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Proressors O. Hertwie, F. E. Schultz, 
Berlin, and A. Fick, Wurzburg, have been 
elected corresponding members of the Munich 
Academy of Sciences. 
WE learn from Nature that Professor A. 
Bauer has been obliged, on account of ill-health, 
to decline the office of President of the third 
International Congress for Applied Chemistry, 
which is to be held next year at Vienna, and 
Dr. H. R. von Perger has been elected in his 
stead. There will be twelve sections in con- 
nection with the Congress. Among the sub- 
jects to be discussed is the introduction of uni- 
form methods of analysis of chemical products. 
ALONZO S. KIMBALL, since 1872 professor of 
physics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, died 
at Worcester on December 2d, aged fifty-four 
years. 
THE death is announced of Dr. Louis Calori, 
elected as long ago as 1830 professor of anatomy 
in the University of Bologna. He made impor- 
tant contributions to human and comparative 
anatomy, including extensive researches on the 
Reptilia. 
Dr. M. Forster HEDDLE, best known of 
British mineralogists, died at St. Andrews on 
November 19th, aged sixty-nine years. 
WE also regret to record the deaths of Dr. 
Wilhelm Blomstrand, professor of chemistry in 
the University at Lund; Dr. Nikolaus Kleinen- 
berg, professor of comparative anatomy at the 
University of Palermo ; Dr. Wilhelm Moericke, 
docent in geology in the University of Freiburg. 
Mr. J. G. SuDBoROUGH, University College, 
Nottingham, writes to Nature calling a meeting 
of the British students of the late Victor Meyer, 
in order to raise a memorial to him, to be 
erected in the Heidelberg lecture theater. His 
former students in America would doubtless 
be glad to join in such a memorial. 
THE American Institute of Homeopathy has 
been successful in collecting funds for a monu- 
ment to Hahnemann. It is said thatas much as 
$75,000 has been collected and that the bronze 
statue by Mr. C. H. Niehaus will be dedicated 
during the spring at Washington. 
THE New York Board of Estimate and Ap- 
portionment adopted unanimously the plan for 
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rére & Hastings. 
By the will of the late Warren G. Roby, of 
Wayland, Mass., the sum of $28,000 and half 
an acre of land has been left to the town of 
Wayland for a public library. 
THE National Museum of Santiago, Chili, 
has purchased, at a cost of about $7,000, the 
valuable collection of Peruvian antiquities made: 
by Mr. Nicolaus Saenz. 
THE centenary of the Natural History Society 
of Hannover will be celebrated on December: 
15th and the two following days. 
Nature states that M. Moureaux has just 
completed the installation of the new magnetic 
department of the Pare St. Maur Observatory, 
and it was set in operation on December Ist. 
The work at the old magnetic rooms will be 
continued until January 1st, in order to supply 
M. Moureaux with a sufficient number of ob- 
servations for a reduction of the valuable rec- 
ords obtained continuously during a number of 
years. 
A PASTEUR INSTITUTE has been established 
at the University of Montpellier. 
THE Romanes Lecture at Oxford University 
next year will be given by Sir Archibald Geikie. 
Dr. G. F. JACKSON opened the winter course: 
of lectures at the Imperial Institute on Novem- 
ber 19th, the Prince of Wales presiding, with 
an account of the results of the Jackson-Harms- 
worth Expedition, on November 22d. Mr. E. 
S. Bruce lectured on ‘ Electric-Balloon Signal- 
ing applied to Scientific Exploration in Arctic 
and Antarctic Expeditions.’ Other lectures an- 
nounced for the course are illustrated lectures 
on ‘The Wild Kafirs of the Hindu Kush,’ by 
Sir George Scott Robertson, and on ‘The Min- 
eral Resources of British Columbia and the Yu- 
kon,’ by Mr. A. J. M’Millan, of Rossland, 
British Columbia, formerly British agent for 
the government of Manitoba, who has been 
specially supplied with specimens, etc., to illus- 
trate the lecture by the government of British 
Columbia. Professor W. C. Roberts-Austen, 
C.B., F.R.S., will lecture on ‘Canada’s Metals,’ 
and Mr. Boverton Redwood on ‘The Petro- 
leum Sources of the British Empire.’ 
