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living, will be weleome. The president of the 

 trustees is Professor William H. Niles, of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and 

 the treasurer, to whom subscriptions may be 

 sent, is Mr. Stephen H. Williams, 2 Tremont 

 street, Boston, Massachusetts. 



Dr.Wyeth Johnson, recently appointed pro- 

 fessor of hygiene at McGill University and 

 dean of the Medical School, died at Montreal, 

 on June 19. 



De. Eichaed Bueton Eowe, of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, died of consumption in the 

 hospital at Los Angeles, Cal., on May 26, at 

 the age of thirty years. Dr. Rowe was a grad- 

 uate of Union College and Johns Hopkins 

 University. His home was at Clarksville, 

 Albany County, E". T. 



Major Oscae Chaplin Fox, since 1873 ex- 

 aminer in the U. S. Patent Office, and a 

 fellow of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, died on June 7, at 

 the age of seventy-two years. 



The Eev. Doctor Anson Judd Upson, chan- 

 cellor of the University of the State of New 

 York, died on June 15, in his seventy-ninth 

 year. 



Congress has just made an additional ap- 

 propriation of $75,000 for the buildings of the 

 National Bureau of Standards. The cost of 

 the buildings as now planned is $325,000. 



Here Beck-Gampee has given 750,000 

 francs to the Zoological Garden at Basel. 



The Due ■ de Chartres, in memory of his 

 son, Prince Henry, has given the Paris Geo- 

 graphical Society 11,000 francs, the interest 

 of which shall be given every three years for 

 a journey for economic study and geograph- 

 ical exploration in Asia. 



M. Henei Schneidee gave before his death 

 $7,000 to the French Society of Civil Engi- 

 neers for seven prizes to be awarded for the 

 best books in different departments of engi- 

 neering published in Prance during the last 

 forty years. The books entered for competi- 

 tion must be received by the society not later 

 than the end of the present month. 



The bill transferring certain forest reserves 

 to the Department of Agriculture has been de- 

 feated in the House by a vote of 100 to 70. 



Attoenet-General Davies has decided that 

 the Cornell School of Forestry has not violated 

 any provisions of law on the land held by it in 

 the Adirondack preserve, and he has made 

 public an opinion in which he holds that there 

 exists no cause for the beginning of an ac- 

 tion to dispossess Cornell University from 

 lands which the college holds for forestry pur- 



The annual conversazione of the Institution 

 of Civil Engineers was held on June 4. 

 Mr. Charles Hawksley (president), and Mrs. 

 Hawksley, supported by Sir John Wolfe-Bar- 

 ry, Sir Benjamin Baker, Sir Frederick Bram- 

 well. Sir William Preece, Sir Douglas Fox, 

 Sir Alexander Binnie, and Sir G. Molesworth 

 (members of the council) received about 1,500 

 guests. 



W. S. Champ, secretary of the Baldwin- 

 Ziegler Arctic expedition, and Dr. G. Shurk- 

 ley, of New York, started on June 13 for 

 Tromso, Norway, whence they will sail on July 

 1 on the Frithjof for Franz Josef Land to take 

 coal to Mr. Baldwin's ship, the America, and 

 obtain news of the explorer. Mr. Champ ex- 

 pects to find the America in about 82 degrees. 

 If Mr. Baldwin has succeeded in his dash to 

 the pole he will be brought back. Otherwise 

 the Frithjof will leave a well equipped sledge 

 party to search for Mr. Baldwin. The Frithjof 

 will return on October 1 at the latest. 



Peofessoes E. a. S. Eedmaynb and T. Tur- 

 ner, who hold respectively the chairs of min- 

 ing and metallurgy in the University of Bir- 

 mingham, are at present in America investi- 

 gating our technological schools with a view to 

 the arrangement of their departments at 

 Birmingham. In the Montreal daily 8tar^ a 

 copy of which a correspondent has sent us. 

 Professor Redmayne is quoted as saying: 

 "In no part of England, nor anywhere on 

 the continent, in fact, can you find a school 

 of mining or a department of metallurgy in 

 any university that can in any way compare 

 with those to be found in Canadian and Ameri- 

 can universities. Strange to say, these de- 

 partments in the universities of the old 

 country are so incomplete that up to the 

 present it has been found necessary, if one 



