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ment at last accounts had reached : Sir Michael 

 Foster, 903 ; Dr. Collins, 662 ; Mr. Busk, 439. 



Peofessoe Max von Pettenkofee, of 

 Munich, eminent for his contributions to 

 hygiene and sanitation, has been elected a 

 Knight of the Prussian Order Pour le Merita 

 in the Section of Sciences and Arts. 



The following named medical gentlemen 

 have accepted non-resident membership in the 

 Washington Academy of Sciences : H. P. Bow- 

 ditch, E. H. Fitz, Boston ; A. Jacobi, B. G. 

 Janeway, T. Mitchell Prudden, G. S. Hunt- 

 ington, New York ; W. W. Keen, Philadelphia ; 

 H. A. Kelley, Wm. Osier, Wm. H. Welch, 

 Wm. S. Halsted, Baltimore; Nicholas Senn, 

 Chicago; P. S. Conner, Cincinnati. 



De. J. B. Hatches, of Princeton Univer- 

 sity, whose appointment to the curatorship of 

 paleontology we announced last week, will 

 begin his work at Pittsburg on March 1st. 



The Turin Academy of Sciences has awarded 

 the Bressa Prize of 10,000 lire for the best 

 scientific work published during the past four 

 years to Professor Ernst Haeckel, of Jena. 



The Berlin Academy of Sciences has elected 

 to membership Dr. Wilhelm v. Branco, profes- 

 sor of geology and paleontology in the Uni- 

 versity. 



The Munich Academy has awarded its great 

 gold medal to the explorer, Eugen Wolf. 



The Academy of Sciences of St. Petersberg 

 has elected Professor Fischer of Berlin, and pro- 

 fessor Boltzmann of Vienna, as corresponding 

 members. 



The University of Berlin has conferred an 

 honorary degree of doctor of philosophy on 

 Ignaz Stroof, the chemist at Griesheim. 



A BUST of Bernhard von Langenbeck, the 

 eminent surgeon, is to be placed in the great 

 hall of the University of Berlin. 



De. Hans Betjno Geinitz, a geologist and 

 paleontologist of distinction, died at Dresden 

 on January 28th in his 86th year. 



Wb regret also to record, on December 9th, 

 the death of Walter Gotze, the botanist, while 

 on an expedition to German East Africa. 



The Highland Agricultural Society has con- 

 tributed £200 in aid of Professor E wart's ex- 



periments on telegony. A gift of £50 has also 

 been promised by Sir John Gilmour. 



A collection of invertebrate fossils from 

 Tennessee has recently been purchased for the 

 Peabody Museum, Yale University. A rear- 

 rangement of many of the specimens in the 

 museum is in progress, and some heretofore 

 inaccessible have been placed on exhibition. 

 The exhibits are to be photographed systemat- 

 ically for an illustrated catalogue. 



The collection of Indian relics which was on 

 exhibition at the Boston Museum for many 

 years, has been presented to the Peabody Mu- 

 seum of Harvard by the heirs of David Kim- 

 ball. The collection comes from the Algon- 

 quins, the Sioux, the Seminoles and the Choc- 

 taws, and was made by the famous explorers, 

 Lewis and Clark, about the year 1840. 



The trustees of the Western University of 

 Pennsylvania have decided to begin the erection 

 of the new building of the Allegheny Observa- 

 tory. It will be erected in River View Park 

 and cost $250,000. 



The St. Petersberg Institute of Experimental 

 Medicine has established a laboratory for the 

 study of plague and for the manufacture of 

 plague serum at Cronstadt. The laboratory is 

 surrounded on all sides by water, so that it can 

 be completely isolated. 



The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences 

 receives $15,000 by the will of Joseph C. Hoag- 

 land. 



The President of the Royal College of Phys- 

 icians has announced that the annual Harveian 

 Oration would be delivered by Dr. T. CliflFord 

 Allbutt, regius professor of physics in the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge, that Dr. Archibald Gar- 

 rod has been appointed Bradshaw Lecturer, 

 and Dr. John Sykes, M.O.H. St. Pancras, Mil- 

 roy Lecturer for the ensuing year (1901). 



The Washington Academy of Sciences an- 

 nounces that the second of the series of meet- 

 ings for the exposition of ' Photography as an 

 Aid to Research ' will be held at Columbian 

 University at 8 p. m., Thursday, February 

 15th, when the following topics will be pre- 

 sented : ' Photography as an Aid to the Study 

 of Plants, ' by F. V. Coville ; ' Photography in 



