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SCIENCE. 



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Survey will embrace two cases of minerals and 

 a case of fossils. It will also include a suite of 

 the rocks of the Educational Series. This is 

 one of a number of duplicate suites, each con- 

 sisting of 156 typical rocks, which the Geolog- 

 ical Survey has been preparing for a number of 

 years, to be distributed to universities and col- 

 leges for purposes of instruction. In addition 

 to the above, the Survey will show twelve or 

 fifteen relief models, most of them very fine, 

 and a large collection of the topographic maps 

 and geologic folios, as well as a number of 

 transparencies and pictures of various kinds. 



The exhibit of the Department of Agriculture 

 is desigued to show as completely as possible 

 the character of the scientiiic work which this 

 Department is doing in developing the agricul- 

 tural resources of the country. Each one of 

 the scientific bureas and divisions will have its 

 allotted space, with characteristic exhibits of 

 its peculiar functions. The Weather Bureau 

 will show a complete set of the instruments 

 used in observing the weather, with its maps, 

 charts, etc. ; the Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 typical specimens of animal parasites and illus- 

 trations of animal diseases ; the Forestry Di- 

 vision, the forest resources of the country, 

 particularly of the South ; the Division of 

 Entomology, the insects most injurious to 

 Southern crops, with wax models of the corn 

 and the cotton plant, insecticide apparatus, etc. 

 The office of Fibre Investigations will show 

 specimens of economic fibres (hemp, flax, etc.); 

 the Division of Pomology, wax models of native 

 fruits; the Division of Vegetable Pathology, 

 specimens illustrating typical plant diseases ; 

 the Division of Biological Survey, the birds 

 and wild mammals of the country, and the Di- 

 vision of Botany, useful and harmful plants. 

 This Division will show also specimens of the 

 various useful seeds, and will illustrate the 

 methods employed in the Department's seed- 

 testing laboratory. The space allotted to the 

 Division of Agrostology will be devoted to a 

 display of the grasses used for forage, for bind- 

 ing sandy soils, etc. 



GENERAL. 



Peofessoe Henry Sidgwick, professor of 

 ethics in Cambridge University, has been elected 



a member of the Danish Eoyal Society of Sci- 

 ences; Professor Rudolf Heidenhain, professor 

 of physiology at Breslau, a member of the Royal 

 Society of London, and Dr. Salenski, sometime 

 professor of zoology in the University of Odessa, 

 a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of 

 Sciences. 



The Honorary Medal of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons was presented to Lord Lister and Sir 

 James Paget at the last meeting of the Council 

 of the College. This medal has been conferred 

 but eight times previously during the present 

 century — on the last occasion on Sir Richard 

 Owen. 



Peofessoe J. Maek Baldwin, of Princeton, 

 has been awarded the gold medal offered by the 

 Royal Academy of Science and Letters of 

 Denmark for the best work on a general question 

 in social ethics. 



Dr. Kael Bohlin, of Upsala, Sweden, has 

 has been appointed Astronomer to the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences and Director of the Ob- 

 servatory at Stockholm. 



At a meeting of the Royal College of Physi- 

 cians, of Loudon, on April 12th, Mr. Samuel 

 Wilks, M.D., F.R.S., was re-elected President 

 of the College. A portrait, by Sir Thomas Law- 

 rence, of Sir Henry Halford, President of the 

 College from 1820 to 1844, was received from, 

 the executors of his grandson, the late Sir Henry 

 St. John Halford, who had bequeathed it to the 

 College. 



At the public exercises held on February 

 22d in honor of the twenty-first anniversary of 

 the Johns Hopkins University, Professor Welch, 

 on behalf of the friends and associates of Profes- 

 sor Newcomb, asked that he sit for a portrait to 

 be given to the University. The remarks of Pro- 

 fessor Welch as reported in the University 

 Circular were as follows : ' ' The custom which 

 prevails in many foreign universities of cele- 

 brating, by some memorial, epochs in the lives 

 of distinguished teachers and investigators 

 connected with the university is one which can 

 only be commended. A similar custom is 

 finding increasing favor within recent years in 

 this country, where so few material honors at- 

 tend success in university and scientific careers. 

 The colleagues and other friends of Professor 



