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We regret also to record tlie death, at the 

 age of seventy-seven years, of Professor Vac- 

 lav K. Zengler, the Bohemian physicist and 

 meteorologist, and of Dr. Chapot Prevost, 

 professor of histology in Rio Janeiro. 



The following letter from the University of 

 London, signed by Lord Kosebery, chancellor; 

 W. J. Collins, vice-chancellor; Edward H. 

 Busk, chairman of convocation, and Arthur 

 W. Eiicker, principal, has been sent to the 

 vice-chancellor and principal of the Univer- 

 sity of Glasgow : 



We are desired by the senate of the University 

 of London, who met yesterday [January 22] for 

 the first time after the Christmas vacation, to 

 tender to you, and through you to the University 

 of Glasgow at large, an expression of our sincere 

 sympathy in the loss which you have suffered by 

 the death of your chancellor. Lord Kelvin's re- 

 searches into the operations of nature and his 

 contributions to the sum of human knowledge, 

 by which the work of all the universities of the 

 civilized world has been so notably advanced, have 

 given additional luster to the illustrious name of 

 the University of Glasgow. It must ever remain 

 to you a source of the proudest satisfaction that 

 a career nobly and beneficently devoted to the 

 welfare of humanity was throughout associated 

 with the body over which he was presiding when 

 the world lost him. We are proud to remember 

 on this occasion that Lord Kelvin was one of the 

 only two men, outside the circle of royalty, upon 

 whom the University of London has ever conferred 

 an honorary degree. 



At a meeting of the American Ethnolog- 

 ical Society the following resolutions were 

 adopted : 



Wheeeas: The American Ethnological Society 

 has suffered a severe loss by the death of Morris 

 K. Jesup, its honorary president, its former presi- 

 dent, and one of its honored members; and 



Whereas : Through his wide sympathies and 

 active cooperation, he has advanced the well-being 

 of his fellow-citizens and the interests of science 

 and art, and has placed the science of anthro- 

 pology under lasting obligations by his generous 

 support of the anthropological work of the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History, by his main- 

 tenance of researches bearing upon anthropological 

 problems, and by enlisting the interests of others 

 in similar work; and 



Whereas: He organized and maintained, partly 

 alone, partly in cooperation with his friends, re- 



searches in Mexico, Central and South America, 

 among the Indians of our western states, on the 

 Pacific coasts of America and Asia, in Siberia, 

 and in southeastern Asia, and gave liberally to 

 these enterprises, not only of his wealth, but also 

 of his wide experience and wise counsel : therefore 

 be it 



Resolved, That the American Ethnological So- 

 ciety wishes to express the sense of the great loss 

 it has sustained by the death of one whose services 

 to the science of anthropology will long live in the 

 records of the researches that were undertaken at 

 his instance. 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be 

 sent to the family of the deceased. 



The Sheffield Scientific School, Tale Uni- 

 versity, has subscribed for a research room 

 at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods 

 Hole, Mass. It is expected that this will be 

 an annual contiibution, which will insure one 

 research room for the use of some member of 

 the biological stafE. 



A JOINT resolution presented to the House 

 of Representatives by Mr. Mann, authorizing 

 the presentation of the statue of Washington, 

 now located in the capitol grounds, to the 

 Smithsonian Institution, has been referred to 

 the committee on the library. 



The permanent endowment fund of the 

 American Museum of Natural History has 

 been increased by a gift of $10,000 from Mrs. 

 J. B. Trevor, and by the payment of a bequest 

 of $25,000 from the estate of William P. 

 Davis, Esq. H. W. Seton-Karr, Esq., of 

 Wimbledon, England, has presented to the 

 department of archeology seventy-one speci- 

 mens of paleolithic implements collected by 

 him in the districts of Poondi and Cazeepet, 

 Madras Presidency, India. These implements 

 are of red argillaceous sandstone and were 

 washed out of Pleistocene alluvial deposits 

 containing quartzite boulders. The depart- 

 ment has received from Mr. Alanson Skinner 

 a series of specimens collected for the museum 

 last year in Ontario, Livingston and Erie 

 counties, New York, from sites formerly occu- 

 pied by the Seneca and ISTeutral Indians of 

 Iroquoian stock. 



The Brazilian government has voted funds 

 for the establishment of an experimental 

 pathological institute at Manguinhos, intended 



