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There were 300 members present, Great Brit- 

 ain, France, the United States, Kussia, Italy, 

 Norway, Denmark, Spain, Belgium, Japan 

 and Venezuela being represented. 



De. Hubert Ludwig, professor of zoology 

 at Bonn, and Dr. G. Haberlandt, professor of 

 botany in the University of Graz, have been 

 elected corresponding members of the Berlin 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Professor Volkens has been appointed one 

 ' of the custodians of the Botanical Gardens at 

 Berlin. 



Professor Koch, who, as we have already 

 reported, is now in Italy studying malaria, has 

 been given a dinner by men of science at 

 Rome, presided over by Professor Baccelli. 



Dr. D. Morris, lately Assistant Director of 

 the Royal Gardens at Kew, takes up, from 

 the 1st inst., the position of Commissioner of 

 Agriculture for the West Indies, to which he 

 was appointed some time ago. He will preside 

 over the new botanical department which has 

 been constituted as a charge on the Imperial 

 fund in accordance with the recommendation 

 of the West Indian Royal Commission and the 

 recent vote of the House of Commons. He 

 left for Barbados on the 21st inst. 



Sir William Martin Conway has made the 

 ascent of Mount Illimani, one of the loftiest 

 peaks of the Bolivian Andes, about twenty-five 

 miles east of La Paz. The mountain is 22,506 

 feet high, and the ascent occupied five days. 



Mr. C. F. Baker, Assistant Zoologist in the 

 Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, has 

 been given leave of absence for eighteen 

 months, beginning January 1, 1899, to visit 

 South America on a collecting expedition. 



Dr. Robert Zimmermann, formerly professor 

 of philosophy at Vienna, died on September 1st 

 at Salzburg, in his 74th year. He had made 

 important contributions to aesthetics and other 

 departments of philosophy, being regarded as 

 one of the leaders of the Herbartian school. 



Dr. Dietrich Nasse, associate professor of 

 surgery at Berlin, was killed by an Alpine ac- 

 cident in the Upper Eugadine at about the 1st 

 of September. Only two weeks ago we were 

 compelled to record the death of Professor Hop- 



kinson by a similar accident. Remembering 

 the deaths of Francis Balfour, of Milnes Mar- 

 shall and of other scientific men we have a 

 heavy account against the Alps. 



At the recent Syracuse meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Microscopical Society officers were elected 

 as follows : President, Dr. William C. Krauss, 

 of Buffalo ; First Vice-President, Professor A. 

 M. Bleile, of Columbus, 0.; Second Vice-Presi- 

 dent, Dr. G. C. Huber, of Ann Arbor, Mich.; 

 Secretary, Professor Henry D. Ward, of Lin- 

 coln, Neb. ; Treasurer, Magnus Pflaum, of Pitts- 

 burg ; Executive Committee, Professor S. H. 

 Gage, of Ithaca ; Dr. A. Clifford Mercer, of 

 Syracuse, and Dr. V. A. Moore, of Ithaca. 



Dr. W. H. Wiley, Secretary of the Associa- 

 tion of Official Agricultural Chemists, has sent 

 out a notice stating that, in harmony with the 

 vote of the Executive Committee, the date of 

 the fifteenth annual meeting of the Association 

 has been fixed for November 11th. The ses- 

 sions will be held in the lecture hall of the Co- 

 lumbian University, Washington, beginning at 10 

 a. m., Friday, November 11th, and continuing 

 Saturday and Monday, or until the business of 

 the Association is completed. These dates im- 

 mediately precede the meetings of the Associa- 

 tion of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment 

 Stations, which will convene in Washington, 

 November 15th. The order of business agreed 

 upon by the Executive Committee is as follows : 

 Report on nitrogen ; on potash ; on phosphoric 

 acid ; on soils and ash ; on foods and feed 

 stuffs ; on food adulteration ; on dairy products ; 

 on sugars ; on tannin ; reports of special com- 

 mittees. 



The geographical societies of twenty-five 

 towns of France and French Africa are sending 

 delegates to the nineteenth session of the Na- 

 tional Congress of French Geographical Socie- 

 ties, which meets at Marseilles from the 19th to 

 the 25th of September. Prince d'Allenberg is 

 President of the Congress. 



Arrangements have been made by the au- 

 thorities of Georgetown University, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. , for a course of six illustrated popular 

 lectures, open both to students and to citizens 

 of Washington. The subjects are as follows : 



