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E. M. Griffith, of tlie Bureau of Forestry, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, who visited 

 the Hawaiian Islands on his way to the Phil- 

 ippines last winter, returned a report to Gov- 

 ernor Dole in which he said the mountain 

 forests of Hawaii must be fenced, on the 

 lower slopes to protect them from the tame 

 cattle, on the upper slopes to keep out the 

 wild ones. He also recommended the estab- 

 lishment of a forest force, consisting of a 

 forest inspector, who should have charge of 

 all government forest lands and direct the 

 work of the forest rangers; and four forest 

 rangers, one for the island of Oahu, one for 

 Ilawaii, one for Kauai, and one for Maui and 

 Molokai, 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Professor Eudolph Virchow died at 2 

 o'clock on the afternoon of September 5. A 

 public funeral was given by the City of Ber- 

 lin on September 9. 



M. Levasseur, professor of agriculture ' at 

 the College de France, has been elected presi- 

 dent of the French Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science. The Association will 

 hold its meeting in 1903 at Anglers. 



The Iron and Steel Institute of Great Brit- 

 ain held its meeting at Diisseldorf last week. 

 Among those who made addresses at the open- 

 ing meeting was Professor Henry M. Howe, 

 of Columbia University. Mr. Andrew Carnegie 

 has been elected president of the Institute. 



Professor S. W. Stratton is at present in 

 Berlin studying the Eeichsanstalt with a view 

 to the buildings to be erected at Washington 

 for the newly established Bureau of Standards. 



The Accademia dei Lincei, at Rome, has 

 elected the following members: Hieronymus 

 Zeuthen, Hendrich Anton Lorentz, Robert 

 Thalen, Julius Wiesner and Hugo de Vries. 



Sir Henry Thompson, well known for his 

 numerous publications on medical topics and 

 also for astronomical studies, has recently 

 celebrated his eighty-second birthday. 



Secretary Hay has appointed Dr. H. C. 

 Wood and Dr. F. B. Power to represent the 



United States at the International Conven- 

 tion for the Unification of the Formulas for 

 Heroic Medicines, which is to be held at 

 Brussels, beginning on September 15. 



Dr. Nicholas Senn, professor of surgery in 

 the Rush Medical College, has returned to 

 Chicago from a journey to the Orient. 



Dr. W. W. Keen, professor of surgery in 

 the Jefferson Medical College of Philadel- 

 phia, who has been making a tour round the 

 world during the past fifteen months, is ex- 

 pected to arrive in New York on September 

 19. Dr. Keen will resume his teaching and 

 practice. 



Dr. C. H. Wind, of Groningen, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Royal Dutch Meteoro- 

 logical Institute at De Bilt. 



Dr. Hiltner, of the Berlin Bureau of 

 Health, has been called to the directorship of 

 the newly established Agricultural Institute 

 at Munich. 



The centenary of the birth of Hugh Miller 

 was celebrated at Cromarty on August 22. 

 The principal address was made by Sir Arch- 

 ibald Geikie. An address was also made by 

 Dr. John M. Clarke. 



The death is announced of Dr. Paul Plosz, 

 professor of physiological and pathological 

 chemistry in the University of Budapest, aged 

 fifty-seven, and Dr. Marc Micheli, the botanist, 

 at Geneva, at the age of fifty-seven years. 



King Edward has granted a charter incor- 

 porating the new British Academy for the 

 promotion of historical, philosophical and 

 philological studies, with forty-nine original 

 fellows. 



It will be remembered that the plan of en- 

 larging the scope of the Royal Society to in- 

 clude representatives of the humanities was 

 seriously discussed. 



The New York Aquarium was during July 

 and August visited by 512,625 persons. 



The Civil Service Commission will hold an 

 examination on October 21 for the position of 

 assistant engineer in the Hydrographic Divi- 

 sion of the Geological Survey and to fill three 

 vacancies in the position of topographic 



