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M. Fateuimres has been commissioned to 
design the Pasteur statue to be erected in 
Paris, for which 297,000 francs has been sub- . 
scribed. 
THE United States Civil Service Commission 
will hold an examination on July 20th to es- 
tablish a register of eligibles for the position of 
industries in the Indian school service. The 
subjects of the examination will be penman- 
ship, spelling, methods of manual training, 
arithmetic, geometry, geography, industrial 
economy, mechanical or industrial drawing 
(one optional), free-hand,drawing and physics. 
There is a vacancy at the Indian school at 
Perris, Cal., the salary of which is $840 per 
annum. 
WE regret to record the deaths of DeVolson 
Wood, professor of mechanical engineering at 
the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, 
New Jersey, on June 27th, at the age of sixty- 
five years; of Professor Julius von Sachs, on 
May 29th, at the age of sixty-five years; of the 
Rey. Alexander Freeman, on June 12th, at the 
age of fifty-eight years. Mr. Freeman was at 
one time deputy for the Plumian professorship 
of astronomy at Cambridge, and was a fellow 
of the Royal Astronomical, Mathematical and 
Physical Society ; of Dr. Peter Yon Tunner, at 
the age of eighty-nine. Dr. Von Tunner 
founded, in 1840, the school of mines at Leo- 
ben, in Styria, and was the author of many con- 
tributions on the metallurgy of iron and steel. 
THE London Times reports that Dr. Wolfert 
and an assistant named Knabe were killed on 
June 12th while making trial of a navigable 
balloon invented by Dr. Wolfert. The balloon 
was being exhibited at Berlin before the officers 
of the ballooning section of the army, when the 
gas was ignited by the benzine used in the 
motor. 
COMMISSIONER HERRMANN, of the General 
Land Office, has, it is said, submitted to the 
Secretary of the Interior a report regarding 
the rules and regulations for the government 
of the forest reserves, with special reference to 
the parts available for mining, grazing and 
agriculture. 
Iv is said that the Legislatures of the States 
of New York and New Jersey will be asked at 
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their next sessions to provide for the building of 
a broad roadway 15 miles long at the base of 
the Palisades and to protect them from injury 
by quarrying. 
WE are glad to learn that on June 19tha 
Zoological Club was organized at Springfield 
with nineteen members. The first officers 
are: President, W. W. Colburn; Secretary, 
Miss M. A. Young; Treasurer, Miss L. I. 
Mattoon; and Dr. George Dimmock and Miss 
M. A. Booth, additional members of the Ex- 
ecutive Committee. 
THE Park Board of New York City has 
adopted the plans for the buildings of the new 
Botanical Gardens in Bronx Park, as modified 
by the directors in accordance with the advice 
of a committee consisting of Professor Sargent 
and Messrs. Olmsted, Hastings and Parsons. 
TuHE library of Columbia University has re- 
ceived from an anonymous donor 387 books, 
valued at $6,000. These include a number of 
valuable works in natural history, such as Au- 
dubon’s Quadrupeds, Sepp’s Nederland’sche 
Insekten, Gould’s Humming Birds and Leyail- 
lant’s Oiseaux d’ Afrique. 
Ir is stated in Die Natur that Dr. O. Zacha- 
rias reported at a recent meeting of the Saxon 
Fisheries Association that the Prussian govern- 
ment would, after October of next year, give 
assistance to the biological station at Plon. 
THE Boston Transcript states that an expedi- 
tion under the charge of Mr. C. M. Harris, of 
Angusta, Me., has sailed from San Francisco 
for the Galapagos Islands, with a view to 
studying their fauna and flora. It is said that 
Messrs. E. D. Hall, of Dartmouth; F. P. 
Duowle, of Providence, and R. I. Beck and R. 
H. Beck, of California, are members of the ex- 
pedition, and that the expenses are defrayed by 
Mr. Walter Rothschild. 
THe Australasian Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science will, as we have already 
announced, hold its seventh session at Sydney, 
commencing January 6, 1898. Professor A. 
Liversidge is the President-elect. The Presi- 
dent and officers of the several sections are as 
follows: 
Section A—Astronomy, Mathematics and Physics. 
President, R. L. J. Ellery, C.M.G., F.R.S.; Secre- 
