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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Professor James Edward Keelee, the 

 eminent astronomer, director of the Lick Ob- 

 servatory, died at San Francisco on August 

 12th, from the effects of heart disease. He was 

 born in La Salle, 111., on September 8, 1857. 



Professor Eudolph Virchow has been 

 elected an honorary member of the Vienna 

 Academy of Sciences, and Dr. Ernst Abbe, pro- 

 fessor of meteorology and astronomy at Jena, 

 Dr. Karl v. Zittel, professor of paleontology 

 and geology at Munich, and Dr. Felix Klein, 

 professor of mathematics at Gottingen, have 

 been elected corresponding members of the 

 same Academy. 



Mr. Overton W. Price, of the Division of 

 Forestry of the U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, has been promoted to, the position of su- 

 perintendent of working-plans and assistant 

 chief, vacant by the appointment of Mr. Henry 

 S. Graves to the professorship of forestry in 

 Yale University. 



In response to a recent requisition from the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology for an assistant 



ethnologist especially competent to deal with 

 the Siouan languages, the Civil Service Com- 

 mission held, on July 24th, a competitive ex- 

 amination for the position. Only a single can- 

 didate entered the competition — Mr. John E. 

 Swanton, of Massachusetts, a recent student in 

 Columbia University, where he took a special 

 course in American linguistics under Dr. Boas ; 

 he passed the examination most satisfactorily. 

 His immediate field of work will include reser- 

 vations of the Dakota and other Siouan Indians. 



The Eolleston Prize, Oxford University, has 

 been awarded to Gustav Mann, B.Sc, New 

 College, for his published ' Eesearch on the 

 Histology of Vaccinia ' and for his unpublished 

 'Atlas of the Anatomy of the Brain of the 

 Frog.' 



Peofessoe William C. Stubbs, director of 

 the Audubon experiment station in Louisiana, 

 has gone to Hawaii as a representative of the 

 Agricultural Department to make a study of 

 the sugar industry on the islands and to estab- 

 lish a Government experiment station there. 



De. Hidezo Ikeda of Tokio has been sent 

 to America by the Japanese Government to 

 study the agriculture of this country, with 

 special reference to tobacco and cotton. 



We noted recently a movement for a memo- 

 rial to the late Sir William Flower. We now 

 learn from Nature that it is proposed that the 

 memorial shall consist of a bust and a com- 

 memorative brass 'tablet to be placed in the 

 Whale Eoom of the Natural History Museum 

 — one of the departments in which he was most 

 interested, and to which he devoted special care 

 and attention. Subscriptions (which must not 

 exceed two guineas) should be paid to Dr. P. 

 L. Sclater, treasurer of the Flower Memorial 

 Fund, 3 Hanover Square, W. 



Dr. Rudolph Hbssel, who had charge of 

 the propagating ponds of the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission, died at Washington on August 16th 

 from the effects of sunstroke. He was born in 

 Baden 75 years ago, and became connected with 

 the U. S. Fish Commission in 1877. 



Professor Charles Scott Vbnable, pro- 

 fessor emeritus of mathematics at the Univer- 

 sity of Virginia, died at his home in Charlottes- 

 ville, Va. , on Aug. 11th. He was born in Prince 



