January 10, 1896.] 



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The memoir of G. J. Romanes, edited by- 

 Mrs. Eomanes, consists chiefly of letters, in- 

 cluding an important correspondence with Dar- 

 win. It is expected that it will be published 

 this month or in February. 



We learn from Nature that Prof. Bonney was 

 presented with his portrait on December 16 by 

 former geological students of the University of 

 Cambridge and University College, London. 

 Remarks were made by Mr. J. E. Marr, Miss 

 Raisin and Prof. W. J. Sollas, and after the 

 portrait had been unveiled Prof. Bonney re- 

 plied. 



The annual election of officers of the Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, resulted 

 in the election of Dr. Samuel G. Dixon to the 

 presidency. 



Cablegrams state that a violent earthquake 

 shock was felt on December 30, at Wiener, 

 Neustadt, thirteen miles from Vienna. 



The Weather-ei-op Bulletin issued by the De- 

 partment of Agriculture states that December, 

 1895, was generally slightly warmer than usual 

 over the northern portions of the country, the 

 average daily temperature excess being greatest 

 in the Missouri Valley and northern New Eng- 

 land, where it generally ranged from 3° to 6°. 

 From the lower Ohio Valley northward to and 

 including the southern portion of the upper 

 Lake Region the average temperature for the 

 month was about normal. The month was gen- 

 erally drier than usual in the Atlantic Coast 

 and Gulf States, generally throughout the Rocky 

 Mountain and Plateau districts and in California. 



Beginning with the current number The 

 American Anthropologist will be issued monthly 

 instead of quarterly, and the subscription price 

 will be reduced from $3 to $2 per annum. The 

 number of pages in the volume will not be di- 

 minished. Ihe American Anthropologist has 

 during the eight years siuce it has been estab- 

 lished printed a very large number of important 

 papers on archajology, ethnology, folk-lore, so- 

 ciology, philology and general anthropology, 

 contributed by the leading American students 

 of anthropology. 



The American Economic Association at its 

 recent session in Indianapolis elected Henry C. 

 Adams, of the University of Michigan, Presi- 



dent, and Prof. Franklin H. Giddings, Colum- 

 bia College, E. R. L. Gould, Johns Hopkins 

 University and University of Chicago, and R. 

 P. Falkner, University of Pennsylvania, Vice- 

 Presidents. 



The Medical News has been removed from 

 Philadelphia to New York, and Dr. Geo. M. 

 Gould has retired from the editorship. The 

 Medical News is one of the few weekly medical 

 journals among the large number published in 

 America that maintains a satisfactory scientific 

 standard. 



Nature announces that Prof. Sylvester has 

 been elected an associate of the Brussels Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, Prof. Ray Lankester a cor- 

 responding member of the St. Petersburg Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, and Sir William Flower a 

 foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy 

 of Sciences. The Naturwissenschafiliche Rund- 

 schau announces that Prof. R. Leuckhart has 

 been elected an honorary member of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences. 



The National Geographic Magazine will here- 

 after be published on the first of each month 

 under the editorship of Gen. A. W. Greely, Dr. 

 W J McGee, Miss E. R. Scidmore and Mr. John 

 Hyde. Subscriptions may be sent to the Secre- 

 tary of the National Geographic Society, 1515 

 H street, Washington, D. C. 



A EEPOET issued from the Hydrographic Of- 

 fice describes the floating ice seen during 1892 

 and 1893 in the South Atlantic east of Cape 

 Horn. It is said that the icebergs were of such 

 size that they could not have been formed on 

 small, low-lying islands, but only on a large 

 continent of such height that great glaciers could 

 be formed. 



A ciECULAR has been issued by several mem- 

 bers of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences urging that more support be given to 

 the Academy. 



Dr. John Russell Hind, the eminent British 

 astronomer, died at London on December 23, in 

 his seventy-third year. He was the author of 

 important researches, especially on comets, and 

 published works on this subject and on general 

 astronomy. He was for many years superin- 

 tendent of the Nautical Almanac. He had held 

 the offices of Foreign Secretary and President of 



