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602 Proceedings of Scientific Societies. [June 
—The various scientific and educational institutions in and 
near New York City have appointed a local committee of arrange- 
ments for the coming meeting of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, with the following officers: Presi- 
dent, Dr. F. A. P. Barnard, President of Columbia College; Vice- 
Morris K. Jessup, Dr. Henry McCracken, George William 
Curtis; Local Secretary, Professor Henry Leroy Fairchild. Miss 
Winifred Egerton is the president of the ladies’ section of the 
local committee. 
—Recent deaths: Dr. Franz Herbich, a ae and custo- 
dian of the Klausenberg Museum, died Jan ry 15; J. J. Kickx 
Professor of Botany at Ghent, died March iy: 
—Dr. Albert Kellogg, the well-known botanist of California, 
died in Alameda, in that State, on the 31st of March, at the age 
of seventy-four. He was born in New Hartford, Conn., and 
went to California in the early years of the great migration to 
the Pacific coast. He soon abandoned his professional work and 
devoted himself to the investigation of the botany of California, 
with which he has been identified for over thirty years. He was 
one of the founders of the California Academy of Sciences, and 
in the Proceedings and Bulletins of the Academy the results of 
his researches have appeared from time to time. He visited 
Alaska in 1867 as surgeon and botanist of the special expe- 
dition of that aed Prof. George Davidson being the scientific 
director. Dr. Kellogg’s name fills a prominent place in all of the 
leading works relating to West North American Botany. He 
was a man of singular genuineness and simplicity of character, 
as guileless as a child, and abounding in kindly spirit and good- 
will towards all—R. £ C. S. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC ‘SOCIETIES. 
ociety of Natural History.—April 20, 1887.—Dr. 
F Amory y Jefes A k note in which he took exceptions to 
e by Dr. E. G. Gardiner in his paper 
— (Archiv fir poisteoniche Anatomie, 1884) relative to the Ro 
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ity’ of Minerals, Plants, and soa 
ee : Salted called attention = the recent address of President Judd of the 
Geological Society as reported in Mature, and pointed out the 
speci ETER SA of the Ponte cea advanced to show that the lines 
c and the inorganic departments of 
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