April 13, 1900.] 



SCIENCE. 



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3, 1900, as one of constituent societies of the 

 Fifth Congress of American Physicians and Sur- 

 geons. The usual smoker will be held on Mon- 

 day evening, April 30th. The headquarters of 

 the Society will be at the Hotel Wellington. 



The annual general meeting of Chemical So- 

 ciety, London, was held on March 20th. At 

 this meeting the Longstaflf Medal was pre- 

 sented to Professor W. H. Perken, Junr. , 

 F.R.S. In the evening the Bunsen Memorial 

 Lecture was delivered by Sir Henry E. Roscoe, 

 F.R.S. 



W J McGeb, ethnologist-in-charge, Bureau 

 of American Ethnology, has just completed a 

 course of three lectures on modern anthro- 

 pology at Howard University, Washington. 

 The special topics and dates were (1) ' The 

 Stages of Culture,' March 15th; (2) ' The Rise of 

 Civilization,' March 22d ; and (3) ' The Dawn 

 of Enlightenment,' March 29th. 



Dr. Edward Caird," master of Balliol Col- 

 lege, Oxford, who was formerly professor of 

 moral philosophy at Glasgow University, has 

 been nominated as Gifford lecturer in the latter 

 university, in succession to Sir Michael Foster, 

 M.P. 



Under authority from the Director of the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory, Dr. C. O. Whit- 

 man, the Association for Maintaining the Amer- 

 ican Women's Table at the Zoological Station at 

 Naples, offers for the summer of 1900 the free 

 use of an investigator's table at the Laboratory 

 at Woods Holl to any well qualified applicant 

 who may desire to secure the benefit of prelim, 

 iuary training at Woods Holl, before applying 

 for the American Women's Table at Naples. 

 Applications for the Woods Holl Table should 

 be made before May 1st, to the Secretary of the 

 Amel'ican Women's Table at Naples, Miss Flor- 

 ence M. Gushing, No. 8 Walnut street, Boston, 

 Mass. 



The Ninth Annual Report of the British So- 

 ciety for the Protection of Birds, which now 

 has a membership of 22,000, shows that its 

 work extends effectively even to China, India 

 and New Guinea. In the rhume of the year's 

 work we learn that the wearing of osprey 

 (egret) plumes has been discontinued by the 

 officers of the Hussar and Rifle Regiments and 



of the Royal Horse Artillery, and also by the 

 Viceroy's Bodyguard, of India. 



We noticed the destruction of the observatory 

 at Tananarivo, Madagascar, in 1895 as a result 

 of the French campaign. Dr. Tiessen's bureau 

 reports that the French Government of the 

 colony has appropriated 10,000 fr. for repairs 

 which are being carried on under the director, 

 M. Collin. 



The Pasteur Institute, Paris, has received 

 100,000 fr. by the will of the late M. Crevat- 

 Durand. 



Professor E. A. Schaffer has been given a 

 grant of £100 from the Earl of Morray endow- 

 ment fund for physiological research. 



Mr. William M. Johnson has offered to 

 give the town of Hackensack, N. J., a plot of 

 ground and a library building to cost from $30,- 

 000 to $40,000 on condition that the library be 

 supported by the town. 



Nature states that the Lemaire scientific ex- 

 pedition has reached Tenka, after a successful 

 and peaceful journey of 3000 kilometres along 

 the border of the Congo State. Three days 

 east of Lualaba Mission the expedition met 

 Major Gibbons, who was on his way to Tangan- 

 yika, via Lafoi, and thence to the Nile. 



Two of the largest recorded tusks of the Afri- 

 can elephant have recently been brought to 

 New York from Zanzibar, and Mr. Kaldenberg, 

 the well known dealer in ivory, states that the 

 accounts recently published in the daily papers 

 concerning them are substantially correct. One 

 tusk weighs 225 pounds the other 239 pounds, 

 weights that will probably exceed those of any 

 tusks of the mammoth, if not indeed those of 

 any species of elephant yet noted. 



The committee on Public Lands of the House 

 of Representatives in Congress is considering 

 the bill prepared on behalf of the Commit- 

 tees of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science and the Archaeological 

 Institute of America for the preservation of pre- 

 historic monuments, ruins, etc., etc., on the 

 public domain, by reserving the lands on which 

 they stand from entry and sale. The bill has 

 been referred to, and is now in the hands of a 

 sub-committee consisting of Messrs. Shafroth of 



