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Dr. C. S. Belli, of Turin, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Botanical Gardens at 

 Cagiiari. 



Dr. a. a. Ivanov, assistant astronomer at 

 Pulkova Observatory, has been appointed in- 

 spector in the St. Petersburg Institute of 

 Weights and Measures and at the same time 

 has been made docent in astronomy and 

 geodesy at the University. 



At the anniversary meeting of the Geolog- 

 ical Society of London officers were elected as 

 follows : President, Professor C. Lapworth, 

 F.E.S.; Vice-Presidents, Sir Archibald Geikie, 

 F.E.S., Mr. J. E. Marr, F.R.S., Professor H. 

 A. Miers, P.R.S., and Professor H. G. Seeley, 

 F.R.S. ; Secretaries, Mr. H. S. Herries and 

 Professor W. W. Watts; Foreign Secretary, 

 Sir John Evans, F.R.S. ; Treasurer, Dr. W. T. 

 Blanford, F.R.S. The medals and funds were 

 awarded in accordance with the announcement 

 that we have already made. 



M. Berthelot has been elected honorary 

 president, and M. Moissan, president, of the 

 council of the Chemical Society of Paris. 



M. Teisserenc de Bort has made a visit to 

 Denmark to establish a meteorological station 

 in which kites and captive balloons will be 

 used. 



Peopessor Bessey, of the University of 

 Nebraska, is to give a course of twenty lec- 

 tures on botany in the Colorado Springs Sum- 

 mer School, which is to be held in Colorado 

 Springs, Colo., in July and August. 



Professor Volney M. Spalding, of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, is at present on a botanic- 

 al expedition to Florida. 



Major Ronald Ross, of the Liverpool School 

 of Tropical Medicine, left Liverpool on Febru- 

 ary 22 for Sierra Leone to make an examina- 

 tion of the drainage scheme being carried out 

 there, and to study the health of the natives. 



The committee of the Medical School of the 

 Johns Hopkins University, appointed to erect 

 a memorial to the late Jesse William Lazear, 

 who lost his life as the result of an experiment 

 on the transmission of yellow fever by mos- 

 quitoes, reports that sufficient money has been 

 subscribed to erect a memorial tablet and to 



establish a library fund for the purchase of 

 works relating to tropical diseases. The com- 

 mittee now hope that a sufficient sum may be 

 subscribed to establish a permanent scholarship 

 for the study of tropical diseases. Subscrip- 

 tions for this purpose may be sent to Dr. 

 Stewart Baton, treasurer, 213 West Monument 

 Street, Baltimore, Md. 



Professor Leo Konigsberger, of Heidelberg, 

 is preparing an extended biography of Her- 

 mann von Hehnholtz, which will be published 

 by Friedrich Vieweg and Son. 



The students of the University of California 

 held memorial exercises in honor of the late 

 Professor Joseph Le Conte on February 26, the 

 anniversary of his birth. An address was made 

 by Professor Thomas R. Bacon. The students 

 of the university are collecting funds to assist 

 in the erection of a granite lodge which the 

 Sierra Club proposes to construct in the 

 Yosemite Valley as a memorial to Dr. Le 

 Conte. 



Dr. Christian Penger, professor of clinical 

 surgery in the Rush Medical College of the 

 University of Chicago, died on March Y, at the 

 age of fifty-two years. 



We regret to record the following deaths 

 among foreign men of science: Dr. Emil 

 Holub, a distinguished African traveler, in 

 Vienna on February 21, aged fifty-four years ; 

 Professor Moriz Kaposi, of the University of 

 Vienna, well-known for his publications on 

 diseases of the skin, on March 6, at the age of 

 sixty-four years; Dr. Carlos Berg, director of 

 the National Museum at Buenos Ayres, at the 

 age of fifty-nine years; Dr. Johannis Pernet, 

 professor of physics in the Polytechnic School 

 at Zurich, at the age of fifty-seven years, and 

 Captain Gaetano .Casati, an Italian explorer 

 who spent ten years in Africa, at the age of 

 sixty-three years. 



At the annual meeting of the Board of 

 Managers of the New York Zoological Society 

 it was reported that the society has contrib- 

 uted $250,000 towards the Zoological Park and 

 has $18,000 in the treasury yet to expend, in 

 addition to $17,000 which has been expended 

 upon the plans and designs for the buildings. 

 The City of New York has expended $425,000 



