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comet. This is the seventli award of the 

 medal to Dr. Brooks. 



Professoe Edward S. Dana, of Yale Uni- 

 versity, whose ill health during the past three 

 years has compelled him to give up the larger 

 part of his class work, has gone to the Ber- 

 mudas, where he will remain for several 

 months. 



Dr. J. T. RoTHROCK offered his resignation 

 as commissioner of forestry of Pennsylvania, 

 but later was induced by the governor to 

 recall it. 



Otto J. Klotz, astronomer of the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior, Canada, leaves shortly 

 for the Pacific, in charge of the longitude 

 determinations along the British Pacific cable. 

 By this work the earth will for the first time 

 be girdled in longitude. The stations occu- 

 pied will be Vancouver, Fanning, Suva, Nor- 

 folk and Southport, near Brisbane, Australia. 

 Connection will also be made with New Zea- 

 land from Norfolk, where the cable bifurcates. 



Professor L. M. Underwood, of Columbia 

 University, spent part of January and Feb- 

 ruary in Jamaica, studying the ferns of that 

 island; this month he is making similar in- 

 vestigations in Cuba. Dr. N. L. Britton, di- 

 rector of the New York Botanical Garden, 

 is also in Cuba. 



The board of governors of the University 

 Club, Philadelphia, tendered a reception and 

 dinner to Dr. S. Weir Mitchell on Friday 

 evening, February 27. 



A COMPLIMENTARY dinner will be offered to 

 Sir William White, F.R.S., lately director of 

 naval construction to the British government, 

 on March 26. 



A SOUVENIR number of the Zeitschrift fiir 

 Ohren-Heilkunde was presented to Professor 

 F. Bezold, known for his researches on the 

 sense of hearing and its diseases, on the 

 twenty-fifth anniversary of his professional 

 career by his pupils and assistants. 



Dr. E. Hitzig, director of the clinic for 

 nervous diseases and the polyclinic at Halle, 

 especially known for his experiments on cere- 

 bral localization, has resigned his professional 

 duties on account of a progressive eye effec- 

 tion. 



Captain Edward Appleton Haven, of Lynn, 

 who has been selected as first oflicer of the 

 steamer America on the Zeigler polar expedi- 

 tion is about to leave for Norway. 



At the last meeting of the Zoological So- 

 ciety of London a motion was passed to the 

 effect that the testimonials of Mr. W. L. 

 Sclater, appointed by the council secretary ad 

 interim, and those of Dr. Chalmers-Mitchell, 

 the candidate for whom a minority of the 

 council voted, should be printed and distrib- 

 uted to the fellows. 



At the anntial meeting of the British In- 

 stitution of Mechanical Engineers on Feb- 

 ruary 20, Mr. W. H. Maw resigned the chair 

 to the newly elected president, Mr. J. Hartley 

 Wicksteed. 520 new members have joined the 

 institution during the year, and the member- 

 ship is now nearly four thousand. 



■ The Cambridge Philosophical Society on 

 February 2 passed a resolution in memory 

 of the late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, and 

 adjourned as a mark of respect. 



The British Virchow Memorial Committee 

 has received £225 from ninety-seven sub- 

 scribers. 



A memorial tablet has been placed in the 

 Anatomical Institute at Heidelberg to cele- 

 brate the hundredth anniversary of the birth 

 of the anatomist, Friedrich Arnold. 



The death is announced at Goerz, in Aus- 

 tria, of Bitter Karl von Scherzer, who took 

 a leading part as scientific expert in the voy- 

 age of exploration around the world of the 

 Austrian frigate Novara in the years 185Y- 

 1859. 



Mr. Francis Cranmer Penrose, F.R.S., 

 known for his work in astronomy, archeology 

 and architecture, died on February 15 at the 

 age of eighty-five years. 



The death is also announced of M. Reboul, 

 dean and honorary professor of chemistry at 

 Marseilles. 



The Carnegie Institution has granted the 

 sum of $4,000 to the Lick Observatory for 

 the present year, for the employment of as- 

 sistants and computers. The director in- 

 vites applications for these positions from well- 

 equipped persons, especially from those who 



