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of Kiel, and of T. P. Morawitz, the entomologist 

 of St. Petersburg. 



We are glad to learn that Sir Joseph Lister, 

 on being raised to the peerage, has selected the 

 title of Lord Lister and will thus retain the 

 name which he has made eminent. 



The German Emperor has conferred an order 

 of the crown on Professor Linde, of the Poly- 

 technic Institute at Charlottenberg. 



The Kansas Academy of Science, at its recent 

 annual meeting at Topeka, placed the name of 

 Chaplain John D. Parker on the roll of life 

 members, as a recognition of his effective ser- 

 vices in organizing science in the West. Dur- 

 ing the past thirty years he has been one of the 

 founders of the Kansas Academy of Science, 

 Kansas City Academy of Science, Nebraska 

 Academy of Sciences and California Science 

 Association. 



The budget of the Prussian government ap- 

 propriates 50,000 Marks for investigation on the 

 Rontgen rays. The money is to be used for ap- 

 paratus to be divided into a number of special 

 appropriations. 



The New York Aquarium at Castle Garden 

 is visited daily by 7,000 people. This large at- 

 tendance demonstrates the usefulness of such 

 institutions for purposes of instruction and 

 healthful amusement. It is understood that 

 Mayor Strong is in favor of setting aside the 

 land at Bronx Park for the Zoological Park, 

 and it is much to be hoped that arrangements 

 may be carried out without too great delay. 



A dispatch from Teheran says that 2,500 

 persons perished as a result of the earthquake 

 which occurred on Kishm Island, in the 

 the Persian Gulf, January 11th. 



The Friday evening meetings of the members 

 of the Royal Institution are announced to open 

 on January 22d, with a lecture by Professor 

 Dewar, on 'Properties of Liquid Oxygen,' to 

 be followed on the 29th by a discourse on ' The 

 Polarization of the Electric Ray,' by Professor 

 J. C. Bose, of Presidency College, Calcutta. 



The Geological Society of London will, this 

 year, award its medals and funds as follows : 

 The Wollaston Medal to Mr. W. H. Hudleston; 

 the Murchison Medal and part of the fund to 



Mr. Horace B. Woodward ; the Lyell Medal 

 and part of the fund to Dr. G. J. Hinde ; the 

 Bigsby Medal to Mr. Clement Reid ; the pro- 

 ceeds of the Wollaston fund to Mr. F. A. 

 Bather ; the balance of the proceeds of the 

 Murchison fund to Mr. S. S. Buckman; and the 

 balance of the proceeds of the Lyell fund to 

 Mr. W. J. Lewis Abbott and Mr. J. Lomas. 



The forty-fourth annual meeting of the 

 American Society of Civil Engineers was opened 

 in New York on January 20th, under the presi- 

 dency of Mr. T. C. Clarke. The Norman 

 Medal was awarded to Mr. J. E. Greiner for a 

 paper entitled ' What is the Life of an Iron 

 Railroad Bridge ? ' and the Rowland Prize to 

 Mr. H. S. Coppee for a paper entitled ' Bank 

 Revetment on the Lower Mississippi.' Mr. B. 

 M. Harrod was elected President of the Society 

 for the ensuing year. 



The building of the Bellevue Hospital Medi- 

 cal College, New York, was injured by fire on 

 January 20th. The damage to the building is 

 estimated at $15,000, and much apparatus has 

 been destroyed. 



The United States Civil Service Commission 

 will hold an examination in Washington and in 

 other cities where there are applicants, com- 

 mencing on February 10th, to fill a vacancy in 

 the position of expert horticulturist, ofiice of ex- 

 periment stations, Department of Agriculture, 

 the sala'-y of which is $1,400 per annum. 



Professor Giuseppe Sanaeelli, Director of 

 the Uruguayan National Institute of Experi- 

 mental Hygiene, has reported, to the Academy 

 of Medicine in Rome, the discovery of the 

 bacillus of yellow fever. He will shortly pub- 

 lish the result of his experiments. 



The New York Board of Health has declared 

 pulmonary tuberculosis, or consumption, an in- 

 fectious and communicable disease, dangerous 

 to public health. The resolution adopted by 

 the Board ranks consumption with diphtheria 

 and measles. The resolution makes it the duty 

 of every physician to report minutely within 

 one week to the sanitary bureau of the Board, 

 concerning everyone sick with consumption 

 whom he attends or who comes under his ob- 

 servation. Further, it orders every consump- 

 tive in the city, and every person attending a 



