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apparatus for liquefying liydrogen. Mr. E. J. 

 Bles's living tadpoles of the Cape clawed frog 

 well repaid study, as their remarkable trans- 

 parency showed much of their internal econ- 

 omy. Mr. W. Gowland's Japanese pictures 

 of Buddhist divinities and saints by old mas- 

 ters were curious examples of the art of Japan, 

 and Mr. Edward Whymper's beautiful photo- 

 graphs from the Rocky Mountains of Canada, 

 where he spent the greater part of last year, 

 were of great interest. Professor Garwood ex- 

 hibited examples of telephotography in the 

 Alps and Himalayas. Professor Ramsay show- 

 ed an attempt to reproduce the Aurora Bore- 

 alis by taking advantage of the krypton ele- 

 ment in the atmosphere. Professor Elinders 

 Petrie showed some striking slides illustrative 

 of the early civilization of Egypt. Mr. J. Y. 

 Buchanan exhibited a series of slides illustra- 

 ting the performance of M. Santos Dumont's 

 dirigible balloon and the accident to it in 

 February last, and Professor E. B. Poulton 

 illustrated by means of very successful three- 

 color slides, some of his recent work upon pro- 

 tective resemblance and mimicry in insects. 



The seventh annual congress of the South- 

 eastern Union of Scientific Societies was, 

 says Nature, held at Canterbury on June 5-7. 

 Thirty-seven societies are affiliated, a slight 

 increase on last year; the accounts showed a 

 small balance, and the attendance was good. 

 An invitation to meet at Dover next year was 

 accepted, and Sir Henry Howorth, E.R.S., was 

 elected president for that meeting. Papers 

 were read on ' The Marine Aquarium,' by Mr. 

 Sibert Saunders, and on 'Mycorhiza,' by Miss 

 A. Lorrain Smith; Professor Poulton gave a 

 lecture on ' Recent Researches on Mimicry in 

 Insects,' illustrated by lantern-slides in natu- 

 ral colors; a discussion on the measure to be 

 adopted for the preservation of British in- 

 digenous flora was initiated by Professor Boul- 

 ger and Mr. E. A. Martin; and papers on 

 ' Well-seetions,' by Mr. Whitaker, and on 

 'Eolithic Elint Implements,' by Mr. E. R. 

 Harrison, were taken as read, but will appear 

 in The South-Eastern Naturalist for 1902. 

 The event of the meeting, however, was the ad- 

 dress by the president. Dr. Jonathan Hutchin- 

 son, F.R.S., on leprosy, with special reference 



to its antiquarian aspects, with reasoned argu- 

 ment against the theory of contagion. The 

 congress was held, by permission of the gover- 

 nors, in the Simon Langton Schools, where an 

 excellent local museum had been got together, 

 including marine aquaria exhibited by Mr. 

 Saunders, Mr. Harrison's eoliths, and many 

 fresh specimens of the British orchids, so well 

 represented in the district. The members 

 visited the cathedral, and were entertained at 

 the deanery by the Dean and Mrs. Farrar, and 

 were also received, on the Friday evening, by 

 the Mayor and Mayoress. The congress ter- 

 minated on the Saturday afternoon in a visit 

 to the South-Eastern Agricultural College, 

 Wye, at the invitation of the principal, Pro- 

 fessor A. D. Hall, where the members were 

 shown over the farms and laboratories by the 

 staff -of the college. 



Consul-Geneeal W. R. Hollow ay sends the 

 following to the Department of State, from 

 St. Petersburg: The oiEcial report of the In- 

 ternational Exhibition of Fishery, which was 

 held at St. Petersburg, January 38 to March 

 9, 1902, has just been published. The coun- 

 tries participating were Russia and Finland, 

 Austria, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Egypt, 

 India, Spain, Italy, Monaco, Norway, Persia, 

 Roumania, Siam, France, Sweden and Japan, 

 the first making much the best exhibit; but as 

 a whole, the exhibit was not up to the standard 

 of previous ones, the participants, Russia ex- 

 cepted, taking little or no pains to make a 

 creditable display. 



VyiTERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 It is announced that Mrs. Thomas G. Ben- 

 net, of New Haven, is the donor of the new 

 clinical building for the Tale Medical School, 

 the cost' of which with the land is $96,000. 



It is reported that ISTorthwestern University 

 will receive about $200,000 by the will of the 

 late James F. Robinson. 



By the will of the late Dr. Anson Judd Up- 

 son, Hamilton College receives a bequest of 

 $5,000, subject to a life interest. 



Mr. B. F. Hawkley, representing the trus- 

 tees of the late Cecil Rhodes, has addressed a 



