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liver the Bradshaw Lecture at the Eoyal Col- 

 lege of Physicians on November 5th, The title 

 of the lecture will be ' Subjective Sensations of 

 Sound. ' The Lumleian lecturer for next year 

 is to be Dr. Bastian, and Dr. Luflf will be the 

 Gulstonian lecturer. Prof. Sidney Martin is to 

 deliver the Croonian Lecture in 1898. 



The lecturers before the Peabody Institute, 

 of Baltimore, will include the following : Pro- 

 fessors Young, of Princeton ; Hale, of Kenwood 

 Observatory, in the University of Chicago ; 

 Keeler, of the Allegheny Observatory; Michael- 

 son, of the University of Chicago ; Trowbridge, 

 of Harvard University, and Rowland and Ames, 

 of the Johns Hopkins University. 



The Sanitary Institute of Great Britain held 

 its Congress at Newcastle on Tyne, during the 

 week beginning September 2d. The Congress 

 was opened by the Duke of Cambridge, Presi- 

 dent of the Institute, and an inaugural address 

 was made by Earl Percy, President of the Con- 

 gress. Addresses were made before the Section 

 of Sanitary Science and Preventive Medicine 

 by Professor Corfield ; before the Section of 

 Chemistry, Meteorology and Geology by Mr. 

 W. H. Dives; before the Section of Engineering 

 and Architecture by Sir Andrew Noble, and a 

 large number of papers were presented. 



The eighteenth general conference of the 

 American Library Association, held recently at 

 Cleveland, was attended by 600 members. An 

 address was made by the President, Mr. G. 

 Dana, of the Denver Public Library, and a 

 large number of papers were read during the 

 four days the Association was in session. 



Prof. Michael Foster will give at St. Bar- 

 tholomew's Hospital on October 5th the first 

 Huxley lecture, his subject being ' Recent Ad- 

 vances in Science and their Bearing in Medicine 

 and Surgery.' 



Prof. Leber, editor of Graefe's Archiv fur 

 Ophthalmologic, was presented with the Graefe 

 medal at the recent German Ophthalmological 

 Congress in Heidelberg. 



Dr. Forsyth Major, who for over two 

 years has been engaged in an examination of 

 the fossil and recent flora and fauna of Mada- 

 gascar, has recently returned to London. The 

 expedition was supported by the Royal Society 



and the British Museum, and the collections 

 have been deposited in the British Museum. 

 The French government are preparing a still 

 more elaborate expedition to Madagascar under 

 the direction of M. Milne Edwards and M. 

 Grandidier. It is said that 600,000 fr. will be 

 spent on this expedition. 



It is stated that of the six steamers with 

 which Captain Wiggins sailed on the 18th of 

 August from Glasgow, four — namely the Glen- 

 more, Scotia, Dauphin, and Father John of 

 Kronstadt — will remain for service on the 

 rivers and lakes of Siberia. Although his flo- 

 tilla was late in sailing, it is hoped that he will 

 reach Yenisseisk, or at least Krasnoyarsk, before 

 the season of extreme cold commences. 



It is stated in the daily papers that a test of 

 Octave Chanute's Albatross flying machine, in- 

 vented and constructed by William Paul, was 

 made at Millers, Indiana, on September 18th, and 

 that though the flight was less than a hundred 

 feet the machine acted in a satisfactory manner. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that the arrangements preliminary to the found- 

 ing of a Pasteur Institute for India were dis- 

 cussed at a recent meeting in Simla, when 

 Surgeon-Major-General Gore, Principal Medi- 

 cal Ofiicer of Her Majesty's Forces, the Quarter- 

 master-General, the Surgeon-General with the 

 Government of India and Professor Hafi^kine 

 were present. It is proposed that the Insti- 

 tute should be erected in Kasauli or Darjeeling, 

 and be a general institute, and not one for 

 antirabic work only. 



The two following items are taken from the 

 last issue of Nature ; " A block of granite bear- 

 ing the following inscription has, says the 

 Academy^ been recently placed on the southern 

 shore of the Lake of Sils, in the Engadine : ' In 

 memory of the illustrious English writer and 

 naturalist, Thomas Henry Huxley, who spent 

 many summers at the Kursaal Hotel, Majola.' " 

 "It is announced that the Royal Society of 

 Canada has resolved to commemorate the five- 

 hundredth anniversary of the first landing of 

 Cabot in North America *by holding a meeting 

 at Halifax from June 30th to 26th of next year, 

 and to erect, at a cost of not less than £200, a 

 monument at Sydney, in Cape Bi-eton." 



