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tricity and magnetism, has been admitted to 

 the Belgian order of Leopold. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has awarded 

 the Desmazi^res prize to Dr. J. B. de Toni for 

 his Sylloge Algarum. 



The Paris Anthropological Society has chosen 

 Dr. Capitan as President for 1899. 



Dr. J. KoLLMAN, professor of anatomy in 

 the University of Basle, has been elected a 

 member of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. 



Sir William Jennee, F.R.S., the eminent 

 physician, died on December 11th, in his eighty- 

 third year. He was for many years professor, 

 first of pathological anatomy and later of medi- 

 cine, at University College, London. He had 

 published works on fevers and other subjects. 



The death is also announced of M. Jacques 

 Passe, an assistant in the laboratory of physio- 

 logical psychology at the Sorbonne, Paris, 

 known for his researches on the sense of smell, 

 etc. 



The death of Mr. Hayter Lewis, formerly 

 professor of architecture in University College, 

 London, deserves mention in this place, if only 

 because he was one of the first to recognize re- 

 lations between sanitary science and architec- 

 ture. We also regret to record the death, at 

 the age of 73, of M. Laboulbene, since 1879 

 professor of the history of medicine and surgery, 

 at Paris. 



The Paris Exposition of 1900 will include a 

 museu.m of the history of chemistry. It will 

 include apparatus, products of chemical labo- 

 ratories, plans, portraits of investigators, etc. 



It is stated in Nature that an Informal com- 

 mittee will shortly meet in Calcutta to con- 

 sider the reports by the Astronomer Koyal and 

 Sir Norman Lockyer, who were recently asked 

 for advice regarding Indian astronomical and 

 solar observatories. The future working of 

 these observatories will be discussed, and Sir 

 James Westland, Messrs. T. Holderness and J. 

 Eliot, and General Strahan, Surveyor-General, 

 will probably be members of the committee. 



Mr. Michael Lakin's donation of a large 

 Liassic Ichthyosaurus to the British Museum, 

 says Natural Science, has necessitated a consid- 

 erable rearrangement of the existing collection. 



We understand that the old cases are to be re- 

 moved, while the fine slabs containing these 

 fossils will be simply covered with glass and 

 exhibited upon the wall. Space is to be gained 

 by raising a number of the specimens above the 

 top of the present wall- cases. 



It appears that the School of Tropical Medi- 

 cine, at London, to which we have several times 

 recently called attention, will receive a subsidy 

 from the British Treasury on behalf of the Pro- 

 tectorates under the administration of the For- 

 eign Office. 



Captain Borchgeevink's expedition, which 

 left London on August 3d, has started from 

 Hobart, Tasmania, for the Antarctic regions. 



General Venutcoff announces that a Rus- 

 sian expedition will shortly leave for Spitz- 

 bergen to make geodetic and astronomical 

 observations. 



The steam yacht Utoivana left New York on 

 December 24th for Yucatan on the botanical 

 expedition to which we have already called at- 

 tention. Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, of the Botanical 

 Department of the Field Columbian Museum, is 

 in charge, and the party includes Mr. A. V. 

 Armour, the owner of the yacht. 



Nature states that owing to the unique and 

 extremely interesting nature of the fauna in 

 Lake Tanganyika, the study of which was re- 

 cently the object of an expedition supported by 

 the Royal Society, and led by Mr. J. E. S. 

 Moore, a committee has been formed, consist- 

 ing of sir. John Kirk:, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., 

 F.R.S. (late British Resident at Zanzibar); Dr. 

 P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. (Secretary of the Zo- 

 ological Society); Mr. Thiselton-Dyer, C.M.G., 

 F.R.S. (Director of the Kew Gardens); Profes- 

 sor Raj' Lankester, F.R.S. (Director of the 

 Natural History Departments of the British 

 Museum), and Mr. G. A. Bouleuger, F.R.S. (of 

 the British Museum), for the purpose of organ- 

 izing another expedition to the same regions, to 

 thoroughly survey the basin, not only of Lake 

 Tanganyika, but also the unknown portions of 

 the northern extension of the great series of 

 valleys in which Tanganyika, together with 

 Lakes Kivu and the Albert Nyanza, lie ; to col- 

 lect specimens of the aquatic fauna and flora 

 and to study the geological history of this part 



