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ores to be worked successfully, and it may 

 be expected that these ores, such as those 

 of the Rand, will be the most important 

 source of gold in the future. 



J. L. H. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



We record with deep regret the death of 

 Professor Edward D. Cope, professor in the 

 University of Pennsylvania, editor of the Ameri- 

 can Naturalist, President of the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science, and 

 eminent for contributions to paleontology, zo- 

 ology and a wide range of natural science. 

 Professor Cope became seriously ill on Tuesday 

 of last week and died on Monday from ursemic 

 poisoning. In his death science has suffered 

 an irreparable loss, and for many the personal 

 loss is equally severe. 



The German Zoological Society proposes to 

 hold its seventh annual meeting at Kiel on June 

 9th-llth, under the presidency of Professor O. 

 Biitschli, of Heidelberg. Reports are expected 

 from Professor Brandt on the fauna of the Baltic 

 Sea, and by Professor Chun on the Siphonophora. 

 The report of the editors of Das Tierreich, 

 which is published under the auspices of the 

 Society, will also he presented. Lectures and 

 demonstrations are announced by Professor 

 B. Henson on the North Sea Expedition of 

 1895, by Dr. Apstein on the Methods and Ap- 

 paratus of Modern Marine Biological Investiga- 

 tions, and by Dr. Vanhoffen on the Marine 

 Fauna of Greenland. 



Mr. C. H. Townsbnd has been appointed 

 Chief of the Division of Fisheries, U. S. Fish 

 Commission, while Dr. H. M. Smith is assigned 

 to the Division of Scientific Inquiry. Mr. 

 Townsend has been connected with the IT. S. 

 Fish Commission for fourteen years and has for 

 a long time held the position of Naturalist on 

 the Albatross which he now relinquishes. He 

 is especially familiar with the fisheries of the 

 Pacific Coast, including the many problems con- 

 nected with the salmon canning industry, which 

 is prosecuted under such varying conditions in 

 the United States and Alaska that no one law 

 can be made applicable to all localities. Mr. 

 Townsend also has a long acquaintance with 



the fur seal question, and it is to his investiga- 

 tions that we owe most of our knowledge con- 

 cerning the food, breeding habits and migrations 

 of this animal. 



A SECOND circular of the Committee of Ar- 

 rangements for the International Geological 

 Congress has been issued and the Committee 

 announces a most attractive program. As we 

 have already stated, three excursions are ar- 

 ranged before the Congress : to the Ural region, 

 to Esthonia and to Finland. After the Congress 

 the chief excursion is to the Caucasus, leaving 

 St. Petersburg on the 24th of August in three 

 groups, each under special directors. All the 

 details have been worked out with the greatest 

 care, and expenses are reduced to a very low 

 figure by practically free transportation and by 

 hospitality offered by many of the large cities. 

 The Finland excursion, for example, is esti- 

 mated at only fifty francs, while the very ex- 

 tensive excursion to the Caucasus is estimated 

 at six hundred and sixty-five francs. The 

 sessions of the Congress take place at St. 

 Petersburg between the 17th and 23d of 

 August, in the rooms of the Imperial Academy 

 of Sciences. 



At a meeting in the rooms of the Royal 

 Society in 1893, the Prince of Wales in the 

 chair, it was unanimously resolved ' ' that the 

 eminent services of the late Sir Richard Owen 

 in the advancement of the knowledge of the 

 sciences of anatomy, zoology and paleontology 

 should be commemorated by some suitable 

 memorial." A fund was collected for a bronze 

 statue, which has been executed by Mr. Thomas 

 Brock. This statue has just been placed in the 

 Central Hall of the Natural History Museum, 

 where it stands facing Boehm's statue of Dar- 

 win. 



The annual meeting of the American Insti- 

 tute of Electrical Engineers will be held in New 

 York on May 18th. The Council have nomi- 

 nated Professor Francis B. Crocker, of Columbia 

 University, for President. The Institute will 

 hold a general meeting at Greenacre, Maine, 

 beginning on July 26th. 



The Women's National Science Club met in 

 the lecture room of the National Museum, 

 Washington, on April 7th, 8th and 9th. Many 



