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bers to the testimonial, together with a record 

 of the work which each of them has done 

 either in conjunction with Prof. Horsley or in 

 the Brown Institute and in the Pathological 

 Department of University College during the 

 time these laboratories were under his direction. 



Dr. L. H. Bauer, editor of Terrestrial Mag- 

 netism^ is making a magnetic survey of Mary- 

 land under the auspices of the State Geological 

 Survey, now being conducted by Prof. Clark, 

 State Geologist. 



George Whitefield Samson, D. D. , LL. D. , 

 formerly President of Columbian University, 

 Washington, died in New York city on August 

 8th, aged 77 years. 



The deaths are announced of Prof. August 

 Kanitz, Director of the Botanical Gardens at 

 Klausenburg, and of Prof. F. R. SimOny, the 

 Alpine explorer, who died on July 20th, at the 

 age of 83. 



The 'Leopolinisch-Carolinische Academie,' of 

 Halle, is about to publish Cuvier's first compo- 

 sition, which is on the edible crabs of the French 

 coast, and dates from the year 1788. The 

 Academy has in its possession a number of let- 

 ters of Cuvier, which it is also intended to pub- 

 lish. 



The Observatory of the School of Technol- 

 ogy at Karlsruhe will be removed to Heidel- 

 berg. Its director. Prof. Valentiner, has been 

 made professor in the University of Heidel- 

 berg. 



An observatory for terrestrial magnetism has 

 been established in connection with the astro- 

 nomical observatory in Munich and Dr. Franz 

 von Schwarz has been made director. 



The Vienna Academy of Science proposes as 

 the subject of the Baumgartner Prize ($5000), 

 to be awarded in 1899, ' The extension of our 

 knowledge of ultra violet rays. ' 



We learn from Natural Science that a new 

 zoological gai-den has been opened at Konigs- 

 berg, in Prussia, under the directorship of Dr. 

 J. Miiller, formerly of the Garden in Berlin ; 

 also that a State Entomological Experiment 

 Station, for which the money has been voted 

 by both Chambers, is to be built near Stock- 

 holm. 



The first number of the twenty-second vol- 

 ume of the Botanical Gazette is published from 

 the press of the University of Chicago, and, 

 like the other journals of the University, is ad- 

 mirably printed on fine paper with wide mar- 

 gins. Profs. George F. Atkinson, of Cornell 

 University, Volney H. Spalding, of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, Roland Thaxter, of Har- 

 vard, and William Trelease, of the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden, will hereafter act as associate 

 editors. 



Prof. W. Nernst, of the University of Got- 

 tingen, has become the scientific editor of the 

 Zeitschrift fur Elektrochemie. 



Gauthier-Villars et fils announce an 

 atlas containing fifteen large plates from photo- 

 graphs taken with the Rontgen rays by J. M. 

 Eder and E. Yalenta. The work on the same 

 subject by E. E. Guillaume, also published 

 by Gauthier-Villars, has reached a second edi- 

 tion. 



It appears that a new and very objectionable 

 manner of advertising has been devised in 

 Great Britain. In the bedrooms of some of the 

 leading hotels, not only toilet articles, but also 

 patent medicines are placed, in the hopes that 

 guests will use and pay for these. 



The Paris Municipal Council authorized on 

 July 10th the establishment of stands for auto- 

 mobile cabs. It is also considering the use of 

 auto-mobile omnibuses, which, if adopted, will 

 throw 27,000 horses out of employment! France 

 seems to be distinctly in advance of England, 

 Germany or America in the use of horseless 

 carriages. 



The volume of Biological Lectures of the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory, of Woods HoU, 

 for 1895, is announced by Ginn & Co. as nearly 

 ready. The volume will contain the following 

 lectures: ' Infection and Intoxication,' Simon 

 Flexner ; 'Immunity,' George M. Sternberg; 

 'A Student's Reminiscences of Huxley,' Henry 

 Fairfield Osborn ; ' Paleontology as a Morpho- 

 logical Discipline,' W. B. Scott; 'Explanations 

 or How Phenomena are Interpreted,' A. E, 

 Dolbear ; ' Known Relations between Mind and 

 Matter, ' A. E. Dolbear ; ' On the Physical Basis 

 of Animal Phosphorescence,' S. Watase ; 'Seg- 

 mentation of the Vertebrate Head,' William A. 



