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the eightli International Zoological Congress 

 at Gratz. 



SiK Victor Hoesley, F.E.S., has been 

 elected a foreign associate of the French 

 Academy of Medicine. 



The faculty of the Agricultural College of 

 the University of Minnesota has given a din- 

 ner in honor of Dr. A. F. Woods, the new 

 dean of the college. 



Professor W. B. Gregory, of Tulane Uni- 

 versity, has been elected president of the 

 Louisiana Engineering Society. 



The British secretary of state for the col- 

 onies has appointed Mr. W. D. Ellis, of the 

 Colonial Office, to be a member of the advisory 

 committee on medical and sanitary questions 

 connected with the British colonies and pro- 

 tectorates in Tropical Africa. 



At the Lister Institute of Preventive Medi- 

 cine, London, Mr. H. E. Dean and Dr. G. H. 

 Macalister have been appointed assistant bac- 

 teriologists and Dr. H. McLane, senior as- 

 sistant in the biochemical department. 



Dr. W. F. Hume has been appointed director 

 of the Geological Survey of Egypt. 



Dr. Walter Kjnoche, of Berlin, has been 

 appointed director of the newly established 

 Meteorological and Geophysical Institute of 

 Chili, and at the same time professor of meteor- 

 ology in the University of Santiago. 



Professor James H. Tufts, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, is giving at the Johns Hop- 

 kins University a course of ten lectures on 

 modern problems of metaphysics and the the- 

 ory of knowledge. 



M. Emil Bouteoux, professor of philosophy 

 at the Sorbonne, Paris, is now lecturing at 

 Harvard University on the Hyde foundation. 

 Dr. H. E. Crampton, professor of zoology 

 at Barnard College, Columbia University, and 

 curator of invertebrate zoology at the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History, lectured at 

 Vassar College, on March 9, on "Exploring 

 the Islands of the South Seas." 



Professor S. A. Mitchell, of Columbia 

 University, on March 4 and 11, delivered lec- 

 tures in Philadelphia on " Halley's Comet." 



President Charles E. Van Hise, of the 

 University of Wisconsin, is to deliver one of 

 the principal addresses on the conservation of 

 natural resources at the first Minnesota Con- 

 servation and Agricultural Development Con- 

 gress, in St. Paul, Minn., March 16 to 19. 



At the annual dinner of the Harvard 

 Teachers' Association, on March 12, addresses 

 on " The American College " were made by 

 Professor J. McKeen Cattell, of Columbia 

 University, and President A. Eoss Hill, of the 

 University of Missouri. 



Sir J. J. Thomson will give the evening 

 discourse at the Eoyal Institution on March 

 18, on the dynamics of a golf ball. 



We learn from the Geographical Journal 

 that a naonument to the French navigator, 

 Bougainville, has been inaugurated, with ap- 

 propriate formalities, at Papeete, on the island 

 of Tahiti, which island he visited a few 

 months after its discovery by the English 

 navigator Wallis. The proposal for the erec- 

 tion of the monument emanated from a French 

 colonial official, a member of the Paris Geo- 

 graphical Society, by which body it was taken 

 up with enthusiasm. The bust erected at 

 Papeete was in part a copy of that in the 

 possession of the Paris Society, but portraits 

 preserved in the navigator's family were also 

 utilized by the sculptor. The scheme received 

 the support of the French government as well 

 as of the municipality of Papeete, and the 

 ceremony of inauguration was opened by a 

 speech by M. Frangois, governor of French 

 Oceania. Two French and two British war- 

 ships were present on the occasion. 



Dr. J. A. Bergstrom, professor of pedagogy 

 at Stanford University, previously professor 

 of pedagogy and director of the psychological 

 laboratory at the University of Indiana, died 

 on February 28, at the age of forty-two years. 



Dr. Charles F. Wheeler, botanical expert 

 in the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, formerly assistant 

 botanist in the Michigan Agricultural Col- 

 lege, died March 5, 1910, at the age of sixty- 

 eight years. 



