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Leucocytes to Infectious Diseases.' All in- 

 terested are cordially invited to be present. 



The Portuguese members of the Fifteenth 

 International Medical Congress, held in April 

 last, have presented Professor Miguel Bom- 

 barda with a gold medal and an address ex- 

 pressing their appreciation of his services as 

 organizing secretary of the congress. 



The Emperor of Austria has conferred on 

 Duke Karl Theodor, of Bavaria, the Order 

 for Art and Science in recognition of his dis- 

 tinction as an ophthalmologist. 



The British Academy has received the sum 

 of £10,000 for the purpose of establishing a 

 memorial to the late Mr. Leopold Sehweich of 

 Paris. In accordance with the wishes of the 

 donor, the endovranent is to be called ' The 

 Leopold Sehweich Fund,' and is to be devoted 

 to the furtherance of research in the arche- 

 ology, art, history, languages, and literature 

 of ancient civilization, with reference to 

 Biblical study. 



Professor Thomas Condon, who held the 

 chair of geology in the University of Oregon, 

 died on February 11, at the age of seventy- 

 five years. 



Mk. William Simms, senior fellow of the 

 Eoyal Astronomical Society, died on January 

 the second in his ninetieth year. 



Mk. E. B. McClellan, third assistant at 

 the Kadcliffe Observatory, Oxford, died on 

 January 2, at the age of forty-five years. 



Mk. F. p. H. Stirling, professor of mathe- 

 matics in the Christian College at Madras, 

 has died at the early age of twenty-six years. 



The death is announced of Professor 

 Pierre Budin, of Paris, known for his work on 

 obstetrics and the hygiene of infancy. 



We regret also to learn of the death of 

 Dr. Clement Schlueter, who not long ago re- 

 tired from the professorship of geology at 

 Bonn University. Professor Schlueter was a 

 paleontologist who had devoted much atten- 

 tion to the cretaceous fossils of north Ger- 

 many, particularly to the Eehinoidea. His 

 work on them was distinguished by learning, 

 care and accuracy. 



There will, on March 5, be civil service ex- 

 aminations for geologists in the Philippine 

 service, at a salary of $2,000, and for irriga- 

 tion manager in the Office of Experiment 

 Stations, of which there are five vacancies, at 

 salaries of from $1,800 to $2,500. 



The National Educational Association will 

 hold its fiftieth anniversary meeting at Los 

 Angeles from July 8 to 12. It was originally 

 intended to hold this meeting in Philadelphia, 

 where the association was organized in 1857, 

 but the railways would not grant the usual 

 terms, by which the membership fee is col- 

 lected with the ticket and return privileges 

 granted until September 1. Dr. Nathan C 

 SchaefEer, superintendent for Pennsylvania, is 

 president of the association. 



The fourteenth International Congress of 

 Hygiene and Demography wiU be held at 

 Berlin from September 23 to 29. Communi- 

 cations relative to the congress should be ad- 

 dressed to the general secretary. Dr. Nietner, 

 Eichhornstrasse 9, Berlin, 9 W. 



The seventh International Congress of 

 Physiology will be held this year at Heidel- 

 berg from August 13 to 16, under the presi- 

 dency of Professor August Kossel. In con- 

 nection with the congress there will be an 

 exhibition of scientific apparatus. Announce- 

 ments of communications should be sent to 

 the Physiological Institute, Heidelberg, before 

 June 15. 



An International Congress for Psychiatry, 

 Neurology and the Care of the Insane is being 

 organized under the auspices of the Dutch 

 Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, to be 

 held at Amsterdam from the second to the 

 ninth of September of the present year. Those 

 who have been invited to be American mem- 

 bers of the committee of arrangements are: G. 

 Alden Blumer, Providence; Charles K. Mills, 

 John K Mitchell and S. Weir Mitchell, of 

 Philadelphia, and E. G. Kabinovitch, of New 

 York City. 



We learn from the Journal of the Amer- 

 ican Medical Association that the imiversities 

 at Heidelberg, Berlin and Tiibingen have each 

 received 10,000 Marks from the estate of the 



