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Dr. E. Grossmann, assistant in the Observa- 

 tory of Kiel, has been made an observer for the 

 Commission of International Geodesy under 

 the Munich Academy of Sciences. 



Mr. John Eyershed, has been appointed 

 assistant director of the Kodaikanal Observa- 

 tory. 



Dr. KLr\UNHOWEN has been appointed geol- 

 ogist in the Geological Bureau at Berlin. 



Captain Lenfant, the French explorer, is 

 about to leave on another expedition to West 

 Africa in order to discover, if possible, a 

 navigable waterway connecting Lake Chad 

 with the coast of the Atlantic. 



Professor A. Gruvel, formerly of Bor- 

 deaux, has been appointed to examine and 

 report on the sea and river fisheries of the 

 French possessions in West Africa. 



Professor W. Kukenthal, of Breslau, will 

 this winter make a zoological expedition to 

 the West Indies under the auspices of the 

 Berlin Academy of Sciences. 



The committee of the Pettenkofer founda- 

 tion at Munich has awarded its annual prize 

 of 1,200 Marks to the late Dr. Eritz Schau- 

 dinn, for his researches on the protozoa. The 

 prize will be given to his widow. A move- 

 ment has been set on foot to raise a memorial 

 fund to be applied for the benefit of Dr. 

 Schaudinn's widow and children. 



A PORTRAIT of Robert Bunsen by Herr 

 Triibner, of Karlsruhe, is to be presented to 

 the German Museum of Munich by the Grand 

 D\ike of Baden. 



The portrait of Dr. A. J. Evans, E.R.S., 

 to be painted by Sir W. B. Richmond, R.A., 

 is to be placed in the Ashmolean Museum, 

 Oxford, in commemoration of his services to 

 archeology. 



The Swedish Geographical Society is about 

 to erect at Stockholm a monument in memory 

 of Andree and his companions Strindberg and 

 Fraenkel. 



William Buck Dwight, professor of geol- 

 ogy at Vassar College since 1878, died on 

 August 29 at Cottage City. He was born at 

 Constantinople in 1833, the son of an Amer- 



ican missionary, and graduated from Yale 

 University and the Union Theological Semi- 

 nary, Professor Dwight was a fellow of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science and one of the original fellows of 

 the Geological Society of America. He was 

 the author of researches on Cambrian and 

 Ordovician geology. 



Dr. Alexander Bogdanow, professor of 

 pathology at Odessa, has died at the age of 

 fifty-two years, 



Dr, Hans Jahn, associate professor of phys- 

 ical chemistry in the University of Berlin, 

 died on August 7, at the age of fifty-three 

 years. 



The death is announced of M. Leon Adrien 

 Prunier, professor of pharmacology at Paris, 

 at the age of sixty-five years. 



The late Professor Tarnowski, the Russian 

 dermatologist, has bequeathed his estate for 

 the establishment of a sanatorium for physi- 

 cians. 



It is reported from Yokohama, Japan, under 

 date of August 27, that the magnetic survey 

 yacht Galilee, which sailed from San Fran- 

 cisco about a year ago under the auspices of 

 the department of terrestrial magnetism of 

 the Carnegie Institution, was driven on the 

 breakwater at Yokohama during a typhoon on 

 August 24, It was considerably damaged, 

 but has been refloated and docked for repairs. 

 The crew and scientific men are safe. 



At a conference of the International Geo- 

 detic Association to be held at Budapest on 

 September 20, the principal topics considered 

 will be the accurate surveying of mountain 

 chains subject to earthquake, with a view to 

 ascertaining whether these chains are stable 

 or whether they rise and sink, and the taking 

 of measures of gravity so as to throw light 

 upon the distribution of masses in the in- 

 terior of the earth and upon the rigidity of 

 the earth's crust. The drawing up of pre- 

 liminary reports on these two questions has 

 been entrusted to M. Lallemand, director of 

 the general survey in France, and Sir George 

 Darwin. 



The fifth biennial meeting of the Interna- 

 tional Commission for Scientific Aeronautics 



