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•completed, and will be placed in the Geddes 

 transept of the library at King's College. Its 

 unveiling will probably take place at the be- 

 ginning of the winter session. A meeting in 

 furtherance of the proposed memorial to the 

 late Professor James Nicol was held recently 

 in Marischal College, when a number of let- 

 ters from geologists and old pupils of Pro- 

 fessor ISTicol were read, the general tenor of 

 which favored the placing of a portrait tablet 

 in bronze in the geological museum. There 

 will be, it is hoped, a formal inauguration of 

 the memorial during the centenary celebra- 

 iions of next year. 



Mr. Guy M. Bradley has been killed while 

 protecting the birds of the Florida coast in 

 ihe service of the National Association of 

 Audubon Societies. 



Dr. J. L. Chaufleury van Ysselstein, 

 formerly professor of medicine at Amster- 

 -dam, has died at the age of eighty-six years. 



Dr. Eduard Tangl, professor of botany at 

 the University of Czernowitz, has died at the 

 age of fifty-seven years. 



Dr. Paul Schultz, docent in physiology in 

 Berlin, died on July 18, at the age of forty- 

 one years. 



We learn from The American Geologist 

 ihat the late legislature of Illinois established 

 a state geological survey, putting it under the 

 immediate direction of the trustees of the state 

 university at Urbana, but with an advisory 

 board consisting of the governor, the president 

 of the university and one other to be appointed 

 hy the governor. The annual appropriation 

 is twenty-five thousand dollars. In addition 

 to the above, the university is to have a school 

 of ceramics supported by an appropriation of 

 £ve thousand dollars per year. This, however, 

 will have no connection with the survey except 

 such as common interest dictates. 



The international committee having in 

 charge the International Catalogue of Scien- 

 tific Literature met in London during the 

 last week in July. 



The British Medical Association opened its 

 annual meeting at Leicester, on July 25, un- 



der the presidency of Dr. George Cooper 

 Franklin. The association will meet next 

 summer in Toronto. 



The fourth meeting of the German and 

 Vienna Anthropological Society will be held 

 at Salzburg on the 28th to the 30th of the 

 present month. 



An announcement has been issued in regard 

 to the International Congress on Tuberculosis, 

 to be held at Paris from October 2 to 7. 

 There will be four sections, medical pathology, 

 surgical pathology, preservation and assistance 

 of infants and the same for adults. 



We learn from The British Medical Journal 

 that the International Surgical Congress will 

 meet at Brussels beginning September 18, un- 

 der the presidency of Theodor Kocher, M.D., 

 professor of surgery in the University of 

 Berne. The morning of each day will be ar- 

 ranged for visits to hospitals and clinics, and 

 for the presentation and examination of 

 patients, and for other matters of interest con- 

 nected with the congress as well as the city 

 of Brussels. The afternoons will, as far as 

 possible, be reserved for the consideration of 

 the subjects selected for discussion. These 

 are as follows : (1) The value of the examina- 

 tion of the blood in surgery; (2) the treatment 

 of prostatic hypertrophy; (3) surgical inter- 

 vention in non-cancerous diseases of the 

 stomach; (4) treatment of articular tuber- 

 culosis; (5) the treatment of peritonitis; (6) 

 the diagnosis of surgical diseases of the kid- 

 ney. Other communications of a practical 

 nature (of which due notice should be given, 

 as well as the time they will occupy) including 

 the presentation of patients, specimens, and 

 surgical instruments and appliances may be 

 made. The official languages of the congress 

 are English, French, German and Italian. 



The General Council of Chambers of Com- 

 merce of the Commonwealth of Australia, at 

 k meeting held in Sydney, in Jiine, the follow- 

 ing resolution passed : " That this General 

 Council of the Chambers of Commerce of the 

 Commonwealth of Australia views with satis- 

 faction the increasing public interest in the 

 metric system of weights and measures, and 



