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and will be celebrated by the preparation of a 

 memorial volume under the auspices of the 

 third International Mathematical Congress 

 and edited by Professor Konigsberger. 



Nature states that the monument which was 

 unveiled last month at Bonn, in honor of Pro- 

 fessor Kekule, stands away from the city and 

 just in front of the building of the chemical 

 laboratories of the University of Bonn, the 

 place in which Kekule labored and taught for 

 so many years and with such pronounced and 

 conspicuous success. The statue stands on a 

 granite pedestal, and is life-size and of bronze. 

 On each side of the sculptured figure of Kekule 

 is a sphynx. The character of the man, simple 

 and unpretentious yet convincing, is well 

 brought out, and some of his greatest scien- 

 tific achievements are clearly represented in 

 relief on the pedestal. At the unveiling cere- 

 mony many universities and scientific bodies, 

 foreign as well as German, were represented, 

 and so also were numerous firms engaged in 

 the chemical industry. 



A BUST of the late Sir William Henry 

 Flower, F.R.S., director of the Natural His- 

 tory Department of the British Museum, the 

 work of Mr. Brock, R.A., was formally pre- 

 sented to the trustees of the British Museum 

 by the Flower Memorial Committee, of which 

 Lord Avebury is chairman, at the Natural 

 History Museum, South Kensington, on July 

 25. Speeches were made by Professor Ray 

 Lankester, Lord Avebury, Dr. Selater and the 

 Archbishop of Canterbury. 



We regret to record the death of Dr. W. C. 

 Knight, professor of geology and mining en- 

 gineering in the University of Wyoming, who 

 died on July 8 from peritonitis after a brief 

 illness. 



Dr. Hamiltox Laxphere SjsrrTii, professor 

 of physics and astronomy in Hobart College, 

 Geneva, N. T. until 1890, died in New Lon- 

 don on August 1, at the age of eighty-one 

 .years. 



We note with regret the death of ifr. Wil- 

 liam Earl Dodge which occurred at Bar Har- 

 bor on August 9. Mr. Dodge was one of the 

 most public spirited citizens of New York 



City, who gave not only of his means, but 

 also of his time to educational and scientific 

 institutions. He was the first vice-president 

 of the American iluseum of Natural History 

 and of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts; 

 one of the trustees of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion and of the New York Botanical Garden, 

 and a member of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences and of the American Geographical 

 Society. 



M. Edmoxd Nocard, the well-known student 

 of comparative pathology, died at Paris on 

 August 2. 



M. Rexard, professor of mineralogy at the 

 University of Genth, has died at the age of 

 sixty years. 



Dr. Franz Bauer, decent for geology in the 

 Technical Institute at Munich, died on June 

 21 as the result of an accident while on a 

 geological expedition. 



The third International Mathematical Con- 

 gress will be held at Heidelberg in August of 

 next year. Professor A. Krazer, of Karlsruhe, 

 is the secretary. 



The second International Seismological 

 Conference was held at Strasburg at the end 

 of last month with representatives in attend- 

 ance from about twenty countries. 



There will be a civil service examination on 

 September 2 to fill a vacancy in the position 

 of testing engineer (male) in the Bureau of 

 Forestry, Department of Agriculture, at 

 $1,200 to $1,500 per annum. On September 

 2 and 3 there will be an examination to fill 

 the position of miscellaneous computer at the 

 Naval Observatory, and on September 16 for 

 the position of nautical expert in the hydro- 

 graphic office, U. S. Navy, at a salary of $1,000. 



Mr. Mar.shall Field has written to the 

 South Park Board of Chicago to say that he 

 is willing to go forward with the building 

 of the permanent Field Columbian Museum 

 on the lake front as soon as the ground is 

 ready for building. It is said that the cost 

 of the building will be $6,000,000. 



The daily papers report that Mr. Andrew 

 Carnegie has given U. S. Steel Corporation 



