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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. I. No. 4. 



snlt a European Advisorj' Committee, if one 

 be appointed, it is announced that authoi-s 

 are now at liberty to publish these treatises 

 or essaj'S without prejudice to their interest 

 as competitors. 



CONGRESSES. 



The sixth International Geographical 

 Congress will be held at London, on July 

 26, 1895, and continue until August 3. 

 There will be an extensive exhibition in 

 connection with the congress. 



NEW AND FOETHCOMING PUBLICATIONS. 



W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia, has in 

 preparation An American Text-hook of Physio- 

 logy, by Henry P. Bowditch, M. D., John G. 

 Curtis, M. D., Henry H. Donaldson, Ph. D., 

 William H. Howell, M. D., Frederic S. Lee, 

 Ph. D., Warren P. Lombard, M. D., Gra- 

 ham Lusk, Ph. D., Edward T. Eeichert, M. 

 D., and Joseph W. Warren, M. D., with 

 William H. Howell, Ph. D., M. D,. as 

 Editor. 



The idea of holding International Mathe- 

 matical Congresses is crystallizing into 

 shape. Prof. Vassilief, of Kazan, has sug- 

 gested an assembly of mathematicians in 

 1896, in order to definitely decide the or- 

 ganization of such congresses. The matter 

 was pushed a little further at the Vienna 

 meeting of the Deutsche Mathematiker 

 Vereinigung, in September last, when it was 

 unanimously resolved that the Committee of 

 the Mathematical Union should take part 

 in framing the necessary arrangements ; and 

 the Mathematical Section of the French 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 have also expressed their support of the 

 scheme. A cu-cular now informs us that 

 the Editors of the Intermediare will be glad 

 to receive the names of mathematicians who 

 are in favor of international meetings of 

 the kind suggested. M. C. A. Laisant's ad- 

 dress is 162 Avenue Victor-Hugo, Paris; 

 and that of M. E. Lemoine, 5 rue Littre. — • 

 Naticre. 



Felix Alcan has just issued the first part 

 (extending as far as Aliment only) of an 

 elaborate Dktionnaire de Physiologie, edited - 

 bj' M. Charles Richet with the cooperation 

 of the leading French phj^siologists. The 

 work is expected to contain about 5,000 

 pages, and to be completed in fifteen parts 

 or five volumes. 



GiNN & Co. announce for publication in 

 February Molecules and the Molecular Theory 

 of Matter, by A. D. Risteen. 



Appleton & Co. announce The Dawn of 

 Civilization, by Prof. Maspero, and The Pyg- 

 mies, translated from the French of A. de 

 Quatrefages, by Prof. Frederick Starr. 



Whittakee & Co. are publishing tliis year 

 a weeklj- journal of science combining The 

 Technical World and Science and Art. 



W. Engelmann has begun the publication 

 of an Archiv fur Entu'ickelungsmechanik der 

 Organismen, edited by Dr. W. Roux. 



The Rose Polj^echnic Institute of Terre 

 Haute, Ind., has begun the publication of 

 a series of bulletins of which the first num- 

 ber is Physical Units, by Prof. Thomas Gray. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 



the annual meeting of the AMERICAN 



MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY. 



The annual meeting of the American 

 Mathematical Society was held Friday af- 

 ternoon, December 28th, at Columbia Col- 

 lege, New York. In the absence of the 

 president. Dr. Emory McClintock, and of 

 the vice president, Dr. G. W. Hill, Professor 

 R. S. Woodward, of Columbia College, pre- 

 sided. Among those present were Professor 

 Simon Newcomb, Professor J. M. Van 

 Vleck, Professor Henry Taber, Professor 

 Mansfield Merriman, Professor H. D. 

 Thompson, Professor Maiy W. Whitney, 

 Dr. E. L. Stabler, Mr. P. A. Lambert, Mr. 

 R. A. Roberts, Dr. Charlton T. Lewis, Mr. 

 Gustave Legras, Professor J. H. Van Am- 

 ringe, Professor Thomas S. Fiske, Dr. E. M. 



