APRIL 26, 1901.] 
A preEss cablegram from Berlin states that 
Dr. Menke, leader of a German scientific ex- 
pedition in the South Sea Islands, has been 
murdered by natives of Macquarie Islands. 
Two other members of the expedition were 
wounded. 
THE Legislature has not made an appropria- 
tion with which the New York Pathological 
Institute can pay rent for the laboratory it now 
occupies, and it will be necessary to remove 
the fine equipment to Manhattan State Hos- 
pital on Ward’s Island. Dr. Ira Van) Gieson 
will not be continued as director of the Insti- 
tute after the first of May. 
A CORRESPONDENT in San Francisco informs 
us that the bill making it a felony to publish 
that cholera or bubonic plague exists within 
the State of California, unless the fact has been 
entered on the minutes of the Board of Health, 
after haying been passed by one branch of the 
Legislature was dropped. Dr. John J. Kin- 
youn, federal quarantine officer at San Francisco, 
to whom we understand the investigation of the 
plague in that city was due, has been trans- 
ferred at the request of commercial organiza- 
tions. The attitude of the San Francisco press 
towards the investigations of the plague by the 
federal authorities is shown by the following 
extract from the Call of April 16th. 
Dr. Kinyoun was the worst enemy. the State had 
ever had. His circulation of bubonic plague reports 
inflicted incalculable injury upon the State in general 
and San Francisco in particular. The salient fact 
that a number of deaths in the Chinese quarter during 
the past twelve months, with Dr. Kinyoun’s bubonic 
nightmare thrown in, was no greater than for any 
one of the preceding years, could not stay the dam- 
age done by Kinyoun’s sensational declarations. 
In the London Times and in Nature we find 
some information regarding the inaugural meet- 
ing of the International Association of Acade- 
mies which was called to meet in Paris on the 
16th inst. The following delegates were ex- 
pected to be in attendance: Amsterdam, Pro- 
fessor H. G. yan de Sande Bakhuysen, presi- 
dent of the physico-mathematical section of the 
Academy ; Professor H. Kern, president of the 
section of letters ; Professor J. de Goeje. Berlin: 
Professor H. Diels and Professor W. Waldeyer, 
permanent secretaries of the Prussian Royal 
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Academy of Sciences; Professor R. Helmert ; 
Professor J. H. van’t Hoff; Professor T. Momm- 
sen; Professor E. Sachau. Brussels: Lieut.- 
General de Tilly; Professor P. Fredericg. Buda- 
pest: Professor C. Than; Professor I. Goldziher. 
Christiania, not yet announced. Gottingen: 
Dr. BE. Ehlers and Dr. F. Leo, secretaries of 
the Society; Professor E. Riecke. Copen- 
hagen: Professor J. L. Heiberg; General G. 
Zacharie. Leipzig: Professor W. His; Pro- 
fessor A. Fischer; Professor H. Gelzer. Lon- 
don: Sir Michael Foster and Professor A. W. 
Ricker, secretaries of the Royal Society ; Dr. 
T. E. Thorpe, foreign secretary of the Society ; 
Sir Norman Lockyer; Sir Archibald Geikie ; 
Professor A. R. Forsyth; Professor H. Ray 
Lankester; Professor A. Schuster. Munich: 
Professor W. Dyck; Professor F. Lindemann ; 
Professor K. Krumbacher. Paris, Academy 
of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres: Count De 
Lasteyrie, president; MM. P. Berger, vice- 
president; H. Wallon, permanent secretary ; 
L. Delisle; G. Boissier; Bréal; Barbier De 
Meynard; Senart; E. Mintz. Academy of 
Sciences: MM. Fouqué, president ; Bouquet de 
la Grye, vice-president; Berthelot and Dar- 
boux, permanent secretaries; Marey; H. Poin- 
caré; Moissan; Lannelongue. Academy of 
Moral and Political Sciences: Count de Fran- 
queville, president ; G. Picot, permanent secre- 
tary; Gréard; Glasson; Lachelier; Sorel; 
Boutroux. St. Petersburg: MM. Famintzin ; 
Backlund: Oldenbourg; Kouliabko. Rome: 
Professor S. Cannizzaro; Professor A. Mosso ; 
Professor I. Guidi. Stockholm: Professor G. 
Retzius, president of the Academy of Sciences. 
Washington: Professor G. L. Goodale. Vi- 
enna: Professor Victor von Lang, general sec- 
retary of the Academy of Sciences; Professor 
T. Gomperz; Professor Leopold von Schroeder ; 
Professor J. Karabacek ; Professor J. C. Zirecek; 
Professor A. Rollett; Professor G. Tschermak. 
The delegates were to be officially welcomed 
to Paris by the French Government and the 
Institute of France; and the arrangements for 
their pleasure included receptions at the 
Chateau de Chantilly, bequeathed to the Insti- 
tute of France by the Duc d’Aumale, at the 
French Academy and elsewhere, a visit to the 
Bibliothéque Nationale under the conduct of its 
