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at the University of Bern; Dr. E. Bugnion, pro- 

 fessor at the University of Lausanne; Dr. R. 

 Burckhardt, professor at the University of Basle; 

 Dr. H. Corning, professor at the University of 

 Basle; Dr. U. Duerst, privatdocent at the Uni- 

 versity of Zurich; Dr. A. Forel, professor, Chigny; 

 Dr. F. Sarasin, Basle; Dr. Sarasin, Basle; Dr. 

 H. Stehlin, Basle. 



CommUtee on Finances: President — Mr. E. 

 Von Btiren von Salis, Bern. 



Committee on Puhlications : President — Dr. M. 

 Bedot, professor at the University of Geneva. 



Committee on Receptions: President — ^Dr. H. 

 Kroneoker, professor at the University of Bern. 



Committee on Lodgings — ^Dr. E. Hess, pro- 

 fessor at the University of Bern. 



Committee on Entertainments — Dr. O. Rubeli, 

 professor at the University of Bern. 



Committee on Refreshments — Dr. H. Graf, pro- 

 fessor at the University of Bern. 



Press Committee — Dr. G. Beck, Bern. 



The general meeting will take place at Bern 

 in the Palace of Parliament, and the section 

 sittings in the new university. 



During the congress there will be an excur- 

 sion to Neuchatel and to the Zura lakes, in 

 order to visit the lake-dwellers' settlements. 



The closing session of the congress will be 

 held at Interlaken. Afterwards, the members 

 of the congress will be invited to visit other 

 Swiss cities. Concerning intended communi- 

 cations, inquiries, etc., address the president 

 of the Sixth International Congress, Museum 

 of Natural History, Waisenhaiisstrasse, Bern. 



The congress is open to all zoologists and 

 to those interested in zoology. 



THE DEDICATION OF PALMER HALL, 

 COLORADO COLLEGE. 

 Palmer Hall, the new science and admin- 

 istration building of Colorado College, at 

 Colorado Springs, was formally dedicated on 

 February 23, the dedicatory address being de- 

 livered by Dr. David Starr Jordan. The new 

 building, which cost about $280,000, is 287 

 feet long and 95 feet wide. Besides a sub- 

 basement six feet high, there are three stories, 

 a basement and a first and second floor. The 

 style of architecture is that which has been 

 chosen for the entire system of buildings 

 eventually to occupy the college campus, the 

 first example of wliich was presented in the 



Coburn Library. The structure is built of 

 the 'peach blow' sandstone of Colorado, and 

 is fii-e-proof, with steel frame and concrete 

 floors, overlaid with terazzo finish. In the 

 basement are laboratories for chemistry, phys- 

 ics and psycho-physics, and a large demonstra- 

 tion room. On the first floor are the executive 

 offices, general lecture rooms, other labora- 

 tories for chemistry and physics, the lecture 

 room of the department of sociology, etc. On 

 the second floor are the museum, and the de- 

 partments of biology and geology, etc. An 

 endowment of $50,000 has been provided for 

 the building, and the equipment to date has 

 cost about $30,000. These sums, of course, 

 are wholly inadequate. The members of the 

 staff of Colorado College (including Cutler 

 Academy) whose work is more especially con- 

 nected with science are as follows : Dr. W. F. 

 Slocum, president and head professor of phi- 

 losophy; Dr. F. Cajori, dean of the engineer- 

 ing school and head professor of mathematics ; 

 Dr. E. G. Lancaster, assistant professor of 

 philosophy and pedagogy; Dr. F. H. Lond, 

 professor of mathematics and astronomy; 

 Professor W. Strieby, professor of chemistry 

 and metallurgy; IVIr. M. F. Coolbaugh, in- 

 structor in chemistry; Dr. E. C. Sclmeider, 

 professor of biology; Dr. W. C. Sturgis, lec- 

 turer on botany; Dr. G. I. Finlay, professor 

 of geology, mineralogy and paleontology; Dr. 

 T. K. Urdahl, professor of political and social 

 science ; Dr. J. C. Shedd, professor of physics ; 

 Mr. F. R. Hastings, lecturer on the history of 

 philosophy; Miss E. P. Hubbard, instructor in 

 mathematics; Mrs. W. P. Cockerell, instructor 

 in botany in Cutler Academy; Mr. T. D. A. 

 Cockerell, curator of the museum. 



In addition to the dedicatory exercises 

 proper, addresses were delivered on February 

 22 by Dr. C. E. Van Hise, on ' Colorado as a 

 Field for Scientific Research'; by Dr. S. L. 

 Bigelow, on ' The Growth and Function of 

 the Modern Laboratory ' ; by Dr. C. E. Bessey, 

 on ' The Possibilities of the Botanical Labo- 

 ratory,' and by Dr. Henry Crew, on ' Eecent 

 Advances in the Teaching of Physics.' In 

 connection with the exercises, the degree of 

 LL.D. was conferred on General William J. 

 Palmer, in whose honor Palmer Hall was 



