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votes were MM. Houssay, Plenneguy and R. 

 Blanehard. 



Dr. Floeentino Ameghino has been ap- 

 pointed director of the National Museum of 

 Buenos Aires as successor to the late Pro- 

 fessor Charles Berg. 



It is expected that Dr. W. W. Keen, pro- 

 fessor of surgery at Jefferson Medical College, 

 will reach Philadelphia by September 20, 

 1902, after having completed a tour of the 

 world. 



The condition of Dr. Charles Kendall 

 Adams, the former president of the University 

 of Wisconsin, who is ill at Eedlands, Cal., is 

 greatly improved. 



We hear with regret that Dr. George Mann 

 Richardson, professor of organic chemistry at 

 Stanford University, is critically ill at Balti- 

 more. 



Mr. C. G. Pringle has been appointed keep- 

 er of the herbarium of the University of Ver- 

 mont. 



. Mr. W. H. Evans, of the oifice of Experiment 

 Stations, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 has returned from Porto Rico, where he was 

 in conference with Mr. F. D. Gardner, in 

 charge of the Porto Rico Station, with refer- 

 ence to the selection of a permanent site and 

 the development of the station there. 



Mr. Ernst A. Bessey, special agent of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, sailed for 

 Europe and Asia on the se'cond of July. He is 

 commissioned to visit Russia and Turkestan 

 before his return. 



Professor Baldwin Spencer and Mr. J. F. 

 Gillen have returned to Melbourne from their 

 expedition to the northern interior of Aus- 

 tralia. 



A Swedish: expedition under Dr. P. Rubin is 

 taking meridian measurements on the islands 

 north of Spitzbergen. Dr. von Zeipel is as- 

 tronomer and Lieut. Duner cartographer of 

 the expedition. 



The funeral services of M. Faye, the emi- 

 nent astronomer and geodesist, took place on 

 July 7, when addresses in his memory were 

 made by M. Janssen, director of the Observa- 

 tory of Meudon; General Bassot, president of 



the Bureau of Longitude, and M. Loewy, di- 

 rector of the Observatory of Paris. 



Dr. Thomas H. Hoskins, at one time a 

 physician and teacher of anatomy, but for the 

 past thirty-five years engaged in agricultural 

 experiments and writing, has died at his home 

 at Newport, Vermont, at the age of seventy- 

 four years. 



Mr. J. PiERPONT Morgan has presented to the 

 Museum of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, the 

 collection of precious stones formed by Mr. 

 George F. Kunz for the Buffalo Exhibition. 



Me. Andrew Carnegie has offered to give 

 about $200,000 for four librarieg in England. 



The Royal Academy of Belgium will make 

 at the close of the year 1904 the first award 

 of its Ch. Lagrange prize. The value of the 

 prize is 1,200 frs., and the subject is a contri- 

 bution to geodesy. 



The plan is being considered of holding a 

 world congress of tuberculosis in St. Louis in 

 1904. Dr. George Brown, secretary of the 

 ilmerican Congress of Tuberculosis, has taken 

 steps toward the organization of the congress. 



Messes. D. Appleton & Company annovmce 

 tiiat they will publish in the autumn a volume 

 of letters from Charles Darwin. 



The second of the two annxial conversaziones 

 of the Royal Society was held at Burlington 

 House on the evening of June 18, the fellows 

 and guests being received by the president. 

 Sir William Huggins. The London Times 

 states that the exliibits were, with few excep- 

 tions, the same as were shown in May, but 

 makes reference to some of the more at- 

 tractive new exhibits. The model of the Ant- 

 arctic exploring ship, the Discovery, exhibited 

 jointly by the Royal Society and the Royal 

 Geographical Society, naturally attracted con- 

 siderable attention. Mr. Henry Crookes ex- 

 hibited specimens of volcanic dust from the 

 West Indies with micro-photographs and 

 microscopic slides of the same. Exhibits by 

 Dr. F. W. Gamble and Mr. Frederick Keeble, 

 illustrated the color changes of Crustacea, es- 

 pecially in response to light, and under the 

 influence of background. Another specially 

 noteworthy exhibit was Dr. Traver's elaborate 



