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the Detroit meeting of the A.A.A.S. and par- 
ticipating in the proceedings of the section for 
physics. 
THE Albert medal of the Society of Arts, 
London, has been awarded to Mr. G. J. Symons 
for his services to meteorology. 
THE Senckenberg Society of Natural History 
at Frankfort has awarded the Sommering 
prize, consisting of a medal and 500 M., to 
Professor Gustav Born, of Breslau, for his re- 
searches on the growth of the larve of am- 
phibia. 
THE death is announced of Dr. P. Schtitzen- 
berger, professor of chemistry at the Collége de 
France, at the age of sixty-seven years. He 
had been since 1888 member of the Paris 
Academy of Sciences and had made important 
contributions to organic chemistry. 
WE also regret to announce the following 
deaths: Dr. Alfred Moquart, professor of 
anatomy at Brussels, on June 5th; Professor 
Martin Wilckens, of the Agricultural School of 
Vienna, on June 10th, at the age of sixty-four 
years ; Count Victor Trevisan di S. Leon, the 
cryptogamist, in Milan, on April 8th, and Frau 
Dr. Vera Bogdanowskaja-Popoff, on May 8th, 
as the result of an explosion while carrying on 
chemical experiments. 
DurRiInG the Moscow meeting of the Inter- 
national Medical Congress a statue to the emi- 
nent surgeon Pirogof will be unveiled. The 
sum of 12,000 roubles (about $6,000) has been 
collected by public subscription for the statue, 
the sculptor of which is Mr. VY. R. Sherwood. 
M. Harr and Professor de Lapparent have 
been elected members of the Paris Academy of 
Sciences. 
Mr. F. D. GopDMAN has been elected. Presi- 
dent of the British Ornithologists’ Union. 
PrRorEssor P. RovussEtor, of the Ecole des 
Hautes Etudes, Paris, has been appointed di- 
rector of the laboratory for experimental pho- 
netics, the establishment of which under the 
Collége de France we recently announced. 
Mr. Henry L. Bryan has been appointed, 
by the trustees of the Philadelphia Commercial 
Museum, Secretary of the Museum. 
THE U.S. Civil Service Commission announ- 
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ces a competitive examination, on August 9th, 
for the purpose of establishing a register from 
which certification may be made to the position 
of Examiner, Mint Bureau, Treasury Depart- 
ment, at a salary of $2,500 per annum. The 
duties of the position comprise the inspection 
and supervision of all the machinery installed 
in different U. S. mints throughout the country. 
Applicants should be graduates of recognized 
technical schools giving courses in mechanical 
engineering, or should, in lieu of this, have very 
broad training and experience along the lines 
of mechanical engineering. 
PRESIDENT JORDAN has passed through 
Seattle on his way to Alaska. He is accom- 
panied by Professor Wood, of Stanford Uni- 
versity. 
Mr. H. W. TuRNER, of the U. S. Geological 
Survey, and Professor John C. Branner, of 
Stanford University, are engaged in exploring 
in the region of the Yosemite and Hetch-hetchy 
Valleys and the adjacent mountains. 
Mr. R. W. Porter and Mr. A. Y. Shand, 
who are accompanying Lieut. Peary on his 
present expedition, expect to spend the winter 
in Baffin Land making ethnological and zoologi- 
cal studies and collections. They expect, in 
the summer of 1898, to explore the country 
northward and to return on a whaling ship 
from Cumberland Sound to Aberdeen. 
THE men of science who will embark on the 
‘Belgica’ on its approaching expedition to the 
Antarctic regions will be as follows: The cap- 
tain, M. A. de Gerlache, geology, meteorology 
and oceanography ; M. Arctowski, terrestrial 
magnetism and physics; M. Danes, zoology, 
and M. Racovitza. The crew haye already 
embarked in Norway and it is expected that 
the steamship will leave Antwerp on the 25th 
of the present month. The men of science ex- 
pect to spend the Antarctic winter in Victoria 
Land, while the steamship will go to Melbourne 
to renew its stores. 
PROFESSOR F. A. STARR has returned to the 
University of Chicago, from an expedition to 
New Mexico, having explored one of the 
mesas and one of the caves of the Cochitas, and 
having secured plaster casts of the busts of a 
number of Pueblo Indians. 
