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Osborn, Work in the Mammals; Professor 
William B. Scott, Contributions to Geology. 
The following delegates have been appointed 
to represent the cooperating associations on 
this occasion: A. 8. Packard, National Acad- 
emy of Sciences ; William H. Dall, United States 
Geological Survey; Theodore Gill, American 
Association for the Advancement of Science ; 
Henry F. Osborn, American Museum of 
Natural History ; E. G. Conklin, University of 
Pennsylvania; Harrison Allen, Academy of 
Natural Sciences; William B. Scott, Wagner 
Free Institute of Science; William Pepper, 
American Philosophical Society. 
Rey. Dr. SEARLE has resigned from the 
directorship of the astronomical observatory of 
the Catholic University of America, and Mr. 
Alfred Doolittle has been appointed to succeed 
him. 
Dr. W. v. BEZOLD, of Berlin, was awarded, 
on the occasion of its jubilee celebration, the 
gold medal of the Prussian Meteorological In- 
stitute. 
THE Royal College of Physicians, London, 
has conferred the Baly Medal, given every 
three years for research in physiology, on 
Professor Schiffer, of University College, Lon- 
don. 
QUEEN VIcroRIA has conferred the Jubilee 
Medal upon Sir George Duffey, President of 
the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, and 
upon Sir William Thomson, President of the 
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. 
THRouGH Nature we learn that the Reale 
Accademia dei Lincei has recently elected the 
following associates and correspondents: Na- 
tional associate, in the section of zoology and 
morphology, Professor G. B. Grassi; corre- 
spondent, in the same section, Professor G. 
Fano; foreign associates in mathematics, 
Professors H. Weber and T. Reye; in mechan- 
ics, Professor G. H. Darwin; in mathematical 
and physical geography, Professor F. R. Hel- 
mert ; in geology and paleontology, Professor 
A. Gaudry; in physiology, Professors H. 
Kronecker and O. Schmiedeberg. 
Dr. Foret, professor of psychiatry in the 
University of Zurich and Director of the State 
Asylum for the Insane, has resigned these 
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offices, owing, itis said, to the attacks made upon 
him by the press for the part he has taken in 
combatting the use of alcohol. 
Sir RUTHERFORD ALCcocK died in London on 
November 2d, aged eighty-eight years. He 
had been President of the Royal Geographical 
Society and had published works on geography 
and hygiene. 
A MEETING of the general committee having 
in charge the arrangements for the next Inter- 
national Congress of Zoology was held on No- 
vember 4th. It will be remembered that the 
Congress meets in Cambridge on August 28d 
under the presidency of Sir William Flower. 
THE Royal Academy of Belgium offers a series. 
of prizes for 1898, the subjects of which are pub- 
lished in the Revue Scientifique. Four ques- 
tions are proposed in mathematics and the 
physical sciences and three in the natural sci- 
ences, for the best answers to which small prizes 
(600-800 franes) are offered. The essays must be 
presented by the first of August, 1898, and we 
understand that foreigners may compete, 
though the MSS. must be in French or Dutch. 
A prize of 1,000 franes for the best work in 
astronomy by a Belgian isalso offered. Further 
details regarding these prizes may be obtained 
from the Secretary of the Academy, Palais des 
Académies, Brussels. 
Sir JOSEPH NORMAN LOCKYER, accompanied 
by Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer and Mr. A. Fowler, of 
the Royal Astronomical Society, will leave Lon- 
donon December 10th for Colomboto observe: 
the total solar eclipse of January 21, 1898. 
THE success attending the recent expedition 
of Mr. J. B. Hatcher, of Princeton University, 
as reported in a recent number of SCIENCE, has 
led him to return to that country to continue 
his investigations in paleontology and geology. 
Mr. Hatcher will landat Punta Arenas, in the 
Strait of Magellan, and will proceed northward 
to Chubut. In addition to paleontological col- 
lections, Mr. Hatcher expects to secure collec- 
tions of natural history and ethnology. 
Mr. F. W. W. Howe Lt proposes to attempt 
the ascent of Mt. Everest next year, and is said 
‘ to have the cooperation of the Royal Geograph- 
ical Society and the government of India. 
PROFESSOR LAWRENCE .BRUNER, of the Uni- 
