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be sent to various officers and libraries of the 

 university and the Royal College of Physicians. 



The late Professor D. E. Hughes bequeathed 

 £400 to the Paris Academy of Sciences for the 

 establishment of a prize for the most important 

 discovery in physical science, preference being 

 given to a discovery in electricity or magnetism. 



Undee the direction of Professor A. A. 

 Wright of Oberlin College, systematic excava- 

 tion has been commenced in Brownhelm, Ohio, 

 near Lake Erie and about twelve miles from 

 Oberlin, to recover mastodon remains, the first 

 of which were discovered several years ago. 

 The jaws and head, both tusks, together with 

 a number of ribs and vertebris have been ob- 

 tained in a good state of preservation. The bones 

 are much scattered and lie upon a clay hard- 

 pan at the bottom of a muck bed four feet deep. 



The Royal Meteorological Society, London, 

 will celebrate its 50th anniversary on April 3d. 

 The Council has arranged for a commemoration 

 meeting to be held at 3 p. m. at the Institution 

 of Civil Engineers, at which the president will 

 deliver an address, and delegates from other 

 societies will be received. In the evening a 

 conversazione will be held at the Royal Institute 

 of Painters in Water Colors. On the following 

 day, April 4th, the Fellows will visit the Royal 

 Observatory, Greenwich, and in the evening 

 will dine together at the Westminster Palace 

 Hotel. In view of this jubilee celebration, Mr. 

 O. J. Symons, F.R.S., was elected president 

 at the annual meeting of the Society on Janu- 

 ary 17th, but owing to illness he has since been 

 obliged to resign this office. Under these cir- 

 cumstances the Council at their last meeting 

 appointed Dr. C. Theodore Williams as the 

 president of the Society. 



The Committee of the Liverpool School of 

 Tropical Diseases has decided to send out 

 next month, under the direction of Dr. Annett, 

 another expedition to West Africa. The expe- 

 dition will make its headquarters in Old Calabar 

 and carry on researches in southern Nigeria. 

 If time and opportunity permit the upper Niger 

 will be visited. 



At a meeting of the British Astronomical As- 

 sociation on February 28th, Mr. Maunder an- 

 nounced that sufficient names had not been 



handed in to justify chartering a steamship to 

 visit the Mediterranean at the time of the solar 

 eclipse in May. A large number of names had 

 been withdrawn owing to the war. 



The United States Civil Service Commission 

 announces that in view of the needs of the ser- 

 vice all persons who have been examined within 

 the past sis months and have failed to attain 

 eligible averages in the following named ex- 

 aminations will be permitted reexamination 

 this spring upon filing new applications. These 

 examinations will be held at various places 

 throughout the country, beginning April 17, 

 1800 : Acting Assistant Surgeon Marine Hos- 

 pital Service, Aid Coast and Geodetic Survey, 

 Assistant Department of Agriculture, Assistant 

 Examiner Patent Office, Assistant Topographer, 

 Civil and Electrical Engineer, Copyist Ship 

 Draftsman, Farmer, Fish Culturist, Hospital 

 Steward, Industrial Teacher, Meat Inspec- 

 tor, Kindergarden Teacher, Manual Training 

 Teacher, Matron, Mechanical and Electrical 

 Eugineer, Physician, Register and Receivers 

 Clerk, Seamstress, Superintendent of Construc- 

 tion, Surveyor General's Clerk General Land 

 Office Service, Teacher, Topographic Drafts- 

 man, Trained Nurse. 



An International Congress of Medical ' Elec- 

 trology and Radiology ' will be held at Paris 

 from the 22d of July to the first of August. 

 Professor Weiss of the University of Paris, is 

 president and the general secretary is Professor 

 Doner, University of Lille. 



The Italian Government has decided to 

 establish a bacteriological laboratory for the 

 study of bubonic plague in the island of Pianosa. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that M. Fleui'5'-Ravarin, Member of the Chamber 

 of Deputies for the Rhone Department, has 

 brought in a bill providing for the creation of a 

 national antituberculous institute. The pro- 

 posed institute is to be devoted to the study of 

 the treatment of tuberculosis and experimental 

 researches on the means to be emplo3'ed for 

 that purpose. The Societe Lyonnaise des Tu- 

 berculeux Indigents has undertaken to build the 

 institute at its own cost, and proposes to make 

 it an annex of the free sanatorium which it is 

 about to open at Hauteville, in the mountains 



