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Vienna, and of Dr. Otto Christian Loven, 

 formerly professor of physiology at Stockholm. 



M. Alfred Picard has been appointed com- 

 missioner of France at the St. Louis Exposi- 

 tion. 



The American Mathematical Society will 

 hold its eleventh summer meeting at St. Louis 

 on September 16 and 17. The headquarters 

 will be at the Inside Inn on the Exposition 

 grounds. Professors H. S. White, A. S. 

 Chessin and E. E. Hedriek are the committee 

 in charge. 



The French Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science meets at Grenoble from the 

 fourth to the eleventh of August; the Swiss 

 Association met at Wintherthour from July 

 thirtieth to August the second. 



The International Botanical Congress will 

 meet in Vienna next year from June twelfth 

 to eighteenth. 



The trustees of the Percy Sladen Fund for 

 the assistance of scientific research, the estab- 

 lishment of which with an endowment of 

 $100,000 we recently noticed, have held their 

 first meeting, and will meet again in November 

 to consider applications for grants. 



According to Nature the report of the com- 

 mittee on ancient earthworks and fortified 

 enclosures was presented to the congress of 

 archeological societies on July 6. The com- 

 mittee expresses regret that more archeological 

 societies have not taken up the idea of com- 

 piling a schedule of the ancient defensive 

 works in their respective districts; and it is 

 urged upon the secretaries of societies to ar- 

 range, when possible, for the survey and 

 scheduling of all such works as are included 

 in the inquiry. The committee concludes the 

 report by again impressing upon archeologists 

 the importance of doing their utmost to pre- 

 vent the destruction which from time to time 

 threatens so many defensive enclosures of 

 earth or stone. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the first subject for its 

 prize essay is announced by the medical fac- 

 ulty of the University of Munich as follows: 

 " It has been stated that mice can not be ade- 

 quately nourished with pure food stuffs (albu- 



min, fats, carbohydrates, mineral salts and 

 water). Other investigators, on the other 

 hand, have succeeded in accomplishing this. 

 The faculty offers a prize for research in this 

 line on pigeons, which can readily be fed on 

 mixtures of the pure food stuffs." The sub- 

 ject announced for this year is given out again 

 for further study for next year's competition: 

 ' Study of the structure of the germinal ves- 

 icle in a large vertebrate.' 



The Scotia, bearing the Scottish Antarctic 

 Expedition, under the leadership of Mr. Bruce, 

 has returned to Glasgow, bringing, it is said, 

 valuable collections. 



Eeports have been received from Dr. Max 

 Uhle, who, since the beginning of the year, 

 has renewed his archeological explorations on 

 the coast of Peru, carried on by him through 

 the liberality of Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst for 

 the department of anthropology of the Uni- 

 versity of California. Dr. Uhle made new 

 excavations at Ancon, in several parts of the 

 so-called necropolis, with a view to determin- 

 ing the relative ages of the cultures repre- 

 sented by the different kinds of mummies and 

 objects. After abimdant material for this 

 purpose had been obtained, excavations were 

 made a short distance south of Ancon. Here, 

 in a hitherto unsuspected deposit free from 

 mummies, remains of an early culture distinct 

 in character from any other in Peru were 

 found. After completing his investigations 

 at this spot, Dr. Uhle proceeded northward 

 along the coast toward Supe or beyond. 



We learn from the London Times that at 

 the one hundred and fiftieth annual meeting 

 of the Society of Arts held recently, the 

 business consisted in the election of the new 

 council and the reading of the report. The 

 Prince of Wales was elected president for 

 the third year in succession. The report 

 stated that the society's Albert Medal had been 

 awarded to Mr. Walter Crane in recognition 

 of his services in the promotion of decorative 

 art. The prizes given during the year in- 

 cluded the Swiney Cup for a work on juris- 

 prudence, the Owen Jones, Mulready, and 

 North-London Exhibition Trust prizes for 

 work by art students, and prizes for fire pre- 



