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has gone to the Philippines, to accept a posi- 

 tion in the Bureau of Agriculture. 



Nature states that Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, 

 of the Natural History iluseum, has returned 

 from his trip to the Azores with a large col- 

 lection of birds, insects and land molluscs, the 

 latter including some forms of special interest. 



LiEUTF.x.\XT KoLCHAK has Started from the 

 Arctic coast for the New Siberian Islands in 

 ■search of Baron Toll, the head of the Russian 

 polar exi^edition which left St. Petersburg 

 three years ago. 



A MEETING was held in Bar Harbor, Maine, 

 on August 15, to confer with respect to the 

 memorial in honor of the late Major Walter 

 Reed, M.D., U.S.A., to whom the world is 

 indebted for most important services in the 

 investigation and the suppression of yellow 

 fever. The meeting was called by President 

 Daniel C. Oilman, Drs. S. Weir Mitchell, Ed- 

 ward G. Janeway, Wm. H. Welch and Chris- 

 tian A. Herter. 



Geker.\l E. E. Brt.\n, a prominent lawyer 

 of Wisconsin, for several years dean of the 

 Wisconsin University Law School, died on 

 August 11, at the age of sixt3'-eight years. 

 At the time of his death he was president of 

 the Commission of Fisheries for the State of 

 Wisconsin, and president of the Commission 

 for the Natural History and Geological Sur- 

 vey of the State. 



M. Prosper Henry, since 1865 connected 

 with the Paris Observatory, well-known for 

 his work in celestial photography carried out 

 in conjunction with his brother, M. Paul 

 Henry, died in the French Alps on July 25, 

 as a result of exposure to the cold. 



M. Ernest Menault, inspector general of 

 agriculture in France and the author of num- 

 erous works on agriculture and economic 

 entomology, has died at the age of seventy- 

 two years. 



Dr. Baccialli has died as the result of an 

 accidental inoculation while carrying on bac- 

 teriological investigations at Bologna. 



We regret also to record the deaths of Dr. 

 Eduard Weyr, professor of mathematics at 

 the Prague Technological Institute, who died 



on July 2.3, at the age of fifty years, and of 

 Dr. Apollon Kurbatow, professor of applied 

 chemistry at the St. Petersburg Technological 

 Institute. 



According to an answer to a question in 

 the House of Commons the sums voted for 

 London museums and galleries for the current 

 year are: Victoria and Albert Museum and 

 Bethnal-green Museum, £66,994; Geological 

 Museum, £3,558; British Museum, £128,729; 

 Natural History Museum, £49,051; National 

 Gallery, £18,600; National Portrait Gallery, 

 £5,541 ; Wallace Collection, £9,066. 



The British Civil Service supplementary 

 estimates include the sum of £45,000 for the 

 relief expedition to be sent to the Antarctis. 



The daily papers state that the schooner 

 Marie Sachs, sent by the California Academy 

 of Sciences to explore the islands of the 

 Pacific coast, has returned with numerous 

 collections, after a voyage of four thousand 

 miles. 



According to the New York Evening Post 

 a scientific expedition, led by an American, 

 Major W. C. Daniels, will leave Southampton 

 on September 1 for New Guinea. Major 

 Daniels will be accompanied by Dr. C. G. 

 Seligman, a member of the Cambridge An- 

 thropological expedition to Torres Strait and 

 Sarawak, Borneo; Dr. William Strong, of 

 Trinity College, Cambridge; and A. H. Dun- 

 ning. Major Daniels has equipped a schooner, 

 and the Royal Geographical Society has fur- 

 nished the instruments. The Royal Society 

 and the British government are helping the 

 expedition financially. Ethnological, patho- 

 logical, geographical and geological investiga- 

 tions will be made. 



It appears from an article in Nature that 

 the arrangements for the Southport meeting 

 of the British Association are well advanced. 

 The meeting at Southport in 1883 was one of 

 the most successful in the history of the Asso- 

 ciation, standing eighth in point of numbers 

 and fourth in point of receipts, with 2,714 

 members in attendance. It is consequently 

 hoped that the meeting this year will be larger 

 and more interesting than usual. Evening 

 lectures will be given by Dr. Robert Monroe 



