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South Sea Islands. The Albatross is still at 

 Yokohama. 



Major J. W. Powell, director of the Bureau 

 of Americau Ethnology, and Professor W. H. 

 Holmes, head curator of the U. S. National 

 Museum, have just returned from an archEeo- 

 logic tour through Cuba and Jamaica. They 

 succeeded in obtaining important data relating 

 to lines of culture migration in this region, 

 and especially to the connection between the 

 Caribs of the South American continent and 

 the aboriginal tribes of the West Indies and 

 Florida. 



Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, has just completed a suc- 

 cessful season's work among the Hopi Indians. 

 He has observed all the winter ceremonies 

 of the tribe, a part of which have never before 

 been studied, and his notes are accompanied by 

 full series of photographs, diagrams, etc., as 

 well as collateral records bearing on the general 

 ethnology of the tribe. 



The board of directors of the Astronomical 

 Society of the Pacific have elected Dr. J. E. 

 Keeler, director of the Lick Observatory, to be 

 president of the Society, and Mr. Chas. Burck- 

 halter of the Chabot Observatory, to be first 

 vice-president for the ensuing year. 



M. Drake del Castillo has been elected 

 president of the Botanical Society of France. 



At the next convocation of McGill University, 

 Montreal, Mr. J. F. Whiteaves, F.G.S., pale- 

 ontologist and zoologist to the geological sur- 

 vey of Canada, is to have the degree of LL.D. 

 conferred on him by that University honoris 

 causa. 



At the same convocation, Mr. A. G. Barlow, 

 M. A. , of the same survey, will receive the degree 

 of Doctor of Science in course. His researches 

 in the Archasan of Canada have placed Mr. Bar- 

 low in the foremost ranks of North American 

 geologists. A synopsis of his latest report on the 

 geology and resources of the Lake Temiskam- 

 ing and Lake Nipissing country of Canada ap- 

 peared in a recent issue of Science. 



Aleksandr O. Kovalevskij, St. Peters- 

 burg ; J. A. Gaudry, Paris ; P. G. Tait, Edin- 

 burgh ; J. H. vau't Hoff, Berlin and J. J. 



Thomson, Cambridge, have been elected mem- 

 bers of the Eoyal Irish Academy. 



Dr. B. M. Duggar, of Cornell University, 

 has been appointed by the authorities of the 

 Smithsonian Institution to the table for research, 

 which that institution supports at the Statione 

 Zoologica, Naples, Italy. He has already en- 

 tered upon his work there. 



Frank Hamilton Cushing, ethnologist in 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology, died on 

 April 10th, at the age of forty-three years. 



The death is announced of M. Joseph Ber- 

 trand, professor of physics in the College de 

 France and permanent secretary of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. E. J. Lowe, F.E.S. , known for his im- 

 portant contributions to meteorology and nat- 

 ural science, died at Chepstow, on March 10th, 

 aged 75 years. 



We also note with regret the following deaths 

 among German men of science : Dr. G. Karsten, 

 professor of physics at the University of Kiel, 

 aged 79 years ; Dr. Elwin Bruno Cristoflfel, late 

 professor of mathematics at the University of 

 Strassburg, aged 70 years, and Professor Teich- 

 mann, professor of mechanical engineering at 

 the Technical Institute at Stuttgart, aged 61 

 years. 



The British Association for the Advancement 

 of Science will hold its seventieth annual meet- 

 ing at Bradford, beginning Wednesday, Septem- 

 ber 5th. Sir William Turner, F.R.S., will pre- 

 side, and the presidents of the sections will be 

 as follows : Mathematical and physical science. 

 Dr. J. Larmor, F.R.S. ; chemistry. Professor W. 

 H. Perkin, F.R.S.; geology. Professor W. G. 

 Sollas, F.R.S. ; zoology (and physiology). Dr. 

 R. H. Traquair, F.R.S.; geography, Sir George 

 S. Robertson ; economic science and statistics. 

 Major P. G. Craigie; mechanical science, Sir 

 Alexander R. Binnie ; anthropology. Professor 

 John Rhys ; botany. Professor Syduej' H. 

 Vines, F.R.S. The two evening discourses 

 will be delivered by Professor Francis Gotch, 

 F.R.S., on 'Animal Electricity,' and Professor 

 W. Stroud, on 'Range Finders.' 



The American Physiological Society will hold 

 its fifth special meeting in Washington on Tues- 

 day, Wednesday and Thursday, May 1, 2 and 



