SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
As previously announced in these columns, the Fourth Interna- 
tional Congress of Zoology will meet in Cambridge, England, on the 
23d of August. Sir W. Flower was elected at the meeting in Leyden 
to be the president of this Congress, but he has been obliged to 
resign on account of his health, and in his place the Permanent 
Committee have chosen the Right Hon. Sir John Lubbock, Bart. 
We are requested to call-attention to the cordial invitation issued by 
the Reception Committee, which is in part as follows: 
“The seat of an ancient University, which counts among its 
alumni distinguished zoologists, from the days of Ray and Willughby 
to those of Charles Darwin and Francis Balfour, seems to offer a 
peculiarly fit meeting-place for the Congress on its first visit to the 
British Islands, and the Reception Committee, including the present 
representatives of zoological science in Cambridge, hereby offer a 
cordial welcome to their brethren at home and abroad who may 
accept this invitation. 
“The Reception Committee hope to avail themselves largely of 
the facilities offered by the several Colleges of Cambridge for the 
accommodation and entertainment of their visitors, while there is 
assurance that the more suitable of the public buildings of the Uni- 
versity will also be placed at their disposal for the same purposes. 
“ The International Congress of Physiology is to meet in Cambridge 
concurrently with that of Zoology, and certain arrangements will be 
made in common, though there is no intention of uniting the two 
Congresses — each of which will retain its distinct organization. 
“The general arrangements of the Zoological Congress will be 
made, and from time to time communicated, by the General Com- 
mittee established at the House of the Zoological Society in London 
(3, Hanover Square), but the duties of the Reception Committee at 
Cambridge will be greatly facilitated by the receipt of a reply to this 
invitation, which they hope may be accepted. 
“On the receipt of such an acceptance further details with regard 
to local arrangements will be duly forwarded. It is hoped that it will 
be possible to find rooms in the several Colleges for many of the 
visitors; but it is necessary to point out that the accommodation 
