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further illustrated by the fact that his last 
volume was on graphology. 
THE statue of Darwin at the entrance to the 
public library and museum of Shrewsbury, to 
the erection of which, by the Shropshire 
Horticultural Society, we have already called 
attention, was to have been unveiled on August 
10th. The statue, in bronze, is by Mr. Horace 
Montford. 
On the eleventh of July a monument was un- 
veiled at Bresches to Velpeau, the eminent 
French surgeon. 
A MEDALLION portrait of Pasteur, by M. 
Patey, after the medal by M. Roty, has now 
been placed on the wall of the Ecole Normale 
Supérieure, the site of the former laboratory of 
Pasteur. The inscription previously inscribed 
on the tablet reads : 
ICI FUT LE LABORATOIRE DE PASTEUR. 
1857.—Fermentations. 
1860.—Générations spontanées. 
1865.—Maladies des vins et des biéres. 
1868.—Maladies des vers 4 soie. 
1881.—Virus et vaccins. 
1885.—Prophylaxie de la rage. 
THE position of Assistant Chief of Division 
of Soils, Department of Agriculture, salary 
$1,800 per annum, is to be filled by the Civil 
Service Commission. Applicants must submit, 
not later than September 1st, original essays, 
either printed or in manuscript form, consisting 
of not less than 5,000 words, and containing a 
thorough treatment of the subject, ‘ Hnviron- 
ment as affecting the yield, quality and time of 
ripening of crops.’ 
Dr. JOHANNES MARTIN has been appointed 
Director of the Natural History Museum of Ol- 
denburg, and Dr. Philippi, assistant in the Nat- 
tural History Museum in Berlin. 
THE Prince of Wales has been elected a fel- 
low of the Royal College of Physicians, Lon- 
don, or, as the English papers put it, he has 
complimented the profession by accepting the 
fellowship. Asa non-medital fellow, the Prince 
has only three predecessors, the Marquis of 
Dorchester in 1658, the Duke of Manchester in 
1717, and the Duke of Richmond in 1729. 
THE Legislature of Uruguay has conferred 
honorary citizenship and the sum of $10,000 on 
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Dr. Sanarelli as a recognition of his discovery 
of the yellow fever microbe. 
THE Faculty of Philosophy of the University 
of Strasburg has conferred the honorary de- 
gree of Doctor of Philosophy upon Professor 
Flinders Petrie, the celebrated Egyptologist. 
At the annual general meeting of the British 
Medical Association, on July 27th, the gold 
medals for distinguished merit were awarded to 
Sir Walter Foster and Mr. C. G. Wheelhouse. 
The Stewart prize was awarded to Dr. G.S. 
Woodhead, and the Middlemore prize to Dr. 
Alexander Hill Griffith. 
Tue Yerkes Observatory of the University of 
Chicago will be dedicated on October 1st. The 
program is not yet announced, but it is planned 
to hold a series of conferences as part of the 
ceremonies, and it is hoped that a large number 
of astronomers and other men of science will be 
present. 
REPLYING recently to a committee asking for 
the earlier opening of Kew Gardens, Mr. 
Akers-Douglas said the raison d’étre of the ex- 
istence of Kew Gardens was the valuable 
scientific work it did, and he could not be ex- 
pected to do anything in the way of extending 
the hours during which the Gardens were open 
to the general public if it would interfere with 
that work. The financial question did not 
weigh with him at all, for if he were convinced 
that the interests of science would not suffer by 
the earlier opening he should endeavor to per- 
suade the Treasury to grant any extra money 
required. The sole question for consideration 
was whether the interests of science could be 
combined with the desire of the people for the 
earlier opening, and he regretted to say that 
the scientific men whose opinions he had ob- 
tained were entirely opposed to the proposal. — 
From a scientific point of view the experiment 
had not been a success in Edinburgh, and they 
had no reason to anticipate any better result at 
Kew. 
WE have published several notices of the ex- 
pedition in Central Asia under the direction of 
the Swedish traveler, Dr. Sven Hedin. He is _ 
now preparing the results of his explorations for 
publication, and is expected to present these be- 
fore the Royal Geographical Society of London 
