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WILLIAM WILLIAMS KEEN, of Philadelphia, 
Medicine and Surgery, in the place of the late Jacob 
Mandes Da Costa. 
Foreign Honorary Members : 
JuLES HENRI POINCARE, of Paris, Mathematics 
and Astronomy, in the place of the late Francesco 
Brioschi. 
HENRICH MULLER-BRESLAU, of Berlin, Technology 
and Engineering. 
HuGo KRONECKER, of Bern, Zoology and Physi- 
’ ology, in place of the late Willy Ktihne. 
RoBERT KocH, of Berlin, Medicine and Surgery, 
in place of the late Louis Pasteur. 
Srr THomAs LAUDER BRUNTON, of London, Medi- 
cine and Surgery, in place of the late Sir James Paget, 
Bart. 
ALBERT VENN DIcEy, of Oxford, Philosophy and 
Jurisprudence. 
WILLIAM EDWARD HEARN, of Melbourne, Philos- 
ophy and Jurisprudence, in place of the late Charles 
Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen. 
HENRY JACKSON, of Cambridge, Philosophy and 
Archeology, in place of the late Henry Sidgwick. 
EpMoONDO DE Amicis, of Florence, Literature and 
the Fine Arts, in place of the late John Ruskin. 
PROFESSOR SIMON NEWCOMB gave the fourth 
address of the series on the Progress and Tend- 
ency of Science during the Nineteenth Century 
before the Washington Academy of Sciences on 
March 19th, his subject being ‘The Progress 
and Tendency of Astronomy.’ 
PROFESSOR JACQUES LOEB, of the University 
of Chicago, read a paper on ‘ Artificial Par- 
thenogenesis’ before the American Philosoph- 
ical Society at Philadelphia on March 15th. 
Dr. Srtmon FLEXNER, of the University of 
Pennsylvania, who went to San Francisco to in- 
vestigate, on behalf of the U. 8. Government, 
the alleged existence of the bubonic plague in 
that city, lectured before the Academy of 
Sciences on ‘ Defense against Disease.’ 
GEORGE FRANCIS FITZGERALD, since 1881 
Erasmus Smith professor of natural and ex- 
perimental philosophy at Dublin, died on Feb- 
ruary 21st, at the age of forty-nine years. The 
Faculty of Science of the newly-constituted 
University of London has passed the following 
resolution in his memory : 
That this meeting of the Faculty of Science of the 
Univeisity of London, having heard with profound 
sorrow of the premature death of the late Professor 
SCIENCE. 
[N.S. Von. XIII. No. 325. 
George Francis Fitzgerald, desires to place on record 
its high appreciation of his brilliant qualities as a 
man, as a teacher, as an investigator, and as a leader 
of scientific thought, and to express to his family its 
mournful sympathy under the calamity which has be- 
fallen science and his many friends. 
PROFESSOR CHARLES McDONALD, for more 
than thirty years professor of mathematics in 
Dalhousie College, died in Halifax, N.S., on 
March 10th. 
THE death is announced of Mr. R. G. Halli- 
burton, of Canada, known for his political and 
scientific writings. He was sixty-nine years of 
age. 
Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE, as all our readers 
are doubtless aware, has offered to give $5,200,- 
000 to New York City for the construction of 
buildings for sixty-five branch libraries. The 
city must provide land and maintenance. The 
offer has been made in conference with Dr. John 
S. Billings, director of the New York Public 
Library, and it is understood that the branch 
libraries would be administered in connection 
with the public library. The acceptance of Mr. 
Carnegie’s offer would probably require special 
legislation, but the city officers have expressed 
themselves strongly in favor of the plan. Mr. 
Carnegie has also offered to give $1,000,000 for 
a library at St. Louis. Mr. Carnegie’s gifts and 
offers awaiting acceptance amount to over $20,- 
000,000, largely for library buildings. 
THE American Museum of Natural History 
has recently received a gift of $1,500 from Mr. 
John L. Cadwalader, of New York, for the pur- 
pose of mounting groups of birds illustrating 
seasonal changes of plumage and other adaptive 
features of bird life. The fund is to be ex- 
pended under the direction of Mr. Frank M. 
Chapman, associate curator. 
Mr. Hucu LEONARD has given £100 and Sir 
William J. Farrer £50 to the Royal Institution 
of London for experimental research at low 
temperatures. 
Mr. ForpHAM Morris, of New York City, 
has presented to the American Museum of 
Natural History a painting representing Au- 
dubon with his gun, dog and horses made by 
his sons, John and Victor, in the late forties a 
few years before his death. The painting is 
