Maech 5, 1897.] 



SCIENCE. 



403 



" 5. Objects of natural history, dried or pre- 

 served animals and plants, geological specimens, 

 etc., of which the transmission has no commer- 

 cial interest, and the packing of which conforms 

 to the general conditions concerning packages 

 of samples of merchandise." 



If this amendment be adopted by the Postal 

 Congress, specimens of natural history can be 

 sent to countries of the Universal Postal Union 

 at the rate of one cent for every two ounces. 



Statements of previous efforts of the Com- 

 mittee on behalf of the same object will be 

 found in Science for November 17, 1893, p. 

 267, and for January 26, 1894, p. 49. 

 H. A. PiLSBRY, 



Lewis Woolman, 

 Philip P. Calvert, Chairman. 

 Committee of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia. 



the LAVOISIER MONUMENT. 



French chemists, as well as physicists, are 

 making an earnest effort to bring about the 

 erection of a monument to perpetuate, in a meas- 

 ure, the memory of the great Lavoisier. They 

 have authorized certain gentlemen iu various 

 countries to receive any contributions which 

 non-residents of France may feel disposed to 

 make in behalf of this very laudable under- 

 taking. 



The chemists of America fully recognize the 

 services rendered their favorite science by the 

 great French experimenter, and will doubtless 

 be ready to add their mite to bring the pro- 

 posed monument to an early completion. To 

 facilitate matters the Academy of Sciences of 

 Paris has appointed as its delegate in this 

 country Professor Gustavus Hinrichs, who in 

 turn has called to his aid the following gentle- 

 men, to any one of whom subscriptions may be 

 sent : 



Jasper L. Beeson, A. M., Ph. D., Professor of 

 Chemistry in the Audubon Sugar School, Research 

 Chemist for the Louisiana Sugar Experiment Station, 

 etc., New Orleans, Louisiana. 



Charles Anthony Goessmann, Ph. C, LL. D. , Pro- 

 fessor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, Chemist of the Hatch Experiment Station 

 of the College ; Chemist of the Massachusetts State 

 Board of Agriculture, etc., Amheret, Massachusetts. 



Eugene W. Hilgard, Ph. D., LL. D., Professor of 

 Agricultural Chemistry in the University of Califor- 

 nia, Director of the California Experiment Station, 

 Berkeley, California. 



Richard Watson Jones, M. A., LL. D., Professor of 

 Chemistry in the University of Mississippi, Uni- 

 versity, Mississippi. 



John Uri Lloyd, Professor of Chemistry in the 

 Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, President 

 (1887) of the American Pharmaceutical Association, 

 Cincinnati, Ohio. 



John H. Long, M. S., Sc. D., Professor of Chem- 

 istry and Director of the Chemical Laboratories of 

 the Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy of North- 

 western University, 2421 Dearborn Street, Chicago, 

 Illinois. 



John Ulric Nef, Ph. D., Professor of Chemistry 

 and Director of the Kent Chemical Laboratory of the 

 University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. 



James Marion Pickel, A. M., Ph. D., Professor of 

 Chemistry in the University of Alabama, University, 



Paul Schweitzer, Ph. D., Professor of Agricultural 

 Chemistry and Chemist to the Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, University of the State of Missouri, 

 Columbia, Missouri. 



William Simon, Ph. D., M. D., Professor of Chem- 

 istry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of 

 Baltimore, in the Maryland College of Pharmacy and 

 in the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1348 

 Block Street, Baltimore, Maryland. 



Edgar F. Smith, Ph. D., Professor of Chemistry 

 of the University of Pennsylvania, Director of the 

 John Harrison Laboratory of Chemistry ; President 

 (for 1895) of the American Chemical Society, Phila- 

 delphia, Pennsylvania. 



Eugene Allen Smith, Ph. D., State Geologist of 

 Alabama, formerly Professor of Chemistry, now of 

 Mineralogy and Geology in the State University of 

 Alabama, University, Alabama. 



Henry Trimble, A. M., Ph. M., Professor of Ana- 

 lytical Chemistry in the Philadelphia College of 

 Pharmacy, Editor of the American Journal of Phar- 

 macy, 145 North Tenth Street, Philadelphia, Penn- 

 sylvania. 



Francis Preston Venable, Ph. D., Professor of 

 Chemistry in the University of North Carolina, Sec- 

 retary (for 1896) of the Chemical Section of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, ('hapel Hill, North Carolina. 



Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs, M. D., LL. D., Pro- 

 fessor of Chemistry St. Louis College of Pharmacy, 

 Delegate of the Academy of Sciences of Paris, for 

 the United States, 3132 Lafayette Avenue, St. Louis, 

 Missouri. 



