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316 The American Naturalist. [March, 
German publisher, August Hirschwald, of that city, under the title 
“ Lernen und Forschen.” i 
Unofficial information has been received by Professor G. Brown 
Goode, of the National Museum, and member of the United States 
Commission to the Madrid Exposition, that awards have been made to 
the following exhibitors from this country :— 
Gold medals — Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology, 
National Museum, University of Pennsylvania, William Ellery Curtis, 2 
of Washington ; the Hemenway Expedition, Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of — 
Cambridge. 
Silver Medals—United States Geological Survey, the Numismatic 
and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Academy 
of Natural Sciences, the Peabody Museum of Archeology, Cambridge; 
The United States Mint, the United States Navy, The Army Medical 
Museum, Dr. D. G. Brinton and Mr. Stewart Culin, of Philadelphia; — 
Professor O. T. Mason, Professor Thomas Wilson, Mr. W. H. Holmes 
and Mr. Walter Hough, of Washington; Mrs. Zelia Nuttall, of Cam- 
bridge. | 
Bronze Medals—Fish Commission, Department of Ayriculture; 
Indian School at Carlisle, Pa.; Sons of the American Revolution, Dr. 
James ©. Welling and Mrs. Tillie E. Stevenson, of Washington; Dr, — 
Cyrus Adler, of New York ; Mr. Warren K. Moorehead, of Xenia, O. 
The gold medals, it is understood, are very handsome, with an intrin- 
sic value of $150 apiece. Final action by the jury is not known, and — 
others may be honored. i 
At the annual meeting of Bowdoin College Alumni held at Boston, — 
Jan. 25th, Professor Robinson of the chemical department of — 
Bowdoin, announced that Mr. Edward F. Searles, whose wife, the 
widow of Mark Hopkins, left him millions, had promised to erect the 
finest and best equipped building for the study of the sciences that 
could be had in this country. He stated that Mr. Searles had placed — 
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Dr. Osaun has been appointed Geologist on the Geological Survey , — 
of Texas, and will take charge at once of the petrographic work of the _ 
Survey. Dr. Osaun is well qualified for the position, having been for 
many years first assistant to Professor Rosenbusch, in Heidelberg, and) _ 
later, extraordinary professor of mineralogy and petrography in that — 
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