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tion Publique of France by the Freucli Min- 

 ister of Public Instruction for services ren- 

 dered in connection with the foundation of 

 the Alliance Franco-Britannique, of which 

 organization he is the honorary secretary. 



Announcement is made in the Harvard 

 University Gazette that Professor Richards 

 has recently received an additional grant of 

 $2,500 from the Carnegie Institution at Wash- 

 ington, and Assistant Professor Baxter one 

 of $1,000. 



The Academy of Sciences in Munich has 

 made a grant of 500 Marks to Professor Oscar 

 Schultze, of Wiirzburg, for an investigation 

 of the minute anatomy of the electrical organs 

 of fishes, and a grant of 2,500 Marks to Dr. 

 Eosz, curator of the Botanical Museum at 

 Munich, for zoological and botanical studies 

 in Central America. 



At the British Meteorological Office Mr. E. 

 G. K. Lempfert, M.A., has been appointed 

 superintendent of the statistical branch; 

 Mr. Ernest Gold, B.A. (Cambridge), third 

 wrangler, 1903, and natural sciences tripos, 

 1904, has been selected for appointment as 

 stiperintendent of the instruments branch. 



De. Anding, professor in the University of 

 Munich, has been appointed director of the 

 observatory at Gothe. 



Dr. Paul Guthnick, of Bothkamp, has been 

 appointed astronomer in the Royal Observa- 

 tory at Berlin. 



It is announced that Professor von Reck- 

 linghausen, who has been head of the Patho- 

 logical Institute of the University of Stras- 

 burg since it was constituted a German uni- 

 versity, will retire at the end of the current 

 semester. Professor von Recklinghausen is 

 in his seventy-third year. 



Mr. M. L. Fuller, of the Division of Hy- 

 drology of the United States Geological Sur- 

 vey, gave a course of lectures at the University 

 of Chicago during the week beginning April 

 2, on the hydrographic and hydrologic work of 

 the survey, including stream measurements, 

 flood studies, studies of underground waters, 

 investigations relating to the quality and uses 

 of water, and the engineering work of the 

 Reclamation Service. 



The fourteenth 'James Forest' lecture of 

 the British Institution of Civil Engineers will 

 be delivered by Mr. R. A. Hadfield on May 2, 

 the subject being 'Unsolved Problems in 

 Metallurgy.' 



A committee has been formed to raise a 

 memorial to the late Professor von der Goltz, 

 formerly director of the Bonn-Poppelsdorf 

 Academy. A marble bust will be erected in 

 the academy and scholarships will be es- 

 tablished.' 



We learn from The Auk that Dr. Paul 

 Leverkiihn, a corresponding fellow of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union, died suddenly 

 of pneumonia at Sophia, Bulgaria, on De- 

 cember 5, 1905, in the thirty-ninth year of his 

 age. He was a private secretary to the Prince 

 of Bulgaria, and director of his scientific in- 

 stitutions and library. He was the author of 

 a large number of ornithological papers, many 

 of them bibliographical and biographical. 

 Among the latter may be mentioned his biog- 

 raphy of the three Naumanns in the first 

 volume of the new edition of Naumann's 

 ' Vogel Deutschlands,' later issued separately. 



The death is announced of Dr. H. Lorber, 

 associate professor of physics in the University 

 of Bonn. 



The annual meeting of the American Social 

 Science Association will be held in New York 

 City on May 2-4. 



At a meeting held at Chicago, on March 

 31, an organization was effected of the State 

 Geologists of the Mississippi Valley. Messrs. 

 Lane, of Ohio ; Norwood, of Kentucky ; 

 Blatchley, of Indiana; Buckley, of Missouri; 

 Haworth, of Kansas; Bain, of Illinois, and 

 Assistant State Geologist Bownocker, of Ohio, 

 were present. W. S. Blatchley was made 

 chairman and H. F. Bain secretary. It is 

 proposed to arrange for field conferences from 

 time to time and for the frequent interchange 

 of reports and notes of progress among the 

 members of the association. It is expected 

 that through friendly criticism and advice the 

 work of the various surveys may be unified 

 and improved. 



