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being cast for M. Delage and 12 for M. Vail- 

 lant. M. Dwelshauvers-Dery has been elected 

 a correspondent for the section of mechanics 

 and M. Oehlert for the section of mineralogy. 

 The Berlin Geographical Society has elected 

 honorary members as follows : Mr. Alexander 

 Agassiz, Gen. A. W. Greely, U. S. A., Mr. 

 Morris K. Jesup, President of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, Professor James 

 Geikie, and Professor Bidal de la Blache of 

 Paris. The Society has conferred the gold and 

 silver Karl Bitter medals on Dr. V. SemenofF of 

 St. Petersburg and Dr. Hans Steffen of Santiago, 

 Chile, respectively, and the gold and silver 

 Gustav Nachtigal medals on Dr. W. Bernhardt 

 of Clausthal and Dr. Hans Meyer of Leipzig. 

 The Georg Neumayer medal, this year awarded 

 for the first time, was bestowed upon Dr. Boer- 

 gen of Wilhelmshaven. 



The Balbi-Valier prize (3000 fr.) of the Vene- 

 tian Institute of Sciences has been awarded to 

 Professor Grassi at Eome, for his work on the 

 relation of mosquitoes to malaria. 



The Paris Academy of Moral and Political 

 Sciences has awarded its Audifred prize of the 

 value of 15,000 fr. to Dr. Yersin for the dis- 

 covery of his anti-plague serum. 



The Royal Society of Edinburgh has elected 

 the following to honorary membership : Pro- 

 fessor Dr. G. F. Fitzgerald (Dublin), Professor 

 Andrew Russell Forsyth (Cambridge), Pro- 

 fessor Archibald Liversidge (Sydney), Dr. T. 

 E. Thorpe (London), Professor Dr. Arthur 

 Auwers (Berlin), Professor Wilhelm His (Leip- 

 zig), and Professor A. von Baeyer (Munich). 



Professor Feedinand v. Richthofen has 

 been appointed director of the new museum of 

 oceanography at Berlin, and Dr. P. Dinse of 

 Charlottenburg has been called to fill the posi- 

 tion of curator. 



Western Reserve University has con- 

 ferred the degree of LL.D. on Mr. Charles F. 

 Brush of Cleveland. 



We take the following items from the Amer- 

 ican Geologist : Mr. Alexander N. Winchell of 

 Minneapolis, who has been the last two years 

 studying at Paris in the laboratories of Profes- 

 sors Lacroix and Hautefeuille, has been elected 



professor of zoology and mineralogy in The 

 New Montana School of Mines, Butte, Mon- 

 tana, and will return in time for the opening of 

 the School in September. Professor J. E. Wolff 

 of Harvard University who spent the larger 

 part of last winter studying in Germany is ex- 

 pected to return to America during the latter 

 part of August. Dr. H. Foster Bain, recently 

 assistant State geologist of Iowa, has under- 

 taken a reconnoissance of the zinc field at Jop- 

 lin. Mo., for the U. S. Geological Survey. 



Dr. a. L. Bishop, of Buffalo, has been given 

 charge of the Department of ArchiBology and 

 Ethnology to which the Pan-American Expo- 

 sition at Buffalo is paying special attention. 



The English astronomer Royal Mr. W. H. H. 

 Christie gave a reception at Greenwich Observa- 

 tory, on July 2d, at which the equipment of 

 the Observatory was viewed by a number of 



visitors. 



We regret to record the death of Dr. John 

 Ashhurst, Jr., until last year professor of sur- 

 gery in the University of Pennsylvania, and 

 the author of many important contributions to 

 surgery and medicine. He died from paralysis, 

 in Philadelphia, on July 7th, aged 61 j'ears. 



Sir Robert Murdoch Smith, major-general 

 of the Royal Engineers, and since 1885 direc- 

 tor of the Edinburgh Museum of Science and 

 Art, died on July 3d, at the age of 65 years. 

 He had been engaged with Sir Charles New- 

 ton's archaeological expedition to Halicaruassus, 

 had conducted explorations in Cyrenicia and 

 had charge of the. Persian telegraphs. 



Mr. George Workman Dickson, colonial 

 engineer of British Guinea, died at sea on June 

 10th. 



The New York Board of Estimate and Ap- 

 portionment has authorized the expenditure of 

 $200,000 for the Botanical Garden and $150,000 

 for an addition to the American Museum of 

 Natural History. 



We have already stated that the magnificent 

 collection of jewels arranged by Mr. George F. 

 Kunz and exhibited by Messrs. Tiflauy & Co. 

 at the Paris Exposition has been presented to 

 the American Museum of Natural HistorJ^ It 

 is now known that the donor is Mr. J. Pierre- 



