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Dr. H. L. Clark, also of the expedition, nearly 
lost his life from the same disease. 
THE Associazione Elletrotecnica Italiana has 
appointed the following foreign committee to 
receive subscriptions to the fund which is being 
collected for the erection of a monument at 
Turin in memory of the late Galileo Ferraris : 
Rudolph Alioth, Professor E. Arnold, Dr. A. 
D’Arsonval, Professor W. HE. Ayrton, Dr. 
Frederick Bedell, Otto T. Blathy, Professor 
A. Blondel, C. S. Bradley, C. E. L. Brown, 
Professor Dr. Emil Budde, Dr. Coleman Sel- 
lers, M. Alfred Cornu, H. Cuénod, Max Déri, 
E. Desroziers, Dolivo Dobrowolsky, Dr. Louis 
Duncan, Thomas A. Edison, Edmunds Henry, 
Professor Jas. A. Ewing, Professor J. A. Flem- 
ing, Hippolyte Fontaine, Professor Geo. 
Forbes, Dr. O. Frélich, Professor Eric Gerard, 
Ernest Gerard, H. Gorges, Eugen Hartmann, 
F, VY. Hefner-Alteneck, Professor H. Hering, 
Dr. John Hopkinson, Professor Eduard Hospi- 
talier, E. Hiiber, J. Joubart, Gisbert Kapp, J. 
Kareis, Lord Kelvin, Professor Dr. Erasmus 
Kittler, Dr. Friedr. Kohlrausch, W. John 
Lieb, Jr., W. H. Lindley, Professor G. Lipp- 
mann, Dr. L. Lombardi, Professor E. Mascart, 
Senat. Montefiore, W. M. Mordey, Alois 
Navyille, Professor Oliver Lodge, Dr. A. Palaz, 
R. Y. Picou, W. H. Preece, Pantaleoni, Emil 
Rathenau, C. W. Rechniewski, Professor EH. 
Rousseau, Professor Henry Rowland, Alexander 
Siemens, Dr. A. Slaby, Charles P. Steinmetz, 
Dr. Gotthold Stern, Professor G. Peter Tait, 
Nikola Tesla, Professor Elihu Thomson, Pro- 
fessor J. J. Thomson, Professor Sylvanus P. 
Thompson, Rene Thury, Th. Turettini, Fried- 
rich Uppenborn, Dr. A. yon Waltenhofen, Dr. 
H. F. Weber, Edward Weston, Joseph Wetzler, 
Dr. VY. Wietlisbach, Professor W. Wyssling, 
Professor Carl Zipernowsky. The American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, at 
the Detroit meeting, authorized Dr. Frederick 
Bedell to collect subscriptions from the mem- 
bers of the Association. 
THE Indian government has asked for twelve 
medical men to be sent out from England to 
the Bombay Presidency for duty in the plague- 
_ stricken districts. 
THE Linnean Society of New South Wales, 
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Sydney, desire applications for the position of 
Macleary bacteriologist, the salary of which is 
about $2,000 per annum. 
THE late Edward C. R. Walker has be- 
queathed $20,000 to the Massachusetts Horti- 
cultural Society, to be known as the Samuel 
Walker Fund. The bequest is subject to sey- 
eral life interests. 
THE Staff of the North Carolina Agricultural 
Experiment Station has been reorganized as. 
follows: Alex. Q. Holladay, Chairman of Coun- 
cil; W. A. Withers, Chemist and Acting Direc- 
tor; Frank E. Emery, Agriculturist ; W. F. 
Massey, Horticulturist, Botanist and Entomolo- 
gist; F. E. Hege, Poultry Manager; B. S. 
Skinner, Superintendent of Farm; A. Rhodes 
and C, W. Hyans, Assistants in Horticulture, 
Botany and Entomology; J. A. Bizzell, C. B.. 
Williams, H. K. Miller, C. D. Harris, A. W. 
Blair, J. D. Hufham, Jr., and F. G. Kelley, As- 
sistants in Chemistry. 
AT a recent meeting of the New York 
Zoological Society the executive committee re- 
ported that the plans for the zoological park are 
practically complete, and that it is imperative 
that the remainder of the first $100,000 of the 
building fund should be subscribed at once in 
order that the plans may be submitted to the 
Park Board without delay. If the needed sum 
is subscribed the completed plans will be laid 
before the Park Board at its meeting on No- 
vember 1st. 
PROFESSOR LESTER F. WARD gaye, last week, 
a course of six lectures at the University of 
Chicago, his subject being ‘The Evolution of 
the Plant World as shown by Paleobotany.’ 
THE Secretary of Agriculture will, on No- 
vember 17th, deliver an address at the open- 
ing of the new building devoted to agriculture 
at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Insti- 
tute for Negroes. 
North Daxora Agricultural College and 
Station have in course of construction a wing 
for a new chemical laboratory. The labo- 
ratory, when completed, will cost $20,000. 
THE Journal of the Boston Society of the Medi- 
cal Sciences will be enlarged to octavo size in 
October. By general consent of the Heads of 
