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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. VIII. No. 208. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



At a meeting of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences, on November 28tii, Professor O. C. 

 Marsh, of Yale University, was elected a cor- 

 respondent in mineralogy. Forty-four votes 

 were given to Professor Marsh and four to Pro- 

 fessor Zittel, of Munich. 



We regret to learn that Professor George J. 

 Brush is dangerously ill at New Haven with 

 pneumonia. It will be remembered that Pro- 

 fessor Brush recently resigned the directorship 

 of the Yale ShefBeld Scientific School, to take 

 effect at the end of the present year. Like 

 President Dwight, he resigns owing to the fact 

 that he has about attained the age of seventy 

 years. 



Queen Victoria has appointed Professor 

 D'Arcy Wentworth Thomson, M.A., of Univer- 

 sity College, Dundee, to be Scientific Member of 

 the Fishery Board for Scotland, in the room of 

 Sir John Murray, F.R.S., resigned. 



The Society for Plant Morphology and Physi- 

 ology will hold its second annual meeting at 505 

 Shermerhorn Hall, Columbia University, Tues- 

 day to Friday, December 27th to 30th. On Tues- 

 day evening, from 8 to 11, a reception is to be 

 tendered by the Torrey Botanical Club, of New 

 York, to the members of the Society and other 

 visiting botanists, in the rooms of the Depart- 

 ment of Botany in Columbia University. The 

 address of the retiring President, Dr. W. G. 

 Farlow, is to be delivered on Wednesday at 4 

 p. m. The Society will unite with the Ameri- 

 can Society of Naturalists in their programs for 

 Thursday afternoon and Wednesday and Thurs- 

 day evenings. 



The local committee of the American Society 

 of Naturalists and Affiliated Societies has, in 

 view of the meetings next week, sent to mem- 

 bers an announcement containing references to 

 some of the more important institutions and 

 collections of New York City. Since the Soci- 

 ety of Naturalists met in New York, in 1889, 

 the City has shown great scientific activity. 

 Columbia University and New York University 

 have been established on new sites, and special 

 attention has been given to the erection and 

 equipment of the scientific laboratories. The 

 American Museum of Natural History — both the 



buildings and the collections — has been greatly 

 enlarged and wili be open especially to mem- 

 bers on Tuesday. An Aquarium and a State 

 Pathological Institute have been established. 

 The Botanical and Zoological Parks, in their 

 present unfinished condition, will be shown to 

 members of the Societies by Director Britton 

 and Director Hornaday on Friday. 



We regret to record the death of Dr. John 

 Stillwell Schanck, emeritus professor of chem- 

 istry and hygiene in Princeton University, 

 which occured at Princeton on December 16th. 

 Dr. Schanck was born in 1817, and began the 

 practice of medicine at Princeton in 1843. In 

 1847 he was made lecturer in zoology at the 

 College, and in 1856 was elected professor of 

 chemistry, to which the chair of natural his- 

 tory was added in 1861). In 1874 the professor- 

 ship was limited to chemistry, and from 1885 

 until he was made emeritus professor, in 1892, 

 his chair was entitled chemistry and hygiene. 



We must also note the death of Mr. George 

 Woodrofle Goyder, late Surveyor-General of 

 South Australia, and of M. D. Meritens, the 

 French electrician. 



The British Medical Journal gives further de- 

 tails of the unveiling of the monument to Char- 

 cot on December 4th. Addresses were made by 

 Professor Brouardel, who presented the monu- 

 ment to the city on behalf of the faculty of 

 medicine ; by M. Navarre on behalf of the Mu- 

 nicipal Council; by Professor F. Raymond, Char- 

 cot's successor at the Saltpetriere ; by Professor 

 Cornil, Charcot's successor in the chair of pa- 

 thology in the Ecole de Sledicine, and by M. 

 Georges Leygnes, the French Minister of Public 

 Instruction. The statue has been modelled in 

 bronze by the distinguished sculptor, M. Fal- 

 guiere, with the collaboration of the well-known 

 architect, M. Samson. Charcot is represented 

 in his professorial robes standing in the act of 

 giving a demonstration, the right hand indica- 

 ting the left temporal region on the head of a 

 dead body lying beside him, and the left mak- 

 ing a gesture habitual to him in lecturing. 



Mk. a. E. Shipley, of Christ's College, and 

 Mb. H. S. Cronin, of Trinity College, have 

 been appointed to represent Cambridge Univer- 



