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ing engineer iu New York, for his paper on 

 ' Interior Diagrams for Multiple Expansion En- 

 gines.' 



The University of Lyons has received a legacy 

 of 50,000 francs for the establishment of a prize 

 to be awarded every five years to a resident of 

 the city or neighborhood who shall have con- 

 tributed to the advancement of hygiene or 

 medicine. 



M. BISCHOFFSHEIM has given to the Paris 

 University the observatory established by him 

 -at Nice at a cost of 2,500,000 francs, together 

 with an endowment of the same amount. 



The government has appropriated 13,000 

 Marks for mounting the 12-inch photographic 

 telescope presented to the University of Heidel- 

 berg. Two thousand Marks have been given 

 to the Scientific Society of Heidelberg for pub- 

 lication. 



Andrew Cabnegib has promised the College 

 of Emporia, Kan., $50,000 for a library building 

 as soon as the present debt is paid. 



De. Domenik Joseph Eitter von Haus- 

 CHKA, formerly professor of medicine at Vienna, 

 has died at the age of 84 years. 



At the last meeting of the Council, the Ottawa 

 Field Naturalists' Club, Dr. Ami in the chair, 

 the following gentlemen were nominated a 

 committee of the Club on the Billings Memorial : 

 Mr. J. E. Whiteaves, Sir James Grant, Dr. 

 ' James Fletcher, Mr. Walter R. Billings, Mr. 

 Byron E. Walker (Toronto), Mr. W. J. Wilson 

 {Secretary of the Club), and Dr. H. M. Ami. 

 A handsome sum of money has already been 

 subscribed, and it is confidently expected that 

 sufficient funds will be raised to pay suitable 

 tribute to the memory of one who has done 

 much to advance researches in paleontology and 

 natural history in North America. 



The report of the Executive Committee of 

 the New York Zoological Society shows that 

 the Society has a total membership of 736, an 

 increase of 136 over last year. The committee 

 during the last year added $49,760 to the 

 Park's fund, making $160,779 in all. The 

 City had, however, cut the Society's allowance 

 to $40,000 from $60,000. It was stated that 

 the most pressing needs of the Society for new 



buildings could be met for $75,000. The fol- 

 lowing were elected members of the Board of 

 Mauagersof the class of 1904 : Ex-Gov. Morton, 

 Andrew Carnegie, Morris K. Jesup, John L. 

 Cadwalader, Philip Schuyler, John S. Barnes, 

 Madison Grant, William White Niles, Samuel 

 Thorne, H. A. C. Taylor, William D. Sloane, 

 and Hugh J. Chisholm. 



The report of the Palisades Commission, 

 which has been in communication with a 

 similar commission from New Jersey, was made 

 to Governor Roosevelt at Albany, on January 

 12th. It presents a bill providing for an appro- 

 priation of $250,000 to the National Govern- 

 ment for Palisades Park purposes, in addition 

 to land ceded in Rockland County. ' 'While New 

 York has a vastly greater material interest in 

 the preservation of the natural scenery of the 

 Palisades than has New Jersey,'' the commis- 

 sion says, " the former has offered to the Na- 

 tional Government only an unimportant contri- 

 bution in its very limited length of water front 

 on the Hudson, while the State of New Jersey 

 has offered to give property valued at upward 

 of $750, 000. It seems equitable that New York 

 should tender in money what she lacks in land. 

 With such an equalization of the burden, it is 

 deemed not unlikely that all three parties may 

 be brought into harmony in the carrying out 

 of the proposition to preserve the Palisades." 



The sixth annual series of University Lec- 

 tures in Biology, at Columbia University is 

 being given by Professor Thomas H. Morgan, of 

 Bryn Mawr College, on the subject of ' Regen- 

 eration and Experimental Embryology.' The 

 dates and subjects are as follows : Jan. 16th, 

 General Phenomena of Regeneration ; Jan. 19th, 

 The Conditions that Influence Regeneration ; 

 Jan. 23d, Special Problems of Regeneration 

 and Development, Specification of the Tissues ; 

 Jan. 26th, Development of the Egg in the Light 

 of Experimental Embryology ; Jan. 30th, The 

 Relations of Growth, Development and Regen- 

 eration. The lectures are given at 5 p. m. in 

 Schermerhorn Hall. No tickets are required. 



Positions of library clerk in the Department 

 Division of Forestry and of associate ethnologic 

 librarian in the Smithsonian Institution will be 

 filled by Civil Service examination during Feb- 



