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De. Karl Stockl, of the University of 

 Tiibingen, has been appointed assistant in the 

 Meteorological Institute at Munich. 



Captain Geoegb Eldeidge, a hydrographeri 

 died on August 23d at Chatham, Mass., aged 

 72 years. He was the author of a book on the 

 tides and completed valuable charts of the coast 

 from Chesapeake Bay to Belle Isle. In later 

 years he made charts of the waters along the 

 coast as far south as Florida. 



SiE William Stokes, the eminent Irish sur- 

 geon, died on August 19th at Durban, having 

 gone to South Africa as consulting surgeon to 

 the British forces. He was born in Dublin in 

 1839, being the son of Dr. William Stokes, 

 regius professor of medicine in the University 

 of Dublin. 



The death is announced of Dr. August v. 

 Strombeck, the geologist, in Braunschweig, at 

 the age of 92 years. 



A MONUMENT in honor of Pelletier and Cav- 

 entou, the chemists, to whom the discovery of 

 quinine is due, was unveiled at Paris on August 

 7th. An address was made by M. Moissan, 

 president of the committee, who presented the 

 monument of the city of Paris and by other 

 speakers. There were a large number of phar- 

 macologists present, as the dedication occurred 

 at the time of the meeting of the Ninth In- 

 ternational Congress of Pharmacology. The 

 statue is by the sculptor, M. Lormier, and is 

 on the Boulevard Saint Michel. 



The Peabody Academy of Science at Salem, 

 Mass., is trying to raise 850,000 for an addition 

 to the Museum building. Already over $26,000 

 has been pledged for the purpose. 



The New York Botanical Gardens at Bronx 

 Park have received a valuable collection of 

 plants from Miss Helen Gould. 



MOEE than 900 geologists have become mem- 

 bers of the International Congress now meeting 

 at Paris. It appears that four subjects will be 

 brought forward for special discussion : interna- 

 tional co-operation in geology, by Sir A. Geikie; 

 the establishment of definite classifications, by 

 T. C. Chamberlin ; the publication of a petro- 

 graphic lexicon by a committee on the subject, 

 and the republication by photography of types 

 of fossil species by Professors CEhrert and 



Kilian. Over 400 geologists will take part in 

 the twenty-five excursions that have been ar- 

 ranged. A guide, 1000 pages in extent with 

 numerous figures and plates, has been compiled 

 by the leading French geologists. 



De. W. H. Wiley has sent a notice to the 

 efiect that in harmony with the vote of the 

 executive committee, the seventeenth annual 

 meeting of the Association of Official Agricul- 

 tural Chemists will be held in Washington, 

 D. C, beginning Friday, November 16th, and 

 continuing over Saturday and Monday, 17th 

 and 19th, or until the business of the Associ- 

 ation is completed. The authorities of Co- 

 lumbian University have extended the courtesy 

 of the use of the University lecture hall for the 

 various sessions. The following order of busi- 

 ness will be observed : The president's address ; 

 reports of the referees in the following order : 

 on nitrogen, on potash, on phosphoric acid, on 

 soils, on ash, on foods and feeding stufi^s, on 

 liquor and food adulteration, on dairy prod- 

 ucts, on sugar, on tannin, on insecticides ; 

 reports of special committees (abstract com- 

 mittee, food standards, fertilizer legislation, 

 volumetric standards). 



A SOCIETY with 400 members has been or- 

 ganized in Switzerland to study questions of 

 school hygiene. Its first meeting has been 

 held recently in Zurich under the presidency 

 of Dr. Schmid, director of public hygiene. 

 The next meeting will be at Lausanne. 



The Electrical World reports that a confer- 

 ence in New Haven has been called by Mayor 

 Cornelius T. DriscoU, and Director Alexander 

 Troup, of the Department of Public Works, in 

 order to devise means of saving the old elms of 

 the city. The prolonged drought has accen- 

 tuated the evidences of general decay, and the 

 city government has at last awakened to the 

 necessity of action. The State Agricultural 

 Experiment Station has for several weeks been 

 at work on the matter. An expert from there. 

 Dr. A. B. Jenkins, will, at a general conference 

 of citizens, to be held shortly, give the result 

 of his observations. The ofiicers of the street 

 Electric Railroads, Electric Light Company and 

 the Gas Distributing Company, have been in- 

 vited as a body, and personal letters to leading 



