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position of anthropologist in charge of the Di- 

 vision of Anthropology in the United States 

 National Museum. The duties of the position 

 will be the administration of the division of 

 anthropology and the carrying forward of origi- 

 nal investigation and study of the collections. 

 The salary is $3,500 per annum. Competitors 

 will be required to submit their answers to the 

 inquiries and their essays on blanks furnished, 

 them by the Commission on or before June 1st. 



At a meeting of the Council of the Australa- 

 sian Association for the Advancement of Science 

 held at Sidney on March 25th it was decided 

 that the commencement of the next annual ses- 

 sion be fixed for January 6, 1898. It was de- 

 cided further to suspend the rule requiring an 

 initiation fee from new members. The Hon. Sec- 

 retary, Professor A. Liversidge reported that he 

 had written to the Premier quoting the amounts 

 of pecuniary and other aids afibrded in the past 

 to the Association by the respective govern- 

 ments of Victoria, New Zealand, Queens- 

 land, Tasmania and South Australia, and 

 asking for similar support from the mother 

 colony. Professor Baldwin Spencer, of Mel- 

 bourne University, will deliver a popular lec- 

 ture at the meeting on ' The Center of Austra- 

 lia,' with special reference to its ethnological 

 aspects. 



A MEETING of the International Committee 

 of Weights and Measures was held at Sevres, 

 near Paris, beginning on April 13th. Dr. Wil- 

 helm Forster, Director of the Berlin Observa- 

 tory, presided, and there were representatives 

 present from Germany, Austria, England, Rus- 

 sia, Norway, Switzerland and Portugal. 



An International Congi-ess for the unification 

 of methods for the testing of materials will be 

 held at Stockholm on the 23d, 24th and 26th of 

 August of the present year. 



The Russian National Health Society pro- 

 poses to celebrate, next year, the 100th anniver- 

 sary of the discovery of the mineral springs of 

 the Caucasus by a conference on balneolo'gy and 

 climatology. 



The current number of Nature contains the 

 thirtieth article in the series on ' Scientific 

 Worthies.' The subject of the present article 

 is the eminent Italian chemist, Professor Stan- 



islao Carmizzaro. The text, by Dr. T. E. 

 Thorpe, is accompanied by a fine portrait. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has nomi- 

 nated as its first choice, M. le Colonel Bassot^ 

 as its second choice, M. Lippmann, for the posi- 

 tion in the Bureau of Longitudes, vacant by the 

 death of Fizeau. 



The Paris SocietS de secours des amis des 

 sciences, a society whose object it is to assist 

 poor scholars and their families, held its annual 

 meeting on April 29th, under the presidency of 

 M. Joseph Bertram, who made an address on 

 ' The life of a scholar in the sixteenth century. ' 



The New York State Forest Preserve Board, 

 which has the important duty of buying 

 $1,000,000 worth of Adirondack lands, held its 

 first formal meeting on May 7th. Its members 

 are Lieutenant-Governor Woodruff", State Engi- 

 neer Adams and Forestry Commissioner Bab- 

 cock. There were submitted to the Board offers 

 of land in the Adirondacks amounting to over 

 $1,000,000 in value, a large part of which is on 

 the southern slope of the Adirondacks, the 

 region where the Board thinks the larger part 

 of the appropriation should be spent. 



The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 at its annual meeting on May 12th, elected the 

 following officers for 1897-98 : 



President, Alexander Agassiz ; Vice-President, 

 Class I, Jolin Trowbridge ; Vice-President, Class II, 

 George L. Goodale ; Vice-President, Class III, Augus- 

 tus Lowell ; Corresponding Secretary, Samuel H. 

 Scudder ; Eeoording Secretary, William Watson ; 

 Treasurer, Eliot C. Clarke ; Librarian, Henry W. 

 Haynea ; Conncillors, Henry Mitchell, Leonard P. 

 Kinnicutt, Edwin H. Hall, in Class I ; Henry P. 

 Bowditch, William W. Davis, B. L. Robinson, in 

 Class II ; Barrett Wendell, John E. Hudson, Edward 

 Eobinson, in Class III. 



At the same meeting the following per- 

 sons were elected Associate Fellows : In the 

 Section of Medicine and Surgery, William 

 Osier, of Baltimore, and William Henry 

 Welch, of Baltimore, and in the Section of Lit- 

 erature and the Fine Arts, Horace Howard 

 Furness, of Philadelphia, and Edmund Clarence 

 Stedman, of New York. 



The National Education Association meets 

 this summer at Milwaukee, from the 6th to the 

 9th of July, which will be convenient for those 



