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The Scientific American for May lltb con- 

 tains an interesting illustrated account of 

 Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. 



Theodoe Johaxx Christian Ambders 

 Brorsen, the astronomer, died on April ."^d 

 at Xorburg in Schleswig at the age of 70. 

 He was director of the observatorj' of Seuf- 

 tcnberg for twenty years. 



The death is announced, at the age of 04, 

 of James Price, President of the Society of 

 Civil Engineei-s of Ireland, Professor in the 

 University of Dublin and Engineer iu Chief 

 of the Midland and Great "Western Railway 

 Company. 



The third International Congress of Zool- 

 ogy at Leyden is divided into six sections, as 

 follows: (1) General Zoology, Geographical 

 distribution, including fossil faunas. (2) 

 Classification of A'ertebrates, Geographical 

 distribution. (.3) Comparative Anatomy 

 of Vertebrates, living and fossil. Embry- 

 ology. (4) Classification of Invertebrates, 

 Geographical distribution. (.5) Entomology, 

 (6) Comparative Anatomj- and Emliryology 

 of the Invertebrates. 



The Craven Studentship at Cambridge 

 has been awarded to Mr. R. C. Bosanquet. 

 This is an endowment for advanced studies 

 abroad in the languages, literature, history, 

 arclueologj', or art of ancient Greece or 

 Rome, or the comparative philology of the 

 Indo-European languages. 



I>- a demurrer filed by Mrs. Jane L. 

 Stanford in the United States Circuit Court 

 at San Franci.sco it is contended that, since 

 no valid claim was ever presented to Leland 

 Stanford durixig his life or to his widow 

 since his death, any claim the United 

 States Government might have had on tlic 

 Stanford estate is vitiated. 



Hon. Eckley B. Coxe, a prominent min- 

 ing engineer and writer, at one time Presi- 

 dent of the American In.stitute of Mining 

 Engineers, died at Hazleton, Pa., at the 

 age of fifty-four years. 



Brigadier General CuARLii* Suther- 

 land, formerly Surgeon-General of the 

 Ai-my, died at Washington, on May 11th, 

 at the age of sixty-five years. 



The first eonvergazione of the Royal Society 

 for the season was held on the evening of 

 May 1st in Burlington-house, and thei'e was 

 a very large attendance of guests. The ex- 

 hibits were exceptionally numerous, electric 

 science and applied mathematics being well 

 represented, while some interesting exhibits 

 were also shown in the department of 

 chemistry, astronomy and biology. — London 

 Times. 



Principal Peterson, of Dundee College, 

 has been oflered the jiresidency of McGill 

 University, Monti-eal. 



Dr. J. H. Hyslop has been made pro- 

 fessor of logic and ethics in Columbia Col- 

 lege, and Dr. Frederick S. Lee, adjunct 

 professor of physiologj'. 



Leopold Trovvelot died on April 22d 

 at the Observatorj- of Meudon at the age of 

 08. After the cotip d'HM he left France 

 and came to America, living in Cambridge 

 until 1882. His first published work ap- 

 lieared in Boston in 18GG. At this time he 

 was a student of natural history, but later 

 he obtained a position as astronomer at 

 Harvard College. His most important work 

 was on the planet Venus, pul)lished in 1S02. 

 He was well known for his drawings, many 

 of which still remain unpublished. He 

 leaves an unfinished memoir on the planet 

 Mars, and at the time of his death was en- 

 gaged on a study of Jupit«r. 



Dr. John W. Byron, who died on 5Iay 

 Sth at the age of 34, was known for his re- 

 searches in bacteriology carried out at 

 Havana during the yellow-fever epidemic, 

 later in the labonitories of Berlin and Paris, 

 and during the last five years in the Loomis 

 Laboratory, where he occupied the position 

 of bacteriologist. Dr. Byron is .said to have 

 contracted the disease of which he died in 



