Apeil 9, 1897.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Society of Anatomists will be held at Ghent 

 from April 24th to 27th, under the presidency of 

 Dr. Waldeyer. 



It is stated in Nature that the Comit6 

 d' Organisation of the seventh International 

 Geological Congress, to be held at St. Peters- 

 burg from August 29th to September 4th, have 

 received so many applications from persons who 

 are not geologists, and yet wish to obtain free 

 railway tickets and to participate in other ad- 

 vantages arranged by the Russian government, 

 that they have issued a special circular stating 

 that the facilities offered are intended only for 

 geologists. Excursion tickets will only be 

 granted to persons who are known by their 

 contributions to geology. Even with this re- 

 striction, the meeting promises to be a large 

 one, for more than six hundred geologists have 

 applied for tickets. 



The American Medical Association will meet 

 in Philadelphia, beginning on June 1st. The 

 American Medical Publishers' Association meets 

 on the preceding day. There are said to be pub- 

 lished in America 275 medical journals, of which 

 10 are issued weekly, 11 semi-monthly, 225 

 monthly, 6 bi-monthly, and 23 quarterly. 



According to the New York Medical Record 

 the next course of ten lectures instituted by 

 the late Professor Thomas Dent Miitter, M. D. , 

 LL. D. , on ' Some Point or Points in Surgical 

 Pathology,' will be delivered in the winter of 

 1899-1900, before the College of Physicians of 

 Philadelphia. The compensation is $600. The 

 appointment is open to the profession at large. 

 Applications stating in full subjects of proposed 

 lectures must be made before October 1, 1897, 

 to the committee on Miitter Museum, John H. 

 Brinton, M. D., chairman, northeast corner of 

 Thirteenth and Locust streets, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. 



The John Crerar Library of Chicago was 

 opened to the public on April 1st. It will occupy 

 rented rooms until the accumulated income 

 from its endowment, which is $2,500,000, will 

 suffice to pay for the erection of a building. 

 The library is devoted especially to the natural, 

 physical and social sciences and their applica- 

 tions. 



It is expected that the New York Legisla- 



ture will pass the bill recommended by Gov- 

 ernor Black appropriating $1,000,000 for the 

 preservation of the Adirondack forests. 



Me. Feye has introduced a bill in the Senate 

 creating a National Academy. The bill pro- 

 vides that the Academy shall be devoted to the 

 accumulation and preservation of new discov- 

 eries and the perfection of the arts and sciences. 

 The Academy would have five divisions : First, 

 laws and literature ; second, inscriptions, archae- 

 ology and belles-lettres; third, sciences ; fourth, 

 fine arts; fifth, moral and political science. The 

 Academy would have one hundred members 

 and fifty foreign associate members, and in 

 addition 100 American and 200 foreign corre- 

 sponding members. 



A NATIONAL German exhibition ' For the 

 Hygiene of Childhood at Home and at School ' 

 is to be held in Breslau at the end of May. 



The following items are taken from Natural 

 Science : The collections of Gustav Nachtigal 

 from the west coast of Africa, made during 

 1894-95, are now exhibited in the Berlin 

 Museum of Ethnology. The Berlin Museum 

 fiir Naturkunde has received from the island of 

 Ralum a collection of the flora and fauna made 

 by Dr. Dahl. Mr. H. J. Ernst, an apothecary 

 of Iceland, has presented to the State Museum 

 in Stockholm a valuable collection of Icelandic 

 minerals. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Bent, the 

 archaeological explorers, have returned from a 

 successful expedition in Socotra. Mr. J. White- 

 beard has been investigating the highland fauna 

 of the Philippines, where he obtained a huge 

 fruit-pigeon at a height of 6,000 feet. Mr. C. 

 W. Andrews, of the geological department of 

 the British Museum, has received leave of ab- 

 sence for nine months in order to investigate 

 the natural history of Christmas Id. 



The Director of the United States Geological 

 Survey has just addressed to the geologists, the 

 topographers and all authors in the Survey a 

 circular on the use of ' Quadrangle,' the new 

 designation for the quadrilateral land units of 

 the government surveys. In prosecuting the 

 topographic and geologic survey of the United 

 States the Geological Survey divides the land 

 into small quadrilateral units, bounded by 

 meridians and parallels, and from these result 



