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the late Mr. Ilenr.v Villard to carry on arch- 

 eolopical work, and was later in the employ 

 of the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory. The extensive archeolojrical collections 

 from Peru and Bolivia in the museum are 

 larfjely the result of his industry. 



Dr. William J. Hollanp, director of the 

 Carnegie Jluseum of Pittsburfr, has returned 

 to the United States with the important pa- 

 leontological collections of Baron de Brief, 

 the acquisition of which by the Carnegie ilu- 

 seum we were recently able to announce. 



Professor Henry F. Osborx, of Columbia 

 University and the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, has been visiting the camps ii, 

 Wyoming and elsewhere, where paleontologi- 

 cal excavations are in progress for the Amer- 

 ican Museum. 



Dr. Robert Koch has secured further leave 

 of absence in order to continue his work i:i 

 Bulawayo until January next. 



Dr. W. G. Tight, president of the Uni- 

 versity of New Mexico, and Miss Annie Peck, 

 with two Swiss guides, are reported by the 

 dnil.v papers to have ascended Mount Sorata 

 in Bolivia, one of the highest peaks of the 

 Andes, said not to have been hitherto as- 

 cended. 



The American Geologist states that Dr. 

 Ralph Arnold, assistant in geology at Stan- 

 ford Universit.v, has been appointed assistant 

 to Dr. Dall, of the U. S. Geological Survey. 



Dr. J. F. BiEiiM has been appointed as- 

 sistant bacteriologist in the Chicago Depart- 

 ment of Health. 



Mr. S. R. Blrch, chief clerk of the Bureau 

 of Animal Industry, has been appointed chief 

 clerk of the Department of Agriculture, suc- 

 ceeding Mr. Andrew Geddes. 



Dr. William A. White, of the Binghamton 

 State Hospital of New York, has been ap- 

 pointed superintendent of the Government 

 Hospital for the Insane at Washington, suc- 

 cwding the late Dr. Alonzo B. Richardson. 



Mr. R. Fox Svmoxs has been appointed in- 

 spector general of health for the Transvaal. 



The Enno Sands prize medal for llHi:5 has 

 l)een awarded by the Association of Medical 



Surgeons of the United States to Major Fred- 

 erick Smith of the British Royal Army 

 Medical Corps. 



A TABLET in honor of the eminent anat- 

 omist, Xavier Bichat, has been erected in the 

 college at Nanthua which he attended. 



Professor W. H. Corfield, who held the 

 chair of hygiene in University College, Lon- 

 don, and was well known for his contributions 

 to sanitar.v subjects, died on August 26, at the 

 age of fifty-nine years. 



Dr. Simox Subic, associate professor of 

 physics at the University of Gratz, died on 

 July 27, at the age of seventy-three years. 



The Iron and Steel Institute of Great 

 Britain, which closed its autumn meeting at 

 Barrow-in-Furnace on September 3, has ac- 

 cepted an invitation to meet in the United 

 States in the autumn of next yegr. 



Foreign papers state that a resolution was 

 passed at the conclusion of the recent geodetic 

 congress at Amsterdam requesting the various 

 nations to carry out extensive measure. nents 

 of gravity from the Atlantic towards the east 

 through the lowlands of Europe and Asia, as 

 well as in the plateau around Thibet. A 

 clear conception of the variations of weight 

 and of the distribution of bulk in the crust 

 of the earth would be gained thereby in con- 

 nection with astronomical determinations of 

 longitude and latitude. 



The Eleventh International Congress of 

 Hygiene and Demography will be held at 

 Brussels from September 2 to September 8, 

 under the patronage of the King of the 

 Belgians and the honorary presidenc.v of 

 Prince Albert. The president is Mr. M. E. 

 Bcco, general secretary of the ministr.v of 

 agriculture ; the general secretary, Dr. Felix 

 Putzeys, professor in the medical faculty of 

 the University of Liege. 



Dr. O. p. Hay has recently returned from a 

 collecting trip in the Bridger deposits of 

 southwestern Wyoming in the interests of the 

 American Museum of Natural History. He 

 spent there seven weeks, engaged csiiecially in 

 collecting fossil turtles, the others of the party 

 being engaged in collecting remains of prim- 



