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In connection with the International Medical 

 Congress at Moscow a two weeks' excursion 

 has been arranged to the Caucasus, visiting the 

 celebrated mineral baths of which Kislovodsk 

 is the center and traversing the region notable 

 for its fine scenery. The members of the Con- 

 gress will be charged only thirty dollars for 

 transportation and for sleeping accommodation 

 on the trains and steamboats. 



At the Child-study Conference held recently 

 at Chicago a North American Child- study As- 

 sociation was formed with the object of estab- 

 lishing State Societies and promoting the in- 

 terests of the work. 



Mes. Ellen B. Feench has bequeathed 

 $5,000 to Beloit College on condition that no 

 vivisection shall ever be practiced there. Should 

 this condition not be accepted the money goes 

 to the American Humane Society of Boston. 



The last of the public lectures of the present 

 year before the New York Academy of Sciences 

 will be delivered this evening by Dr. Harwood 

 Huntington, his subject being 'The Technology 

 of Cotton Cloth.' 



The Swiss Zoological Society, founded in 

 1894, has undertaken to prepare a Fauna Hel- 

 vetica. Preliminary studies are being encour- 

 aged with this end in view and are published in 

 the Revue Suisse de zoologie, edited by Dr. Be- 

 dot. 



There is to be held, in conjunction with the 

 Brunswick meeting of German men of science 

 and physicians, an exhibition of scientific objects 

 and instruments. It is expected to make the 

 exhibit in scientific photography especially 

 complete, this year being the first in which 

 that subject is represented by a special section. 



It has been the custom at the annual meet- 

 ings of the British Medical Association to have 

 an exhibition of pathological and anatomical 

 specimens, and of apparatus more especially 



connected with the teaching and demonstration 

 of anatomy, physiology and pathology. This 

 year the Museum will be held in the dissecting 

 room at McGill University, where ample accom- 

 modation and light is afibrded to demonstrate 

 the specimens to every advantage, while, to 

 farther aid the exhibition, a special grant has 

 been obtained from the general committee. It 

 is suggested that a special feature of the year's 

 exhibit should be a collection of photographs 

 and micro-photographs, illustrating interesting 

 abnormalities of any kind whatsoever. 



An observatory is to be established at Odessa 

 as a branch of the observatory at Pulkowa. 



The lenses for the great telescope of the 

 Yerkes Observatory were shipped from Cam- 

 bridge on May 17th on a special parlor car, in 

 the care of Mr. Alvan G. Clark and two assist- 

 ants. 



The Anatomical Society of Great Britain and 

 Ireland will hold its annual summer meeting on 

 June 10th and 11th. An evening address will 

 be given by Professor His, of Leipzig. 



Nature states that the Geological Commission 

 of Cape Colony has published a bibliography of 

 South African geology, containing a list of 

 nearly 600 papers. 



The Berlin Academy of Sciences has granted 

 Professor Paschen, of Hanover, M. 1,100 for 

 experiments on the energy of the spectra of 

 dark bodies, and M. 1,000 to Dr. Hertz for the 

 reduction of observations from the Kuffner Ob- 

 servatory. 



We learn from Nature that the Committee of 

 the Puffin Island Biological Station have de- 

 cided to offer facilities to students and others 

 for the pursuit of scientific research at the 

 Station during the summer months. The island 

 is well situated for the study of both marine 

 zoology and ornithology, and the Station is 

 provided with sleeping accommodation in addi- 

 tion to the usual laboratories. Those wishing 

 to avail themselves of the present opportunity 

 should communicate with the Director, Profes- 

 sor P. J. White, University College of North 

 Wales, Bangor. 



The Italian correspondent of The Lancet 



