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the Academy : ' ' Hereux celui qui porte en soi 

 un dieu, un ideal de beaut6, et qui lui obeit — 

 ideal de I'art, ideal de la science, iddal de la 

 patrie, id6al des vertus de 1' dvangile. ' ' Brief re- 

 marks were made by M. J. B. Pasteur; M. Ber- 

 trand, President of the Council; M. Rambaud, 

 Minister of Education ; M. Bodin, President of 

 the Municipality ; Sir Joseph Lister, represent- 

 ing the Royal Society ; Sir Dyce Duckworth, . 

 Sir John Evans, Prof. Crookshank, Sir. W. 

 Priestley, representing the Universities of Edin- 

 burgh and St. Andrews ; M. Cornu, for the 

 Academy of Sciences ; M. Bergeron, for the 

 Academy of Medicine ; M. Perrot, for the Nor- 

 mal School ; M. Louis Passy, for the Agricul- 

 tural Society; M. Tissier, for the medical stu- 

 dents, and M. Duclaus, Director of the Pasteur 

 Institute. 



The British Medical Journal states that the 

 question of the appointment to the chair of 

 physiology in Geneva, vacant by the death of 

 Prof. Moritz SchifF, is exciting some attention 

 in Paris. Amongst the candidates are stated to 

 be Prof. Herzen, of Lausanne ; Prof. J. R. 

 Ewald, of Strassburg, son-in-law of Prof. 

 SchifT; Dr. Langlois, assistant in the Phy- 

 siological Department of the Medical Faculty 

 in Paris under Prof. Riehet, and well known 

 for his researches on heat and the suprarenal 

 capsule; Dr. Contjean, one of the staff at the 

 Museum, under Prof. Chauveau, known for his 

 researches on secretory nerves and his other 

 contributions to physiology. Other names are 

 mentioned, but it is evident that with Prevost 

 as a possible successor, and the candidates al- 

 ready mentioned, a worthy successor to SchifF 

 will readily be found. 



Dr. Charles Wardbll Stiles has been ap- 

 pointed by the State Department a special com- 

 missioner to report on the parasitic diseases of 

 seal life. 



The government of "Western Australia de- 

 cided about a year ago to erect an observatory 

 at Perth at a cost of .125,000. Mr. Ernest 

 Cooke, the government astronomer, has re- 

 cently been in England purchasing the neces- 

 sary instruments. 



A REMARKABLY violent cyclone has practi- 

 cally demolished the town of Nevertire in New 



South Wales. The casualties were numerous, 

 but are not fully known, as the telegraph line 

 has been destroyed. 



A LANDSLIDE has occurred at the village of 

 Stanna, in the province of Modena, Italy, de- 

 stroying a large number of buildings. 



A SERIES of lectures and conferences upon the 

 educational value of science in the common 

 schools will be held at Teachers' College, New 

 York, as follows : 



The educational value of biological science (botany, 

 zoology and physiology). Prof. Henry F. Osborn, of 

 Columbia University. January 14th, 3 p. m. 



The educational value of physical science (physics 

 and chemistry ). Prof. Ira Eemsen, of Johns Hopkins 

 University. Thursday, January 21st, 3 p. m. 



The educational value of geological science. Prof. 

 B. K. Emerson, of Amherst College. Thursday, Janu- 

 ary 28th, 3 p. m. 



The Curriculum. Pres. J. G. Shurman, of Cornell 

 University. Friday, January 29th, 3 p. m. (This 

 date is liable to be changed. ) 



The lecture in each case will be one hour in 

 length, followed by a conference lasting, perhaps, 

 one hour. The purpose of these lectures and 

 conferences is (1) to arouse due appreciation of 

 the study of science, (2) to give helpful sugges- 

 tions to those who are engaged in teaching 

 science, and (3) to aid in determining the rela- 

 tive importance of these subjects in courses of 

 study. 



Prof. Daniel G. Brinton will deliver a 

 course of six lectures on ' The Seligions of 

 Primitive Peoples,' at New York University, 

 on successive Tuesday evenings, beginning 

 January 12th, at 8 p. m. The lectures will be 

 published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, as Volume 

 II. of the Series of American Lectures on the 

 History of Religions. 



Natural Science expects to publish next month 

 an account of flints discovered by Mr. J. Lewis 

 Albert and exhibited at a recent informal smok- 

 ing evening of the London Geological Society. 

 They are said to be the work of man, though ob- 

 tained from the Cromer Forest bed at Bunton, 

 regarded as forming the top of the Pliocene 

 Series. No one has hitherto professed to find 

 in Great Britain the remains of man at so low a 

 horizon. 



The article entitled ' Biographical Notes on 



