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appointed. They are Hon. Volney W. Foster, 

 the representative of the United States in the 

 International Conference, to whose initiative 

 the movement is due; Dr. W J McGee, presi- 

 dent of the American Anthropological Asso- 

 ciation, long ethnologist-in-charge of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, and now 

 chief of the Department of Anthropology in 

 the Louisiana Purchase Exposition; and Pro- 

 fessor Erancis W. Kelsey, of the University 

 of Michigan, secretary of the Archeological 

 Institute of America. 



On August 7, the American commissioners 

 met in Evanston with the object of studying 

 the plan of organization and preparing them- 

 selves to meet their associates from other 

 countries at the organizing session on the 

 third Monday in December next. The plan 

 of organization adopted at the meeting of the 

 diplomatic representatives on April 15 was 

 found acceptable in all its general provisions, 

 though a few minor changes were suggested. 

 Informal advices indicate that corresponding 

 action has been taken in Mexico and two or 

 three other American republics; so that the 

 outlook for the organization seems promising. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 As we have already stated Professors Simon 

 Newcomb, Hugo Miinsterberg and Albion W. 

 Small, the committee in charge of the Con- 

 gress of Arts and Sciences of the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition, are at present abroad 

 making arrangements and issuing invitations 

 in connection with the congress. Mr. Joseph 

 B. Gilder writes to the Boston Transcript 

 stating that more than sixty foreign delegates 

 have accepted the invitation, including in 

 mathematics, MM. J. G. Darboux, Emile 

 Picard and J. H. Poineare, of Paris; and 

 Professor 0. Boltzmann, of Vienna. In 

 chemistry. Professors James Dewar, of Lon- 

 don; W. Ostwald, of Leipzig; and J. H. Van't 

 Hoff, of Berlin. In astronomy. Professors 

 H. H. Turner, of Oxford; and W. Kapteyn, 

 of Utrecht. In geology and mineralogy. Pro- 

 fessors Ferdinand Zirkel, of Leipzig; C. 

 Weigert, of Frankfort; and Sir Archibald 

 Geikie and Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, of London. 



In biology. Professors K. Goebel, of Munich; 

 Max Fiirbringer, of Heidelberg; Felix March- 

 and, of Leipzig; Alfred M. Giard and L. 

 Manouvrier, of Paris ; and Wilhclm Waldeyer, 

 Oskar Llertwig, Wilhelm Engelmann and 

 Albert Orth, of Berlin. In psychology, Prin- 

 cipal C. Lloyd Morgan, of Bristol; M. Pierre 

 Janet, of Paris; Professors Herm. Ebbing- 

 haus, of Breslau; and Carl Stumpf, of Berlin. 

 In philosophy. Professors Henri Bergson, of 

 Paris; Carl Dessoir, of Berlin; Alois Eiehl, 

 of Halle ; Windelband, of Strasburg ; and 

 W. • E. Sorley, of Cambridge, England. 



The vacancy on the board of trustees of the 

 Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund, caused 

 by the resignation of Dr. J. M. Crafts, has 

 been filled by the election of Professor T. 

 W. Richards, of Harvard University. 



Mr. R. Lydekker, F.R.S., has been elected 

 a foreign member of the R. Accademia dei 

 Lincei, Rome. 



Professor Guido Baccelli has been elected 

 a corresponding member of the Paris Acad- 

 emy of Medicine, in the Section of Medicine 

 and Surgery. Dr. Baccelli is the Italian min- 

 ister of agriculture. 



Dr. Julius Wiesner, professor of botany at 

 the University of Vienna, has been elected a 

 corresponding member of the Academy of 

 Sciences at Turin. 



G. L. SwENDSEN, professor of civil engi- 

 neering and hydraulic engineer to the Utah 

 Agricultural College and Experiment Station, 

 has resigned to accept an appointment with 

 the U. S. Geological Survey. 



Professor W. O. Atwater, of Wesleyan 

 University, is at present abroad and will re- 

 main until November, studying experiments 

 there being made on human nutrition. 



Professor Geo. F. Atkinson, who holds the 

 chair of botany at Cornell University, sailed 

 for Europe last week. 



Dr. a. Petrunkevitsch, decent for zoology 

 at Freiberg, is about to visit America to carry 

 on scientific work. 



Mr. W. C. Welborn, formerly of the Missis- 

 sippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, 



