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the annual general meeting of the Society, 

 which will be held on November 12th, Major 

 Macmahon will take as the subject of his vale- 

 dictory address, ' The Combinatory Analysis.' 

 On the same evening the De Morgan medal will 

 be presented to S. Roberts, F. E. S., who will 

 be the fifth recipient of the medal. 



According to the authorized announcement 

 of the University of the State of New York, Prof. 

 W. M. Davis, of Harvard University, has been 

 invited to prepare, for publication and distribu- 

 tion in the New York schools, a pamphlet, simi- 

 lar to that prepared for the State of Con- 

 necticut, as an aid to the more interesting and 

 profitable study of geography. Prof. Davis has 

 also consented to speak at the next University 

 convocation on the present trend of the study of 

 geography. 



The will of the late Sir John Erichsen be- 

 queaths to University College his surgical in- 

 struments and appliances, and to University 

 College Hospital £2,000 for the rebuilding fund 

 exclusively. 



The thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Na- 

 tional Educational Association will be held in 

 Milwaukee during the first week of July of next 

 year. 



We learn from The Lancet that the new 

 Pathological Institute, which has been erected 

 in the grounds of the Western Infirmary, Glas- 

 gow, was formally opened on the 14th inst. 

 The institute comprises a large lecture room, 

 post-mortem laboratory, practical class room, 

 chemical and bacteriological laboratories, pho- 

 tographic room and private working rooms, in 

 which original researches may be conducted, as 

 well as a large and commodious museum. The 

 total expenditure has exceeded £15,000. At 

 the inaugural ceremony Prof.Gairdner delivered 

 an address on the relation of the study of pa- 

 thology to the art of medicine and the public 

 health. Speeches were also delivered by Prof. 

 Coats, Prof. Boyce (Liverpool), Dr. Leith, 

 (Edinburgh), Mr. J. G. A. Baird, M.P., and Mr. 

 J. Wilson, M.P. 



It is announced that The Yerkes Observatory 

 will be ready for dedication and occupancy by 

 the middle of the present month. The first 

 bulletin of the observatory giving an account 



of its organization has already been issued. 

 The bulletins will be published regularly and 

 will contain announcements of new discoveries, 

 and of the work of the observatory. There will 

 also be published, under the title 'Contributions 

 from the Yerkes Observatory,' papers contri- 

 buted to various journals ; and in quarto vol- 

 umes ' Annals of the Yerkes Observatory, ' con- 

 taining accounts of research. The Astrophysi- 

 cal Journal, published by the University of Chi- 

 cago, is now in its third volume and has main- 

 tained a high position as an international 

 journal devoted to astro-physics and spectro- 

 scopy. 



The foundation stone of the Marine Biologi- 

 cal Station, Firth of Clyde, was laid on the 18th 

 of last month by Dr. Thomas Eeid, who has 

 given £500 toward the building fund. The site 

 was given by the Marquis of Bute. 



A NEW laboratory of bacteriology has been 

 established at the University of Pennsylvania 

 by the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, in con- 

 nection with the veterinary department. The 

 purpose of this is to study all diseases connected 

 with poultry and cattle. Dr. M. P, Ravenel, 

 of the medical faculty, has been made director 

 and bacteriologist. 



D. . Appleton & Co, announce the early pub- 

 lication of the completion of Herbert Spencer's 

 system of philosophy. As first stated, this di- 

 vision of the Synthetic Philosophy was to be 

 treated in two volumes, but in their prepara- 

 tion the amount of matter grew to such propor- 

 tions that a third volume became necessary. 

 It contains: Part VI., Ecclesiastical Institutions; 

 part VII., Professional Institutions, and part 

 VIII, , Industrial Institutions. 



Among other forthcoming books we notice 

 ' Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural 

 Selection,' by E. B. Poulton (Cassell) ; ' An 

 Autobiography of George Biddell Airy, As- 

 tronomer Royal from 1836 to 1881,' edited by 

 Wilfrid Airy (Cambridge University Press), 

 and 'Ancient Volcanoes of Britain,' by Sir 

 Archibald Geikie, F. R. S., two volumes, illus- 

 trated (Macmillan). 



X house divided against itself: 

 ' ' I am much mistaken if the scientific spirit 

 of the age is not doing us a great disservice^ 



