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Hospitals, has reeominended the reappointment 

 of Dr. P. H. Levine as head of the chemical 

 department and of Dr. Brooks as associate in 

 bacteriology. 



It is stated in Nature that Professor E. Mil- 

 losevich has succeeded Professor P. Tacehini 

 as director of the Astronomical Observatory of 

 the Eoman College and of the astronomical 

 museum connected with it. Professor Tac- 

 ehini has resigned his office of administrator 

 in the Eeale Accademia dei Lincei, and Pro- 

 fessor Volterra has been appointed as his suc- 

 cessor. Professor P. Villari having been 

 unable to accept the office as president, an elec- 

 tion to the presidential chair will be made 

 early in June. 



Mr. W. S. Beuce, the leader of the Scottish 

 Antarctic expedition, has secured the services 

 of Captain Thomas Eobertson, who for the 

 last twenty years has sailed regularly every 

 spring to the Arctic regions and once to the 

 Antarctic. 



Sir W. E. Gabstin has started for the Sudan 

 to examine the upper reaches of the Blue Nile 

 and the Atbara. He expects also to visit Lake 

 Tzana, in Abyssinia. 



M. Hdgues Le Roux, the French explorer 

 and civil engineer, is in the United States for 

 the purpose of delivering lectures. His first 

 lecture in New Tork will be given on March 

 18, before the Geographical Society. 



The Royal College of Physicians of London 

 has appointed Dr. D. Eerrier, F.R.S., to be 

 Harveian orator. Dr. Cullingworth to be Brad- 

 shaw lecturer, and Dr. H. T. Bulstrode to be 

 Milroy lecturer. 



Professor Willis L. Moore, chief of the 

 Weather Bureau, lectured at Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity on February 18, his subject being 

 'Storm Phenomena.' 



The British Association of Technical In- 

 stitutions held its annual meeting on January 

 31, when Lord Avebury was elected president 

 for the ensuing year, and delivered an address, 

 in which he dwelt on the neglect of modern 

 languages and science in the system of educa- 

 tion. 



Dr. H. a. Giles, professor of Chinese at the 



University of Cambridge, will give a series of 

 lectures at Columbia University, beginning on 

 March 5. They inaugurate the new depart- 

 ment of Chinese, established at the University 

 by General Charpentier with an endowment of 

 over $200,000. 



The death is announced of Dr. Robert 

 Adamson, professor of logic and rhetoric at 

 Glasgow University and the author of numer- 

 ous contributions to philosophy, including 

 works on 'Roger Bacon' and on the 'Philoso- 

 phy of Science in the Middle Ages.' 



Dr. C. M. Guldberg, professor of mathe- 

 matics at Christiania, died on January 14, 

 aged sixty-five years. 



Mme. Clemence Eoter has died at Paris at 

 the age of seventy-two years. She first became 

 known as the translator of Darwin's ' Origin of 

 Species,' to which she prefixed an important 

 introduction. She was the author of numerous 

 works and articles on philosophy, ethics and 

 natural science. 



De. Thomas Neall Penrose, medical direc- 

 tor. United States Navy, retired, died on Feb- 

 ruary 13, aged sixty-seven years. 



Captain Cheyne, E. N., who was present as 

 an officer with the three Arctic expeditions that 

 went in search of Sir John Franklin, has died 

 in Halifax, N. S., on February 9, in his sev- 

 enty-fifth year. 



Me. Alfred William Bennett, a well-knovpn 

 English botanist, died on January 23. Ac- 

 cording to a notice in the London Times he 

 was born at Clapham, in 1833, and was edu- 

 cated at University College, London. The first 

 of his more important contributions to scien- 

 tific literature was editing, with Mr. Thiselton 

 Dyer, the English edition of Sachs's 'Text- 

 book of Botany,' 1875 ; in 1889 he published, in 

 conjunction with Mr. G. Murray, a 'Handbook 

 of Cryptogamic Botany'; his most popular 

 work was the 'Flora of the Alps,' which ap- 

 peared about seven years ago. He was a fellow 

 of the Linnean Society and of the Royal Mi- 

 croscopical Society, the Journal of which so- 

 ciety was edited by him. 



In a recent number of Science it was stated 

 that the collection of Aino objects made by 



