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days, at excursion rates, gives the more accessi- 

 ble Florida location a decided advantage. The 

 Station is open to a limited number of investi- 

 gators, teachers and students in biology. The 

 session will begin Monday, June 22, 1896, and 

 continue six weeks. The course of instruc- 

 tion consists of lectures, dissection and micro- 

 scopic work in the laboratory, with observation 

 of the organisms in natural environment. In 

 order to supply students, or institutions at a 

 distance, with materials for practical work, a 

 collecting department has been established. 

 Orders for laboratory material, or applications 

 for admission to the Bahama Station, should be 

 made to the director before June 1st. 



The bill appropriating $500,000 for an addi- 

 tional wing for the American Museum of 

 Natural History has been signed by Governor 

 Morton. This, in addition to the wing now 

 in course of construction, and the wing recently 

 opened to the public, will make the Museum 

 one of the finest in the world. The new wing 

 will be in the form of an ' L ' completing the 

 77th street front and extending a short dis- 

 tance along Central Park. 



A Peovisional Committee has been formed 

 in England to promote the International 

 Memorial to Pasteur. The Executive Commit- 

 tee consists of Sir Joseph Lister, Sir John Evans, 

 Sir Henry Eoscoe, Dr. Thorne Thorne and 

 Prof. Percy Frankland (Honorary Secretary). 



At the annual meeting of the American 

 Philosophical Society, at Philadelphia, on May 

 1st, the meeting will be devoted to a discussion 

 of ' Evolution,' in which Professors Cope, Minot 

 and Bailey will take part. 



The following is the program of lectures be- 

 fore the National Geographical Society for April 

 and May : April 6 (sixth Monday afternoon), 

 ' From Sitka to the Sunset, ' Mr. Marcus Baker, 

 of the U. S. Geological Survey; April 10 (special 

 Friday afternoon), ' Cuba as Seen by a War 

 Correspondent,' Capt. Wm. F. Mannix; April 

 13 (seventh Monday afternoon), 'A Journey iu 

 the Interior of Alaska, Prof. I. C. Russell, of 

 the University of Michigan; April 17, ' The 

 Geography, Scenery and Resources of Idaho,' 

 Hon. Fred E. Dubois, U. S. Senate ; April 24, 

 ' Progress of Africa since 1888, with Special 



Reference to South Africa and Abyssinia,' Hon. 

 Gardiner G. Hubbard ; May 8, ' Geography as 

 Illustrated by Precious Stones,' Mr. George F. 

 Kunz, of Tiffany & Co., New York. The total 

 membership of the Society is now 1,374, con- 

 sisting of eleven honorary, 1,070 active and 293 

 corresponding members. 



The death is announced of M. Julius Belle- 

 ville, an eminent French inventor. 



The bill before the House of Representatives 

 adopting the metric system of weights and 

 measures as legal standards in the United States 

 has been referred back to the committee. The 

 Bill was ordered to a third reading by a vote of 

 119 to 116, but this vote was afterwards recon- 

 sidered. 



De. Wilkes has been elected President of 

 the Royal College of Physicians, London, the 

 final vote standing 114 for Dr. Wilkes and 32 

 for Sir William Broadbent. 



Me. Hendeick R. Holden has been ap- 

 pointed New York State Fish, Game and For- 

 estry commissioner. 



The Huxley Memorial Committee will be 

 glad to receive designs for a medal to be 

 awarded by the Royal College of Science, Lon- 

 don. Further particulars will be furnished on 

 application, which must be sent in before May 

 1st to the honorary secretary of the Huxley 

 Memorial Committee, Prof. G. B. Howes, 

 Royal College of Science, South Kensington, 

 S. W. 



We learn from Nature that Prof. Wyndham 

 R. Dunstan has been appointed Director of the 

 Scientific Department of the Imperial Institute, 

 which has hitherto been under the direction of 

 Sir Frederick Abel. Prof. N. A. Moor of 

 the Elphinstone College, Bombay, has been 

 selected for the post of Director of the Govern- 

 ment Observations at Colaba, in succession to 

 the late Mr. Charles Chambers. 



Akeangements are being made for a tour 

 abroad by a hundred American physicians, who 

 will visit during the coming summer the princi- 

 pal health resorts of Europe. It is expected 

 that various courtesies will be shown them at 

 the places visited. 



The fourth International Hydrological, Cli- 



