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Newnham Colleges, and the Ladies' Training 

 College, have also agreed to extend hospitality 

 and lodging accommodation to British and 

 foreign visitors. 



A considerahle number of favorable re- 

 plies have been received in answer to invita- 

 tions issued to American and foreign men of 

 science ; it is expected that at least 100 visitors 

 from abroad will be present. 



The master and fellows of Trinity College 

 have granted the use of the college for a con- 

 versazione and reception to be held on Thurs- 

 day, August 18. The Lord-Lieutenant of 

 Cambridgeshire and the Mayor of Cambridge 

 will entertain the members and associates at 

 a garden-party in the Botanic Garden on 

 Monday, August 22. The High Sheriff of 

 Cambridgeshire has also expressed his inten- 

 tion of giving a garden-party during the 

 meeting. On Friday, August 19, a garden- 

 party will be given by the principal of Girton 

 College, and on Tuesday afternoon, August 

 23, members of the association will be enter- 

 tained at Newnham College. 



It is hoped that a iahle d'hote lunch will be 

 served on week-days in certain college halls. 

 Light refreshments will be served each day 

 (including Sunday) in the Masonic Hall, ad- 

 joining the museums and close to the reception 

 room, from 12 to 8 p.m. It has also been ar- 

 ranged to have an open-air cafe and beer- 

 garden on ground adjoining the museums, 

 which will be open on week-days from 11 to 6. 



The committee has provisionally arranged 

 eleven excursions for Saturday, August 20. 

 These include Audley End and Saffron Wal- 

 den, Brandon and Didling-ton Hall (flint- 

 knapping industry and Lord Amherst's collec- 

 tion of Egyptian antiquities), Cromer (geo- 

 logical), the Dykes of Cambridgeshire; Ely, 

 Hatfield and St. Albans, Lincoln, Lynn, Castle 

 Rising and Sandringham, Norwich, Wicken 

 Fen, Wisbech and Woad Works. 



On Thursday afternoon, August 18, the 

 registrary of the university, Mr. J. Willis 

 Clark, will deliver a lecture on * The Origin 

 and Growth of the University.' The evening 

 lecture on Friday, August 19, will be on 

 ' Ripple-marks and Sand-dunes,' by Professor 

 George Darwin, and on Monday, August 22, 



the second evening lecture will be delivered by 

 Professor H. F. Osborn, of New York, who 

 will give an account of ' Recent Explorations 

 and Researches on Extinct Mammalia.' On 

 Saturday^ August 20, Dr. J. E. Marr will lec- 

 ture to the operative classes on ' The Forms 

 of Mountains.' 



A classified list of lodgings and hotel ac- 

 commodation is now being prepared for the 

 use of intending visitors. Information in re- 

 gard to lodgings may be obtained from Mr. A. 

 Hutchinson, Pembroke College. General in- 

 quiries should be addressed to the local secre- 

 taries, British Association, or to Mr. A. C. 

 Seward, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Dr. John M. Clarke, paleontologist of the 

 state of New York, has been appointed by the 

 regents of the University of the state of New 

 York to succeed Dr. Frederick J. H. Merrill 

 as geologist and director of the State Museum. 



Dr. F. S. Earle, assistant curator of the 

 New York Botanical Garden, has resigned to 

 accept the office of director of the new agri- 

 cultural station in Cuba. The station will 

 occupy a farm and buildings at Santiago de la 

 Vegas, about twelve miles from Havana. The 

 sum of $75,000 has been appropriated for the 

 establishment and maintenance of the station 

 for the first year. 



Dr. Herbert Hamland Field, director of 

 the Concilium Bibliographicum, has been 

 elected an honorary member of the Leipzig 

 Society of Naturalists. 



Sir Guilford L. Molesworth has been 

 elected president of the British Institution of 

 Civil Engineers. 



Professor V. L. Kellogg, head of the de- 

 partment of entomology of Stanford Univer- 

 sity, will spend the greater part of next year 

 in Germany, Italy and England. 



Dr. M. p. Ra\tenel and Dr. Leonard Pear- 

 son, of the University of Pennsylvania, are 

 about to go to Italy to undertake researches on 

 tuberculosis in the laboratory of Professor 

 Maragliano, at Genoa. 



Dr. R. Hoernes, professor of geology in the 

 I'niversity of Graz, has been sent by the 



