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fessor Georges Lemoine, chemistry; Professor 

 VioUe, meteorology and physics of the globe; 

 Professor Collot, geology and mineralogy; 

 Professor Queva, botany; Professor Bataillon, 

 zoology, anatomy, physiology; Dr. Henri 

 Martin, anthropology; Dr. Paul Courmont, 

 medical science; Dr. Delherm, medical elec- 

 tricity; Professor Grimaud, odontology; M. 

 Lucien Magnien, agriculture; M. Auguste 

 Chevalier, geography; M. Paul Eazous, po- 

 litical economy and statistics; Professor 

 Beauvisage, pedagogy and teaching; Professor 

 Jules Courmont, hygiene and state medicine; 

 Dr. Simon, archeology. Inquiries may be ad- 

 dressed to the secretary of the association. 

 Dr. Desgrez, 28 rue Serpente, Paris. 



Professor Benjamin Peanklin Thomas, 

 professor of physics at the Ohio State Uni- 

 versity since 1885, died on July 4, at Booth- 

 bay Harbor, Me., after a short illness, at the 

 age of sisty-one years. 



The death is reported, at the age of seventy- 

 three years, of Mr. J. D. Hooker, of Los 

 Angeles, who took an active interest in as- 

 tronomy, and gave to the Mount Wilson Ob- 

 servatory the 100-inch mirror now being 

 ground for it. 



The council of the Eoyal Anthropological 

 Institute of Great Britain and Ireland sent 

 to the recent Imperial Conference in London 

 a memorial urging the establishment of an 

 Imperial Bureau of Anthropology. The pro- 

 posal is that the bureau should be established 

 in London and that it should be managed by 

 a committee composed of the council of the 

 Eoyal Anthropological Institute and represen- 

 tatives of the governments of the British Do- 

 minions, of the Indian and Colonial Offices, 

 and of those universities in Great Britain, in 

 India and the colonies and dependencies of 

 the empire where anthropology is systematic- 

 ally studied. 



Mr. E. W. Hunnybun has presented to the 

 Cambridge University his collection of draw- 

 ings of the flowering plants of the British 

 Isles, including 1,700 species and varieties. 

 They are to be used to illustrate a new British 

 flora by Mr. C. E. Moss, which wiU be pub- 



lished by the University Press. After the 

 drawings have been used in this way, they are, 

 with the letters of identification, to be pre- 

 served in the university herbarium. 



Nature states that the arrangements for the 

 meeting of the International Association of 

 Seismology are now nearly complete. The 

 following foreign states will be represented: 

 United States, France, Eussia, Austria, Ger- 

 many, Hungary, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, 

 Greece, Italy, Holland, Eumania, Servia, Bul- 

 garia and probably also Japan and Norway. 

 At the opening meeting on July 18 the lord 

 mayor of Manchester and the vice-chancellor 

 of the university will welcome the delegates, 

 and Professor Schuster, as president, will de- 

 liver a short address. On the same day the 

 lord mayor will hold a reception in the Town 

 Hall. The council of the university will give 

 a dinner, and Dr. Shaw, the director of the 

 Meteorological Office, will invite the guests to 

 an excursion to view the observatory at Esk- 

 dalemuir. Among British men of science, the 

 following have signified their intention of be- 

 ing present : Sir George Darwin, Dr. Milne, 

 Professor Perry, Professor Lamb, Professor 

 Knott, Professor Love, Mr. Oldham, Dr. Shaw 

 and Dr. G. W. Walker. 



Captain C. G. Eawling lectured on July 3, 

 as we learn from Nature, before the Eoyal 

 Geographical Society on the geographical re- 

 sults of the British expedition in Dutch New 

 Guinea, which was organized by the British 

 Ornithologists' Union, and was led by Mr. 

 Goodfellow until illness compelled his return. 

 The dense tropical jungle of the low plain be- 

 tween the mountains and the coast, the heavy 

 rainfall and the sickness which incapacitated 

 their carriers, prevented the travelers from 

 reaching the higher portions of the range, but 

 the scientific results, zoological, ethnograph- 

 ical and geographical, are most valuable. 

 Captain Eawling and Dr. Marshall stayed for 

 some time with the pygmy tribes of the lower 

 hill ranges, and obtained much information 

 concerning their customs, habits and general 

 character. 



The American Museum Journal announces 

 that three very important anthropological col- 



