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stroke. He was for some time employed at 

 the Geodetic Institute in Berlin, and was after- 

 wards appointed to the observatory at Kiel, 

 and held a professorship at the university of 

 that city. 



Dr. Axel Ericcson, the Swedish explorer, 

 died in the interior of Africa on May 31. 



It is this week reported that Mr. Andrew 

 Carnegie has offered to give $100,000 for a 

 library building at Leadville, Colo. ; $35,000 for 

 Alameda, Cal., and $75,000 for Coatbridge, 

 Scotland. 



Mr. T. G. Young has bequeathed £3,000 to 

 the Technical College, Glasgow, for the purpose 

 of establishing exhibitions in connection with the 

 chemical laboratory. 



An institute for the official examination and 

 analysis of new drugs and remedies is to be 

 established in connection with the Imperial 

 Board of Health in Berlin. 



The newly established Health Board for the 

 Philippines will shortly begin to work in co- 

 operation with the army surgeons throughout 

 the archipelago in studying the relation of 

 mosquitoes to malaria. 



The library of the late Dr. Felix Birch-Hirsch- 

 feld, professor of pathological anatomy in the 

 University of Leipzig, has been purchased by 

 the Cornell University Medical College. It 

 contains about 5,000 volumes, and cost about 

 $10,000. 



The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths has 

 purchased for £10,000 the library of economic 

 literature collected by Professor H. S. Foxwell. 

 This was done just in time to prevent the re- 

 moval of the library to the United States. 



Mr. George Grant McCurdy, of Yale Uni- 

 versity, secretary of Section H, Anthropology, 

 of the American Association, has sent to mem- 

 bers the following notice : 



The Fiftieth Meeting of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science will be held in Den- 

 ver, Colorado, August 24-31, 1901. Dr. J. Walter 

 Fewkes, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, will 

 preside over the Section of Anthropology. 



You are cordially invited to attend and to contrib- 

 iTte papers upon subjects connected with your field 

 of research. 



In order that a preliminary sectional program may 

 be distributed in advance of the meeting, titles of 

 communications should be sent to the secretary as 

 soon as possible. Abstracts of papers or the papers 

 themselves may be sent later at the convenience of the 

 authors, who are reminded that no title will appear 

 on the final program until the paper either in full or 

 in abstract has been passed upon by the Sectional 

 Committee. 



Excursions to points in the southwest, of special 

 interest to anthropologists, are being planned. 



The president of the Davenport Academy of 

 Sciences, Mrs. M. L. D. Putnam, requests us to 

 extend an invitation in the name of the Acad- 

 emy to the members of the American Associa- 

 tion to visit its museum and archeological col- 

 lections in going to, or returning from, Denver. 

 Davenport, la., is on the Chicago, Rock Island 

 and Pacific Railway on the direct route to 

 Denver. 



The International Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, Arts, and Education will 

 hold its second meeting at Glasgow, in the Uni- 

 versity and in the Exhibition, from July 29 to 

 September 27. One of the most important func- 

 tions of the meeting will again be, as at Paris 

 last year, to study and interpret the matters 

 of scientific, geographic and other interest af- 

 orded by the exhibition by means of lectures 

 and conferences, with demonstrations and visits 

 under skilled guidance. 



It appears from the London medical journals 

 that the Congress of Tuberculosis which will 

 open in London on July 22 will be of consider- 

 able importance. Over 1,200 applications for 

 membership have already been received, and it 

 is expected that more than 2,000 members will 

 be in attendance. The sum of about $25,000 

 has already been collected for the expenses 

 of the meeting. The program includes ad- 

 dresses by Professors Koch, Brouardel and 

 Macfadyean. 



The American Philological Association held 

 its thirty-third annual meeting at Harvard Uni- 

 versity >ast week with a full program. The 

 meeting will be held next year at Union Col- 

 lege, Schenectady, N. Y., under the presidency 

 of Professor Andrew F. West, of Princeton 

 University. 



A CIVIL service examination will be held on 



