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the United States exhibit of fruits at the Paris 

 Exposition. 



The Eumford medal, which, as we announced 

 sometime since, was awarded by the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences to Mr. Charles 

 F. Brush, was presented to him at a meeting 

 held last week in Boston. Professor Charles 

 E. Cross, of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, Chairman of the Rumford Com- 

 mittee, made a brief address, describing the 

 grounds for the award and the arc lamp in- 

 vented by Mr. Brush ; Professor Trowbridge 

 presented the medal and Mr. Brush made a 

 reply. Professor Elihu Thomson read a paper 

 describing a new method of producing an elec- 

 tric current of high voltage. 



Columbia Univeesity has been given a stat- 

 uette of Professor Charles Hackley, who held 

 the chair of mathematics and astronomy in Co- 

 lumbia College from 1843-1861. 



We regret to record the death at her home 

 in New York city, of Miss Catherine Wolfe 

 Bruce, who made generous gifts for the ad- 

 vancement of astronomy to Harvard Univer- 

 sity, Columbia University and other institu- 

 tions. 



M. Emmanuel Liaib, Mayor of Cherbourg, 

 has died at the age of seventy-four. For many 

 years he held posts at the Paris Observatory, 

 and he was sent in 1857 to South America to 

 watch the solar eclipse. He organized tele- 

 graphic meteorology in France, and devised the 

 use of chronographs in determining longitude 

 by electricity. He bequeaths his property to 

 the municipality of Cherbourg in trust for 

 scientific purposes. 



Dr. William Marcet, F.R.S., died at 

 Luxor, Egypt, on March 4th, in his seventy- 

 second year. He had been president of the 

 Royal Meteorological Society, and was the 

 author of books on health resorts and on the 

 history of the respiration of man. 



De. F. Jagoe, known for his scientific expe- 

 ditions, died at Berlin on February 11th, at the 

 age of 83 years. 



De. Carl Maeia Paul, geologist of the Aus- 

 trian biireau, died at Vienna on February 10th. 



Me. James G. Smith, one of the inventors 



of the duplex system of telegraphy, died in 

 New York City, on March 13th. 



The Fish Commission steamer Albatross has 

 arrived at Yokohama. After refitting, the ves- 

 sel will proceed to Alaska for the purpose of 

 continuing the investigations in the salmon 

 streams begun some years ago. 



An expedition consisting of Professor E. B. 

 Poulton and Mr. E. S. Goodrich, from Oxford 

 University, and Messrs Oldfield Thomas and 

 R. I. Pocock, from the British Museum, is just 

 starting for the Balearic Isles to make zoological 

 collections. Although within easy reach, these 

 islands are still little known to naturalists, so 

 that the collections, if containing no novelties, 

 will be of much service in completing the faunal 

 series of the London and Oxford Museums. 



Mes. Phoebe Hearst has undertaken to 

 defray the expenses of explorations and exca- 

 vations in various parts of the world, to secure 

 collections for the archaeological museum to be 

 established at the University of California. 

 Dr. George A. Resinel is expected to have 

 charge of the work in Egypt ; Dr. Alfred 

 Emerson in Greece and in Etruria ; Dr. Euler 

 in South America and Yucatan, and Dr. P. M. 

 Jones in California and Mexico. 



De. J. W. Geegoey, the new professor of 

 geology at Melbourne, has been appointed di- 

 rector of the scientific staff on the British Ant- 

 arctic Expedition, which, as at present arranged, 

 is to start in August, 1901. It is to be hoped 

 that Dr. Gregory's recent severance from the 

 British Museum will not prevent the natural 

 history collections coming to that establishment 

 as was originally intended. Another scientific 

 man who thinks of taking a trip to the An- 

 tarctic is Dr. Otto Nordenskiold. 



Theee will be a Civil Service Examination, 

 on April 17th, to fill the position of Field Assis- 

 tant in the Division of Forestry, Department of 

 Agriculture, at a salary of SIOOO per annum. 



Belgium has established a botanical garden 

 and experiment station at Coquilhatville in the 

 Congo Free State. 



A BEANCH of the American Chemical Society 

 has been established for the State of Michigan, 

 with its headquarters at the University of Mich- 

 igan. The first ofiicers are : Presiding Officer, 



