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of tlie arrangement of nerves and blood vessels 

 of the interior of the eyes of birds correlated 

 in a most interesting way with the habits of 

 the several species studied by the speaker in 

 London and elsewhere. 



The Eoyal Institution celebrated on Janu- 

 ary 17 the centenary of the discovery of the 

 metals of the alkalis by Sir Humphry Davy. 

 An address on this subject was made by Pro- 

 fessor T. E. Thorpe. 



A MEETING in commemoration of the life 

 and work of Lord Kelvin was held by the 

 Philosophical Society, of Washington, at the 

 Hubbard Memorial Hall, on January 18. Ad- 

 dresses were made by Professor Arthur G. 

 Webster, Dr. Robert S. Woodward and Pro- 

 fessor Simon Newcomb. Ambassador Brice 

 likewise made some remarks. Dr. L. A. 

 Bauer presided. 



The twenty-fifth anniversary of the death 

 of the Russian surgeon PirogoS has been 

 celebrated by conferring his name on a street 

 and hospital at St. Petersburg and endowing 

 an annual prize for works on surgery. Mos- 

 cow has also named a street and a hospital in 

 his honor and founded a Pirogoff prize. 



Mr. Morris K. Jesup, president of the 

 American Museum of Natural History and 

 of the Chamber of Commerce of New York 

 City, has died at the age of seventy-seven 

 years. 



Dr. Johx Ordronaux, lecturer on medical 

 jurisprudence at Columbia University from 

 1861 to 1897 and the author of numerous 

 works on medical jurisprudence, has died at 

 his home at Glenhead, L. I., at the age of 

 seventy-seven years. 



Dr. Th()1ias Fillebrown, for many years 

 professor of operative dentistry and oral sur- 

 gery at the Harvard Dental School, died on 

 January 22, at the age of seventy-one years. 



The death is announced of Lieutenant 

 Colonel R. J. L. EUery, professor of astron- 

 omy and late director of the Melbourne Ob- 

 servatory, at the age of eighty years. 



The Rev. Lorimer Fison, known for his 

 researches among the aborigines of Australia, 



died near Melbourne on October 29 at the 

 age of seventy-five years. 



Dr. Zulkowski, professor of applied chem- 

 istry in the German Technical School at 

 Prague, has died at the age of seventy-four 

 years. 



Secretary Root has urged upon congress 

 an appropriation of $50,000 to enable the 

 government of the United States to be repre- 

 sented in the exposition to be opened at Quito 

 on August 10 next, to celebrate the one hun- 

 dredth anniversary of the independence of 

 Ecuador. 



The State Charities Aid Association has 

 received $10,000 from the Russell Sage foun- 

 dation to organize methods for the prevention 

 of tuberculosis throughout the state of New 

 York. 



A JOINT meeting of the Wisconsin Academy 

 of Sciences, Arts and Letters, the Wisconsin 

 Archeological Society, the Wisconsin My- 

 cological Society, the Wisconsin Natural 

 History Society and the Wisconsin section 

 of the American Chemical Society will be 

 held in Milwaukee — probably in the lecture 

 room of the Public Museum — on Thursday 

 and Friday, February 13 and 14. The plans 

 at present formulated include a session on 

 Thursday evening to which the public will be 

 invited, the program for which will be of 

 general interest. A banquet for the members 

 of all the societies will be held on Friday 

 evening. 



An Italian Society for the Study of Trop- 

 ical Diseases has been founded on the initia- 

 tive of Professor Angelo Cello, director of the 

 Institute of Hygiene of Rome, Surgeon-Lieu- 

 tenant-Colonel L. T. Cipollone, of the Italian 

 Navy, and Surgeon-Captain G. Memmo, of 

 the Italian Army. 



Owing to the success achieved in the execu- 

 tion of the magnetic survey of the Pacific 

 Ocean, under the auspices of the Department of 

 Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution of Washington, it is proposed upon the 

 return of the present vessel (the Galilee), to 

 San Francisco next May, to return her to 

 the owners and to undertake the construction 



