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of the vice-presidents of the congress, expects 

 to be at the Manhattan Hotel from September 

 9 to 14. The visitors will be entertained at 

 the University of Chicago from September 

 15 to 17. After the congress at St. Louis, 

 they will proceed to Washington, and will be 

 received by President Roosevelt on the twenty- 

 seventh. Visits will be made to the Johns 

 Hopkins University, the University of Penn- 

 sylvania and Princeton University. From 

 October 2 to 5 will be spent in Boston ; a recep- 

 tion will be given by Professor Miinsterberg, 

 a luncheon by the Harvard Corporation and a 

 banquet by the professors of Harvard Univer- 

 sity and the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology. October 6 will be spent at Yale Uni- 

 versity, and the closing festivity will be held 

 on October 8 under the auspices of the Asso- 

 ciation of Old German Students in New York. 

 We hope that any readers of Science, who, 

 owing to absence from home during the sum- 

 mer holidays or for other reasons, did not see 

 the last number of Science will turn to it and 

 read the invitation extended to American men 

 of science by President Butler, chairman of 

 the administrative board, and Professor New- 

 comb, chairman of the organizing committee, 

 and the article by Professor Miinsterberg, vice- 

 president of the congress. It is desirable that 

 as many American men of science as possible 

 be present at St. Louis from September 19 to 

 25 as an act of courtesy to the foreign visitors, 

 no less than from enlightened self-interest. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Professor Hugo De Vries, professor of 

 botany at the University of Amsterdam, gave 

 the convocation address at the University of 

 Chicago, on September 2. The degree of 

 LL.D. was conferred on him. 



At the conclusion of the address of Mr. C. 

 A. Parsons, as president of the Engineering 

 Section of the British Association, he was pre- 

 sented by Dr. Schroter with the gold medal 

 of the German Society of Civil Engineers. 



A PRIZE in chemistry, to be awarded every 

 second year for the best doctor's dissertation 

 in chemistry, has been established in honor of 

 the seventieth anniversary of the birth of 

 Professor U. Schiff, of Florence. 



Dr. H. H. Busby, professor of botany and 

 materia medica, in the New York College of 

 Pharmacy, Columbia University, is at pres- 

 ent studying the collections at Kew. 



Sir William Eamsay, the retiring president 

 of the Society of Chemical Industry, which is 

 meeting in New York this week, reached New 

 York on the first instant. 



Dr. S. Kjtasato, the well-knovTn Japanese 

 bacteriologist, is among the eminent men who 

 have recently arrived in this country to attend 

 the approaching Congress of Arts and Science 

 at St. Louis. 



The Honorable Carroll D. Wright, U. S. 

 Commissioner of Labor, will retire from this 

 office on December 1, when he will assume 

 the active presidency of Clark College. 



Professor G. H. Barton, of the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, and a party of 

 students, are at present in the Hawaiian 

 Islands studying their geology. 



Mr. J. E. BuRBANK, of the University of 

 Maine, has been appointed to a position in 

 the U. S. Magnetic Survey, Washington. 



Mr. F. C. Willcocks, demonstrator in en- 

 tomology and botany in the Southeastern 

 Agricultural College, Wye, has been appointed 

 entomologist to the Khedivial Agricultural 

 Society at Cairo. 



The president of the British Board of 

 Education has appointed Mr. W. I. Last, 

 A.M.I.C.E., senior keeper in the science divi- 

 sion of the Victoria and Albert Museum, to 

 be director of that division of the museum, 

 in the place of Major-General Festing, C.B., 

 F.E.S., who has recently retired at the age of 

 64 on the operation of the age limit. 



We learn from the London Times that the 

 Hugh Miller Memorial Institute at Cromarty 

 was opened on August 26, by Mr. Andrew Car- 

 negie. The institute, which had its inception 

 at the Hugh Miller centenary celebrations two 

 years ago, is a short distance from the house 

 where the geologist was born, and the accom- 

 modation provided includes a public library. 

 The site was given by Colonel Ross, of 

 Cromarty, the cost of the building, amounting 

 to £1,200 was defrayed by Mr. Carnegie, and 

 the public subscribed £400 for an endowment 



