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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. III. No. 75. 



Monday, address of the Vice-President, Miss 

 Alice C. Fletcher; Tuesday, archteology; Wed- 

 nesday, ethnology; Thursday, somatology and 

 psychology; Friday, general anthropology. 



An International Congress of Hydrology, 

 Climatology and Geology, will be held at 

 Clermont-Ferrand, France, from September 28th 

 to October 6th. The Minister of the Interior of 

 the Republic has accepted the honorary presi- 

 dency, and the government of the United 

 States has been invited to appoint delegates. 



De. J. Walter Fewkes will again conduct 

 explorations for the Smithsonian Institution 

 among the Pueblos of Arizona. He left Wash- 

 ington for a three months' expedition, on Sat- 

 urday, May 30th, accompanied by Dr. Walter 

 Hough, of the National Museum. 



The section of agriculture of the Paris 

 Academy has nominated the following candi- 

 dates, one of whom will be selected to fill the 

 vacancy caused by the death of M. Reiset. 

 In the first class, Mr. Miintz ; second, M. Risler; 

 thii-d, MM. Laboulbene, Maquenne and Th. 

 Schloesing, fils. 



The first number of Eantstudien, a new 

 'Archiv.', edited by Prof. Hans Vaihinger of 

 Halle, and published by Leopold Voss, Ham- 

 burg and Leipzig, was issued on April 25th. A 

 special magazine devoted to Kent bears witness 

 to the vitality of the critical philosophy in 

 Germany, but will perhaps lead men of science 

 to reflect that it is fortunate that they do not 

 need to go back one hundred years and begin 

 over again, as required by the philosophical 

 program. The first number of the Kantstudien 

 extends to 160 pages, and contains, in addition 

 to an introduction by the editor, articles by Profe. 

 Adickes, Vorlander, Stadler and Pinloche (the 

 last in French), reviews and ' Kantiana. ' 



Prof. Rontgen has been made a correspond- 

 ing member of the Berlin Academy of Science. 



We learn from the Naturwissenschaftliche Rund- 

 schau that the mathematician, Prof Ernest Pa- 

 dova died at Pisa on March 9th, and that Prof 

 Liebscher, director of the Agricultural Institute 

 of Gottingen, died on May 9th. 



The New York Medical Record states that 

 Prof Ehrlich has been appointed director of the 



new State institute in Berlin for the testing of 

 therapeutic serum and of the laboratory at- 

 tached thereto. 



The Senate Committee has unanimously re- 

 ported in favor of the bill restricting vivisection 

 in the District of Columbia. The bill provides, 

 first, for the use of anesthetics in all painful ex- 

 periments on living vertebrate animals, inocu- 

 lation experiments, tests of drugs and medicines 

 and cases of recovery from surgical procedure 

 being exempted from this requirement ; second, 

 for the licensing of all experimenters by the 

 District Commissioners, except those who are 

 duly authorized officers of the government of 

 the United States or of that of the District of 

 Columbia ; third, for the prohibition of vivisec- 

 tion in the public schools and in exhibitions for 

 the general public ; fourth, for the inspection of 

 all places of experiment by inspectors to be ap- 

 pointed by the President of the United States. 

 It has not been shown that any case of cruelty 

 to animals by men of science has ever occurred 

 in the District of Columbia, and the proposed 

 legislation seems entirely useless. 



We learn from Nature that the Swedish Tour- 

 ists' Club has organized an expedition to the 

 Great Lake Falls next August. The object of 

 the expedition is to give those who join it an 

 opportunity of seeing the total eclipse of the sun 

 on August 9th, on becoming acquainted with 

 Lapland, and at the same time to see two of the 

 waterfalls in Europe — the Great Lake Falls 

 (Stora Sjofallet) and Harspr&nget. The party 

 will start from Gellivare on August 3d. Further 

 information with reference to the journey can 

 be obtained at the Tourists' Club, No. 28 Freds- 

 gaten, Stockholm. 



According to the New York Medical Record 

 the Wistar Institute of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania will receive, through the generosity 

 of Gen. Isaac J. Wistar, a number of new 

 buildings. The Institute was founded in 1892 

 for the preservation of the Wistar and Horner 

 collections and for the promotion of study and 

 advanced research in anatomy and biology. 

 The most important of the new buildings will 

 adjoin the present one, and will be used chiefly 

 for the accommodation of the large number of 

 specimens that have been contributed to the 



