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aged 50 ; Dr. George Mercer Dawson, died 

 March 2, aged 52 ; John Christian Malet, died 

 April 9, aged 53 ; Professor Henry G. Hen- 

 nessy, died March 8, aged 76 ; Professor John 

 Viriamu Jones, died June 2, aged 45 ; Dr. 

 Charles Meldrum, died August 28, aged 80. 

 The foreign members were Charles Hermite, 

 died January 14, 1901, aged 78 ; Henry A. 

 Eowland, died April 16, aged 53 ; Henri de 

 Lacaze-Duthiers, died July 21, aged 81; Profess- 

 or Alexsandr Kowalewski, died November 22. 



Professor Henry Fulton, dean of the 

 School of Applied Science of the University of 

 Colorado at Boulder, died on December 7, aged 

 55 years. Dean Fulton was prominent in edu- 

 cational affairs of the State for many years. 

 By his death the University loses an able pro- 

 fessor and valued administrative officer. 



Professor Aleksandr Aleksandrovic 

 KovALEVSKij, professor emeritus of zoology at 

 the University of St. Petersburg, died in that 

 city on November 22. 



Dr. Arthur Konig, associate professor of 

 the physiology of the sense organs at the Uni- 

 versity of Berlin, and director of the physical 

 section of the Physiological Laboratory, died on 

 October 26 at the age of forty-five years. 

 Dr. K5nig was an assistant of Helmholtz's and 

 aided in the preparation of the second edition 

 of the Physiologische Optik. He had carried out 

 important researches on vision, and, with Pro- 

 fessor Herm. Ebbinghaus, edited the Zeitschrift 

 fur Psychologie und Physiologie der Sinnesorgane. 



The death is announced of Dr. A. A. Tokasky, 

 head of the Moscow Physiological Laboratory. 



Jacob Heinrich Krelage, a Dutch botanist 

 and horticulturist, died on December 1, at the 

 age of seventy-six years. He was head of a 

 well-known firm engaged in the growing of 

 bulbs. 



Representative Woods, of California, has 

 introduced a bill in the House creating a de- 

 partment of mines and mining. The depart- 

 ment would have a secretary with a seat in the 

 cabinet. 



The recent changes in ownership and plans 

 of the Botanisches Centralblatt have already been 

 referred to in these columns. The Committee 

 of the Society for Plant Morphology and 



Physiology, to which the selection of A.merican 

 editors for that journal was entrusted by the 

 officers of the International Association, will 

 make a full report to the Society at its Co- 

 lumbia meeting on December 31, and the sub- 

 stance of the report will also be announced to 

 the botanists at the Chicago meeting. In the 

 meantime we are authorized to announce the 

 names of the American editors already chosen, 

 who, with their respective departments, are as 

 follows : 



Phanerogams (systematic), and Chairman of the 

 American Board, Professor William Trelease, Missouri 

 Botanical Garden. 



3forp7iology, Professor D. H. Campbell, Leland 

 Stanford University. 



Physiology, Professor D. T. MacDougal, New York 

 Botanical Garden. 



Cytology, Dr. C. J. Chamberlain, University of 

 Chicago. 



Paleontology, Professor D. P. Penhallow, McGill 

 University. 



Fungi, and Secretary of the American Board, Dr. 

 Hermann von Schrenk, Shaw School of Botany. 



Algie and Archegoniatie, Dr. G. H. Moore, of Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Further announcements as to the organiza- 

 tion of this board, etc., will later be made, but 

 in the meantime it is desirable that the authors 

 of all papers published in America should send 

 separates directly to the respective editors. It 

 is expected also that at the Columbia meeting 

 nominations of the two members of the General 

 Committee, to be voted for by the American 

 members of the International Association, will 

 be suggested. 



The sixth annual meeting of the New York 

 State Teachers' Science Association will be held 

 at Syracuse, N. Y., on September 27 and 28. A 

 full and carefully selected program is oflfered 

 including papers and discussions interesting to 

 all teachers of science. 



Senator Wm. A. Clark has made a dona- 

 tion of $250 to facilitate the work of the Uni- 

 versity of Montana Biological Station at Flat- 

 head Lake. This is the fourth contribution 

 from Senator Clark for this purpose. 



One of the American delegates to the Pan- 

 American conference in Mexico City has pre- 

 sented a plan looking to the creation of an inter- 



