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appointed director of the Botanical Garden of 

 that city. His travels in Australia for botanical 

 purposes, on foot and on horseback, covered 

 some 25,000 miles. He was a voluminous 

 author, and his writings are mostly of a strictly 

 scientific character. The titles of over a hun- 

 dred papers by Miiller are given in the Eoyal 

 Society's List. His ' Fragmenta Phytographise 

 Australise' covers a dozen volumes. He co- 

 operated with the late Mr. Bentham in com- 

 piling the ' Flora Australiensis,' which extends 

 to several volumes. He is also the author of 

 works on the ' Plants of Victoria,' on eucalyp- 

 tus and on other botanical subjects. 



Dr. Max Muller, son of the great physiolo- 

 gist Johannes Miiller, himself an eminent sur- 

 geon and the author of important contributions 

 to the science, died at Cologne on September 

 3d. 



Dr. C. E. Brown-Sequard, the only son of 

 the late eminent man of science, and himself en- 

 gaged in scientific work, has died at Atlanta, 

 Ga. , at the age of 30 years. 



The Fourteenth Congress of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union will convene in Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. , on Monday, November 9th, at 8 

 o'clock p. m. The evening session will be de- 

 voted to the election of officers and the trans- 

 action of other routine business. The meetings 

 open to the public, and devoted to the reading 

 and discussion of scientific papers, will be held 

 in the Nash Lecture-room, University Museum, 

 Oxford St. , beginning Tuesday, November 10th, 

 at 10 a. m. , and continuing for three days. In- 

 formation regarding the Congress can be had 

 by addressing the Secretary, Mr. John H. Sage, 

 Portland, Conn. 



The German Botanical Society met at Frank- 

 fort-on-Main on September 22d. The French 

 Association of Surgeons met at Paris on October 

 19th. 



According to Nature Dr. H. O. Forbes, in an 

 inaugural address delivered before the Biological 

 Society of Liverpool on Friday last, urged the 

 amalgamation of all the local societies interested 

 in biological science. He suggested that such a 

 conjoint society meeting in some central place 

 and to be called, perhaps, the Biological Insti- 

 tute of Liverpool, or the Liverpool Institute of 



Natural Science, or if all the scientific societies 

 could be induced to unite, the Eoyal Society of 

 Liverpool, as was the suggestion, some ten years 

 ago, of Prof. Herdman, might be instituted on 

 the model of the New Zealand Institute. Such 

 a combined society in Liverpool would command 

 wider recognition, and contribute more to the 

 advancement of science, than is at present pos- 

 sible with disjointed forces. Dr. Forbes also 

 expressed the hope that two other scientific in- 

 stitutions of the highest educational value, 

 urgently required in a city like Liverpool — a 

 zoological garden and a resuscitated botanical 

 garden under a trained botanist, both conducted 

 in a thoroughly scientific manner — might be acr 

 complished facts before the end of this century. 



M. Henri Moissan gave, on the evening of 

 October 27th, at the College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons, New York, a lecture, with experi- 

 ments, on his researches with the electric fur- 

 nace, by invitation of the New York Academy 

 of Sciences, the New York Section of the Amer- 

 ican Chemical Society, the American Institute 

 of Electrical Engineers, the College of Pharmacy 

 of the City of New York, and the New York 

 Section of the Society of Chemical Industry. 

 On the evening of October 28th a banquet 

 was given in New York in honor of M. Moissan. 



Dr. Heinrich Kayser, professor of physics 

 in the University of Bonn, has just returned to 

 Germany, after having spent six weeks in Amer- 

 ica, making studies in astrophysics and spectro- 

 scopy. 



Hon. Bertrand Eussell, fellow of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, has arrived in America, and 

 will deliver a course of lectures on Non-Euclid- 

 ean Geometry^ at Bryn Mawr College and at 

 Johns Hopkins University. 



Mr. Charles D. Walcott, director of the 

 United States Geological Survey, is at present 

 on the Pacific coast, where he is making an in- 

 spection of the work accomplished during the 

 summer and arranging for the future conduct 

 of the surveys. 



Prof. Phillips, of the mathematical depart- 

 ment of Yale University, will revise the series 

 of mathematical text-books of the late Prof. 

 Loomis. 



