April 24, 1896.] 



SCIENCE. 



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national Horticultural Congress will also be 

 held to which the correspondents of the Society 

 are invited to send delegates. Correspondence 

 should be directed to M. Ernest Bergman, Sec- 

 retary of the Commission for the organization of 

 the Congress, 84 Eue de Frenelle, Paris. 



At the Berlin Industrial Exhibition to be 

 held from the 1st of May to the 15th of October 

 of the present year, there will be an inter- 

 national exhibition of astronomical photographs. 

 Astronomers are requested to send to Dr. F. S. 

 Archenhold, astronomer of the Grunewald 

 Observatory, photographs, drawings of astrono- 

 mical instruments and other objects suitable to 

 the exposition. ' Dr. Archenhold will exhibit 

 the new refracting telescope of the Grunewald 

 Observatory, which is said to be the largest in 

 Germany. This has two objectives, one of 170 

 and one of 110 cm. Instead of the usual dome, 

 this telescope is provided with a cylindrical 

 cover. 



It is announced that Prof. Schafer, of Uni- 

 versity College, London, is editing a text-book 

 of physiology which will contain contributions 

 by Professors Halliburton, Gamgee, Burdou 

 Sanderson, Gaskell, Langley, Sherrington, Mc- 

 Kendrick, Haycraft and others. 



The Swiss National Exhibition, which will be 

 held at Geneva from May 1st to October 1.5th, 

 will be especially noteworthy for the electrical 

 exhibit, which, it is said, will be the finest ever 

 made. Mr. Theodore Turretine, the Mayor of 

 Geneva and President of the Exposition, is him- 

 self an electrical engineer. 



The Natural History Museum of London 

 has acquired by purchase the collection of fossil 

 bird remains from the reputed ' Eocene ' beds 

 of Santa Cruz, Patagonia, formed by Dr. F. 

 Ameghiuo, of La Plata. 



The Pennsylvania Forestry Association held 

 an unusually successful meeting at Philadelphia 

 on April 10th. Addresses were made by Gov- 

 ernor Hastings, Mayor Warwick, Provost Har- 

 rison, Mr. Fernow and Dr. Rothrock. 



The American Metrological Societj' is send- 

 ing out a great many metric charts, pamphlets, 

 petitions, etc., for the purpose of educating the 

 people in regard to the salient points of the 

 metric system, and those who understand the 



system are requested to write to their Repre- 

 sentatives in Congress, urging them to vote for 

 the Committee's Bill, a copy of which was pub- 

 lished in this Journal on March 27th. « 



In a speech before the Senate in behalf of the 

 bill providing for an additional fire-proof build- 

 ing for the U. S. National Museum, Senator 

 Morrill stated that while the proposed building- 

 would sufiice for the present to exhibit the ac- 

 cumulated specimens another and more elabor- 

 ate building would be ultimately found neces- 

 sary. 



De. William Sharp, F. R. S., died at 

 Llandudno, Wales, on April 10th, being 91 

 years of age. Dr. Sharp aided in the introduc- 

 tion of the teaching of science in schools and in 

 the establishment of local museums throughout 

 Great Britain. We regret also to record the 

 death of Prof. Justus M. Silliman, for twenty- 

 five years professor of mining engineering at 

 Lafayette College, and of Dr. Charles Human, 

 the German engineer and archaeologist. 



The British Medical Journal states that the 

 late Dr. W. C. Williamson, professor of botany 

 at Owens College, Manchester, whose collection 

 of specimens has just been purchased by the 

 British Museum, left behind him au autobiog- 

 raphy, which Mr. George Redway is about to 

 publish under the title of ' Reminiscences of a 

 Yorkshire Naturalist.' 



Me. Sewell has introduced into the United 

 States Senate a bill providing for the establish- 

 ment of a military and national park on the 

 Palisades of the Hudson and making a prelimi- 

 nary appropriation of $500,000 for the purpose. 

 The States of New York and New Jersey have 

 agreed to cede jurisdiction over the Palisades, 

 to the United States. 



The French Geographical Society has 

 awarded a gold medal to Dr. Louis Lapique 

 for his voyage along the coast of Beloochistan 

 and in the Persian Gulf, and more especially 

 for his ethnographical researches on the Ne- 

 gritos. 



The British Medical Journal states that M. 

 Renier has bequeathed to the Belgian treasury 

 the sum of two million francs, to be applied to 

 the foundation of a medical institute to be 

 called the ' Institut Rommelaere.' 



