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voted mucii time and attention to migratory 

 species. 



We regret to record the death of M. Lucien 

 Biart, a French physician resident in Mexico, 

 who made contributions to ethnology and nat- 

 ural history. The Paris Museum of Natural 

 History contains botanical and ornithological 

 collections made by him. 



Me. Otis E. Bullock died in New York 

 from yellow fever on April 22d. He contracted 

 this disease in Central America while on his 

 way to make collections in natural history for 

 the Frank Blake Webster Co. , of Hyde Park. 



President Mendenhall lectured before the 

 National Geographical Society, Washington, on 

 February 23d, his subject being ' Weighing 

 the Earth.' 



The Illinois Child Study Society will hold its 

 third annual congress at Englewood, Chicago, 

 from April 26th to May 1st. It will be presided 

 over by Colonel Francis W. Parker, and ad- 

 dresses are expected from President G. Stanley 

 Hall, Professor John Dewey, Professor William 

 L. Bryan and other leaders in the movement for 

 the scientific study of children. 



The Canadian Electrical Association will 

 meet at Niagara Falls, Ontario, on June 2d, 3d 

 and 4th. 



An Educational Museum will be opened at 

 the State House, Boston, on May 1st. It will 

 include the exhibits of the Massachusetts schools 

 at the Columbian Exposition, together with the 

 work of other schools, school appliances and a 

 pedagogical library. 



The Astronomical Journal, Cambridge, Mass., 

 offers for sale several complete and partial sets 

 of the Journal, founded by B. A. Gould in 1849, 

 with an interruption from 1861 to 1885. The 

 complete set is offered for $70, or without the 

 first volume, which is very rare, for $55. 



De. Walter Wenga will edit and A. Briber, 

 Berlin, will publish a new journal, Zeitschrift 

 fur Oriminal-Anthropologie. 



A JOURNAL devoted to the applications of 

 the X-rays to medicine and surgery, entitled 

 La radiographie, has been established in Paris. 

 It is edited by Dr. Paulin-M^ry. 



The Paris Municipal Council has voted $1,000 



towards the cost of installation and maintenance 

 of a skiagraphic laboratory at the Trousseau 

 Hospital. 



The French Chamber has allowed a sum of 

 297,000 francs for the payment of expenses in- 

 curred on account of defensive measures taken 

 against the plague. 



The Executive Council of the Massachusetts- 

 State Board of Trade, at a meeting on April 

 21st, passed the following resolution : "That 

 the Board recognizes the great advantages- 

 which the general adoption of the metric system 

 of weights and measures will promote, favors 

 not only its general use and practice, but also 

 endorses the bill now before the Congress of the 

 United States which provides for the adoption 

 of this system as the only system in the several 

 departments of the United States government. 

 And, further, that the Secretary of the Board 

 inform the chairman of the Committee on Coin- 

 age, Weights and Measures of the vote of this 

 Board." 



President McKinley and Secretary Sher- 

 man have recommended that Congress make an 

 appropriation of $350,000 for the representa- 

 tion of the United States at the Paris Exposition 

 of 1900. Such provision will doubtless be 

 made, and we hope that the example of Ger- 

 many and other nations at the Chicago Exposi- 

 tion will be followed, and that scientific and 

 educational matters will be well represented. 



The Executive Committee of the Tennessee 

 Centennial Exposition (which opens May 1st 

 and continues six months) has petitioned the 

 Board of Trustees of Vanderbilt University for 

 the release of Dr. William L. Dudley, professor 

 of chemistry, for the remainder of the present 

 academic year, in order that they might engage 

 his services. The University authorities granted 

 the request, and the Centennial management 

 has elected Dr. Dudley to the position of 

 'Director of Affairs,' giving him full charge of 

 the executive management of the Exposition. 



At a meeting of the Royal Botanical Society 

 of London, on April 10th, the Secretary, Mr. J. 

 B. Sowerby, gave an account of the cultivation 

 and manufacture, into paper, of esparto grass, 

 illustrating it by specimens and growing plants 

 from the gardens. According to the report in the 



