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carrj'ing out his experiments on tubercle 

 bacilli. 



The American Forestry Association pro- 

 posed holding its annual peripatetic meet- 

 ing in southern New Jersey from May 

 16th to May 19th. The privileges of this 

 expedition are open to all members of 

 the American Forestry Association, New 

 Jersey Forestry Association and Pennsyl- 

 vania Forestry Association. On May 15th 

 Prof. B. E. Fernow was to deliver an il- 

 lustrated lecture at Camden, from which 

 place the party would start, going down the 

 Delaware by steamboat, visiting all places 

 of interest along the shore from Cape May 

 to Atlantic City and in the pines. On the 

 evening of May 17th an illustrated lecture 

 was to be delivered in Atlantic City by 

 Prof. Joseph Rothrock, Forestry Commis- 

 sioner for Pennsylvania. 



At a meeting of the Fellows of the Royal 

 Botanical Society held in the Societies' gar- 

 dens at Regent's Park, London, the question 

 of the desii'abihty of opening the gardens to 

 the public on Bank holidays was discussed. 

 It was stated at the same meeting that 

 unless some fresh source of income could be 

 obtained the gardens could not be kept up. 



At the spring meeting of the Iron and 

 Steel Institute the Bessemer gold medal of 

 1895 was unanimously awarded to Henry 

 Marion Howe, of Boston, in recognition of 

 his contributions to metallurgical literature. 

 Among the previous recipients of the medal 

 were Peter Cooper, Abram S. Hewitt, Alex- 

 ander L. HoUey and John Fritz. Mr. 

 Howe's most important work is a treatise 

 on the ' Metallurgy of Steel,' which was 

 published in 1890 and for which he received 

 a prize of $500 from the Society d' Encour- 

 agement of Paris. 



The 66th anniversary meeting of the 

 Zoological Society of London was held on 

 April 29th. The chair was taken by Sir 

 William H. Flower. The report of the 



Council stated that the silver medal had 

 been awarded to Mr. Henry H. Johnston, 

 Commissioner for British Central Afi-ica,^ 

 for his distinguished services to all branches 

 of natural Mstory. The total receipts of 

 the Society for 1894 amounted to £25,107, 

 a decrease of £1,110 being attributed to the 

 unfavorable weather of the past year. The 

 expenditure amounted to £23,616, a decrease 

 of £1,661. The number of animals in the 

 Zoological Gardens on December 31st last 

 was 2,563, of which 669 were mammals, 

 1,427 birds and 467 reptiles. About 30 

 species of mammals, 12 of birds and one of 

 reptiles had bred in the gardens during last 

 summer. Sir William H. Flower was re- 

 elected president. — London Times. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADESIIES. 

 SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES OF WASHINGTON. 



A JOINT meeting of the Scientific Societies 

 of Washington was held May 10th, on the oc- 

 casion of the delivery of the annual address 

 of the President of the National Geographic 

 Society, Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard. Dr. 

 G. Brown Goode presided, and in the in- 

 troductory remarks briefly outlined the 

 development of the Societies and their joint 

 commission. 



Mr. Hubbard's subject was ' Russia.' He 

 considered it in the light of his own obser- 

 vations while making an extensive journej' 

 through that country in 1881. Its climate, 

 physiographic features, government and the 

 customs and conditions of its people were 

 all gi-aphically portrayed. At the close of 

 the address a series of views were shown 

 upon the screen. 



In response to a motion by Prof. Simon 

 Newcomb, seconded by Postmaster General 

 Wilson, the large audience gave Mr. Hub- 

 bard a hearty vote of thanks for his address. 

 J. S. DiLLER, Secretary. 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



At the meeting on May 4th, Mr. Charles 

 Torrey Simpson read a paper ' On the Geo- 



