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We learn from Nature that Mr. J. E. Jack- 

 son, wlio for a period of forty-three years has 

 been associated with the Royal Gardens, Kew, 

 has resigned the keepership of the Museum of 

 Economic Botany, and is succeeded by Mr. J. 

 M. Hillier, whose place, in turn, has been taken 

 by Mr. J. H. Holland, late of the botanic sta- 

 tion at Old Calabar. 



Mr. Keith Lucas, B.A., of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, has been nominated to occupy the 

 university table at the laboratory of the Marine 

 Biological Association at Plymouth. 



Dr. Oliver Lodge, formerly professor of 

 physics at University College and now the 

 principal of Birmingham University, delivered 

 the opening address to the medical students of 

 University College, Liverpool, on October 12. At 

 the close of the proceedings a bust of Dr. Lodge 

 was unveiled by Professor W. A, Herdman. 



The death is announced of Dr. Vonkraflft, of 

 the Geological Survey of India. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has offered to pro- 

 vide libraries at San Juan, Porto Rico and Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., each at a cost of $100,000. He 

 has also given £37,000 for libraries at Dundee. 

 Mrs. Blackstone, widow of T. B. Black- 

 stone, has offered to give the city of Chicago a 

 $100,000 library building, to be conducted as a 

 branch of the public library. 



Dr. Frederick Peterson offers a prize of 

 $200 for the best original unpublished contribu- 

 tion to the pathology and treatment of epilepsy. 

 Papers received will be submitted to a com- 

 mittee, consisting of three members of the New 

 York Neurological Society, and the award will 

 be made upon its recommendation at the annual 

 meeting of the board of managers of the Craig 

 Colony, October 14, 1902. Manuscripts should 

 be sent to Dr. Frederick Peterson, 4 West 

 Fiftieth street. New York City, on or before 

 September 30, 1902. The successful essay be- 

 comes the property of the Craig Colony and will 

 be published in its medical reports. 



For a number of years archeological expe- 

 ditions to Iceland and Greenland have been 

 conducted at the expense of the Danish ' Carls- 

 berger Funds.' The directors have now de- 

 cided to defray the expenses of Dr. Kinde in 

 making excavations on the Island of Rhodes, 



especially in the neighborhood of the ancient 

 Acropolis. 



Arrangements have been made at- the Mill- 

 port Marine Biological Station, Scotland, for 

 the erection of a research laboratory and also 

 of a private boarding house. The site for the 

 new buildings has been promised by the Mar- 

 quis of Bute, and a gentleman who prefers to 

 remain anonymous has given £3,000 towards 

 their erection. 



The German Society of Men of Science and 

 Physicians will hold its meeting next year at 

 Carlsbad under the presidency of Dr. Hans 

 Chiari, professor of pathological anatomy at the 

 German university at Prague. 



The annual trip of the German Agricultural 

 Society in 1903 will be made to theUnited States. 



Foreign papers report the formation at Cape 

 Town of a ' South African Association for the 

 Advancement of Science,' to work as far as 

 possible on the lines of the British Association. 

 In July last a meeting was held to establish a 

 congress of engineers, when an influential com- 

 mittee was appointed. The proposal gradually 

 widened until at length it was found feasible to 

 establish a local 'British Association,' and a 

 meeting for that purpose was largely attended. 

 Sir David Gill, the Astronomer Royal at the 

 Cape Observatory, who presided, mentioned 

 that in November last he had attended a meet- 

 ing of the council of the British Association, at 

 which a very strong desire was expressed to 

 have a meeting of the British Association held 

 in South Africa. He was sure, he said, that in 

 the event of such a visit the hospitality of Cape 

 Town and Kimberly and other centers would 

 be quite equal to the strain which would be put 

 upon it by the visit of distinguished men of 

 science. Of course in the existing state of po- 

 litical affairs it was impossible to contemplate 

 such a matter seriously, and they must leave 

 the fuller consideration of the matter until the 

 country was settled and they were in a position 

 to exercise that hospitality. But if they 

 founded some association of the kind now indi- 

 cated, the year that the British Association 

 came to South Africa they should naturally 

 merge their meeting into that of the British 

 Association, and their organization would natu- 



