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from the date that the work of improvement of 

 the land is begun by the Park Department. 

 The Society will contribute the buildings and 

 collections of animals. The city will expend 

 $125,000 immediately in the preparation of the 

 land, and will during the first year of occupa- 

 tion provide a maintenance fund — not exceed- 

 ing $60,000 — for the care of the animals and 

 further improvement of the park. In a coming 

 issue of Science a full account of the plans of 

 the Society will be published. 



The Missouri Legislature has made the usual 

 biennial appropriation of $30,000 for the sup- 

 port of the State Geological Survey. In Iowa 

 the law governing the Survey has been incor- 

 porated in the new code, thus assuring the per- 

 manence of the work. In both States the bills 

 passed without opposition of note. 



The sixty-ninth meeting of German Men of 

 Science and Physicians will be held at Bruns- 

 wick from the 20th to the 25th of September 

 of the present year. There will be thirty-three 

 sections as compared with thirty at the Frank- 

 fort meeting. The new sections are anthro- 

 pology and ethnology, which at Frankfort was 

 united with geography, geodesy and cartogra- 

 phy and scientific photography. 



The scientific work which is such a promi- 

 nent part of the manufacturing chemical estab- 

 lishments of Germany is again borne witness 

 to by the fact that the firm of Friedrich Bayer 

 & Co., manufacturers of dye stuffs in Elberfeld, 

 has purchased the library of the late Professor 

 Kekul6, consisting of 18,000 volumes, and said 

 to be the most complete collection of chemical 

 works in existence. 



From the plans submitted in the competition 

 for a statue of von Helmholtz, those by the 

 sculptors Lessing, Hertert and Janenseh have 

 been selected and exhibited in Berlin. The 

 final selection has not yet been announced. 

 The statue will be placed in the court of the 

 University near the statues of the two Hum- 

 boldts. 



A COMPANY has been organized in Berlin for 

 the establishment of a German colonial museum. 



It is reported that Dr. Nansen will lend the 

 Fram, the vessel in which he made his Arctic 

 journey, to a private Arctic expedition that 



will start during the coming summer. The 

 expedition will be mainly English, and its pur- 

 pose will be meteorological observations and 

 an examination of the Arctic currents. 



Mb. Charles Eliot died at Brookline, Mass., 

 on March 25th, at the age of thirty-seven years. 

 Mr. Eliot was the landscape architect of the 

 Boston Metropolitan Park Commission. The 

 admirable park system of Boston and the preser- 

 vation of public reservations throughout the 

 State are largely due to his influence. 



We regret to note the deaths of Dr. Kolbe, 

 professor of mathematics in the Polytechnic In- 

 stitute at Vienna, at the age of seventy-one 

 years, and of Dr. Wilhelm Doellen, the astrono- 

 mer, in Dorpat, aged seventy-seven years. 



A PUBLIC meeting to promote the National 

 Jenner Memorial was to have been held in the 

 theatre of the University of London on March 

 31st. It was expected that the chair would be 

 taken by the Duke of Westminster and that 

 addresses would be made by Lord Herschel, Lord 

 Playfair, Lord Lister and Professor Foster. 



Dr. Rudolf Kobert, professor of medicine 

 in the University at Dorpat, has resigned to 

 take charge of the hospital for consumptives in 

 Gorbersdorf, in Silesia. It is said that the 

 Russian authorities do not wish to retain Ger- 

 man professors in Dorpat. 



The mortality figures for the four weeks end- 

 ing March 12th, at Bombay, are as follows, in 

 chronological order : Deaths from all causes, 

 1,772, 1,525, 1,370, 1,274; deaths from plague, 

 843, 730, 635, 521. The plague shows a ten- 

 dency to spread and deaths are reported from 

 many places, including for the week 206 in 

 Karachi. 



According to the Bulletin of the American 

 Mathematical Society, Professor O. Schlomilch, 

 the founder of the Zeitschrift fiir Mathematik und 

 Physik, has withdrawn from the editorship of 

 this journal, which he has conducted for 41 

 years. Dr. R. Mehmke, professor of mathe- 

 matics in the Polytechnic School at Stuttgart, 

 takes his place, while Professor M. Cantor, of 

 the University of Heidelberg, will continue to 

 have charge of the ' literarisch historische 

 Abteilung. ' 



The students of Stanford University have be- 



