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ported the same amendment, accompanied by 

 a report (No. 2,224) ; which, said bill and re- 

 port were referred to the Committee of the 

 Whole House on the state of the Union. 



A bill to appropriate $25,000 for the estab- 

 lishment of a fish-cultural station in the State 

 of Nebraska, to be located at a point to be 

 selected by the Secretary of Commerce and 

 Labor, passed the Senate. 



THE JUBILEE OF THE ACADEMY OF SCI- 

 ENCE OF ST. LOUIS. 



The Academy of Science of St. Louis, 

 which is the oldest body of its kind west of 

 the Alleghanies, held its first meeting and 

 adopted a constitution on March 10, 1856, 

 fifteen of the organizers being present. The 

 week of this year which ended with March 

 10 has been celebrated by the academy in a 

 modest but fitting manner. 



The regular meeting of the week, on the 

 evening of the third, was given up to remin- 

 iscences, including a sketch of the history of 

 the academy, accounts of its treasury and col- 

 lections, an analysis of its scientific publica- 

 tions, and recollections of some of the men 

 who have made it known while winning per- 

 sonal recognition in science. 



The anniversary evening was selected for 

 a banquet, at which about one hundred per- 

 sons were seated. Invitations had been sent 

 to the honorary and corresponding members 

 of the academy and to learned societies vsdth 

 which it exchanges publications, comprising 

 the principal learned societies of the world. 

 Greetings were presented by letters and tele- 

 grams from something over one hundred cor- 

 responding societies, while thirty-one were 

 represented by delegates who delivered their 

 congratulations in person. In addition to the 

 speeches of welcome and greeting, admirable 

 and inspiring addresses were delivered by 

 Dean Edward A. Birge, of the University of 

 Wisconsin, and Professor Thomas C. Cham- 

 berlin, of the University of Chicago. 



As lasting souvenirs of the occasion, the 

 committee of arrangements presented to the 

 academy a panel of portraits of the members 

 who attended the organization meeting fifty 

 years before, and a medal bearing on the 



obverse the quaint seal of the academy with 

 its dedication ' Humane Scilicet Scientiae et 

 Potentiae,' and on the reverse a portrait of 

 George Engelmann, the prime mover in the 

 organization of the academy and for many 

 years its president. A replica of the medal, 

 in bronze, was given to each person present at 

 the banquet and to each society represented 

 by a delegate. 



Like most organizations of its kind, the 

 St. Louis Academy of Science was founded 

 and has been sustained through the self- 

 sacrificing efliorts of a few men interested in 

 the promotion of its purposes. A few years 

 ago it was given a home by a lady of St. Louis. 

 Its officers are now hoping that the celebration 

 of its semi-centennial anniversary may bring 

 it to the notice of those who can foster its 

 work, if they will, and lead to a suitable en- 

 dowment being provided for its maintenance. 

 A fund is needed for the enlargement of its 

 museum, and binding the great library of 

 exchange publications received from other 

 learned societies. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Professor E. C. Pickering, director of the 

 Harvard College Observatory, has been elected 

 a corresponding member of the Berlin Acad- 

 emy of Sciences. 



Dr. Henry F. Osborn, professor of zoology 

 at Columbia University, and curator of 

 paleontology at the American Museum of 

 Natural History, and Dr. O. Hertwig, pro- 

 fessor of zoology at the University of Berlin, 

 have been elected foreign members of the Lin- 

 nean Society of London. 



Professor Ernst Haeckel, of the Univer- 

 sity of Jena, had hoped to attend the meeting 

 of the American Philosophical Society in 

 memory of the two Imndredth anniversary of 

 Pranklin's birth next month, but his health 

 is such that his physicians have forbidden him 

 to make the voyage. 



Propessoe B. K. Emerson, of Amherst Col- 

 lege, has been appointed geologist in the U. S. 

 Geological Survey. Since 1883 he has ranked as 

 assistant geologist, and by the new appoint- 

 ment will be in charge of all the geological 



