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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. I. No. 19. 



Pkofessoe F. ISr. Cole, now of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, has been appointed 

 Professor of Mathematics in Columbia Col- 

 lege and Barnard College, filling one of the 

 three new chairs recently endowed in 

 Barnard College. 



Professor Franz Posepny, known for 

 his researches on mineral deposits, died on 

 March 27th, at the age of fifty-nine years. 



The Association of Military Surgeons of 

 the United States will meet at Buffalo, New 

 York, on May 21st, 22d and 23d, under the 

 Presidency of Dr. George M. Sternberg. 



The twenty-second National Conference 

 of Charities and Correction will be held in 

 New Haven during the week beginning 

 May 24th. 



Gov. Morton has signed the bill incor- 

 porating the New York Zoological Society 

 and providing for the establishment of a 

 Zoological Garden in New Yoi'k. 



Mr. Robert Fitch, antiquarian and ge- 

 ologist of Norwich, England, died recently 

 at the age of 93 years. 



The death is announced of Lothar von 

 Meyer, Professor of Chemistry at the Uni- 

 versity of Tiibingen, at the age of 65. 



The presidential address delivered before 

 the recent meeting of the American Society 

 of Naturalists by Professor C. S. Minot on 

 The "Work of the Naturalist in the "World is 

 printed in the May number of the Popular 

 Science Monthly. 



The tenth annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of 

 Physical Education was held at the Teach- 

 ers' College, New York, on April 25, 26 

 and 27. The program included a large 

 number of papers of scientific interest. 



Dr. Kurt Rumker has been called to a 

 professorship of agriculture in the Univer- 

 sitjr of Breslau. 



Commissioners are being appointed by 

 Governor Morton with a view to the acqui- 



sition of the Hudson Elver Palisades bj^ the 

 United States. 



Mr. M. S. Eead, now of Cornell Uni- - 

 versify, has been appointed Professor of 

 Philosophy in Colgate University. 



The departments of Mining and Geology 

 of Columbia College will hold their annual 

 summer school in Colorado. The School in 

 Practical Mining will be in Central City 

 under the charge of Professor Peele, and 

 the Geological School will meet at Golden 

 under the charge of Professor Kemp. 



De. Hans Thierfelder has been ap- 

 pointed Director of the Chemical Depart- 

 ment of the Physiological Laboratorj^ in 

 Berlin. 



The Amherst Summer School of Library 

 Economy, under the direction of Mr. y^W- 

 liam I. Fletcher, will be in session from July 

 1 to August 3. 



The April number of the Bulletin of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club contains a biogi'aphical 

 notice of John H. Eedfield by Mr. "V\''illiam 

 M. Canby. There is an excellent portrait 

 and a bibliography containing fiftj'-four 

 titles. 



The presidential address on ' The United 

 States Geological Survey,' given before the 

 Geological Society of Washington, on De- 

 cember 18, 1894, by Mr. Charles D. Wal- 

 cott, and published in the February num- 

 ber of the Popular Science Monthly, has been 

 reprinted. It should be in the hands of all 

 who are interested in the great work ac- 

 complished and in progress under the direc- 

 tion of the United States Geological Siu-vey. 



"With the permission of the Prussian 

 Minister of Education the University of 

 Gottingen has conferred the degree of doc- 

 tor of philosophy on Miss Grace Chisholm. 

 This is a first degree conferred on a woman 

 since Gottingen became a Prussian univer- 

 sity. 



Professor Halsted writes to Garden and 

 Forest that the late winter has been very 



