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close of the meeting M. Poincare was elected 

 president for a second term. The Legion 

 of Honor was conferred on MM. le comte 

 d'A venal, O'Ehlert and Herluison. 



The honorary degree of D. So. has been 

 conferred on Mr. Francis Galton by the 

 University of Cambridge. 



The statute establishing degrees for re- 

 search at Oxford has now been finally ap- 

 proved by Congregation, with the adoption 

 of several amendments, principally of a 

 technical nature. 



The University of Aberdeen is about to 

 confer the degree LL. D. on Miss J. E. 

 Harrison in recognition of her researches 

 in Greek archseology. Miss Harrison will 

 be the first woman to receive this degree 

 from a British university. 



De. Richard Hanitsch, demonstrator of 

 zoology at University College, Liverpool, 

 has been appointed to the curatorship of the 

 Raffles Museum, at Singapore. 



The Evening Post states that the Her- 

 barium of Rousseau, composed of fifteen 

 quarto volumes in cardboard and contain- 

 ing about 1,500 plants, is about to be sold 

 at Orleans. 



At a recent sale in London, Gilbert 

 "White's N'atural History of Selborne, the 

 author's original manuscript, in the form of 

 letters to Thomas Pennant and Daines Bar- 

 rington, first printed in 1789, was sold for 

 £294. The manuscript contains many pass- 

 ages not printed in the several editions, and 

 has never before been out of the possession 

 of the lineal descendants of the author. 



A CATALOGUE of the Philosophical Trans- 

 actions of the Royal Society ft-om 1824 to 

 1893 has been issued by Dulau & Co., Lon- 

 don. A large number of separate articles 

 are included. Especially worthy of note is 

 a paper on ' Observations on the Parallel 

 Roads of Glen Roy * * * with an attempt 

 to prove that they are of Marine Origin ' 

 (1839), by Darwin, as also articles by Sir 



Humphrej' Davy, William and Sir F. 

 Herschell, Sir E. Sabine, Sir David Brews- 

 ter, Faradaj', Sir Richard Owen and Cayley. 



Me. Aethue M. Wellington, the well 

 known engineer, died in New York at the 

 age of forty-eight. 



Peof. E. Ray Lankestee is giving a 

 course of four lectures at the Royal Insti- 

 tution on ' Thirty Years' Progress in Bio- 

 logical Science.' 



Mes. Robeet E. Peaey delivered an 

 illustrated lecture based on her experiences 

 in the North on May 23. This lecture was 

 given under the auspices of the National 

 Geographic Society, which aided Lieut. 

 Peary in his first enterprise. The proceeds 

 of the lecture will be devoted to a fund 

 which is being raised to defray the expenses 

 of an expedition that will enable Lieut. 

 Peary to return to America. It is not be- 

 lieved, however, that he is in any immediate 

 danger. The expedition (which will cost 

 from $9,000 to $12,000, of which about $7, 

 000 has already been raised) will probablj' 

 start about July 5th, so as to reach Lieut. 

 Peary's headquarters before September 1st. 



At the meeting of the Boston Scientific 

 Society, was held on May 28th, an address 

 on ' Some Problems in the Use of Water 

 Power as Applied to the Electrical Trans- 

 mission of Power' was delivered by Allan 

 V. Garratt. 



Peofessoe Dyche, of Kansas University, 

 is starting for Greenland in search of speci- 

 mens of mammals and birds to add to his 

 collection. 



Chancelloe James Hulme Canfield has 

 accepted a call to the presidency of the 

 Ohio State University, Columbus. 



An infirmary in connection with Harvard 

 University, which is proposed as a me- 

 morial to Dr. Peabody, is projected, costing 

 not less than $12,000. President Eliot, in 

 the name of the overseers of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has offered a site for the infirmary, 



