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SCIENCE. 



LN. S. Vol. V. No. 127. 



Peofessoe Josiah Royce, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has been invited to deliver next year the 

 GifFord Lectures at the University of Aberdeen. 



M. SouiLLAET, of the University of Lille, has 

 been elected a correspondent in the section of 

 astronomy of the Paris Academy in the place of 

 Dr. Gylden. 



The Botanical Gazette states that the Eoyal 

 Swedish College of Agriculture has conferred 

 a gold medal on Professor Jakob Erilisson in 

 recognition of his studies of the life histories of 

 grain rusts. 



De. Feanz Boas, of the American Museum of 

 Natural History and Columbia University; Mr. 

 Harlan I. Smith, of the Museum of Natural 

 History, and Dr. Livingston Farrand, Columbia 

 University, have left New York for an expedi- 

 tion to the North Pacific coast, the expense of 

 which has been provided for by Mr. Morris K. 

 Jessup and which was fully described in the 

 issue of Science for March 19th. 



Nature states that Mr. R. C. L. Perkins, of 

 Jesus College, Oxford, who has been for several 

 years engaged on behalf of the joint committee 

 appointed by the Royal Society and the British 

 Association in studying the zoology of the Sand- 

 wich Islands has now returned to England. 



At the annual meeting of the New York 

 Electrical Society on May 20th Professor M. I. 

 Pupin was elected President and Mr. George 

 H. Guy, Secretary. There are now 397 mem- 

 bers of the Society. 



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 balneology and 

 climatology. 



The 66th annual fair of the American Insti- 

 tute will open in Madison Square Garden on 

 September 20th, and will continue for six 

 weeks. Efforts will be made to secure the ade- 

 quate representation of improvements in ma- 

 chinery made during the past year. 



The American Public Health Society will 

 hold its twenty-flfth annual meeting at Phila- 

 delphia from the 26th to the 29th of October. 

 Nineteen subjects have been suggested by the 

 executive committee for special discussion. 



The American Academy of Medicine held 

 its 22d annual meeting at Philadelphia, on Sat- 

 urday and Monday, May 29th and 31st. The 

 proceedings included a discussion on the rela- 

 tion of the College to the medical school, in 

 which the Medical School was represented by 

 Dr. Bayard Holmes, of the College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons, of Chicago; the College, by 

 President Warfleld, of Lafayette College, and 

 the University by Dr. William Pepper, lately 

 provost of the University of Pennsylvania. 



The fourth meeting of the International Con- 

 gress of Technical Education will be held in 

 London, beginning June 15th. 



We have received the first two numbers of a 

 Natural Science Journal, published by the At- 

 lantic Scientific Bureau, New Bedford, Mass. 

 We wish the Journal much success, but its con- 

 tents so far are amateurish in character. 



Professoe H. Keeutz, who, since the death 

 of the late Professor Krueger, has been tempo- 

 rary editor of the Astronomische Nachrichten, 

 has been appointed its editor by the Prussian 

 Department of Education. 



The bill passed by the New Jersey Legisla- 

 ture establishing a commission to investigate 

 the forests of the State has been vetoed on the 

 ground that the work can best be done by the 

 Geological Survey. 



The New York Tribune states that Mr. George 

 W. Hammond, of Boston, has given to the Pea- 

 body Museum of Harvard University his priv- 

 ate collection. It includes large numbers of 

 stone implements from the European countries 

 and many interesting relics of the Colorado 

 cliff-dwellers, as well as specimens from vari- 

 ous parts of the United States. It was un- 

 derstood that Harvard College could select all 

 specimens desired for the Museum, and that 

 those not wanted should go to Bowdoin College. 



It is announced that a lady has given the 

 sum of £70 towards the purchase of apparatus 

 for the psychological laboratory in University 

 College, London, to which we recently referred. 

 Professor Carey Foster has ofiered temporary 

 accommodation in the physical department and 

 it is hoped that a lecturer will be secured in 

 October. 



