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Dawson, C. M. G., F. R. S., Professors E. 

 Hull, F. R. S., Parker and Duns, the Rev. 

 G. Wliidborne, and Mr. J. Slater, F. C. S., 

 were read upon the ([uestions in regard to 

 natural seleetion ai\d evolution, treated bj' 

 Professor Huxley in his recent address on 

 'The Past and Present.' 



Ox May 4th the Association for the Edu- 

 cation of "Women is to hold a general meet- 

 ing in the Schools, Oxford, to consider the 

 question of a petition to the Universitj- for 

 the admission of women to the B. A. degree. 



Dr. Sherrington, now Superintendent of 

 the Brown Institution, London, has been 

 appointed to the George Holt chaii- of Physi- 

 ology at Liverpool, vacant by the removal 

 of Professor Gotch to Oxford. 



Dr. H. "Weber, Professor of Mathematics 

 in the University of Gottingen, has accepted 

 a call to the University of Strassbourg, and 

 Professor Hilbert, of Konigsberg, has been 

 called to the vacant chair in Gottingen. 



Dr. E. R. L. Gould has accepted a call 

 to the Professorship of Statistics in the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago. 



Mr. Theodore T. Groom, of St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, has been appointed 

 Professor of Natural History in the Royal 

 Agricultural College, Cirencester, succeed- 

 ing the late Professor Harker. 



Dr. Johannes Brummee, Professor of 

 Agriculture in the University of Jena, died 

 recently at the age of fortj'-three years. 



The death is announced of the Irish 

 Naturalist, Mr. A. G. More. 



The Appalachian Jlountain Club, of Bos- 

 ton, announces the following excursions for 

 1895: April 1!), Long "Walk; May 11, May 

 "Walk — Nobscot Hill and "W^ayside Inn; 

 May 30, Mt. Tom and Mt. Holyoke; July 

 1-8, Field Meeting — Seal Harbor, Mt. Des- 

 ert; August, A probable excui-sion to tlie 

 Selkirk mountains in British Columbia, oc- 

 cupj'ing an entire month. 



A Psychological Index, being a bibli- 

 ographj' of the literature of Psychology and 

 cognate subjects for 1.894, has been pub- 

 lished by Macmillau & Co., as a supplement 

 to the Psychological Review. The index has 

 been compiled by !Mr. Howard C. Warren 

 of Princeton College, and Dr. Livingston 

 Farrand, of Columbia College. I.'il2 titles 

 are given, distributed as follows : General 

 135, Genetic, Comparative and Individual 

 Psychology 259, Anatomy and Physiology 

 of the Nervous System 190, Sensation 107, 

 Consciousness, Attention and Inhibition 

 176, Feeling 50, Movement and Volition 

 116, Abnormal 278. " 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 

 THE MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCI- 

 ENCES, MINNEAPOLIS. JOINT MEETING 

 WITH THE ST. PAUL ACADEMY OF 

 SCIENCE. 



March 6th, in the rooms of the St. Paul 

 Commercial Club. 

 The Physical Feature.^ of the Lake of the Woods: 



Professor Conway MacMillan, State 



Botanist. 

 Psychic Effects of the Weather: Edward S. 



Beals, Observer U. S. "Weather Bureau, 



Minneapolis. 

 Geology and Flora of the Mountain Region of 



Nortkwestern Montana : D. R. McGinnis, 



Secretary St. Paul Commercial Club. 



April 2d in the Public Library, Minne- 

 apolis. 

 Fatigue; its Cause and Social, Religious, 



Economic and Educational Aspects: H. S. 



Baker, Ph. D., Principal of the Jeffer- 

 son School. St. Paul. 

 Some Queer Forms of Shellfish : Professor H. 



L. OsBORN, Hamline University, St. Paul. 

 C. W. Hall, Secretary. 



NEW YORK BRANCH OF THE AMERICAN FOLK- 

 LORE SOCIETY. 



On the evening of Saturdaj', April the 6th, 

 the annual meeting of the New York Branch 



