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XJpsala, Oopenliagen, Paris and elsewhere for 

 the purpose of studying types of algse. A 

 large number of photographs and notes on 

 critical forms were secured. 



The government of India has created 'an 

 imperial sanitary commissioner, separate and 

 independent from the director-generalship of 

 the Indian Medical Service, as the first step 

 towards the creation of a new sanitary de- 

 partment. Major J. T. W. Leslie, I.M.S., 

 has been transferred from the secretaryship of 

 the director-general to the new appointment. 



De. Eugene Albrecht, of Munich, has been 

 appointed director of the Senckenberg Insti- 

 tute of Pathology and Anatomy at Frank- 

 furt-a-M. 



The opening paper of the approaching ses- 

 sion of the Eoyal Colonial Institute, London, 

 will be read by Dr. G. R. Parkin. It will 

 embody the results and observations of his 

 recent tour of the Empire as organizer of the 

 Cecil Rhodes scholarships scheme. 



A COURSE of lectures on evolution in the 

 vegetable kingdom was given at Gresham Col- 

 lege, London, by Dr. E. Symes Thompson, 

 during the first part of the present month. 



Dr. a. C. Lane, state geologist of Michigan, 

 will give a series of lectures on economic 

 geology at the University of Michigan during 

 the second semester. 



Phopessor D. Clifford Allbutt, of Cam- 

 bridge, made one of the addresses on the occa- 

 sion of the unveiling of the tablet in memory 

 of Dr. Jesse William Lazear, in the new 

 surgical building of the Johns Hopkins Hos- 

 pital. 



We regret to record the death of Dr. Her- 

 mann Kortum, professor of mathematics at 

 the University of Bonn, at the age of 68 years. 



At the recent Cambridge meeting of the 

 British Association, the newly established 

 Psychological Society held a special meeting 

 in conjunction with the section of physiology. 

 The section of physiology is now definitely to 

 include in its title the two studies of physiol- 

 ogy and experimental psychology. 



The next meeting of the Society of Ger- 

 man men of Science and Physicians will be 



held at Meran, Austria, under the presidency 

 Dr. Franz von Winckel, professor of gjmecol- 

 ogy at the University of Munich. 



The St. Petersburg Institute of Experi- 

 mental Medicine has sent an expedition to the 

 shores of the Black Sea to inquire into the 

 prevalence of malaria, especially in the neigh- 

 borhood of Gagory. 



According to Renter's agency the Duke of 

 Orleans has applied to the Norwegian govern- 

 ment for permission to hire Dr. Hansen's ship, 

 the Fram, for the purpose of an Arctic expedi- 

 tion next year. The Aftenposten learns that 

 the admiralty will propose as conditions of the 

 arrangement that Otto Sverdrup shall captain 

 the ship, that the plan for the expedition shall 

 be sanctioned by the Norwegian authorities, 

 and that the University of Christiania shall 

 have the benefit, at least in part, of the scien- 

 tific results of the expedition. 



M. Leon Cleey has bequeathed $20,000 to 

 the French Society for the Protection of Ani- 

 mals, the interest to be awarded annually to 

 the schoolmaster or schoolmistress who shall 

 have done most to cultivate among his or her 

 pupils the spirit of compassion for their dumb 

 fellow-creatures. 



The telescopes and general apparatus used 

 for the production of the late Dr. Isaac 

 Roberts's celestial photographs are to be sold, 

 with the observatory house and grounds, situ- 

 ated 800 feet above sea-level. The telescopes 

 and apparatus may be sold separately. For 

 particulars Mr. W. S. Franks, F.R.A.S., Star- 

 field, Crowborough, Sussex, may be addressed. 



Dr. Buchan, the secretary of the Scottish 

 Meteorological Society, has sent to the London 

 Times the following communication, dated 

 Hamburg, September 30 : " In acknowledging 

 the much esteemed letter of the 23d of this 

 month the German Seewarte take occasion to 

 express their great regret at the closure of 

 the important observatories on Ben Nevis and 

 at Fort William. The stoppage of the ob- 

 servatory on the summit so exceptionally situ- 

 ated, and the low level station, will altogether 

 be found to be a heavy loss to meteorological 

 investigation. In view of the great impor- 

 tance of these observatories we confidently in- 



