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of Natural History, is at present in the Bad 
Lands of South Dakota, planning the work to 
be carried on this summer by the American 
Museum and the U. 8. Geological Survey. 
Dr. A. SMITH WooDWARD, of the British 
Museum, has, since the beginning of April, 
been carrying on excavations at Pikermi, near 
Athens, where many interesting vertebrate 
fossils have been found. 
PROFESSOR STEWART CuLIN, of the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, is at present on a visit 
to Cuba and Porto Rico. On his return he will 
visit the Indian tribes of the Northwest in the 
interest of the museum. 
PRESIDENT JAMES LOUDON, of the Univer- 
sity of Toronto, is at present attending the 
celebration of the University of Glasgow, and 
will later visit the universities of England and 
the Continent to obtain information for use in 
erecting the new science building of the uni- 
versity. During his absence Professor R. Ram- 
say Wright, of the chair of biology, is acting 
president. Principal John Galbraith, of the 
School of Practical Science, has been visiting 
the scientific schools in the United States, also 
with a view to the new building at Toronto. 
AT the last annual meeting of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, $145 was ap- 
propriated from the C. M. Warren Research 
Fund to Dr. Charles H. Herty, University of 
Georgia, for purchase of material to be used in 
an investigation of the constitution of complex 
platinum compounds. 
OnE of the Carnegie Research Fellowships of 
the Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain 
has been awarded to Mr. John A. Matthews, 
who at present holds the Columbia University 
Barnard Fellowship. 5 
THE Soemmering prize of the Senckenburger 
Natural History Society, of Frankfort, has been 
awarded to Professor Franz Nissl, of Heidel- 
berg, for his researches on the minute anatomy 
of the nerve cell. 
THE Director-General of the British Army 
Medical Service, Surgeon-General J. Jameson, 
C.B., retired on June 1. 
THE seventh Robert Boyle lecture at Cam- 
bridge University was delivered by Professor 
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Sylvanus P. Thompson on June 6, his sub- 
ject being ‘Magnetism and Growth.’ 
PROFESSOR VOLNEY G. BARBOUR, for thirty- 
one years professor of civil engineering in the 
University of Vermont, died in Minneapolis on 
June 4. 
THE eminent paleontologist, Professor Gustaf 
Lindstrém, keeper of the department of fossil 
animals in the Royal Museum, Stockholm, 
Sweden, died on May ‘16, last, at the age of 
72 years. Dr. Lindstrom, who in 1876 was ap- 
pointed successor of Professor N. Angelin in 
the Royal Museum, was well known among 
paleozoic investigators all over the world. He 
was an eminent scholar, and his works on 
paleontology and archeology are distinguished 
by their accuracy and thoroughness. 
Dr. KARL ZELLER, docent in theoretical 
astronomy in the German Technical Institute 
at Briinn, died on March 13, at the age of 46 
years. 
THE following is a translation by Professor J. 
C. Branner, of Stanford University, of a decree 
issued at Par4, Brazil, by the Governor of that 
State in regard to the Natural History Museum, 
hitherto known as the Museu Paraense: ‘‘In 
view of the valuable services rendered by Dr. 
Emilio Augusto Goeldi, director of the Museu 
Paraense, in the organization of that impor- 
tant establishment, adapting it to the scientific 
purposes for which it was founded and enriching 
it by his efforts with valuable materials which 
have brought it to its present degree of pros- 
perity ; and considering that this distinguished 
official has dedicated himself with praiseworthy 
devotion to those subjects which bear upon the 
progress and improvement of this State, ef- 
fectively contributing to its good name abroad ; 
and considering that he brought to bear the 
valuable help of his scientific knowledge in the 
study and comprehension of our rights in the 
question of boundary with French Guyana: It 
is resolved, asa testimony of the gratitude of the 
State to the said official, to give to the Museu 
Paraense the name of the Museu Goeldi.’’ 
PROFESSOR C. S. SARGENT, of Harvard Uni- 
versity, acknowledges the receipt of $126,485 
for an addition to the endowment fund of the 
Arnold Arboretum, 
