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Dr. Kolthoff with a party of Swedish 

 naturalists will begin this year an exploration 

 of the northern parts of the Pacific Ocean, 

 starting from Port Arthur. 



Dr. D. T. MacDougall, director of the 

 laboratories of the New York Botanical Gar- 

 den, has returned from a trip to Jamaica in 

 the interest of the garden. Dr. M. A. Howe, 

 assistant curator, has been in Porto Kico, and 

 Mr. George V. Nash has been in Hayti, on 

 a similar mission. 



According to Nature the following Amer- 

 ican and other foreign corresponding mem- 

 bers of the British Association have signified 

 their intention of being present at the South- 

 port meeting: Professor G. S. Atkinson, Cor- 

 nell University; Dr. Von Bebber, Hamburg; 

 Dr. E. Billwiller, Zurich; Professor Ludwig 

 Boltzmann, Vienna; M. Teisserenc de Bort, 

 Paris; Captain Chaves, St. Miguel, Azores; 

 Mr. W. Davis, Cordoba, Argentine; Professor 

 G. Gilron, Louvain; M. A. Gobert, Brussels; 

 the Comte A. de Gramont, Paris; Professor 

 Hellman, Berlin; Professor H. Hergesell, 

 Strassburg; Professor H. H. Hildebrandsson, 

 TJpsala; Professor Lignier, Caen; Professor C. 

 Lombroso, Turin; Dr. T. P. Lotzy, Leyden; 

 Mr. G. G. MacCurdy, New Haven, Conn.; 

 Professor E. Mascart, Paris; Professor H. 

 Mohn, Christiania; Professor Willis Moore, 

 Washington, D. C. ; Professor Simon New- 

 comb, Washington, D. C.; Professor L. Pal- 

 azzo, Eome; Professor Paulsen, Copenhagen; 

 Professor J. M. Pernter, Vienna; Dr. A. L. 

 Rotch, Blue Hill Observatory, Mass.; Gen- 

 eral Eykatcheff, St. Petersburg; Professor M. 

 Snellen, Utrecht; Professor E. H. Thurston, 

 Cornell University; Dr. H. C. White, Univer- 

 sity of Georgia; Professor E. Zaeharias, Ham- 

 burg. 



We regret to note the following deaths 

 among foreign men of science : Dr. Emmanuel 

 Munk, associate professor of physiology at 

 Berlin, on August 1, at the age of fifty-one 

 years ; Dr. C. K. Hoffman, professor of zoology 

 and comparative anatomy at Harlem, on July 

 28, at the age of sixty-two years; Dr. N. 

 Bugajew, professor of mathematics at Mos- 

 cow, at the age of sixty-six years; Dr. Franz 



Schwackhofer, professor of chemical technol- 

 ogy in the school of agriculture in Vienna, on 

 July 18, at the age of sixty-one years; Dr. 

 Sigmund Fuchs, professor of physiology in 

 the same school, on July 30; Professor Karl 

 Hausknecht, of Weimar, the botanist, on 

 July Y. 



Official statistics have been published giv- 

 ing the enrollment of members at the Boston 

 meeting of the National Educational Asso- 

 ciation, which reached the remarkable total 

 of 32,757. The distribution of members in 

 attendance is of considerable interest, as 

 many as 3,748, for example, going from 

 Illinois, and the total number from the north 

 central states reaching 14,545. Scientific 

 men of the Atlantic seaboard object to a 

 meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science or of our other 

 national scientific societies in the central 

 states, and members from the central states 

 do not attend meetings held in the east in 

 very large numbers. It seems that we have 

 much to learn from the spirit and organiza- 

 tion of the National Educational Association. 



The government of New Zealand will assist 

 the Australasian Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, which meets at Dunedin next 

 January, in several ways. A sum of £500 

 will be appropriated towards the expenses of 

 the meeting; the government printer will do 

 all printing required by the association free 

 of cost; railway passes will be issued to mem- 

 bers; and any assistance that it may be in 

 the power of the permanent departments of 

 the government service to render to the asso- 

 ciation will be afforded. 



The International Geological Congress 

 opened its sessions at Vienna on August 20. 

 A large number of American geologists went 

 abroad this summer with the intention of 

 attending the congress. 



Pursuant to the action of the Seventh In- 

 ternational Geographic Congress held in Ber- 

 lin in 1899, the geographers and geographic 

 societies of the United States are considering 

 plans for the ensuing congress, which is to 

 convene in September, 1904. It is proposed 

 to have the principal scientific sessions in 



