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Botanical and Zoological Gardens at Bronx 

 Park, New York City. Detailed circulars will 

 shortly be sent out to members by the Secretary 

 of the Naturalists, Dr. H. C. Bumpus, Brown 

 University, Providence, R. I. A local com- 

 mittee has been formed with Professor Osborn, 

 as chairman. 



Aebangements will at once be made for tlie 

 meetings of the affiliated societies. It may 

 already be stated that the American Physio- 

 logical Society and the American Psychological 

 Association will meet on Wednesday, Thursday 

 and Friday, and probably the same days will 

 be chosen for the American Morphological So- 

 ciety, the Society for Plant Morphology and 

 Physiology, and the Association of American 

 Anatomists. The Section of Anthropology of 

 the American Association will meet on Tues- 

 day, followed on Wednesday by the American 

 Folk-lore Society. 



The New York State Science Teachers' As- 

 sociation will, as we have already stated, hold 

 its third annual meeting in New York, in con- 

 junction with the Naturalists, on Thursday and 

 Friday of Christmas week. The opening session 

 will be at 10:30 a. m. on Thursday, and in the 

 afternoon a discussion on science for admission 

 to college will be opened by Professor Daven- 

 port, of Harvard University, followed by Pro- 

 fessor Bailey, of Cornell University, and other 

 speakers. In the evening the President, Pro- 

 fessor Hargitt, of Syracuse University, will 

 make an address, to be followed by a reception 

 on Friday evening. The last session of the 

 Association will be held in the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, where Dr. Bickmore 

 will give an address and the exhibits will be 

 opened. 



THE GERMA,N ' NATUKFOESCHEE, UND AEEZTE. ' 



The seventieth Congress of German Men of 

 Science and Physicians, under the Presidency 

 .of Professor Waldeyer, which met at Dussel- 

 dorf, beginning on September 19th, was at- 

 tended by more than two thousand members. 

 Three general addresses were given, an abstract 

 of which we find in the Natunvissenschaftliche 

 Rundschau. The first of these, by Professor 

 Klein, the mathematician, discussed the rela- 



tion of the German universities to the techni- 

 cal schools. He argued that the university 

 should extend its laboratories and teaching to 

 include technical studies, following here, it ap- 

 pears, the model of the American university. 

 Applied science was further emphasized by the 

 fact that one of the general addresses was for 

 the first time on an engineering subject, and also 

 by the fact that a section of applied mathe- 

 matics and physics was organized. The third 

 of the addresses was by Professor Tillmann, of 

 Leipzig, on the progress of surgery during the 

 past hundred years. 



At the second general session addresses were 

 made by Professor Martius on the causes of 

 illness, in which he argued that the pathogenic 

 microbes were not the true cause, but only the 

 occasion, of illness. Dr. Mendelssohn spoke on 

 the care of the sick and Professor Van't Hoff 

 on the importance of inorganic chemistry. In 

 addition to these two general sessions, there 

 were held combined sessions devoted, respect- 

 ively, to the Sciences and to medicine. In the 

 first of these Professor Krohn spoke on an en- 

 gineering topic and Professor Pietzker on phi- 

 losophy and science. Papers were presented 

 before the second group by Professor von Frey, 

 Professor Krehl and Professor Thoma on the 

 heart and the circulation of the blood. 



The place of meeting for next year is Munich, 

 and Professor Neumayer, of Hamburg, the 

 eminent meteorologist is President. 



GENERAL. 



The fiftieth anniversary of the death of Ber- 

 zelius has been celebrated at Stockholm by a 

 memorial service, at which the King was pres- 

 ent. Professor P. Th. Cleve, who holds the 

 chair of chemistry at Upsala, delivered an ora- 

 tion. 



De. O. Loew, known for his contributions to 

 chemical physiology, has accepted an appoint- 

 ment under the U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture. 



The International Congress of Mathemati- 

 cians will meet in Paris from 6th to the 12th of 

 August, 1900. The Mathematical Society of 

 France has appointed committees of organiza- 

 tion, M. Poincare being President of that con- 



