OCTOBEE 19, 1900.] 



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is to have an elaborately equipped expedition 

 with specialists in the different sciences and to 

 start early next year. 



The medical works contained in the library 

 of the late Dr. Alfred Stille, of Philadelphia, 

 have been bequeathed by him to the College 

 of Physicians. The estate is left to relatives, 

 but if they leave no heirs it also will go to the 

 College of Physicians. 



A LIBRARY known as the ' Seymour Techni- 

 cal Library ' is to be established by friends of 

 the late Major L. T. Seymour at Johannesberg, 

 as a memorial to his services to the mining in- 

 dustry in South Africa. 



The appropriation made by the British gov- 

 ernment for the eight agricultural colleges of 

 England and Wales is £7,750. These colleges 

 have all been established within the past ten 

 years. 



The new National Museum at Munich, con- 

 taining the collection of Bavarian antiquities, has 

 been opened, and the valuable collections can be 

 viewed to much better advantage than hitherto. 

 The building contains more than a hundred 

 rooms and has been erected at a cost of about 

 $1,000,000. 



The Authors' Catalogue of the British Mu- 

 seum, containing four hundred large volumes 

 and numerous supplements, has now been 

 completed. The compilation of the catalogue 

 has occupied twenty years and cost $200,000. 

 A subject-catalogue is now iu course of prepa- 

 ration. 



Lord Lister gave the third Huxley lecture 

 at the Charing Cross Medical School on October 

 2d, his subject being ' Eecent Advances in Sci- 

 ence and their bearing on Medicine and Sur- 

 gery. ' He described in some detail the phys- 

 iological and pathological investigations that 

 led to his great discovery. It will be remem- 

 bered that these lectures before the Charing 

 Cross H&spital Medical School were endowed 

 as a memorial to Huxley, and are given once in 

 two years. The previous lecturers have been 

 Sir Michael Foster and Professor Virchow. 



At the Geographical Congress at Berlin in 

 October, 1899, it was decided to form an Inter- 



national Seismological Society. The first meet- 

 ing of the delegates will be held at Strassburg, 

 April 11, 1901. The principal subjects chosen 

 for discussion are : ' The organization and ex- 

 tension of investigation in different countries'; 

 ' The selection of apparatus for international 

 and local observations '; 'The annual publica- 

 tion of international reports,' and 'The status 

 of the new society.' 



The attendance at the seventy-second an- 

 nual meeting of German Men of Science and 

 Physicians was about 1,100. 



At the Geodetic Congress which met at Paris 

 at the end of last month. Sir David Gill, direc- 

 tor of the Cape Town Observatory, reported 

 the progress made in measuring an arc of 

 meridian of 104 degrees from the Cape to 

 Alexandria. They were passing by permission 

 through German East Africa. Five degrees 

 had been already measured in Rhodesia and 

 three and a half in Natal. The measurement 

 by international cooperation of an arc from 

 French Congo to German East Africa was con- 

 sidered. A report was also made to the effect 

 that the measurement of the geodetic line 

 between Malta and Sicily had been successfully 

 carried out under the superintendence of Dr. 

 Guarducci, the chief of the geodetic division of 

 the Italian Geographical Institute. The Malta 

 station was at Gozo, and the chief Sicilian sta- 

 tions were on the mountains of Etna and Cam- 

 marata. The distance between Malta and 

 Sicily is about 125 miles, and signals were ex- 

 changed at this distance by means of the oxy- 

 acetylene search light. 



The British Medical Journal states that the 

 Association des Anatomistes, which was founded 

 last year, held its second meeting iu Paris re- 

 cently. The session was devoted to the discus- 

 sion of business matters, the Association having 

 for purposes of scientific work joined forces 

 with the Section of Anatomy and of Histology 

 and Embryology of the International Congress 

 of Medicine. In the absence of Professor 

 Mathias Duval, the chair was taken by Profes- 

 sor Henneguy, of the College de France. It 

 was decided that the next meeting should be at 

 Lyons in 1901, on Monday, Tuesday and Wed- 

 nesday of the last week before Easter, un- 



