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The president of the Local Government 

 Board, Loudon, has appointed Mr. William 

 Henry Power, F.R.S., the assistant medical 

 officer and medical inspector for general sani- 

 tary purposes of the Board, to the oifice of 

 medical officer of the Board, in the room of the 

 late Sir Richard Thorne Thorne, K.C.B. Dr. 

 H. Franlclin Parsons has been appointed as- 

 sistant medical officer and medical inspector for 

 general sanitary purposes, and Dr. R. Bruce 

 Low has been appointed an assistant medical 

 officer. 



We regret to record the death of Dr. John E. 

 Davis, profe-sorof mathematical physics in the 

 University of Wisconsin. 



We regret also to record the death, on Jan- 

 uary 23d, of Professor Henry A. Hazen, one of 

 the chief forecasters of the U. S. Weather 

 Bureau at the age of 50 years. Mr. Hazen was 

 killed as the result of a bicycle accident which 

 occured the day before. 



The death of David Edward Hughes, F.R.S., 

 is announced at the age of 60 years. He 

 was the author of numerous papers on elec- 

 tricity and magnetism and the inventor of the 

 Hughes printing telegraph instrument, of the 

 microphone and of the induction balance. He 

 had received the gold medal of the Royal So- 

 ciety and the Albert Bledal of the Society of 

 Arts. 



The death is also auounced of Mr. H. T. 

 Cox well at the age of 81 years. With Mr. 

 Jamer Glaisher, F. R.S. , he made in the early 

 sixties a number of balloon ascents, including a 

 noted one to a height of seven miles, which 

 yielded important contributions to entomology. 



The following deaths have also occurred 

 among men of science abroad: Dr.KarlFriedrich 

 Rammelsberg, formerly professor of chemistry, 

 in the University of Berlin, on December 29t.h, 

 at the age of 86 years ; Dr. Giovanni Zoia, 

 professor of anatomy at Pavia, and M. Mather, 

 the mineralogist, of Marseilles. 



M. Cauro, assistant professor of physics at 

 the Paris School of Pharmacy, has been killed 

 while making experiments on Mt. Blanc on the 

 Interruption of the electric current through ice. 



At the meeting of the Academy of Natural 



Sciences, of Philadelphia, on December 26th, 

 a life-size portrait of Linnaeus was presented to 

 the Academy by Mr. Charles E. Smith. It is a 

 copy by Mr. Boude-Wijnse of the original por- 

 trait belonging to Baron Verschuer at present 

 in his country house near Haarlem. In an Inter- 

 esting letter read before the Academy, Mr. 

 Smith states that he had been searching for the 

 portrait for about 20 years, and explains how he 

 had overcome the difficulties in finding the pic- 

 ture and securing the copy. 



The Torrey Botanical Club has appointed 

 a committee to prepare a program in com- 

 memoration of the life and work of Dr. John 

 Torrey, to be presented before Section G, of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, at its meeting in New York, in the last 

 week of June, 1900. 



The will of Ex-Chief Justice, Chas. P. Daly, 

 made, it appears, in addition to the public be- 

 quests already noted, a bequest of $20,000 to 

 the New York Botanical Garden, payable on 

 the death of his wife's sister. The Garden also 

 receives one-twelfth of the residual estate. 



Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson have 

 given to the Art Institute of Chicago, their 

 entire art collection, said to be the most valua- 

 ble private collection of ivories and rare orien- 

 tal carvings in Chicago, and the second in value 

 in the United States. 



The annual meeting of the Board of Regents 

 of the Smithsonian Institution was held at 

 Washington on January 24th. The report of 

 Secretary Langley for the year ending June 30, 

 1899, was presented and accepted. 



The House Committee on Agriculture has 

 authorized a favorable report on the bill to re- 

 organize the Weather Bureau, the chief pro- 

 visions of which were described in a recent 

 issue of this Journal. 



The New York Botanical Garden announces 

 among recent accessions, a gift of 25 microscopes 

 from Mr. W. E. Dodge, to be used as part of 

 the permanent display in the Museum ; the 

 greater part of the botanical library of the late 

 Dr. Hossack ; a herbarium, containing many 

 valuable specimens, from Mr. John J. Crook ; 

 200 drawings made by the late Professor August 



