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those of our own Association, except that there 

 are sections for applied chemistry, for geophysics 

 and for geography, while there is none for social 

 and economic science. Among the special lec- 

 tures promised are the following : Dr. E. Lecher 

 on ' Hertzian Waves,' Professor T. Boveri on 

 ' Fertilization,' and Professor W. Nernst on 

 ' Electro-chemistry.' 



Prince Henri d'Orl:eans, who has made 

 important geographical discoveries in Asia and 

 Africa, died at Saigon, China, on August 9, 

 aged thirty-three years. 



We also regret to record the death of Profess- 

 or August Tenne, curator of the mineralogical 

 collections of the University of Berlin ; of M. 

 David Dickson, director of the practical School 

 of Agriculture, at Berthonval, France, and of 

 Mr. Carsten Holthouse, at one time lecturer on 

 anatomy at the Aldersgate School of Medicine 

 and the senior fellow of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons, who was in his ninety-first year. 



The steamship Discovery of the British 

 Antarctic Expedition, sailed from Cowes on 

 August 6, and the Gauss, of the German Ex- 

 pedition, sailed from Kiel on August 11. The 

 Discovery should reach the Cape about Septem- 

 ber 12 and Melbourne about a month later. It 

 will proceed thence to Littleton, New Zealand, 

 which place it will leave about the middle of 

 December and will pi-obably come in contact 

 with the ice pack about the first of January. 



Mr. Willis L. Moore, chief of the Weather 

 Bureau, will leave Washington early in Sep- 

 tember for the Yellowstone National Park to 

 make an inspection of that region with a view 

 to the establishment of a meteorological ob- 

 servatory. 



Professor Lucien M. Underwood, of Co- 

 lumbia University, and Mr. O. F. Cook, special 

 agent for tropical agriculture for the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, have returned from a bo- 

 tanical expedition to Porto Rico. 



Dr. Peter A. Joder has been appointed as- 

 sistant chemist at the Utah Agricultural Col- 

 lege and Station, and Mr. W. T. Shaw has 

 been appointed assistant entomologist at the 

 Iowa Station. 



Professor H. C. Wilson, according to a 

 telegram to the Harvard College Observatory, 

 observed Encke's comet on August 5. 



Mr. a. L. Rotch, director of the Blue Hill 

 Observatory and the American member of the 

 International Aeronautical Committee, made a 

 balloon ascension from Strasburg, Germany, 

 with his colleague. Professor Hergesell, on July 

 4, in connection with the eighteenth series in 

 Europe. They reached a height of about 14,- 

 000 feet. The meteorological observations will 

 be published in the United States Monthly 

 Weather Review. 



It is reported in Nature that the French Min- 

 ister of War has asked the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences to give an opinion as to the possibility 

 of danger arising from the establishment of 

 wireless telegraphy stations in the neighbor- 

 hood of magazines containing powder or other 

 explosives. It is suggested that the nature of 

 the cases containing the explosive may be an 

 important matter for consideration in connec- 

 tion with the subject. 



The British Institution of Mechanical Engi- 

 neers held its summer meeting at Barrow-in- 

 Furness, under the presidency of Mr. W. H. 

 Maw, beginning on July 30. 



Mr. James Angus, of West Farms, N. Y., 

 who has given a valuable collection of butter- 

 flies to the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, and more recently a collection of Indian 

 implements to the Providence Museum, has 

 given to the latter institution his collection of 

 corals and agates. 



Mr. J. EwiNG Mears, of Philadelphia, has 

 presented the George W. Mears Memorial Medi- 

 cal Library of Indianapolis with 4,000 medical 

 books. The library was established as a me- 

 morial to his father, who practised medicine in 

 Indianapolis. 



Andrew Carnegie has offered Montreal 

 $150,000 for a library, provided the city will con- 

 tribute a site and spend $15,000 yearly in 

 maintenance. 



The secretary of the Marine Biological Asso- 

 ciation of the West of Scotland, Mr. John A. 

 Todd, 190 West George St., Glasgow, has sent 

 a notice stating that the General Committee of 



