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spouding member of the Reals Istituto 

 Veneto. 



Professors Joschikljo Koganei and Tsuboi, 

 of the University of Tokyo, have been made 

 corresponding members of the German An- 

 thropological Society. 



Dr. J. H. van't Hoff, the eminent chemist, 

 has been made an honorary doctor of medi- 

 cine by the University of Utrecht. 



Dr. Heinr'ich Caro, of Mannheim, v^ho cele- 

 brated his seventieth birthday on February 13, 

 has been given the honorary doctorate of en- 

 gineering by the Technical School at Darm- 

 stadt, in view of his contributions to chemical 

 science and industry. 



Peofessor p. L. EJSTAPP, formerly professor 

 of technical chemistry at the Technical School 

 of Brunswick, has recently celebrated his 

 ninetieth birthday. 



At the request of the Peruvian government, 

 the U. S. Greological Survey has sent Dr. 

 George I. Adams to Peru to organize a service 

 for hydrographic work. 



Dr. N. L. Beitton, Mrs. E. G. Britton and 

 Dr. M. A. Howe, of the New York Botanical 

 Garden, are now engaged in a collecting ex- 

 pedition in Florida and in the Bahamas, using 

 Miami as a base of operations. 



Dr. D. T. MacDougal has returned from 

 Sonora and Baja California, where he re- 

 cently carried out some explorations. In ad- 

 dition to the observations and collections of 

 vegetation valuable data concerning tempera- 

 tures and relative humidity were obtained. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick has obtained leave of 

 absence from the New York Botanical Garden 

 in order to examine and report upon a collec- 

 tion of fossil plants representing the Creta- 

 ceous (Island series) flora of Staten Island, 

 Long Island, Block Island and Martha's Vine- 

 yard for the U. S. Geological Survey. 



Dr. James Ward, professor of philosophy at 

 Cambridge, will lecture before the summer 

 school of the University of California. He 

 will be one of the speakers before the Con- 

 gress of Arts and Science of St. Louis, and 

 will subsequently visit some of the eastern 

 universities. 



Professor Maragliano, of Genoa, was im- 

 able, owing to illness, to come to this country 

 and give the lecture on tuberculosis before 

 the Phipps Institute of Philadelphia, which 

 had been announced for March 28. 



Mr. Overton W. Price, of the Bureau of 

 Forestry, has been appointed lecturer in the 

 Forest School of Yale University. 



Mr. Stewart Culin, of the Brooklyn Insti- 

 tute, on March 24, gave in the Fogg lecture- 

 room of Harvard University the first of a 

 series of three lectures arranged by the An- 

 thropological Club, speaking on ' Recent An- 

 thropological Investigations in the Southwest.' 

 On April 12, Professor A. F. Chamberlain, of 

 Clark University, will speak on ' What Our 

 Civilization owes to the American Indian ' ; 

 and shortly after the spring recess Mr. H. I. 

 Smith, of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York, will give an address on 

 ' Recent Anthropological Investigations on the 

 Northwest Coast of America.' 



It is announced that the following have 

 consented to lecture before the Carnegie Tech- 

 nical School at Pittsburg: Professor C. L. 

 Mees, president. Rose Polytechnic School, 

 Terre Haute, Ind. ; Miss Helen Kinne, Teach- 

 ers College, Columbia University, New York; 

 Harriet Sackett, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn; 

 Professor Warren P. Laird, University of 

 Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Professor W. T. 

 Goldsborough, Purdue University, Lafayette, 

 Ind. ; Professor W. F. Durand, Cornell Uni- 

 versity, Ithaca, N. Y. ; Professor C. F. Binns, 

 Alfred University, Alfred, N. Y. ; Professor 

 Robert H. Richards, professor of mining and 

 metallurgy, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, Boston ; Professor James Russell, dean 

 of Teachers College, Columbia University, 

 New York City; H. H. Moek, mines and min- 

 erals, Scranton, Pa.; William E. Gibbs, con- 

 sulting engineer. New York, and Professor C. 

 F. Chandler, Columbia University, New York. 



We have noted the death of the well-known 

 zoologist. Professor Fredrik Adam Smitt, 

 which took place at Stockholm on February 19. 

 Born on the ninth of May, 1839, at Halmstad, 

 he took his doctor's degree at Upsala in 1863, 

 and became decent in zoology at that uni- 



