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Professor Edward E. Taylor then read an 

 original sonnet entitled ' Le Conte and the 

 Yosemite,' and the proceedings were brought 

 to a close with selections of instrumental and 

 choral music. 



The bust of Dr. G. Armauer Hansen, the dis- 

 coverer of the bacillus of leprosy, was unveiled 

 by Professor Visdal in the garden of the Mu- 

 seum at Bergen on August 10. The chief ad- 

 dress was made by Professor Oskar Lassar, of 

 the University of Berlin. Congratulatory ad- 

 dresses were received from all parts of the 

 world, and the decoration of Commander of the 

 Order of Ola was conferred on Dr. Hansen by 

 the king of Norway. Dr. Hansen celebrated 

 his sixtieth birthday on July 29. 



It is announced in Nature that it has been de- 

 cided to erect in Leoben, Austria, a statue of 

 Peter Bitter von Tunner, who died on June 8, 

 1897, to commemorate his great services to the 

 metallurgy of iron. A committee has been 

 formed, with Mr. Ignaz Prandstetter as presi- 

 dent, Professor J. G. von Ehrenwerth as vice- 

 president and Professor Carl Fritz as honorary 

 secretary, to collect subscriptions. At a recent 

 meeting of the council of the British Iron and 

 Steel Institute the matter was considered. As 

 a contribution to the memorial could not be 

 voted from the funds of the Institute, the mem- 

 bers of council present decided to contribute 

 two guineas each, and Mr. Bennett H. Brough, 

 the secretary, has forwarded to the committee in 

 Leoben contributions amounting to about $230. 



The British Medical Journal states that for the 

 celebration of the eightieth birthday of Professor 

 Virchow on October 13, a committee has been 

 chosen for Switzerland, consisting of Professor 

 Kocher, of Berne, representing the Swiss medi- 

 cal commission, Professor von Carenville, of 

 Lausanne, who represents the Medical Society 

 of French Switzerland, Dr. Haffter, of Frauen- 

 field, representing the Central Medical Society, 

 and Dr. Reali, of Lugano, representing the 

 Medical Society of Italian Switzerland. Pro- 

 fessor SklifFasowski having been incapacitated 

 by illness, Professor Tarantzki, head of the 

 Medical Academy of St. Petersburg, has been 

 chosen president of the Russian committee in 

 his place. 



Among the numerous greetings from all parts 

 of the world addressed to Professor Siiss, the 

 eminent Australian geologist, paleontologist, 

 and politician, on the occasion of his seventieth 

 birthday, says the London Times, is one from 

 the Geological Society in London. He was 

 elected a foreign correspondent of the Society 

 in 1863 and foreign member in 1876, while 20 

 years later it bestowed upon him its highest 

 geological distinction, the Wollaston medal. 

 The telegraphic congratulation of the Society 

 concludes as follows: "Universally regarded 

 here as the greatest living geologist, whose 

 epoch-making work will bear fruit in the field 

 of science for generations to come. Warmest 

 congratulations and best wishes from British 

 colleagues. ' ' To his own countrymen Professor 

 Siiss has been not only a distinguished 

 pioneer in science. He has been an example of 

 enlightened patriotism and devotion to the pub- 

 lic welfare and an indefatigable reformer, whose 

 works will remain a monument to his memory. 



De. Thomas Masters Markoe, the eminent 

 surgeon, died on August 27, aged eighty-two 

 years. Since 1860, Dr. Markoe had been con- 

 nected with the College of Physicians and Sur- 

 geons of Columbia University as adjunct pro- 

 fessor and professor of surgery and later as 

 professor of the principles of surgery. 



Mr. Albert Nelson Cheney, fish culturist 

 of New York State, died at his home in Glen's 

 Falls, N. Y., on August 18, aged about fifty 

 years. He was the author of many contribu- 

 tions on pisiculture. 



The death is announced of Dr. Leroy Meri- 

 court at the age of seventy-five years. Dr. 

 Mericourt is known as one of the reorganizers 

 of the French naval medical service and for his 

 writings upon tropical medicine and hygiene. 

 He was a chevalier of the Legion of Honor, a 

 member of the Academy of Medicine and one of 

 the founders of the Archives de medicine navale. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given £7,500 to 

 Eutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland, for a 

 public library and £10,000 to Motherwell, 

 Lanarkshire, for a town hall. Gifts for libraries, 

 under the usual conditions, of $25,000 and 

 $37,000 are reported from Beloit, Wis., and 

 Moline, 111., respectively.. 



