SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
THE tenth congress of Russian naturalists and physicians takes 
place this year at Kieff, August 21-30, under the presidency of 
Prof. J. Rachmaninoff. 
Dr. Franz Ritter von Hauer, for several years intendant of the 
Hof Museum of Vienna, has been retired. 
The British Association for the Advancement of Science will hold 
its meeting for 1899 at Dover, from September 13-20, probably under 
the presidency of Prof. Michael Foster. The French Association 
will meet at about the same time on the opposite side of the channel, 
at Boulogne, so that visits can be exchanged between the two associa- 
tions. The place of meeting in 1900 has not yet been decided; 
possibly it will be at Bradford. In 1901 the meeting will be held in 
Glasgow. 
Dr. William T. Brigham has been appointed director of the Berenice 
Panahi Bishop Museum at Honolulu, H.I. A large addition is to be 
made to the museum building. 
The sixty-ninth anniversary meeting of the Zodlogical Society of 
London was held April 11, 1898. From the reports we extract the 
following items. At the close of the year the number of fellows was 
3158; the income for the year was nearly £29,000; and the library 
contained over 20,000 volumes. Three new buildings were opened 
to the public. The society met with a serious loss in the death of 
A. D. Bartlett, for 38 years superintendent of the gardens. His son, 
Clarence Bartlett, was appointed to the position. The visitors to the 
garden in 1897 were 717,755, and the number of animals on exhibi- 
tion was 2585, about half of these being birds. The election of 
officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: President, Sir W. H. 
Flower; secretary, P. L. Sclater; treasurer, Chas. Drummond; mem- 
bers of council, F. E. Beddard, W. T. Blanford, R. Lydekker, 
H. Saunders, and C. S. Tomes. 
The German Society of Anatomists held its twelfth annual meeting 
at Kiel, April 17—20, 1898. Among the papers read were the follow- 
ing: Pfitzner, on brachyphalangy and related questions; Barfourth, 
artificial production of spina bifida in Amphibian larve; Unna, the 
