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Young, M.D., F.R.S., etc. Born at Milverton, 

 1773. Died 1829. Physician, Natural Philos- 

 opher, and Master of many languages ; he first 

 established the undulatory theory of light, and 

 translated the Rosetta Stone, which is the key 

 to our understanding the Egyptian hiero- 

 glyphics." 



Dr. Adolf Erik Nordenskjold, the well- 

 known arctic explorer and naturalist, died on 

 August 13, in his sixty-ninth year. He first 

 visited Spitzenbergen in 1858 and again in 1861, 

 1864 and 1868, and visited Greenland in 1870 

 and 1875. In 1878-79 he made his famous voy- 

 age in the Vega through the northeast passage. 

 He was professor in the Royal Museum of Nat- 

 ural History at Stockholm. 



The deaths are announced at the age of 55 

 years of Dr. W. Schur, pi'ofessor of astronomy 

 at Gottingen^ and of Dr. E. Rehnisch, professor 

 of philosophy at the same university, at the age 

 of 62 years. 



M. Casimar de Candolle was elected hon- 

 orary president of the recent International Con- 

 gress of Botanists at its meeting in Zurich on 

 August 8, and Professor Claudet, of Geneva, 

 was elected acting president. 



The British Mycological Society will hold a 

 meeting at Exeter dui'ing the week beginning 

 September 23. Professor H. Marshall Ward, 

 of Cambridge University, will give a presiden- 

 tial address. 



Among the Americans in attendance at the 

 International Congress of Zoology are Profess- 

 ors Wilson of Columbia, Mark of Harvard, Pat- 

 ten of Dartmouth, McMurrich of Michigan, 

 Woodworth of California, Dr. Allen of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, Dr. El- 

 liot of the Field Columbian Museum, Dr. Stiles 

 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and Mr. 

 Stejneger of the U. S. National Museum. News 

 has not yet reached this country regarding the 

 meeting of the Congress, but about 150 papers 

 have been promised in advance to be presented 

 before seven sections, as follows : (1) General 

 zoology ; (2) vertebrata (biology, classification, 

 distribution) ; (3) vertebrata (anatomy, histo- 

 logy, embryology) ; (4) invertebrata, except 

 arthropoda ; (5) arthropoda ; (6) economic zo- 

 ology (fisheries, etc.) ; (7) nomenclature. Lec- 



tures before the Congress as a whole have been 

 arranged by Professor G. B. Grassi on ' The 

 malaria problem from a zoological standpoint,' 

 by Professor A. Forel on ' The physical char- 

 acters of ants,' by Professor E. B. Poulton on 

 ' Mimicry and natural selection,' by Professor 

 Wilhelm Branco on ' Fossil human remains' 

 and by Professor Ives Delage on a subject not 

 announced. Dr. P. L. Sclater is expected to ex- 

 hibit the skull of the Okapi Johnstoni, the re- 

 markable mammal recently discovered in the 

 Semliki forest of the Congo State. The enter- 

 tainments were expected to include an ex- 

 cursion to Potsdam, a theatrical performance, 

 a luncheon by the Berlin Zoological Society 

 and a dinner in the Zoological Gardens. Fol- 

 lowing the Congress an excursion is planned to 

 Hamburg and Heligoland. 



The American Institute of Electrical Engi- 

 neers began its annual meeting in New York 

 City on August 14, with a large number of » 

 foreign delegates in attendance. The members 

 then proceeded to BuflPalo, stopping to visit the 

 works of the General Electric Company at 

 Schenectady, and are this week holding meet- 

 ings for the presentation of scientific papers 

 and inspecting the electrical equipment installa- 

 tions at the Exposition and at Niagara Falls. 



A Historical Congress will be held in Rome 

 in the spring of 1902. We understand that the 

 history of science will be specially included in 

 the scope of the Congress. 



Dr. C. W. Daniels left Liverpool, on July 

 8, for Sierra Leone, West Africa, to join the 

 sixth malarial expedition of the Liverpool 

 School of Tropical Medicine under Major Ron- 

 ald Ross. Dr. Daniels was a member of the 

 Royal Commission on Malaria, in which ca- 

 pacity he spent a long time in Central and East 

 Africa recently. He will join Major Ross in 

 Sierra Leone, and will probably proceed to the 

 Gold Coast and Lagos. The expedition is now 

 composed of Major Ronald Ross, Dr. Logan 

 Taylor, Dr. McKendrick (officially attached to 

 the expedition on behalf of the Indian Govern- 

 ment), and Dr. Daniels. The seventh expedi- 

 tion of the Liveri:)ool School, which will be de- 

 spatched to the Gambia, is expected to leave for 

 Bathurst about the end of the present month. 



