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tier, fellow of Columbia University. Mr. Cot- 
tier had been traveling in France since the first 
of July, and died from typhoid fever at Paris 
on the 17th of August. He was a student of 
exceptional ability in the mathematico-physical 
sciences and gave promise of a brilliant career. 
THE deaths are also announced of Mr. Albert 
Marth, fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society 
and the author of many valuable contributions 
to astronomy, at the age of 69, and of Mr. 8. E. 
Peal, of Assam, a writer on astronomical topics. 
A CABLEGRAM to the daily press reports that 
the British steamer Windward, which left Eng- 
land on June 10th last, for Franz Josef Land, 
to bring back from the Arctic regions the mem- 
bers of the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, 
who have spent three winters near Cape Flora, 
passed Aberdeen on Aug. 28th on her return trip 
and signalled that all were well on board. Dur- 
ing the present summer the expedition was to 
make an attempt to reach the highest point 
north through an opening in Queen Victoria’s 
Sea, the open water discovered by Jackson. 
REUTER’S agency announces that M. Nossi- 
loff, the explorer, has arrived at Tiumen from 
the Kara Sea. He has made important discoy- 
eries connected with intercourse between Siberia 
and Europe, especially a direct waterway which 
is considerably shorter than the old one and is 
not affected by the sea ice. M. Nossiloff also 
announces that he has investigated the hitherto 
unexplored Yalmal peninsula. 
PRoFEssoR W. W. CAMPBELL will have 
charge of the expedition of the Lick Observa- 
tory to India to observe the total eclipse of the 
sun on January 21st of next year. As we have 
already stated, this expedition has been made 
possible through the generosity of the late Col. 
C. F. Crocker. 
THE Boston Transcript states that Mr. Edward 
Kemeys, the animal sculptor, will probably re- 
ceive a commission for the decoration of the 
zoological park in Washington. It is proposed 
to decorate the park with bronze figures of In- 
dians and wild animals, of life size or a little 
larger, to preserve the types of animal life 
which are rapidly vanishing. The Indians will 
be represented in some pieces as alone and in 
some pieces as riding or hunting the animals. 
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The animals will sometimes be separate and 
sometimes grouped together, as in the case of 
a leopard killing a deer. 
It is reported that as soon as the new library 
of the Moscow University is completed, the 
well-known savant, Dr. Luginin, has promised 
to make it a present of his fine collection of 
books on chemistry, embracing 12,000 volumes, 
besides adding a sum of money for purchasing 
new books on that subject. 
THE annual meeting of the corporation of the 
Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Holl 
was held at that place on August 26th. The 
chief business was the election of a board of 
trustees and the enactment of some changes in 
the by-laws. Seventy members were in attend- 
ance. A resolution was adopted ratifying certain 
changes in the constitution proposed at a spe- 
cial meeting in Boston on August 16th. Among 
the more important amendments adopted were 
those providing that the number of trustees be in- 
creased from twenty to twenty-four, and that ex- 
officio members be made members of the board 
of trustees. Trustees were elected as follows: 
Clerk, Professor H. C. Bumpus, Brown Univer- 
sity; Dr. E. G. Gardiner, Professor Clark, 
Williams College; Dr. J. P. McMurrich and L. 
L. Nunn, University of Michigan; Professor 
H. F. Osborn and Professor E. B. Wilson, Col- 
umbia; Professor William Libbey and W. B, 
Scott, Princeton; Professor W. C. Sedgwick, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Profes- 
sor Sydney W. Smith, Yale; Dr. William Tre- 
lease, Missouri Botanical Gardens; Professor 
W. P. Wilson, Philadelphia Museum ; Professor 
B. Ramsey Wright, University of Toronto ; 
Professor J. M. McFarlane and E. G. Conklin, 
University of Pennsylvania; Professor E. P. 
Mall, Johns, Hopkins University; Professor B. 
L. Mark, Harvard; Samuel P. Scudder, Cam- 
bridge ; Lawrence Minot, Boston ; Professor T. 
H. Morgan, Bryn Mawr; ©. G. Kidder, New 
York; Professor M. M. Metcalf, the Woman’s 
College of Baltimore; Professor William Pat- 
ten, Dartmouth; Professor D. P. Penhallow, 
McGill University. ; 
Nature learns from the Brisbane Oourier that 
Hon. R. Barr-Smith, of Torrens Park, South 
Australia, has offered to subscribe the amount 
