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SCIENCE. 



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class of 1872, professor of geology in the Uui- 

 versity of Michigan. 



Pbof. Albert S. Bickmoeb, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, has gone to the 

 West Indies to collect materials for a course of 

 lectures for teachers, to be delivered in the 

 Museum in the autumn. Mr. Dwight L. El- 

 mendorf is already in the Windward Islands, 

 taking photographs for the illustrations of the 

 lectures. The exjienses of the trip will be paid 

 by the State, and copies of these lectures will be 

 furnished to the public schools in the seventy 

 principal cities and villages of the State. 



Peof. Max Mullee was made a Privy Coun- 

 cillor on the Queen's birthday. It is said that 

 Huxley is the only man of science previously 

 admitted to the Council in recognition of scien- 

 tific work. 



Senator Moeeill, from the Committee on 

 Finance, made on June 4th a favorable report on 

 the joint resolution authorizing the Secretary 

 of the Treasury to have made a scientific in- 

 vestigation of the fur-seal fisheries. 



Gerhard Rohlfs, traveller and explorer, 

 died on June 3d, at Godesberg, Prussia, aged 

 62. 



The daughters of Carl Marx are collecting 

 material for a biography of their father. 



On the evening of May 19th Prince Henry of 

 Orleans delivered a lecture before the Royal 

 Geographical Society, on his journey between 

 Talifu (Yun-nan) and Sadiya (Assam). This is 

 the shortest and most direct route from China 

 to India. It was, however, traversed with great 

 diflficulty and is not practicable for trade. 



Peof. L. L. Dyche, of the University of 

 Kansas, has gone to Alaska with a view to Arc- 

 tic exploration. 



At a meeting of the Royal College of Sur- 

 geons, England, on May 14th the Walker prize 

 was conferred on Mr. H. J. Stiles and the Jack- 

 sonian prize on Dr. A. A. Kanthack. 



On May 26th Prof T. G. Bonney began a 

 course of two lectures at the Royal Institution 

 on ' The Building and Sculpture of Western 

 Europe' (the Tyndall lectures). On 28th Mr. 

 Robert Munro, Secretary of the Society of An- 

 tiquaries of Scotland, gave the first of two lec- 



tures on ' Lake Dwellings,' and on Saturday, 

 May 30th Dr. E. A. Wallis Budge, keeper of 

 the Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities, British 

 Museum, began a course of two lectures on 

 ' The Moral and Religious Literature of Ancient 

 Egypt.' Prof. J. A. Fleming lectured on ' Elec- 

 tric and Magnetic Research on Low Tempera- 

 tures.' 



We are glad to learn that the editor of Ap- 

 pleton's Popular Science Monthly has invited 

 President Mendenhall to reply to the article in 

 the June number by Mr. Herbert Spencer criti- 

 cising the metric system. 



The Washington Star states that Major Pow- 

 ell, Engineer Commissioner of the District of 

 Cokimbia, has applied to the President, through 

 Gen. Craighill, Chief of Engineers, for the detail 

 of an oflicer of the engineer corps for duty with 

 the District government as an assistant to the 

 Engineer Commissioner, to fill the vacancy 

 caused by the detachment of Captain Gustav J. 

 Fiebeger, recently appointed professor of mili- 

 tary and civil engineering at the Military Acad- 

 emy. 



Dr. William Collingridge, medical oificer 

 of the port of London, has been appointed as 

 the Milroy lecturer for 1897, before the Royal 

 College of Physicians, of London. 



De. a. Gunthee has been elected President 

 of the London Linnean Society. The gold 

 medal of the Society has this year been awarded 

 to Prof. George James Allman. 



Peof. Daecy W. Thompson, of the Univer- 

 sity of Dundee, who has been sent by the 

 British government to investigate the condition 

 of the fur seals on the Prybilov Islands, left 

 Washington for Alaska on the 3d of June. He 

 will be accompanied by a Canadian naturalist, 

 Dr. Macoun. They will go to the Islands on 

 the 'Albatross,' which leaves San Francisco 

 about the middle of the month. 



Me. Clarence B. Moore, who may be ad- 

 dressed at 1321 Locust street, Philadelphia, has 

 kindly offered to present to any incorporated 

 historical or archteological society applying to 

 him, his works on ' Certain Sand Mounds of 

 Dual County, Florida;' 'Two Mounds on 

 Murphy Island, Florida,' and 'Certain Sand 

 Mounds of the Ocklawaha River, Florida.' 



