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SCIENCE, 



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expect, move the great mass, as it has done all 

 the others, to the capital, its exact weight will 

 be finally and definitely known. Whichever 

 meteorite shall, after accurate calculation, 

 prove to be the heavier, it will ever remain of 

 interest that the two largest meteorites known 

 to our earth should have fallen on the North 

 American Continent; one far toward its 

 northern end, the other toward its southern. 

 Henry A. Ward. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Lord Avebury has been made a member of 

 the Prussian order ' pour le merite.' 



Dr. Wilhelm Wundt, the eminent psycholo- 

 gist and philosopher, celebrated his seventieth 

 birthday on August 16. A volume of research- 

 es carried out by his former students was pre- 

 sented to him on the occasion. 



It is announced from Berlin that the 

 strength of Professor Virchow is unmistakably 

 failing. 



Dr. Emil Tietze has been appointed director 

 of the Imperial Geological Institute at Vienna. 



An international marine laboratory is to 

 be established at Christiania under the direc- 

 torship of Dr. Fridjof Nansen. 



Professor Albert Gaudry, the eminent 

 paleontologist, has retired from his chair in 

 the Paris Museum of Natural History, and has 

 been made honorary professor. 



A CABLE despatch to the daily papers from 

 Samoa states that President David Starr Jor- 

 dan was in serious danger owing to the cap- 

 sizing of a boat, but was rescued by natives. 

 He left for home on August 11. Dr. Vernon 

 Lyman Kellogg, head of the department of en- 

 tomology at Stanford University, who accom- 

 panied Dr. Jordan, has returned to the univer- 

 sity. 



Astronomer WiLLL\ii H. Wright, of the 

 Lick Observatory, has been chosen to take 

 charge of the D. O. Mills expedition, now be- 

 ing outfitted at Mount Hamilton, to spend two 

 years in Chile in making special study of the 

 stars of the Southern hemisphere. Director 

 W. W. Campbell will go with the party to 

 personally direct the erection of the observing 



station and the beginning of the two years' 

 astronomical campaign. Mr. Harold K. Palm- 

 er, fellow in the Lick Observatory, will act 

 as assistant. 



A report on the occurrence of copper in the 

 vicinity of Clifton, in southern Arizona, is be- 

 ing prepared by Mr. W. Lindgren, of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey. 



One of the three Royal prizes of the Acca- 

 demia dei Lincei, at Rome, has been awarded 

 to Professor Cantone, of Pavia, for his re- 

 searches in the phenomena of elastic equilib- 

 rium outside the limits of Hooke's Law. The 

 ministerial prize for mathematics has been 

 divided into two prizes of 1,300 lire, awarded 

 to Professors Giuseppe Bagnera (Messina) and 

 Domenico de Francesco (Naples), and a pre- 

 mium of 700 lire has been assigned to Profess- 

 or Michele de Franchis (Melfi). 



Dr. Max Wolf has been appointed director 

 of the astrophysical department of the observa- 

 tory at Heidelberg. 



Dr. William Osler, of Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, will deliver a memorial address on 

 'William Beaumont, the first and greatest 

 American Physiologist,' under the auspices of 

 the St. Louis Medical Society on October 4. 



The Berlin Academy of Sciences has granted 

 15,000 Marks to Professor A. Voeltzkow for an 

 expedition to East Africa. 



On the occasion of his retirement from the 

 curatorship of the Royal Gardens at Kew, Mr. 

 George Nicholson has been presented by his 

 friends with a suitably inscribed salver. 



The topographic branch of the United 

 States Geological Survey will continue this 

 season the mapping of the forested regions of 

 Washington in the Cascades, under the gen- 

 eral oversight of Mr. Richard U. Goode, geog- 

 rapher. 



Professor B.u?bosa Rodrigues, director of 

 the Botanical Garden of Rio Janeiro, is at 

 present in England. 



Dr. Cady Staley, who has retired from the 

 presidency of the Case School of Applied Sci- 

 ence after sixteen years of service, has gone 

 abroad, where he expects to remain for several 

 years. 



