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tory of Meudon in place of M. Liard, recently 

 made vice-rector of the University of Paris. 



The Swedish explorer, Sven Hedin, has be- 

 gun a tour of the principal cities of Germany 

 to lecture on his travels in Central Asia. 



Miss Eliza E. Soidmore, foreign secretary 

 of the National Geographic Society, is a dele- 

 gate from the Society to the Thirteenth Inter- 

 national Oriental Congress meeting in Ham- 

 burg. 



At a meeting of the Cold Storage and Ice 

 Association, held at the Institution of Me- 

 chanical Engineers on November 5, Dr. Carl 

 Linde, of Munich, read a paper on ' The 

 Technical Application of Liquid Air.' 



The Mayor of Ealing has unveiled a me- 

 morial, which has been erected by public sub- 

 scription, in the Ealing Public Library to the 

 late Professor Huxley, who was born at Ealing 

 on May 4, 1825. The memorial consists of a 

 mural tablet with a portrait medallion of Hux- 

 ley by Mr. Prank Boucher. Among those pres- 

 ent were Mrs. Huxley, widow of the distin- 

 guished scientist, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard 

 Huxley, Professor George Henslow (who pre- 

 sided), and representatives of several of the 

 learned societies with which Huxley was asso- 

 ciated. 



An efPort is being made by the mayor and 

 municipal council of St.-Just-en-Chaussee, 

 Oise, France, to raise a memorial to two 

 famous men who were born in that town, the 

 brothers Haiiy-Eene Just, founder of mineral- 

 ogy as an exact science, and Valentin, the phil- 

 anthropist, who founded the first school for 

 the blind. A sum of 7000 francs has already 

 been raised, mostly in the locality; 25,000 

 francs is the sum required to carry out the 

 project. American subscriptions may be sent 

 to M. Leon Bourgeois, 1 boulevard Henri IV., 

 Paris. 



Major James C. Merrill, surgeon, U. S. A., 

 librarian of the Army Medical Museum, and 

 known for his contributions to ornithology, 

 has died at the age of forty-nine years. 



Mr. Peter Brotherhood, a British me- 

 chanical engineer, the inventor of an important 

 steam motor, has died in his sixty-fifth year. 



Dr. Hermann Eulenberg, an eminent Ger- 

 man psychiatrist, has died in Bonn at the age 

 of eighty-nine years. 



The mathematician. Professor Nikolaus 

 Budajew, of St. Petersburg, has died at the 

 age of sixty-nine years. 



The visiting Society of Americanists passed 

 through Washington on Tuesday, October 21, 

 spending the entire day there. In the morn- 

 ing they were received by the President, after 

 which they were driven to various places of 

 interest, scientific and otherwise, ending at 

 the Congressional Library, where lunch was 

 served. In the afternoon they were received 

 at the Smithsonian Institution by Secretary 

 Langley and spent most of the remainder of 

 their time there and at the National Mu- 

 seum. Smaller parties visited other points of 

 scientific interest, but all met at the Arling- 

 ton Hotel for dinner at 5:30. This was pre- 

 sided over by Professor C. D. Walcott, who 

 introduced Professor W J McGee as toast- 

 master, and short speeches were made by the 

 vice-presidents of the society. At Y :30 the 

 visitors left for Pittsburg and Chicago. 



The eleventh International Congress of 

 Hygiene and Demography will be held at 

 Brussels from September 2 to September 8, 

 1903. The olEce of the secretary-general of 

 the Congress is 1 Eue Forgeur, Liege. 



The Belgian Surgical Society, which re- 

 cently held a meeting in Brussels,has appointed 

 a eonunittee, consisting of prominent surgeons 

 from all parts of the world, to draw up plans 

 for the foundation of an international sur- 

 gical society. 



The International Congress of Tuberculosis 

 adjourned on October 26 to meet next year at 

 Paris. 



The state and provincial boards of health 

 at their meeting at New Haven on October 

 29 passed the following resolution : " That 

 the conference of State and Provincial 

 Boards of Health of North America views 

 with abhorrence the irretrievable disgrace of 

 the present State Board of Health of Cali- 

 fornia, and pronounces the plague situation 

 in California a matter of grave national con- 

 cern. That the National Conference of State 



