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J. Stone, Dr. Arthur A. Rambaut, of Dunsink 
Observatory, Dublin. Dr. Rambaut is Andrews 
professor of astronomy in the University of 
Dublin and Royal Astronomer of Ireland. 
Dr. BruNO Horer, docent in zoology at the 
University of Munich, has been appointed direc- 
tor of the recently established institute for the 
study of diseases of fishes. 
AT a recent meeting of the Council of the 
British Institute of Preventive Medicine, Dr. 
Allan Macfadyen was appointed Director of the 
Institute. 
M. Gayon has been elected a member of the 
Paris Academy of Sciences in the room of the 
late Professor Hellriegel. 
THE official delegates to the recent Inter- 
national Library Conference were as follows: 
France, M. Omont; Germany, Dr. Milkau; Italy, 
Signor Biagi; Sweden, Dr. Lunstedt; Hungary, 
Dr. Erdelyi; Japan, Enjiro Yamazo; of the 
Anglo-Saxon race—Great Britain, Sir Horace 
Walpole, Mr. C. H. Tawney; United States, Dr. 
Justin Winsor, Mr. Melvil Dewey, Mr. Herbert 
Putnam; Canada, Mr. A. D. de Celles; New 
South Wales and Victoria, Mr. H. C. L. Ander- 
son ; New Zealand, Mr. W. P. Reeves; Jamaica, 
the Rey. Dr. Gillies. 
THE chairmen of the committees of the House 
of Representatives having more or less connec- 
tion with scientific subjects, appointed by the 
Speaker before the adjournment of the House, 
are as follows: Coinage, Weights and Meas- 
ures, Mr. Stone, of Pennsylvania ; Agriculture, 
Mr. Wadsworth, of New York; Public Lands, 
Mr. Lacey, of Iowa; Railways and Canals, Mr. 
Chickering, of New York; Manufacturers, Mr. 
Faris, of Indiana; Mines, Mr. Grosvenor, of 
Ohio; Education, Mr. Growe, of Pennsylva- 
nia; Patents, Mr. Hicks, of Pennsylvania. 
PROFESSOR CHAs. D.WALcort, Director of the 
U.S. Geological Survey, has gone west to inspect 
and direct the field work of his bureau, more 
especially the survey and examination of the 
forest reserves, for which Congress, at its last 
session, made a special appropriation of $150,000. 
Mr. Walcott expects to be absent until October. 
In his absence, Colonel Rizer, the Chief Clerk, 
is acting as Director. 
SCIENCE. 
[N. 8. Vou. VI. No. 136. 
Mr. Gro. H. ELDRIDGE, of the U. 8. Geo- 
logical Survey, has gone to Utah, at the in- 
stance of the Secretary of the Interior, to re- 
examine, in greater detail!than was possible at 
the time of his reconnaissance a year ago, the 
deposits of Gilsonite and allied Hydrocarbons 
within the Uncompahgre and Ute Indian res- 
ervations. 
THE daily papers report that Professor Wil- 
liam Libbey, on July 23d, succeeded in scaling 
the ‘Mesa Encantada,’ near the Indian village 
of Acoma, New Mexico. By means of a can- 
non and rocket apparatus similar to that used 
by life-savers, a cord was shot over the table- 
land, and the ropes required in making the 
ascent were pulled up. All that was found on 
top which indicated that the tableland might 
have been inhabited was a pile of rocks 
which looked as if it had been erected by man. 
Professor Libbey is said to be convinced that 
the legends which made the place the site of 
an ancient village are unfounded. 
THE London correspondent of the Hvening 
Post cables that the Egyptian government is in- 
creasing the staff engaged on the geological 
survey of upper Egypt for the coming winter so 
as to keep five distinct parties at work. The 
survey may possibly develop in time into a 
scientific bureau of Egyptian natural history. 
A vote of 100,000 frances has been passed by the 
French Chamber of Deputies for explorations 
in Persia this autumn. The convention signed 
by the Shah gives a monopoly of researches 
throughout Persia to the French, the conditions 
being that one-half of the objects found shall 
pass to the state. M. De Morgan, well known 
through his investigations in Egypt, will con- 
duct the operations. 
Mr. GrorGE Murray and Mr. VY. A. Black- 
man have gone to the West Indies for the pur- 
pose of studying the Plant-Plankton of the 
Atlantic ocean. 
Apyicrs from Sydney state that the search 
party under the leadership of Mr. L. A. Wells 
has found the bodies of Charles Wells and 
George L. Jones, who, it will be remembered, 
were lost nearly two years ago from the main 
body of the Calvert expedition, engaged-in the 
exploration of West Australia. 
