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the council and Professor W. D. Halliburton 

 by a considerable number of independent fel- 

 lows, and the former was elected by a large 

 majority. The president, Sir William Hug- 

 giiis, gave the usual address reviewing the ac- 

 tivities of the society during the i^ast year. 

 At the banquet in the evening addresses were 

 made by the president, Lord Robertson, Pro- 

 fessor Curie, Lord Alverstone, Sir Arthur 

 Rticker, Sir Michael Foster and Sir Archibald 

 Geikie. 



Professor Kino Fischer, now in his 

 eightieth j'ear, has retired from active duty 

 as professor of philosophy in the University of 

 Heidelberg. 



Professor PL E. Gregory, of Yale Uni- 

 versity, has begun work on a geological map 

 of Connecticut, as provided for in a recent 

 act of the state legislature. 



Professor W. B. Scott, of Princeton Uni- 

 versity, lectured before the Teachers' Institute 

 of Cooper Union on Tuesday evening, De- 

 cember 8, the subject being ' The Topography 

 of Sedimentary Rocks.' 



Professor Seeley's course of eight lectures 

 on ' The Fossil Reptiles of South Africa ' is 

 now being given in the Geological Labora- 

 tory, King's College, on alternate Tuesdays 

 at 4:30 p.m. 



A NEW division, that of Forest Products, 

 has been organized in the Bureau of Forestry 

 with Dr. H. von Schrenck in charge. 



Mr. J. Morgan Clements has resigned his 

 position at the University of Wisconsin and 

 the U. S. Geological Survey to engage in pro- 

 fessional work in New York City. 



A presentation and banquet were given on 

 November 21 to Dr. Cunningham by his Dub- 

 lin colleagues and friends, to mark their regret 

 for his departure to Edinburgh and their ap- 

 preciation of his work while professor of an- 

 atomy in Dublin University. His successor, 

 Professor A. F. Dixon, presided. 



The American Scenic and Historic Pre- 

 servation Society held, on December 9, a meet- 

 ing in memory of the late Andrew H. Green 

 at the American Museum of Natural History. 



The widow of the late Professor Virchow 



has given about 7,000 volumes from his library 

 to the Berlin Medical Society. 



As a matter of record, we note the death of 

 Mr. Herbert Spencer, in his eighty-fourth 

 year, which occurred at Brighton on Decem- 

 ber 8. 



Sir Frederick Bramwell, the eminent en- 

 gineer, died in London on November 30, at 

 the age of eighty-five years. He was elected 

 a fellow of the Royal Society in 1873 ; presi- 

 dent of the Institution of Mechanical En- 

 gineers in 1874; president of the Institution 

 of Civil Engineers in 1884, and president of 

 the British Association for the Advancement 

 of Science in 1888. 



For the accommodation of delegates and 

 members of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science from New York, 

 Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and 

 cities tributary thereto to the meetings to be 

 held in St. Louis from December 26 to Jan- 

 uary 2, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will 

 run a special train composed of Pullman 

 sleepers and dining car, leaving New York at 

 10:30 A.M., Philadelphia 12:48. Baltimore 3:00 

 and Washington 4:15 p.m., December 2(3, arriv- 

 ing at St. Louis at 5:25 p.m., December 27. 

 For full information and seat reservations 

 apply to Lyman McCarty, assistant general 

 passenger agent, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 

 434 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 



The Geographical Society of Philadelphia 

 has in press and will shortly issue Commander 

 Peary's report on arctic explorations con- 

 ducted under the auspices of the Peary Arctic 

 Club of New York, and covering a period of 

 five years. At the meeting of the society on 

 December 2, an address wiis delivered by Dr. 

 Frederick A. Cook, of Brooklyn, on his recent 

 researches in the IfcKinley range of Alaska 

 and the attempted, but not successful, ascent 

 of the loftiest summit of the North American 

 continent. The official report of these re- 

 searches will also be published by the Phila- 

 delphia Society. 



The executive board of the Association for 

 maintaining the American women's table at 

 the Zoological Station at Naples and for 

 promoting scientific research by women an- 



