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The act to provide for the protection of the 

 sahnon fisheries of Alaska, approved June 9, 

 1896, was amended in the Senate hy the pas- 

 sage of the following section : 



Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful to fish, catch, 

 or kill any salmon of any variety, except with rod 

 or spear, above the tide waters of any of the 

 creeks or rivers of less than 500 feet width in the 

 Territory of Alaska, except only for purposes of 

 propagation, or to lay or set any drift net, set 

 net, trap, pound net, or seine for any purpose 

 across the tide waters of any river or stream for 

 a distance of more than one third of the width 

 of such river, stream, or channel, or lay or set 

 any seine or net within 100 yards of any other 

 net or seine which is being laid or set in said 

 stream or channel, or to take, kill, or fish for 

 salmon in any manner or by any means in any of 

 the waters of the Territory of Alaska, either in 

 the streams or tide waters, except Cook Inlet, 

 Prince William Sound, Bering Sea, and the waters 

 tributary thereto, from midnight on Saturday of 

 each week until midnight of the Sunday follow- 

 ing; or to fish for or catch or kill in any manner 

 or by any appliance, except by rod or spear, any 

 salmon in any stream of less than 100 yards in 

 width in the said Territory of Alaska between the 

 hours of 6 o'clock in the evening and 6 o'clock in 

 the morning of the following day of each and 

 every day of the week. 



The bill to prohibit aliens from taking fish 

 from the waters of the District of Alaska, 

 passed the Senate. 



The House bill authorizing the Secretary of 

 the Interior to lease land in Stanley County, 

 South Dakota, for a buffalo pasture, was re- 

 ported from the Committee on Public Lands, 

 of the House, and referred to the Committee 

 of the Whole. 



TEE OOMIWa MEETING OF THE MUSEUMS 

 ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA. 

 On the fifteenth of May, at the American 

 Museum of Natural History, Central Park, 

 New York, a meeting will be held in order to 

 organize ' The Museums Association of Am- 

 erica.' Already the administrative heads of 

 almost all of the more important museums, 

 both of art and of natural history, in the 

 United States and Canada have signified their 

 intention, if possible, to be present at this 

 meeting, and many have signified their pur- 



poses to read papers upon important subjects 

 connected with the work of museums. The 

 trustees of the Botanical Garden in Bronx 

 Park have invited those attending this pre- 

 liminary meeting to accept their hospitalities 

 during one day's session, and have tendered 

 a luncheon to the association. The committee 

 of arrangements desires all who may be con- 

 nected with museums in official capacities, or 

 who take an interest in the work of museums, 

 and who may desire to enroll themselves in 

 such an organization, to signify that fact to 

 the undersigned, who will, upon receipt of an 

 intimation of their desire to be enrolled as 

 members of the association, send to them at 

 once the proper papers to be filled out. 



It is hoped that this invitation will meet 

 with a general response. W. J. Holland. 



The Carnegie Museum, 



PlTTSBUEG, Pa. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



A BILL granting permission to Professor 

 Simon Newcomb, U. S. N., to accept the 

 decoration of the order ' Pour le Merite, f iir 

 Wissenschaften und Kunste,' tendered by the 

 emperor of Germany, passed the senate on 

 February 8. 



M. H. DE Chatelier, professor of chemistry 

 in the College de France, has been elected a 

 corresponding member of the Berlin Academy 

 of Sciences. 



Emperor Wilhelm has appointed Professor 

 Ernst von Bergmann a member of the upper 

 house of parliament (Herrenhaus) for life. 

 This is the first time that such an honor has 

 been conferred on a member of the medical 

 profession. 



Dr. W. J. Holland, the director of the Car- 

 negie Museum, has accepted the invitation of 

 the editor of the ' Encyclopedia Britannica,' 

 London, to prepare the article upon Natural 

 History Museums for the twelfth edition of 

 the encyclopedia. 



Glasgow University will confer its doc- 

 torate of laws on Robert E. Erasher, F.E.S., 

 superintendent of the admiralty experiment 

 works and member of the admiralty committee 

 on warship designs. 



