SEPTEMBER 24, 1897. ] 
‘Tt seems to her Majesty’s Government that Wash- 
ington would be the most suitable place for such 
meeting. 
“The other portions of Mr. Sherman’s despatch, 
in so far as they require any reply from her Majesty’s 
Government, have been answered by anticipation in 
despatches which I addressed to her Majesty’s Ambas- 
sador at Washington on April 2 and May 7 last, and 
which have been communicated to the Government of 
the United States. ”’ 
Russia and Japan have signified their intention 
of being represented at the conference on the 
invitation of the United States. The United 
States will be represented by ex-Secretary John 
W. Foster and ex-Assistant Secretary Charles S. 
Hamlin. It has been arranged that President 
Jordan, of Stanford University, and his assist- 
ants, as well as the British scientific experts, 
shall appear personally before the conference to 
give the results of their investigations. 
GENERAL. 
THE Tenth Annual Winter Meeting of the 
Geological Society of America will be held at 
McGill University, in the city of Montreal, on 
December, 29, 30, 31, 1897. Details of the 
meeting will be announced in a circular to be 
issued by the Secretary, Professor Herman 
LeRoy Fairchild, about November 1st. 
THE Berlin Academy of Sciences has made 
an appropriation of 3,000 Marks to Professor B. 
Hagen, Frankfurt, for the publication of an 
anthropological atlas; one of 1,500 Marks to 
Professor Kohen, Greifswald, for mineralogical 
researches, and one of 800 Marks to Professor R. 
Bonnet, Greifswald, for anatomical researches. 
THE Dutch Academy of Sciences at Harlem 
has proposed seventeen subjects for papers to 
be presented before the beginning of next year. 
A gold medalis offered in each subject, or, in its 
place, 500 florins, with an addition of a further 
500 florins in special cases. The essays may be 
in English. The details may be secured from 
the Secretary of the Academy, Professor Bos- 
scha, Harlem. 
Lorp KELVIN has returned to New York 
from the Pacific coast and is at present the 
guest of Mr. John Bottomley, at Southampton, 
L. I. He proposes to make another short visit 
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to Canada, and after visiting Mr. Westinghouse 
at Lennox will return to Great Britain. 
WE learn from Natural Science that Dr. Henry 
Woodward, keeper of the department of geology 
in the British Museum (Natural History), has 
been permitted by the Treasury to retain his 
office for another two years. According to the 
rules of retirement in the civil service, his term 
of service would have expired next November. 
Mr. Percy EMARy has been elected Secretary 
of the Geologists’ Association, of London. 
Mr. Henry W. SAGe, President of the Board 
of Trustees, of Cornell University, died at 
Ithaca, on the night of September 17th, at the 
age of eight-three years. Mr. Sage had given 
more than one million dollars to Cornell Uni- 
versity and had been a generous donor to other 
educational and public institutions. 
WE regret to record the death, in Assam, on 
July 29th, of Samuel Edward Beal, at the age 
of sixty-two years. He had made contributions 
to a wide range of sciences, including geogra- 
phy, astronomy, philology and agriculture. 
Sir EVERETT MILvAis, the author of numer- 
ous publications on scientific dog-breeding, and 
at one time editor of the Stockkeeper, died at 
Shepperton, on Tuesday, 7th. Sir Everett in- 
troduced into England the Basset hounds whose 
pedigrees Dr. Galton recently used for his im- 
portant study on heredity. 
Mr. R. T. GUNTHER has gone to Lake Uru- 
miya, on the Persian frontier, with a view to 
studying the fauna of the lake. 
THE extensive collections of fossils made by 
Mr. F. E. Gurley, Danville, Ill., formerly State 
Geologist, is offered for sale. 
THERE has just been added to the Philadel- 
phia Museums a laboratory of tests and tech- 
nology for the examination and analysis of raw 
and manufactured products. 
Cou. YOuNG, United States Army, acting 
Superintendent of the Yellowstone Park, has 
made a report to the Secretary of the Interior, 
stating that black bears and coyotes have mul- 
tiplied so rapidly in the Park as to become an- 
noying, and recommends capturing some of the 
bears for zoological gardens and killing some of 
the coyotes. He states that some of the people 
