vice-president. The secretaries of the 
Congress will be Herr P. Matschie, Dr. M. 
Meissner and Dr. R. Hartmeyer. The treas- 
urers will be Herr H. Schalow and Herr Otto 
Stutzbach. Arrangements as to meetings and 
papers will be in charge of Professor L. H, 
Plate ; apartments and receptions will be under 
the care of Dr. L. Heck, and the lighter pleas- 
ures of the meeting will be managed by Dr. O. 
Jaekel. The meetings will be held in the Nat- 
ural History Museum and neighboring rooms 
of the University. Among the subjects to be 
brought before the Congress are the following: 
‘ Fossil Remains of Man,’ Professor Branco (Ber- 
lin); ‘ Vitalism and Mechanism,’ Professor Biit- 
schli (Heidelberg); ‘Theories of Fertilization,’ 
Professor Yves Delage (Paris); ‘The Psycholog- 
ical Attributes of Ants,’ Professor A. Forel (Mor- 
ges); ‘The Malarial Problem from a Zoological 
Point of View,’ Professor Grassi (Rome) ; ‘Mim- 
icry and Natural Selection,’ Professor E. B. Poul. 
ton (Oxford). After the conclusion of the Con- 
gress an excursion will be made to Hamburg 
for the purpose of visiting the Natural History 
Museum and Zoological Garden there, and also 
to Heligoland. Communications concerning 
the Congress shouid be made to the president, 
43, Invalidenstrasse, Berlin, N. 4. Admission 
to the Congress will be free to all zoologists 
and all friends of zoology. 
Ir is stated in Terrestrial Magnetism that the 
Magnetic Observatory at Cheltenham, Mary- 
