December 6, 1901.] 



SCIENCE. 



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prises. There will be a section devoted to 

 ancient and modern maps and globes, survey- 

 ing instruments, etc., which will comprise also 

 meteorological and ocean-sounding apparatus. 

 The committee proposes to assemble important 

 ethnographical collections, in view of the in- 

 terest taken in them by the public in regard to 

 trans-oceanic enterprises. The participation of 

 the Kongo Free State will largely contribute 

 to the success of this section. Besides the colo- 

 nial section, there will be a department devoted 

 to everything relating to the progress of naviga- 

 tion. Models of ships and of great maritime 

 works, improvements in the art of navigation, 

 and trophies of voyages of exploration will be 

 exhibited. It is desired to give to the exhibi- 

 tion an international character. 



The subject for the Spendiaroff prize of the 

 International Geological Congress for 1893 is a 

 critical review of methods of classifying miner- 

 als. Two copies of the paper must be sent be- 

 fore the next congress to the secretary of the 

 last congress, M. Charles Barrois, 62 Boulevard, 

 Saint-Michel, Paris. The value of the prize is 

 about $225. 



The November meeting of the Faculty Sci- 

 ence Club of Wellesley College was addressed by 

 Professor Cum'mings of the department of bot- 

 any, to whom the lichens of the Harriman Alas- 

 kan Expedition were sent for identification. 

 She showed on the map the region covered by 

 this and former collecting parties, and stated 

 that among the thousand specimens put into her 

 hands three new species had been found and 76 

 not before known in Alaska. 



The Botanical Gazette states that the herbarium 

 of Theodor von Heldreich, professor of botany 

 and director of the Botanic Gardens, Athens, is 

 for sale. It contains approximately 20,000 

 species, and richly represents the floras of 

 Greece, Asia Minor and Egypt. It contains 

 also hundreds of types and authentic specimens 

 of new species, described by Heldreich in the 

 works of Bossier. 



By the will of the late Mrs. Charles E. Balch, 

 of Manchester, N. H., the Manchester Insti- 

 tute of Arts and Sciences of that city is a bene- 

 ficiary to the extent of $50,000, in securities 

 and real estate to the value of about $30,000. 

 The will provides that the bequest is to be ap- 



plied to the purposes of the Fine Arts section of 

 the Institute. 



A COLLECTION of butterflies, containing over 

 5,000 specimens, has been given to the Art 

 Gallery of the Plainfleld, N. J., Public Library 

 by Mr. Alexander Gilbert. 



The National Educational Association will 

 hold its next annual meeting in Indianapolis, 

 beginning on July 7. 



The twenty-second annual exhibition of the 

 New York Microscopical Society will be held 

 on the evening of December 6, at the rooms 

 of the Society in the Mott Memorial Building, 

 64 Madison Avenue. The exhibition will be 

 open to the public, but cards of admission will 

 be necessary. These will be sent to those who 

 apply by letter to Dr. George W. Kosmak, 23 

 East Ninety-third Street. 



The Imperial Leopold Caroline Academy of 

 Sciences at Halle will celebrate the one hun- 

 dred and fiftieth anniversary of its foundation 

 on January 1, 1902. 



As the result of a meeting held at Frankfort, 

 under the presidency of Professor Edinger and 

 addressed by Professor Hagen, it was decided 

 to establish in that city a branch of the German 

 Anthropological Society. 



It has been previously announced in these 

 columns that the Botanische Centralblatt has be- 

 come the property of the Association Interna- 

 tionale des Botanistes. Arrangements for its 

 transfer to the Association have been completed, 

 and it will be published at Leyden beginning 

 January 1, 1902, under the direction of an editor- 

 in-chief appointed by the Association. Arrange- 

 ments have been made for the appointment of 

 a board of special editors in England, America 

 and France, and reviews will henceforth be 

 published in English, French and German. Be- 

 ginning with the first of January, 1902, the 

 Centralblatt will be sent gratis to all members of 

 the Association. The annual fee for members 

 is 25 shillings. The number of representatives 

 on the general committee of the Association to 

 which any country is entitled depends on the 

 number of members living in that country. 

 The names of previous subscribers to the Cen- 

 tralblatt are of course known to the editors in 

 cases where the subscriptions were taken in the 



