May 3, 1895.] 



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quency of its transmission (o) in an undi- 

 luted form, (6) in om> that was more or less 

 diluted, and (e) of its non-transmission in 

 any perceptible degree. 



GEXERAL. 



At a meeting of the secretaries of the 

 Scientific Societies of Washington on April 

 18th, Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard, Presi- 

 dent of the Joint Committee, presiding, it 

 was decided to print in Science regular re- 

 ports of the meeting's of all the societies. 



Philadelphia has been selected as the 

 place for the next meeting of the Societj- of 

 American Naturalists. In conjunction with 

 it will meet the affiliated societies — the 

 American Morphological Society and the 

 American Phj-siological Society, and prob- 

 ably the Geological Society of America, the 

 Association of American Anatomists and 

 the American Psychological Association. 



Professor "Wolcott Gibbs, President of 

 the Xational Academj- of Sciences, Professor 

 Herman Knapp of Columbia College and 

 Professor Hugo jSIiinsterberg of Harvard 

 University have been appointed an Ameri- 

 can committee to collect money for the 

 memorial to Helmholtz to be erected in 

 Berlin. 



Dr. Louis-Florextin-Cameil died at 

 Fontenay-sous-Bois on March 11th, at the 

 great age of ninety-seven. He was for 

 many years head j)liysician of the Asylum 

 for the Insane of Charenton, being the suc- 

 cessor of Royer Col lard and Esquirol. 



Mr. J. C. SuMXER, of the Roj'al College 

 of Science, has been appointed Curator of 

 the Port Erin Biological Station. 



Dr. John Fiske gave, during April, at the 

 Berkeley Lj-ceum, New York, a course of 

 lectures on ' Lessons of Evolution in Rela- 

 tion to Man.' 



The 'Mazjimas,' a society of mountain 

 climbers organized in Oregon last j'ear, pro- 

 pose sending l)y heliograph a message and 



reply from British Columbia to Mexico on 

 July 10th. The coiiperation of societies 

 and individuals is re(iuested in order that 

 uU the intervening mountain peaks may be 

 occupied. Comnninications should be ad- 

 (b-essed to Mr. T. Brook AMiite, Secretiiry, 

 Portland, Oregon. 



A National Ethnological Exposition 

 will be held at Prague from May llith to 

 October 12th. 



Among the papers read at the annual 

 spring meeting of the Institution of Naval 

 Architects on April .3d, 4th and 5th, at 

 London, were ' Notes on Further Experience 

 with First-class Battleships,' by Sir William 

 White; 'On Solid Stream Forms,' bj' D. 

 W. Taylor, U. S. Navy, and ' On the 

 ^lethod of Initial Condensation and Heat 

 Waste in Steam Engine CVlinders,' by Pro- 

 fessor R. H. Thurston. 



Me. Christopher Heath, of University 

 College, has been elected President of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons, to fill the vacancy 

 caused by the death of Mr. J. AV. Hulke. 



Mr. Herbert Spencer has begun a new 

 series of articles in The Popular Science 

 Monthly for May. His general subject is 

 ' Professional Institutions,' one of the divi- 

 sions of his Synthetic Philosophy, and he 

 will aim to show how each of the professions 

 has been developed out of the functions of 

 the priest or medicine-man. 



The New York Legislature has appropri- 

 ated 816,000 for scientific work in horticul- 

 ture. The work will be under the imme- 

 diate charge of Professor L. H. Bailey of 

 Cornell LTniversity. 



The Legislature of California has appro- 

 priated 8250,000 to erect a building in San 

 Francisco for tlie professional departments 

 of the University of California. 



The international importance of the work 

 (lone at the Columbia College Observatory 

 in investigating the subject of variation of 



