September 11, 1896.] 



SCIENGE. 



355 



GENERAL. 



At the close of the regular Meeting of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science at Detroit next year the Association 

 will adjourn to Toronto to welcome the British 

 Association. 



The meeting of Russian naturalists and 

 physicians will in 1897 be held at Kief from the 

 21st to the 30th of August. 



The annual meeting of the Association of 

 OflBcial Agricultural Chemists will be held in 

 the lecture hall of the National Museum, of 

 Washington, on November 6th, 7th and 9th. 

 The Association of Agricultural Colleges and 

 Exjjeriment Stations will convene on the fol- 

 lowing day, November 10th. 



The monument to Lavoisier mentioned in the 

 last number of this Journal will be designed 

 by M. Barrias, a member of the Institut, 



We learn from Natural Science that the prin- 

 cipal part of the paleontological collection of 

 the late Mr. William Pengelly, of Torquay, has 

 been presented by his widow to the British 

 Museum (Natural History) and to the Museum 

 of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street. The fos- 

 sils were obtained chiefly from the Paleozoic 

 formations of Devon and Cornwall, but also 

 comprise a series of bones and teeth from the 

 Happaway Cavern, near Torquay. 



Another serious earthquake is reported to 

 have occurred on the evening of August 31st in 

 the northeast provinces of the main island of 

 Japan, the same provinces that suffered so 

 severely from the earthquake and tidal wave of 

 June 15th, last. 



The iron work of the dome of the Yerkes 

 observatory (which is 110 feet high, 90 feet in 

 diameter, and weighs about 200 tons) is now 

 in position, and it is hoped that it may be pos- 

 sible to move before winter the lenses now ready 

 in the work-shop of Mr. Alvan Clark. 



We regret to record the death of Prof. J. L. 

 Delboeuf, who died at Bonn, on August 13th, at 

 the age of sixty-five. M. Delbceuf, who was 

 professor at Liege, had offered a paper entitled 

 Sur les suggestions criminelles at the recent 

 Munich Psychological Congress, but seems to 

 have been attacked with illness on his way to 



the meeting. We also regret to learn of the 

 death of Prof. Richard Avenarius, of Zurich, 

 one of the ablest of contemporary philosophers 

 and psychologists. 



There will be held in Madison Square Gar- 

 den, New York, during the two weeks begin- 

 ning January 25, 1897, a * Gas Exposition. ' The 

 offices for the present will be located at 280 

 Broadway, where applications may be made for 

 exhibition spaces, or information of any char- 

 acter relating to the exhibition. 



Dr. S. Ramon Y. Cajal, professor of histology 

 and pathological anatomy in the University of 

 Madrid, is the editor of a new journal entitled 

 Bevista Trimestral Micrografica. 



The first or 'general' part of Dr. Richard 

 Hertwig's Lehrbuch der Zoologie has been trans- 

 lated by Prof. George W. Field, of Brown Uni- 

 versity, and will be published soon by Henry 

 Holt & Co. 



The Botanical Gazette states that Prof. J. M. 

 Coulter's Flora of Western Texas, published 

 among the contributions from the U. S. National 

 Herbarium and issued in three parts, has been 

 republished and bound into a single volume. 

 The original edition of the first part had been 

 entirely exhausted. 



Mr. Thomas Hick, lecturer in botany at 

 Owens College, Manchester, and the author of 

 papers on sea- weeds and on paleobotany, died in 

 August at the age of fifty-six. Natural Science 

 states that, at a meeting held recently at the 

 Manchester Museum, it was decided to collect a 

 sum of money with a view to purchasing his 

 collection of microscopic sections of coal plants 

 and depositing them in the Museum. Any sur- 

 plus will be devoted to the purchase of a por- 

 tion of his library, to be given to the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union or to perpetuate his memory 

 in such other manner as may be decided upon 

 by the contributors. 



Mr. John Houston, a civil engineer and rail- 

 way constructor, died at Arlington, N. J., on 

 August 30th. He was born in Scotland, but had 

 lived in America for fifty years. 



Prof. C^sare Lombroso, of Turin, in a re- 

 cent compilation on 'graphology' included three 

 pages from a work on the same subject by M. 



