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papers read and discussed before the Institution 

 during the past session : A George Stephen- 

 son Medal and a Telford Premium to Sir Low- 

 thian Bell, LL.D., F.K.S.; Telford Medals and 

 Premiums to Mr. H. Dalrymple-Hay, Mr. B. 

 M. Jenkin, Mr. F. W. Bidder, and Mr. F. D. 

 Fox ; a Watt Medal and a Telford Premium to 

 Mr. J. Dewrance ; a Crampton Prize to Sir 

 Charles Hartley ; and Telford Premiums to Mr. 

 C. N. Russell and Mr. R. A. Tatton. 



The executors of estate of the late A. B. 

 Bolton, of Chicago, have presented to the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois his entomological collection, 

 which is said to be one of the most complete 

 private collections in the world. It is valued 

 at $50,000. 



The death is announced, at the age of 73 

 years, of Mr. George Highfield Morton, author 

 of publications on the geology of Lancaster 

 and North Wales. He was awarded the Lyell 

 medal of the British Geological Society in 1892. 



The London Times calls attention to the fact 

 that M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards, whose death 

 we were compelled to record last week, was the 

 grandson of Mr. Bryan Edwards, M.P., the 

 West India planter and historian, who settled 

 at Bruges, and son of Henri Milne-Edwards, the 

 eminent zoologist, who died in 1885. He was 

 born in Paris in 1835, graduated in medicine in 

 1859, became professor at the School of Phar- 

 macy in 1865, and in 1876 acted as his father's 

 deputy as professor of zoology at the Jardin des 

 Plantes. He was the colleague of Edmond 

 Perrier in the deep-sea explorations of the Tra- 

 vailleur and Talisman, and was awarded the 

 gold medal of the Geographical Society. In 

 1877 he succeeded M. Gervais in the Academy 

 of Sciences, and in 1885 entered the Academy 

 of Medicine. In 1891 he was appointed Pro- 

 fessor of Zoology and Director of the Jardin 

 des Plantes, and occupied a house there. His 

 death is a great loss to that institution and to 

 science. Among his numerous scientific works 

 may be mentioned : ' Recherches anatomiques 

 et paleontologiques pour servir a I'histoire des 

 oiseaux fossiles de la France ' (1866-1872), 

 ' Recherches sur la faune ornithologique 

 eteinte des lies Mascareignes et de Madagas- 

 car ' (1866-1874), 'illements de I'histoire 



naturelle des animaux ' (1881-1882), ' Expe- 

 ditions scientifiques du travailleur et du talis- 

 man pendant les ann6es 1881, 1882, et 1888,' 

 and the papers on mammals and birds in 

 Grandidier's ' Histoire physique naturelle et 

 politique de Madagascar.' 



An expedition to northern Labrador will 

 take place this summer under the leadership of 

 Professor E. B. Delabarre, of Brown Univer- 

 sity. It will sail from St. Johns, Newfound- 

 land, about June 24th, and return toward the 

 middle of September. Its aim is the explora- 

 tion of the coast and interior as thoroughly as 

 the time will allow. One or two scientific men 

 might yet find a place on this expedition ; an 

 expert geologist would be particularly wel- 

 come. Application should be made at once to 

 Professor Delabarre, 9 Arlington avenue, Provi- 

 dence, R. I. 



Miss .Iosephine E. Tilden and Miss Caroline 

 Crosby, of the University of Minnesota, with 

 Mrs. Henry Tilden, of Minneapolis, sailed 

 from Vancouver, May 4th, for Honolulu and 

 the islands of the South Pacific, for the purpose 

 of collecting marine and freshwater algse. 



The steamship Windivard has been docked 

 at St. Johns, Newfoundland, and will be 

 thoroughly repaired. It will proceed thence to 

 New York and afterwards to the Arctic regions. 



A TELEGRAM has been received at the Har- 

 vard College Observatory from its Arequipa 

 Station stating that the position of Eros on 

 April 26, 21 h., 22 m., Greenwich Mean Time, 

 was 15 minutes of arc preceding and 8 minutes 

 south of the position given in the ephemeris 

 by Daniel N. Jones, Jr., published in Popular 

 Astronomy (January, 1900), p. 41. This ap- 

 pears to be in response to a letter which was 

 sent to Arequipa on March 12th, asking Dr. 

 Stewart to photograph Eros with the Bruce 

 Telescope, and determine the correction to the 

 above ephemeris. 



The Lick Observatory expedition to observe 

 the total solar eclipse of May 28 th, is located a 

 short distance northwest of Thomaston, Ga. 

 Thomaston is a village of about 1800 inhabi- 

 tants, some 60 miles south of Atlanta. The 

 observers from the Lick Observatory are as- 

 tronomer W. W. Campbell and assistant as- 



