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ment will regulate the meetings of the com- 

 mittee. 



Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. an- 

 nounce that they will publish in eight vol- 

 umes the proceedings of the International 

 Congress of Arts and Science, held at St. 

 Louis, in September, 1904. The volumes, 

 ranging from 500 to 800 pages, have the fol- 

 lowing titles : 1. ' Philosophy and Mathe- 

 matics ' ; 2. ' Politics, Law and Keligion ' ; 3. 

 ' Language, Literature and Art ' ; 4. ' Inorganic 

 Science ' ; 5. ' Biology and Psychology ' ; 6. 

 ' Medicine and Technology ' ; 7. ' Social Sci- 

 ences ' ; 8. ' Education and Keligion.' The 

 addresses are printed as they were delivered, 

 except that those in foreign languages have 

 been translated into English. Short bibliog- 

 raphies will be given for each department of 

 learning, and a very full index with refer- 

 ences will be added. 



Messrs. Cassell will publish this autumn 

 ' The Zoological Society of London : a Sketch 

 of its Foundation and Development, and the 

 Story of its Earm, Museum, Gardens, Me- 

 nagerie and Library,' by Mr. Henry Scherren, 

 F.Z.S. The edition is to be limited to 1,000 

 copies. 



To commemorate the meeting of the British 

 Association in South Africa, a plan has been 

 formulated to found a British Association 

 medal for South African students. 



The International Surgical Society will 

 hold its first congress at Brussels from Sep- 

 tember 18 to September 23. 



The eighth general meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Electrochemical Society was held in 

 Bethlehem, from September 18 to 20. 



The department of zoology of Stanford 

 University, has been presented with a large 

 collection of the fresh-water fishes of Mexico 

 by the Eield Columbian Museum of Chicago. 

 The collection is the work of Dr. S. E. Meek. 



Eeuter's correspondent at Stockholm re- 

 ports that Professor Nathorst has received a 

 letter in which Lieutenant Bergendahl, who 

 is a member of the Due d' Orleans's Greenland 

 Expedition, states that on July 27, as the ex- 

 pedition passed Cape Bismarck, unknown land 

 was discovered. It appears that Cape Bis- 



marck lies on a large island, and not on the 

 mainland. The new land has been mapped as 

 well as possible, and has received the name 

 Terre de France. The expedition was unable 

 to penetrate further north than 78° 16' N. lat. 



The Historical Congress held at Rome in 

 1903 appointed a permanent international 

 committee to organize an international gather- 

 ing of those interested in the history of the 

 natural sciences. The chairman was Pro- 

 fessor Paul Tannery, of Paris, who died a few 

 months ago. We learn from the British Med- 

 ical Journal that in place of him the com- 

 mittee has now unanimously elected as its 

 chairman Dr. Karl Sudhoff, who has just been 

 appointed professor of the history of medicine 

 in the University of Leipzig. The members 

 of the committee are Drs. Benedikt, of Vi- 

 enna; Blanchard, of Paris; Bobynin, of Mos- 

 cow; Cajori, of Colorado Springs; Carpi, of 

 Rome; Enestrom, of Stockholm; Eavaro, of 

 Padua; Giacosa, of Turin; Guareschi, of 

 Turin; Giinther, of Munich; Heath, of Lon- 

 don; Korteweg, of Amsterdam; Loria, of 

 Genoa; Petersen, of Copenhagen; Rubio, of 

 Zurich ; Saavedra, of Madrid ; Smith, of New 

 York; Teixeira, of Oporto; and Zeuthen, of 

 Copenhagen. 



Nature states that at the annual meeting of 

 the Academy of the Lincei, which was held 

 on June 4 in the presence of the King and 

 Queen of Italy, the president, Professor Blas- 

 erna, announced the result of the competition 

 for the three Royal prizes founded by the late 

 King Humbert. In the section of normal and 

 pathological physiology, the prize is awarded 

 to Professor Aristide Stefani, of Padua, for 

 his published work dealing with the physiology 

 of the heart and circulation, the non-acoustic 

 functions of the labyrinth of the ear, and the 

 serotherapeutic treatment of pneumonia. In 

 the sections of archeology and of economic 

 and social science, the judges reported that 

 the competitors were not of sufficient merit to 

 justify the award of the prizes. This is the 

 first occasion on which so small a proportion 

 of the prizes have been conferred, and it is 

 proposed that in future the section of archeol- 

 ogy shall embrace not only classical, but also 

 christian and medieval archeology. Minis- 



