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pont Morgan. This collection will be incor- 

 porated with the Tiffany-Morgan collection of 

 gems presented to the American Museum of 

 Natural History in 1899, and which formed the 

 Tiffany collection of gems at the 1889 Exposi- 

 tion. The entire collection will be placed in a 

 hall now being prepared for it in the new wing 

 of the museum. 



Milne Edwards has by his will bequeathed 

 his library to the Paris Jardin des Flantes of 

 which he was the director. It is to be sold and 

 the proceeds to be applied toward the endow- 

 ment of the chair of zoology which he held. 

 He also leaves 20,000 fr. to the Geographical 

 Society, of which he was president, for the 

 establishment of a prize, and $10,000 to the 

 SocietS des amis des sciences. 



Teinity College library has received from 

 Dr. G. W. Russell a complete copy of Audubon's 

 ' Birds of America.' There are believed to be 

 about 175 copies of the work about half of 

 which are in America. 



The University of Barcelona has employed 

 M. Benlliure, an eminent Spanish sculptor, to 

 make a bust in bronze of M. de Lacaze-Duthiers 

 in recognition of his services to zoology and his 

 hospitality to foreigners who have worked in 

 the marine laboratories established by him. 

 The bust is now exhibited at the Paris Exposi- 

 tion and will be presented by members of the 

 University of Barcelona to M. de Lacaze- 

 Duthiers in the buildings of the University of 

 Paris during the present month. 



The bronze monument in honor of Lavoisier 

 by M. Barras will be unveiled at Paris on the 

 27th of the present month. The international 

 subscription to the monument now amounts to 

 $20,000. The monument in addition to the 

 bronze statue of Lavoisier contains two bas- 

 reliefs, one representing Lavoisier in his labora- 

 tory dictating to his wife, and the other Lavoi- 

 sier explaining his discoveries to the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences. 



The British Medical Journal states that a 

 monument has been erected to the memory of 

 Dr. Jean Hameau, the obscure general practi- 

 tioner of the Gironde who in 1836 published a 

 study on viruses, in which he partly anticipated 

 the discoveries of Pasteur. The statue was 



unveiled recently at La Teste de Buch, where 

 Hameau practiced. Addresses were delivered 

 by Dr. Laude, the Mayor of Bordeaux and 

 President of the Medical Syndicates Union of 

 France, Professor Lannelongue of Bordeaux 

 and others. Hameau was born in 1779, and 

 died in 1851. 



The Conference on Malaria which the Liver- 

 pool School of Tropical Medicine had arranged 

 to hold at the end of July, has been postponed 

 on account of the date suggested clashing with 

 the celebration of the Centenary of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons of England and with other 

 arrangements. 



A NEW physiological society has been estab 

 lished in Vienna with Professor S. Exner as 

 president. 



The Ohio Geological Survey has been reor- 

 ganized by the new State Geologist, Edward 

 Orton, Jr., and is now as follows: Edward 

 Orton, Jr., State Geologist, Economic Work in 

 Cement and Clay Industries ; Charles S. Prosser, 

 Assistant Geologist, Stratigraphical and Areal 

 Geology ; John A. Bownocker, Assistant Geol- 

 ogist, Economic Work in Oil and Gas ; Na- 

 thaniel W. Lord, Consulting Chemist, Economic 

 Value of Ohio Coals ; C. Newton Brown, Special 

 Assistant, Uses of Portland Cement ; Albert V. 

 Bleininger, Assistant, Manufacture of Portland 

 Cement ; Ralph W. Nauss, Assistant in Chem- 

 ical Laboratory. This summer Professor Orton 

 and two assistants are fitting up apparatus for 

 testing cements and he will spend some time in 

 the field in Ohio and in visiting the leading 

 cement works of other States. Professor Bow- 

 nocker is studying the occurrence of oil and 

 natural gas in eastern Ohio ; and Professor 

 Prosser is carrying on some stratigraphical field 

 work in the Devonian and Carboniferous 

 systems. 



The members of the Palisades Commission 

 of the States of New York and New Jersey 

 made a tour of inspection on July 13th. It 

 will be remembered that these Commissioners 

 have power to select the land along the Pali- 

 sades which could be used for establishing a 

 park and preserving the beauty of the rocks. 

 The park must, however, not approach nearer 

 the river than 150 feet. No funds are provided 



