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anteimse, includes Palceococcus hempelw 

 (Ckll.). Monophlehulus with 7-jointed female 

 antennee, includes Monophlehus fuscus Mas- 

 kell. The Linnean Coccus cacti becomes Mon- 

 ophlehus cacti. Maskell's supposed Monophle- 

 hus burmeisteri from Japan {Trans. N. Z. Inst., 

 XXIX., p. 237) becomes M. mashelli and be- 

 longs to the section Drosicha. 



T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 A RECEPTION in honor of Lord and Lady 

 Kelvin was given at Columbia University on 

 the evening of April 21. Over 2,000 guests 

 were present, including many eminent men of 

 science. Professor F. B. Crocker presided, 

 and addresses of welcome were made by Pres- 

 ident Nicholas Murray Butler on behalf of 

 Columbia University, by Professor Elihu 

 Thomson on behalf of the Institute of Elec- 

 trical Engineers, by Professor A. G. Webster 

 on behalf of the American Physical So- 

 ciety, and by Professor E. S. Woodward on 

 behalf of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science and other societies. 

 Lord Kelvin replied in an address about half 

 an hour in length, in the course of which he 

 referred to his several visits to America and 

 the great progress that had been made by this 

 country in the applications of electrical sci- 

 ence. Lord Kelvin is expected to visit Cornell 

 University on May 2, where he will address the 

 students and attend a reception given by Dr. 

 R. H. Thurston, dean of Sibley College. Lord 

 Kelvin appeared before a congressional com- 

 mittee on April 24, to advocate the bill intro- 

 ducing the metric system of weights and 

 measures. 



Mr. M. H. Saville will return to New York 

 in May after a successful winter's work of 

 excavation in the Zapotecan tombs of Cuila- 

 pam near Oaxaca, with the Loubat Expedition 

 of the American Museum of Natural History. 



President A. S. Draper, of the University 

 of Illinois, has in view of his illness been 

 given leave of absence by the trustee. 



Professor E. L. Washburn, of the Univer- 

 sity of Oregon, has been elected state ento- 



mologist of Minnesota, succeeding the late 

 Otto Lugger. 



The Board of Health, New York City, has 

 increased the salary of Dr. Hermann M. Biggs 

 from $2,500 to $5,000 per year, and changed 

 his official title from director of the bacterior 

 logical deparment to medical officer. 



Commissioner Lederle, of the Board of 

 Health of New York City, has given out the 

 following appointments to honorary officers : 

 Daniel Draper, Ph.D., consulting meteorol- 

 ogist; George Henry Fox, dermatologist; 

 Stevenson Towle, sanitary engineer; Clarence 

 C. Rice, M.D., laryngologist ; Arthur B. Deuel, 

 M.D., attending otologist, and George F. 

 Schrady, M.D., consulting surgeon. 



Dr. Charles K. Mills, professor of nervous 

 diseases in the University of Pennsylvania, 

 gave a dinner at the University Club, Phila- 

 delphia, on April 13, in honor of Dr. William 

 Aldren Turner, of London, the neurologist, 

 and his brother. Dr. Logan Turner of Edin- 

 burgh, the laryngologist. They are the sons 

 of Sir William Turner, the eminent anatomist 

 of the University of Edinburgh. 



Letters have been received from Mr. Harry 

 de Windt, who is attempting to make a land 

 expedition across Bering Strait. At the end 

 of February he was on the upper Yana River, 

 six hundred miles north of Yakutsk. 



Mr. S. M. Vauclain, General Superintend- 

 ent of the Baldwin Locomotive Works 

 adelphia, and inventor of the Vauclain Com- 

 pound Locomotive, lectured before the engi- 

 neering societies of Lehigh University on 

 Thursday evening on 'The Locomotive.' 



The committee of the Medical School of 

 the Johns Hopkins University, appointed to 

 erect a memorial to the late Dr. Jesse William 

 Lazear, who lost his life as the result of an 

 experiment on the transmission of yellow 

 fever, 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. 



J. Sterling Morton, ex-Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, died at his home at Lake Forest on 

 April 27. 



