AuGusT 6, 1897.] 
THE German Botanical Society will this year 
hold its annual meeting at Brunswick, begin- 
ning September 21st, in conjunction with the 
sixty-ninth meeting of the German Society of 
Men of Science and Physicians. 
WE have published programs of the meet- 
ing of the British Medical Association at Mon- 
treal, beginning August 31st. The Sections of 
the Association devoted to scientific subjects 
will undoubtedly attract to Montreal many of 
the British and American men of science at- 
tending the Toronto meeting of the British As- 
sociation. The annual business meeting of the 
Medical Association was held in London on 
July 27th and 28th, and the reports of the 
Council and of the committees have been pub- 
lished in the British Medical Journal, the offi- 
cial organ of the Association, to which journal 
its great success is in large measure due. The 
membership of the Association is now 16,955, 
and the revenue for the past year amounted to 
$190,000. 
WE are requested by the Secretary of the 
American Society of Naturalists to publish the 
following communication, read at the last meet- 
ing of the Society : 
TORONTO, December 24, 1896. 
* To the Secretary of the American Society of Naturalists. 
DEAR SiR: The Local Executive Committee of 
British Association respectfully calls attention to the 
fact that the next meeting of the Association will be 
held in Toronto, August 18-25, and the members of 
the American Society of Naturalists are invited to 
become members of the Association for the occasion. 
A large number of representative British scien- 
tific men have thus early promised to attend and the 
Local Committee are endeavoring to secure the at- 
tendance also of large numbers of distinguished Con- 
tinental (European) scientific men at the meeting. 
Permit me to assure the members of the Ameri- 
can Society of Naturalists that everything will be 
done to make their visit to Toronto an extremely 
pleasant one. 
Yours sincerely, 
A. B. MACALLUM, 
President of the Local Executive Committee. 
THE daughters of Joseph Henry, the first 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, have 
presented to the Institution for the National 
Museum an interesting collection of electrical 
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models devised by Henry, and of decorations, 
etc., conferred upon him. 
THE late Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, 
formerly keeper of British and medieval anti- 
quities of the British Museum, has bequeathed 
to the Museum his valuable collection of works 
of art, ornaments and curiosities. 
Ir is proposed to collect a fund for a memo- 
rial at Glasgow to John and William Hunter, the 
great physiologists. An executive committee 
for this purpose was appointed at a public meet- 
ing recently convened at Glasgow. The move- 
ment originated with the late Dr. Mather, and 
Mrs. Mather, who was present at the meeting, 
stated that she had a sum of £850 with which 
to head the subscription list. 
PROFESSOR EDGAR McCLuRE, of the Oregon 
State University, fell 300 feet over a precipice 
on the Muir Glacier while descending Mount 
Rainier on July 27th and was killed. Two 
other members of the Mazama Mountain Climb- 
ing Club, Mr. George Rogers and Mr. H. Ains- 
lee, of Portland, Ore., fell into a crevasse on 
Mt. Rainier forty feet deep, and the former may 
not recover from his injuries. 
Sir JOHN BUCKNELL, F. R. 8., the author of 
important contributions to neurology and in- 
sanity, formerly editor of the Journal of Mental 
Science and one of the editors of Brain and of the 
British Medical Journal, died at Bournemouth 
on July 20th, aged 79 years. 
Mr. A. J. MUNDELLA, the English states- 
man, who as Vice President of the Council on 
Education and President of the Board of Trade 
took an active interest in science and education, 
died on July 21st, aged 72 years. He was a 
fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal 
Statistical Society. 
WE regret also to announce the deaths of the 
following men of science: Professor Arminio 
Nobile, professor of geodesy in the University 
of Rome; Professor Oscar Boer, of Berlin, 
known for his work on infectious diseases, and 
Professor Johann Ritter von Leich, formerly 
dean of the medical faculty of the University of 
Vienna, at the age of eighty-four. 
Dr. RADCLIFFE’S trustees have decided to 
appoint to the post of Radcliffe Observer at 
Oxford, vacant by the death of the late Mr. EB. 
