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is proposed to collect £100,000 for the endow- 

 ment of research in the Institute. The sub- 

 scriptions include £5,000 from Lord Iveagh ; 

 £2,000 from the Earl of Derby ; £600 from 

 the Duke of Westminster, who, it will be re- 

 membered, assisted the Institute to obtain the 

 site which its new building now occupies on the 

 Chelsea Embankment ; £100 from Lord Lis- 

 ter, and £200 from Mr. Alfred de Rothschild. 

 Donations and subscriptions may be sent to the 

 Honorary Treasurer of the Jenner Memorial 

 Fund, Sir Henry E. Roscoe, 10, Bramham Gar- 

 dens, London, S.W. 



Nature states that the proposal made at the 

 Toronto meeting of the British Association last 

 year for a marine biological station in the 

 Dominion of Canada is taking practical shape. 

 Professor Prince, the Dominion Commissioner 

 of Fisheries, reported at length upon the neces- 

 sity for such a marine station for Canada in the 

 Marine and Fisheries Blue Book, 1894; and the 

 Royal Society, of Canada, also urged the im- 

 portance of the matter ; but it was not until the 

 British Association appointed a committee, con- 

 sisting of Professor E. E. Prince (Ottawa), 

 Chairman ; Professor Penhallow (Montreal), 

 Secretary, and Professor A. B. Macallum (To- 

 ronto), Professor John Macoun (Ottawa), Pro- 

 fessor Wesley Mills (Montreal), Professor E. W. 

 MacBride (Montreal), and Dr. W. T. Thiselton- 

 Dyer, that active steps were taken to carry out 

 the scheme. An influential deputation waited 

 upon the Hon. Sir Louis Davies, Minister of 

 Marine and Fisheries, in April last, and during 

 the recent sessions of the Canadian Parliament 

 a vote of £3,000 was practically sanctioned, 

 £1,400 being granted for the year 1898-99. A 

 Board of Management has been chosen as fol- 

 lows : Professor E. E. Prince (nominated by Sir 

 Louis Davies to represent the Department of 

 Marine and Fisheries), to act as Director ; Pro- 

 fessors Penhallowand MacBride (McGill Univer- 

 sity), Ramsey Wright (Toronto University), L. 

 H. Bailey (New Brunswick University), Rev. F. 

 A. Huart (Laval University, Quebec), and mem- 

 ' bers from Queen's University, Kingston, and 

 Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 



It is ofiicially announced that there were 

 2,300 deaths from the plague during the last 



week of August in the Bombay Presidency. 

 The epidemic is spreading, and there has been 

 a fresh outbreak in the state of Hyderabad. 



We regret to note that the will of the late 

 Adolph Sutro, who bequeathed valuable prop- 

 erty in San Francisco for charitable and educa- 

 tional purposes, will be contested. 



Messes. D. Appleton & Co.'s announce- 

 ments for August and September include ' The 

 Earth and Sky,' by Professor Edward S. 

 Holden, and ' Philip's Experiments, or Physical 

 Science at Home,' by Professor John Trow- 

 bridge, of Harvard University. 



We have received from the American Ento- 

 mological Society a reprint, from the twenty- 

 fifth volume of their Transactions, of the bib- 

 liographical notice of George Henry Horn, by 

 Philip P. Calvert. A portrait of Dr. Horn 

 forms the frontispiece of the pamphlet. There 

 is included a chronological list of his entomo- 

 logical writings, compiled by Mr. Samuel Hen- 

 shaw, who also contributes an index to the 

 genera and species of Coleoptera described and 

 named in the 265 papers. 



We learn from Nature that many Polish men 

 of science have signed a protest against the ac- 

 tion of the Prussian, authorities at Posen (Poz- 

 nan) in prohibiting them from attending the 

 meeting of the Polish Association for the Pro- 

 motion of Medical and Natural Knowledge, 

 which it was proposed to hold in that town 

 at the beginning of August. Early in July 

 the organizing committee of the meeting 

 was informed by the Director of Police that 

 persons of Polish nationality would not be per- 

 mitted to take part in the proceedings, and 

 that if they went to Posen they would be ex- 

 pelled from the country immediately. For 

 thirty years the Association has held its meet- 

 ings without any difficulties, and in the year 

 1884 a meeting was held in the town of Posen 

 itself. The recent action, directed as it was 

 against men whose only object was calm and 

 friendly intercourse, violates the legitimate 

 claims of science and discourages scientific in- 

 vestigation in Poland. It is unfortunate that 

 intellectual enterprise should be made to suffer 

 on account of strained relations between cer- 

 tain members of German and Polish nationali- 



