Apeil 23, 1897.] 



SCIENCE. 



653 



von Hardtl, astronomer at Innsbruck, and of 

 Dr. Jacob Breitenlohner, professor of meteor- 

 •ology at the Agricultural School of Vienna. 



At a meeting held April 13th the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia conferred 

 the Hayden Memorial Award for 1897, consist- 

 ing of a bronze medal and the interest of the 

 special endowment fund, on Professor A. Kar- 

 pinski, the Chief of the Geological Survey of 

 Russia, in recognition of the value of his con- 

 tributions to geological and paleontological 

 science. 



Professor H. A; Rowland, of Johns Hop- 

 kin's University, has been elected an honorary 

 member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 



De. George M. Dawson, Chief of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of the Dominion of Canada, has 

 been awarded the gold medal of the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society of Great Britain, in recogni- 

 tion of his services in the surveys and maps of 

 British Columbia, the Northwest Territory and 

 the Yukon region. 



Arrangements are being made for the erec- 

 tion of a monument to Johannes Miiller, in 

 Coblentz, the place of his birth. 



ScR John Evans, Treasurer of the Royal So- 

 ciety and President-elect of the British Associa- 

 tion, has been elected a corresponding member of 

 the Bologne Academy of Sciences in the room 

 of Huxley. 



Dr. Nansen lectured before the German 

 Geographical Society on April 3d. The So- 

 ciety bestowed upon him the gold Humboldt 

 medal. It was also announced that the Em- 

 peror had conferred on him the gold medal for 

 science and art, 'the highest distinction which 

 can be bestowed in Germany for peaceful 

 achievements.' Dr. Nansen subsequently lec- 

 tured at Copenhagen before the Danish Geo- 

 graphical Society, and received from the king 

 the gold medal of merit with the royal crown. 



Lieutenant Robert E. Peary, now on 

 duty at the New York Navy Yard, was de- 

 tailed to Mare Island, Cal., by Secretary Long, 

 but the order has been revoked at the request 

 -of those interested in the continuation of Lieut. 

 Peary's Arctic explorations. 



Mr. Robert B. Yound has been appointed 



Assistant Biologist at the Department of Agri- 

 culture, and will be assigned to work in Oregon 

 and Washington. 



The daily papers report that the building of 

 the College of Agriculture of the University of 

 California at Berkeley has been burned, the 

 loss being estimated at $400,000. 



The Governor of Florida has issued a call for 

 a National Fisheries Congress to assemble at 

 Tampa, Fla., on the 19th of January, 1898. 

 The National Fishery Commission will take a 

 prominent part in the proceedings, and the 

 Governors of the different States are requested 

 to send delegates. Governor Bloxham states 

 that it is necessary to devise means to save from 

 total extinction many varieties of valuable food 

 fish. 



There will be held an international fisheries 

 exhibition at Bergen, Norway, from the 16th of 

 May to September 30th of next year. 



The International Congress of Hygiene and 

 Dermatology will be held in April next year, 

 instead of this year, as was intended. 



The American Medico-Psychological Associa- 

 tion will meet at Baltimore from the 11th to 

 the 14th of May. 



The fifth International Congress of Criminal 

 Anthropology will be held at Amsterdam in 

 August, 1901. 



The New York Microscopical Society held 

 its 18th annual exhibition on April 14th, at the 

 American Museum of Natural History. There 

 were nearly one hundred exhibits, which were 

 examined with interest by a large number of 

 visitors. 



Chas. Scribner's Sons announce the early 

 publication of a series of volumes contain- 

 ing the ' Princeton lectures ' delivered by dis- 

 tinguished foreigners during the week preced- 

 ing the public sesqui-centeunial exercises of 

 Princeton University. 



A NEW review for psychology and cognate 

 subjects, including mental pathology, is an- 

 nounced to appear in Rome. It will be edited 

 by a board of scholars, of whom Dr. Sancto di 

 Sanctis, of the University of Rome, is to be 

 Editor-in-Chief. Professor G. Sergi, the well- 



