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ical Department of the Army, had, by will and 
codicils dated 1896 and 1897, after making cer- 
tain specific legacies, including one of £2,000 
to the University of Glasgow, bequeathed the 
whole residue of his property to the Royal So- 
ciety, subject to certain life annuities. The 
proceeds of the fund were to be applied by the 
Royal Society for the foundation of such prizes 
and scholarships for the special purpose of 
furthering natural and physical science, includ- 
ing geology and astronomy, and for furthering 
original research and investigation in pathol- 
ogy, as the Society might think best and most 
conducive to the promotion of those sciences 
and of original discoveries therein ; such prizes 
and scholarships to be called after the name of 
the testator. 
THE Berlin Academy of Sciences has made a 
further appropriation of 3,000 M. for the His- 
tory of the Academy now being prepared by 
Professor A. Harnack. . 
HE. CzABAN, a Warsaw merchant, has be- 
queathed 50,000 roubles (some $35,000) to the 
Warsaw Academy of Sciences and also 30,000 
roubles to both the University of Cracow and 
the University of Lemburg. 
THE Indiana Academy of Science will hold 
its annual meeting at Indianapolis on December 
28th, 29th and 30th, under the presidency of 
Professor Thomas Grey, Terre Haute, Ind. 
THE Lick Observatory eclipse expedition, 
from San Francisco, has arrived at Bombay and 
will proceed inland to select an observing sta- 
tion. 
Ir is reported that an endeavor will be made 
to found an astronomical observatory at Glas- 
gow. 
THE Marine Biological Station of the Uni- 
versity of Tokyo, at Mazaki, will be removed 
during the present year to a new site about two 
miles north of the present location. A pro- 
posed railway will bring the station within two 
or three hours of Tokyo. 
A MARBLE bust in memory of the geologist 
A. Stelzner has been unveiled in the School of 
Mines at Freiburg. 
Iv is proposed to commemorate the late Mr. 
J. Greig Smith, M.A., M.B., C.M., Aberdeen, 
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professor of surgery at University College, 
Bristol, by erecting within the precincts of the 
University of Aberdeen a memorial tablet. 
Dr. CAMPBELL Morrit, the chemist, died on 
December 8th in London. He was born in Her- 
culaneum, Mo., November 19, 1820. He was 
formerly professor of applied chemistry in the 
University of Maryland. In 1858 he removed 
to New York, where he followed his profession 
until 1861, when he went to London. 
THE death is announced of Mr, Ernest Giles, 
the Australian explorer, who between 1874 and 
1875 twice traversed the West Australian desert 
from Adelaide to Perth. The Royal Geograph- 
ical Society awarded him its founder’s medal 
for his journey. 
BILLs have been introduced in both branches 
of Congress prohibiting pelagic sealing by citi- 
zeus of the United States. 
SECRETARY Lone has issued an order trans- 
ferring the Naval Hydrographic Office from the 
control of the Navigation Bureau to the Bureau 
of Equipment. The latter bureau now has 
charge of the Naval Observatory and similar 
branches of the service. 
One hundred employees of the Gypsy Moth 
Commission have been discharged, the appro- 
priation made by the Legislature being nearly 
exhausted. 
LIEUTENANT R. E. PEARY, having again com- 
plained in London of Captain Sverdrup’s unfair- 
ness in going to Smith Sound next summer, 
Captain Sverdrup explains that he wrote to Mr. 
Peary some time ago saying that he did not 
aim to reach the pole, but only intended to 
explore Greenland and to make a study of the 
ice. 
THE Zurich correspondent of the London 
Times writes that at Windisch the old Roman 
colony of Vindonissa, in the Canton of Argovie, 
excavations recently carried out under the au- 
spices of the Swiss Archeological Society have 
yielded important results. Large Roman villas 
and an amphitheatre have been disinterred and, 
besides a large quantity of coins, pottery, 
bronze and ironware, some large silver vessels 
have been discovered, which are said only to 
have their equals in the famous treasure-trove 
