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artistic rather than for scientific purposes. The 

 collection is for sale, and if not sold in New 

 York will be exhibited in London. 



The Berlin Academy of Science has granted 

 1000 M. to Prof. Maximilian Kurtze, of Thorn, 

 for a History of Geometry in the Middle Ages. 



The Columbia Historical Society, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, held a memorial meeting on Decem- 

 ber 7 th in honor of Joseph Meredith Toner, 

 George Brown Goode and Kate Field, all of 

 whom were charter members of the Society. 



The British Medical Journal states that a 

 statue to Darwin will be erected in Shrews- 

 bury, his native town, by the Shropshire Horti- 

 cultural Society, at a cost of from $5,000 to 

 $6,000. 



Die Natur gives an account of two monu- 

 ments recently unveiled in Germany. A monu- 

 ment to Stephen Ludwig Jacobi, the discoverer 

 of the artificial culture of fishes, was unveiled 

 at Hohenhausen on July 4th. Jacobi was born 

 in 1711, and published, in 1765, an account of 

 the experiments he had made. A monument 

 to K. A. Lossen, the geologist, especially 

 known for his investigation of the Harz re- 

 gion, was unveiled at Wernigerode on October 

 19th. 



We learn from Nature that a monument in 

 memory of Father Secchi, the former director 

 of the Collegio Romano Observatory, has been 

 been erected at Regio, where he was born, at a 

 cost of 78,000 fr., which was collected by sub- 

 scription. 



We regret to notice the deaths of two Eng- 

 lish naturalists, Mr. Arthur Dowsett, who died 

 on November 6th, and Mr. David Robertson, 

 who died on November 20th. Dr. G. Carton, 

 the archaeologist, died recently at Thielt, Bel- 

 gium. 



At the annual meeting of the Edinburgh 

 Royal Society, Lord Kelvin was elected Presi- 

 dent, and Prof. James Geikie, Lord McLaren, 

 The Rev. Prof Flint, Prof. J. G. McKendrick, 

 Prof. Chrystal and Sir Arthur Mitchell were 

 elected Vice-Presidents. 



Peof. N. W. Skliposovsky has been ap- 

 pointed President and Prof. J. T. Klein, Vice- 

 President of the Organizing Committee of 



the International Medical Congress, 1897, and 

 Prof. W. K. Roth has been appointed General 

 Secretary in the room of Prof. Erisman, to 

 whose enforced retirement from the University 

 of Moscow we have recently called attention. 



The section o Mineralogy, of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences, has proposed as candi- 

 dates for the vacancy caused by the death of 

 M. Daubree, MM. Michel Levy, de Lapparent, 

 Barrois and Douville. The names are ar- 

 ranged in the order of the preference of the 

 section. 



It is reported by telegram from Cape Town 

 that Dr. Edington has discovered the microbe 

 of rinderpest, but no details have as yet been 

 received. 



Dr. Hugo de Vries has been appointed 

 director of the botanical gardens at Amster- 

 dam in the place of Dr. Oudemans. Dr. J. de 

 Winter, assistant in the zoological garden at 

 Antwerp, has been made director of the zoologi- 

 cal garden at Giseh, near Cairo. 



An international botanical garden is to be 

 established at Palermo, under the direction of 

 Prof. Borzi, of the University. It is hoped that 

 the favorable position of the garden may attract 

 foreign students. 



The concluding parts of v. Helmholtz's great 

 work, Handhuch der Physiologischen Optik, have 

 now been published by Leopold Voss, Leipzig 

 and Hamburg. The four last parts, extending 

 the volume to 1334 pages, contain only eleven 

 pages of text and consist chiefly of an elaborate 

 bibliography of physiological optics compiled by 

 Prof. Arthur Konig. 



The London Academy is greatly changed 

 with the issue of November 14th. Mr. Lewis 

 Hind becomes editor, signed reviews are aban- 

 doned and portraits are added. We are in- 

 formed that the journal will hereafter be largely 

 devoted to scientific discussions and announce- 

 ments. 



At the beginning of 1897 a new monthly 

 journal devoted to the nervous system and its 

 diseases, Monatschrift filr Psychiatrie und Neu- 

 rologic, will be published at Berlin. It will be 

 edited by Prof. Wernicke, of Breslau and Prof. 

 Ziehen, of Jena. 



