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SCIENCE. 



LN. S. Vol. IV. No. 86. 



The Bastian Memorial Volume contains 

 several articles of interest to students of 

 American ethnography ; as Dr. Boas, on 

 secret societies among the Kwakiutl Indians; 

 Seler, on the ruins of Quiengola; Dieseldorf, 

 on the Toltecs ; Ehrenreich, on the Botocudo 

 language, etc. D. G. Bkinton. 



Univeksity of Pennsylvania. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



In the issue of this Journal for June 19th, 

 will be found full details regarding the present 

 meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science at Buffalo. It will 

 be remembered that the first meeting of the 

 Council will be at noon on Saturday, August 

 22d, and the first general meeting will be on 

 Monday, August 24th. The work of the ses- 

 sions has been made continuous, not being in- 

 terrupted by Sunday or by a day for excursions. 

 The aflBliated societies, however, meet on the 

 21st and the 22d, and all who are able should 

 be present at Buffalo on those days. 



Prof. Hubert A. Newton, of Yale Uni- 

 versity, died in New Haven on the night of 

 August 12th. We hope to give in a future 

 number some details regarding Prof. New- 

 ton's life and his important contributions to 

 astronomy and mathematics. Yale University 

 and American science have recently sufiered 

 most severe losses in the deaths of Professors 

 Whitney, Dana, Eaton and Newton. 



Advices by cablegram regarding the eclipse 

 expeditions state that Prof Schaeberle and Prof 

 Todd in northern Japan were unsuccessful or 

 only partially successful in their observations, 

 but that the weather was clear and fine in Nor- 

 way. 



Cablegrams to the daily papers report that 

 Dr. Nansen has arrived at Vardo Island, Nor- 

 way, on board the steamer Windward, which 

 recently went to Franz Josef Land in order to 

 bring back the Jackson-Harmsworth expedi- 

 tion. It is stated that with Lieutenant Hansen 

 he left the steamer Fram, in which he had 

 hoped to be carried to the pole, in March, 1895 

 in Lat. 84, Long. 10.27, to explore north of the 



Franz Josef route. The party journeyed through 

 an unknown polar sea, and explored north of 

 Franz Josef Land to Lat. 86.14. No land was 

 seen to the north of Lat. 82; only ice. They 

 wintered on Franz Josef Land, living on whale 

 meat and bear meat. The Fram was reported 

 to be a good ice ship, and will arrive later this 

 year. There was no sickness on board. Al- 

 though the expedition failed to reach the object 

 of its search, it got four degrees farther north 

 than did any previous expedition. 



The second International Congress of Applied 

 Chemistry was opened at the Sorbonne, Paris, 

 on July 27th, about 1,600 delegates being 

 present. The admirable address of the Presi- 

 dent, M. Berthelot, is published in the Revue 

 Scientifique of August 1. 



The sixty-fourth annual meeting of the Brit- 

 ish Medical Association was opened at Carlisle 

 on Tuesday, July 28th, under the Presidency of 

 Dr. Henry Barnes, physician to the Cumber- 

 land Infirmary. As compared with the meet- 

 ing in London last year the attendance was not 

 large, about 700 members being present, but 

 the addresses by the Presidents of the sections 

 and the proceedings of the sections contain 

 much that is of interest, not only to the medical 

 profession, but also to those engaged in advanc- 

 ing medicine as a science. Following the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 the Medical Association will meet next year in 

 Canada, having accepted the invitation of the 

 Montreal branch. Prof. T. G. Roderick, pro- 

 fessor of surgery in McGill University, will be 

 President. The Association will probably meet 

 in Edinburgh in 1898. 



The sixty-eighth meeting of the German 

 naturalists and physicians will be held at 

 Frankfort from the 21st to the 26th of Septem- 

 ber under the Presidency of Prof. H. von Ziems- 

 sen. Lectures before the general sessions will 

 be given by Drs. Hans Buchner, Richard Lep- 

 sius. Max Verworn, Ernst Below and Karl Wei- 

 gert. Before the medical sections there will be 

 a discussion of the results of recent investiga- 

 tions of the brain led by Professors Paul Flech- 

 sig, Ludwig Edinger and E. von Bergmann. 

 American men of science will be welcomed at 

 the meeting. Membership cards can be oh- 



