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representative of the University of Chicago, made ethnological studies 
and collections in Mexico, while the University of Pennsylvania had 
collectors at work in Peru. The Princeton expedition, under the 
charge of Mr. J. B. Thatcher, returned, after several years’ stay in 
Patagonia, with abundant collections, and almost immediately Mr. 
Thatcher returned with another party to continue the explorations. 
The British Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science, the organ of 
the Postal Microscopical Society, has been discontinued, after an 
existence of sixteen years, because of inadequate financial support. 
Prof. Wesley Mills, of McGill University, has been granted leave of 
absence for a year, which he will spend abroad. 
The Reale Accademia dei Lincei of Rome has elected Profs. B. 
Grassi and G. Fano to the section of zoology and morphology; Profs. 
H. Kronecker and O. Schmiedeberg, foreign associates in physiology; 
and Prof. A. Gaudry, foreign associate in geology and palzontology. 
The thirteenth annual meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science 
was held October 27—29 at Baldwin, Kan., in the building of Baker 
University. Thirty-five communications were presented. Professor 
Williston, as president, gave an address on Science and Education. 
The International Congress of Zoology meets in Cambridge, 
England, Aug. 23, 1898, under the presidency of Sir William Flower. 
All communications, requests for circulars, etc., should be addressed 
to the Local Secretaries, International Congress of Zoology, The 
Museums, Cambridge, England. 
Dr. Rudolf Heidenhain, professor of physiology in the University 
of Breslau, died October 13, at the age of sixty-three. He was born 
in Marieneverder Jan. 29, 1834, studied at Berlin, Königsberg, and 
Halle, and was called in 1859 to the chair, which he held until his 
death. His work extended over all aspects of chemical and histo- 
logical physiology, and was especially brilliant in its discourses relat- 
ing to the action of glands, the effects of drugs, and upon lymp 
formation. 
Dr. Andreas Petr. von Semenow has resigned his position as 
conservator of the zoological collections of the Academy of Sciences 
of St. Petersburg. 
Adalbert Geheeb, the student.of mosses, has removed to Freiburg, 
i. B. His address is 39, Gothestrasse. 
