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the Lord Mayor, to inaugurate a memorial to 

 the late Sir Henry Bessemer. At that meet- 

 ing the following resolution was moved by 

 the Dulce of Norfolk, seconded by Professor 

 H. M. Howe, of Columbia University, and 

 unanimously adopted: 



That this representative meeting heartily en- 

 dorses the proposal to commemorate the great 

 achievements of the late Sir Henry Bessemer, the 

 inventor of the metallurgical process which bears 

 his name; and it strongly affirms that such com- 

 memoration should have for its object some edu- 

 cational work as far-reaching in its beneficent 

 influence as are the results of Bessemer's great 

 invention. 



The committee, with Sir William Preece as 

 chairman, now announces that it is intended 

 to let the memorial take the form of the es- 

 tablishment of memorial scholarships tenable 

 in Great Britain or abroad, for the equipraent 

 of mining and metallurgical memorial labo- 

 ratories in the Eoyal School of Mines at South 

 Kensington as the center of the memorial, 

 and for the erection of a statue of Bessemer 

 in the Eoyal School of Mines. Towards the 

 considerable sum required for the memorial 

 the sum of £8,000 has been subscribed. 



The body of Dr. S. P. Langley, secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, was interred 

 in the Forest HiU Cemetery, Boston, on 

 March 3. Professor John Langley, of Cleve- 

 land, a brother, accompanied the body from 

 Washington. An address was delivered by 

 Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. Among the 

 honorary pallbearers were the Hon. Eiehard 

 Olney, Dr. Bell, President Charles W. Eliot, 

 Professor E. C. Pickering and President 

 Henry M. Pritchett. 



Dr. Axel N. Lundstrom, professor of plant 

 physiology in the University of Upsala, died 

 on December 30. 



The following examinations are announced 

 by the U. S. Civil Service Commission: On 

 March 21, for the position of surveyor in the 

 Philippine Service, at a salary of $1,400 a 

 year, and for topographic draughtsman on the 

 Isthmus of Panama, at $1,200; on March 28, 

 for laboratory helper in the Department of 

 Agriculture, at $600; on April 18, for scien- 

 tific assistant in the Department of Agricul- 



ture, at salaries ranging from $800 to $1,400 

 a year. 



A MEETING has been held at the University 

 of Berlin in support of the establishment of a 

 Chemische Beichsanstalt. 



Nature states that active steps are being 

 taken at York to ensure the success of the 

 meeting of the British Association to be held 

 there next August. At a large and distin- 

 guished assembly, over which the Lord Mayor 

 of York presided, the arrangements in connec- 

 tion with the forthcoming visit were advanced 

 a further stage. A reception committee rep- 

 resentative of the city and county was elected, 

 and it was resolved to raise a fund of not less 

 than £2,500 for the necessary expenses of the 

 meeting. In an appropriate speech, the Lord 

 Mayor moved " That this meeting agrees cor- 

 dially to welcome the British Association to 

 York this year from August 1-8, and in doing 

 so attaches special interest to the fact that the 

 association began its existence in York sev- 

 enty-five years ago." The dean of York 

 seconded this resolution (which was carried 

 unanimously) ; and in supporting it Dr. Tem- 

 pest Anderson referred to local connections 

 with the association, the first ofiicials of which 

 included some of the leading members of the 

 Yorkshire Philosophical Society. The local 

 reception committee is said to be an unusually 

 strong one: the president is the Lord Arch- 

 bishop of York; chairman, the Lord Mayor 

 (Mr. E. H. V. Wragge) ; vice-chairman, Dr. 

 Tempest Anderson; treasurer. Sir J. Sykes 

 Eymer; and secretaries, Mr. E. Percy Dale 

 and Mr. C. E. Elmhirst. Pro-chancellor A. 

 G. Lupton (University of Leeds) and Pro- 

 fessor W. M. Hicks (University of Sheffield) 

 both spoke at the meeting, and expressed the 

 desire of their universities to assist in making 

 the forthcoming meeting of the association a 

 success. 



The twenty-fourth spring lecture course at 

 the Field Museum of Natural History, Chi- 

 cago, given on Saturday afternoons at three 

 o'clock is as follows : 



March 3. — ' Colors of Flowers, Fruits and 

 Foliage,' Professor W. H. Dudley, Platteville, Wis- 



