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author at the time his fatal ilhiess overtook 

 him was in the midst of the final pages of the 

 systematic revision of genera and species;' he 

 left his manuscript, so far as prepared, in 

 perfect condition. Professor R. S. Lull, of 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College, has 

 completed the monograph, carefully conform- 

 ing, so far as possible, to the plans of the 

 author. It has been found necessary, how- 

 ever, to add considerable original matter. The 

 Titanothere monograph is progressing rapidly 

 in the hands of Professor Osborn; recent dis- 

 coveries in Wyoming h^ve added greatly both 

 to the material and to the work involved in 

 completing this volume. The Sauropoda 

 monograph by the same author is also under 

 way, but will not be completed for at least 

 two years. It has been practically decided to 

 confine the Stegosauria monograph, in the 

 hands of Mr. F. A. Lucas, to the genus Stego- 

 saurus and thus avoid the delay incidental to 

 the study of the European members of this 

 order. H. F. O. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 The fiftieth year of public service of the 

 eminent chemist Dr. D. J. Mendeleef will be 

 celebrated at St. Petersburg on August 30. 



Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, president of the 

 Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia, 

 has been appointed commissioner of health 

 for the state of Pennsylvania. 



Professor W. W. Mills has been appointed 

 state geologist of Michigan. 



Dr. Robert Koch, who is said to be making 

 important discoveries in the interior of Africa, 

 expects to return to Germany in the spring 

 of next year. 



Professor C. H. Hitchcock, of Dartmouth 

 College, is this summer studying the volcanoes 

 of the Hawaiian Islands. 



Professor G. F. Wright, of Oberlin Col- 

 lege, is making a trip to southern Russia and' 

 the Red Sea to continue his geological and 

 anthropological studies in that region. 



Dr. J. F. Newson, associate professor of 

 mining and metallurgy at Stanford Univer- 

 sity, has leave of absence for next year. 



Professor Moriz Bexedikt, of the Univer- 

 sity of Vienna, known for his work on diseases 

 of the nervous system, has celebrated his sev- 

 entieth birthday. A dinner was given in his. 

 honor by the Neurologic Society of Vienna 

 and congratulations were presented from va- 

 rious societies of which he is a member. 



The gold medal of the British Medical As- 

 sociation has been presented to Sir Constan- 

 tine Holman and to Mr. Andrew Clark. 



The French Academic de Medecine has 

 awarded a silver medal to Dr. Alan Green, 

 bacteriologist in charge of the vaccine lymph 

 department. Lister Institute of Preventive 

 Medicine, for his work on vaccine. 



Dr. Gustav Kraatz, president of the Ger- 

 man Entomological Society, has been given 

 the title of professor. 



Dr. Richard Assmann, titular professor of 

 meteorology at Berlin, has been appointed 

 director of the aeronautical observatory at 

 Lindenberg. 



We learn from the London Times that Mr. 

 Edgar Schuster, the Francis Galton research 

 fellow in national eugenics at London Uni- 

 versity, has presented a report containing a 

 preliminary account of inquiries which' have 

 been made into the inheritance of disease, 

 and especially of feeble-mindedness, deaf- 

 mutism and phthisis. Arrangements have 

 been concluded with Mr. John Murray for the 

 publication of a work on noteworthy families 

 in modern science, written by Galton in con- 

 junction with Mr. Schuster. This is to ap- 

 pear as Volume I. of the publications of the 

 Eugenics Record Ofiice, and will contain ac- 

 counts of the families of some fifty fellows of 

 the Royal Society. 



A STATUE of Benjamin Franklin is to be 

 erected at Paris at the end of the street that 

 bears his name. Plans have been made for 

 the celebration of the two hundredth anni- 

 versary of Franklin's birth, which occurred 

 on January 17, 1706, in Boston and New 

 York as well as in Philadelphia. 



Nature states that a portrait medallion, in 

 marble, of Sir William Geddes, the late prin- 

 cipal of the University of Aberdeen, has been • 



