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at Leicester on July 31, when Sir E. Ray 

 Lankester resigned the chair to Sir David 

 Gill, who gave the address published in this 

 issue of Science. The nomination of Mr. 

 Francis Darwin to be president next year was 

 confirmed. 



De. J. S. MuRAT has been appointed director 

 of the Meteorological Institute of Bucharest 

 in the place of Dr. S. C. Herpites, who has 

 retired from active service. 



Dr. Otto Wallach, professor of chemistry 

 at Gottingen, and Dr. Karl Graebe, professor 

 of chemistry at Frankfort, have been elected 

 corresponding members of the Berlin Acad- 

 emy of Sciences. 



Professor Eugene S. Talbot, professor of 

 stomatology in the Woman's Medical School 

 of ^Northwestern University, is one of the hon- 

 orary presidents of the International Stomat- 

 ological Congress that met in Paris last week. 



Dr. Hugo Bucking, professor of mineralogy 

 and petrography at the IJniversity of Strass- 

 burg, has celebrated the twenty-fifth jubilee 

 of his university professorship. 



Dr. Friedeich Hildebrand, professor of 

 botany at Freiburg, has retired from active 

 service. 



Professor J. S. Kingsley, of Tufts College, 

 spends next year in Europe on leave of ab- 

 sence, sailing on August 31. His address for 

 letters wiU be in care of Baring Brothers, 

 Bishopsgate, London, England. Separata, 

 etc., may be sent as usual to him at Tufts 

 College, Mass. 



Professor B. K. Emeeson, of Amherst Col- 

 lege and the Geological Survey, is this sum- 

 mer continuing his studies in the geology of 

 central, Massachusetts. The Taconic Quin- 

 sigamond and Ware folios are practically 

 ready for publication. 



Professor Jeremiah W. Jenks, of Cornell 

 University, a member of the United States 

 Immigration Commission, is on a tour of the 

 Canadian northwest investigating the matter 

 of American immigration into Canada. 



Professor T. G. Masaryk, professor of 

 philosophy in the Bohemian University of 

 Prague, has arrived in New York. He will 



make an address at the International Council 

 of Unitarians, which meets in Boston in Sep- 

 tember, and will also make other addresses. 



A monument to Bunsen is to be erected at 

 Heidelberg. 



Dr. Ernst Kayser, the astronomer, has 

 died at Danzig, at the age of seventy-eight 

 years. 



Dr. Heinrioh Hoyer, emeritus professor of 

 anatomy at Warsaw, has died at the age of 

 seventy-two years. 



The death is announced of Dr. H. Kreutz, 

 professor of astronomy at Kiel. 



Dr. Walter von Knabel, docent for geology 

 and paleontology at the University of Berlin, 

 died while on an expedition to the interior of 

 Iceland. 



Professor Willoughby Dayton Miller 

 died on July 27, after an operation for ap- 

 pendicitis, in the hospital at Newark, Ohio. 

 Dr. Miller took his A.B. degree at Michigan 

 in 1875. He studied dentistry at the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 

 1879. He then went to Berlin, and became a 

 professor in the dental department of the uni- 

 versity of that city. He held this position 

 until last month, when he resigned it to accept 

 the deanship of the dental department of the 

 University of Michigan. He returned to this 

 country in June, and after a few days spent 

 in Ann Arbor in arranging for the duties 

 which he was to assume in September, he went 

 to his old home in Ohio. Dr. Miller is well 

 known, both among medical and dental men, 

 on account of his most excellent and thorough 

 work on dental caries. His great book en- 

 titled "Die Bakteriologie des Mundholdes" 

 has been translated into several modern lan- 

 guages. His death will be greatly regretted 

 both in this country and in Europe. 



The hygienic exhibition which is to be held 

 in connection with the fourteenth Interna- 

 tional Congress of Hygiene at Berlin in Sep- 

 tember will be under the auspices of the 

 Cultus-minister, the Imperial Health Bureau, 

 and the medical departments of the army and 

 navy, as well as leading representatives of 



