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[N. S. Vol. V. No. 123. 



Gosselin secretary of tlie Sodete Internationale 

 des Electriciens at the last meeting of the Society 

 held on April 7th. 



Db. Traill Green, emeritus professor of 

 chemistry at Lafayette College, died at Easton, 

 Pa., on April 29th, at the advanced age of 

 eighty-four years. Dr. Green was first made 

 professor in Lafayette College sixty years ago, 

 and during that time took an important part 

 in the building-up of the college, having been 

 dean of its scientific department and having 

 given it an astronomical observatory. He made 

 many contributions to medicine and to other 

 sciences. 



We regret further to record the death of Miss 

 Emily L. Gregory, professor of botany at Bar- 

 nard College and the author of valuable contribu- 

 tions to botany, and also the deaths of Dr. de 

 Marbaix, founder of the Bacteriological Institute 

 at Boma ; of Dr. Jakob Breitenlohner, professor 

 of meteorology and climatology in the Vienna 

 School of Agriculture ; of Dr. Sinku Sakaki, 

 professor of psychiatry in the University of 

 Tokio, and of Dr. Victor Lemoine, formerly 

 professor of the Medical School at Eeims, and 

 known for his contributions to comparative 

 anatomy and paleontology. 



Longmans, Green & Co. are about to publish 

 a new and revised edition of Sir John Evans' 

 ' Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and 

 Ornaments of Great Britain,' which has long 

 been out of print. 



The London Academy is publishing a series of 

 portraits of eminent writers. The issue of 

 April 10th contained an admirable reproduc- 

 tion of a photograph of Darwin, by Mrs. J. M. 

 Cameron. 



The British government authorities have 

 presented Dr. Nansen, in recognition of his ser- 

 vices in scientific exploration, with a complete 

 set of the Challenger Reports. This is said to 

 be the only case in which this great publica- 

 tion, extending to fifty volumes quarto, has 

 been presented to an individual. 



Dr. Carl Lumholtz, the Norwegian anthro- 

 pologist, has returned to New York after hav- 

 ing spent three years in the interior of Mexico 

 in the interests of the American Museum of 



Natural History. He has secured valuable col- 

 lections and much information regarding the 

 aboriginal tribes. 



It is stated in Nature that at the last meeting 

 (April 14) of the Russian Geographical Society, 

 Baron Osten Sacken read a telegram which he 

 had received from Sven Hedin, the well-known 

 Swedish traveler in Central Asia, announcing 

 that he had crossed Tibet (Northern Tibet) by 

 following a route which lies somewhat to the 

 south of General Pyerstoflf's route ; during that 

 journey he discovered 23 new salt lakes, four 

 of which are of considerable size. Notwith- 

 standing the great difiiculties of the journey, 

 and the loss of 44 beasts of burden out of 50, 

 all collections are safe. From Tibet, Sven He- 

 din went through Mongolia to Pekin, and to- 

 wards the end of May he expected to be in St. 

 Petersburg. 



M. AuGUSTiN Falconz has given the Uni- 

 versity of Lyons 100,000 francs to be used for 

 biennial prizes, one for each of the four facul- 

 ties of the University. 



A chair of physical geography has been 

 established in the faculty of sciences in the 

 University of Paris, and M. Velain has been 

 appointed the first incumbent. 



A memorial proposing a physical laboratory 

 for India signed by Lord Kelvin, Lord Lister 

 and other leading British men of science has 

 been presented to the Secretary for India. The 

 memorial is as follows: 



"We, the undersigned, interested in the progress 

 of physics, desire respectfully to draw your lordship's 

 attention to the great importance which we attach to 

 the establishment in the Indian Empire of a central 

 laboratory for advanced teaching and research in 

 connection with the Presidency College, Calcutta, 

 the most important educational institution under the 

 Government of India. We believe that it would not 

 only be beneficial in respect of higher education, but 

 also that it would largely promote the material in- 

 terests of the country, and we venture to urge on you 

 the desirability, therefore, of establishing in India a 

 physical laboratory worthy of the great empire." 



Professor D. T. MacDougal, in a letter to 

 the Botanical Gazette, on the Tropical Labora- 

 tory Commission, states that Dr. J. E. Hum- 

 phrey, accompanied by a number of advanced 

 students in zoology from the Johns Hopkins 



