568 The American Naturalist. [June, 
Doctors Maxwell and Swan, of Monmouth (Ill.) College, propose to 
organize a summer school of biology in connection with the college. The 
trustees have approved the plans, and the school will probably be lo- 
cated on the Mississippi River not far from Monmouth. The term will 
consist of a six weeks’ course, and the tuition will be $15.00. The 
college will furnish the necessary collecting apparatus, microscopes, 
laboratory necessaries, and boats for conveyance. The students will be 
directed by Drs. Maxwell and Swan. 
Dr. Persifor Frazer has been appointed to represent the Academy of 
Natural Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania at the International Congress of Geologists 
at St. Petersburg. He has been commissioned by the Academy to 
present the Hayden Memorial award, consisting of a bronze medal 
and the interest of the special endowment, to Prof. A. Karpinski, the 
Chief of the Geological Survey of Russia, in recognition of the value 
of his contributions to geological and paleontological science. 
The American Philosophical Society held a meeting followed by a 
conversazione in honor of Sir Archibald Geikie, on the evening of May 
7th, at which the eminent geologist gave a rapid resumé of the recent 
geological work in the Hebrides and Faroe Isles. Previous to the read- — 
ing of the paper the Society was presented by a few of its members with 
a portrait of the late Professor E. D. Cope, painted by Mr. George W. 
Pettit of Philadelphia. 
Mr. H. Wilde, president of the Manchester Scientific and Literary 
Society has given the Paris Academy of Sciences the sum of $27,000 to 
be used in giving an annual prize of $800, for a discovery or publica- 
tion in physical science, the prize to be made international. Mr. 
Wilde states that this gift is made in return for the benefit which he 
has derived from French science. 
In accordance with the will of the late Prof. E. D. Cope, his fossil 
collection is to be sold and the proceeds devoted to establishing a chair 
of paleontology in the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, whose occu- 
pant must be approved by the National Academy, and whose duty 
shall be chiefly that of original research. ` 
The Constantine Medal has been awarded by the Russian Geograph- 
ical Society to Th. Tschernyschew, for his many years’ work on the 
geography and geology of Russia. 
Joseph F. James, M. D., Died March 29, 1897. 
