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possible to announce any final result of the action of your com- 
mittee, but it is quite possible that improved legislation may be 
attained by the time of the meeting of the Association to which 
this report is made. 
In conclusion we find that what is needed to effect the result 
desired, is a continuation of the effort, already commenced, o 
vigorous protest against the laws on the subject as at present ex- 
isting ; laws which obstruct knowledge at its fountain-head ; which 
impose onerous burdens on a class which works gratuitously for the 
public good, and which place our country in a false position among 
the enlightened nations of the earth. 
Epw. D. Corr, Philadelphia, Chairman. 
J. R. Eastman, U. S. Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C. 
S. A. Forges, Champaign, III. 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
_—Dr. Paul Langerhans, formerly professor in Freiburg i. B., 
died in Funchal, Madeira, July 20th, 1888, aged forty-one years. 
—A heavy earthquake shock was felt in the city of Mexico, 
September 6th, 1888. In its violence it exceeded any hitherto 
recorded there. 
—Prof. Graf zu Solms-Laubach, of Tübingen, succeeds to Prof. 
de Bary’s place as editor of the Botanische Zeitung, while Dr. 
Kohl, of Marburg, has accepted the position of editor of the 
Botanische Centralblatt. 
—The Indiana Academy of Science will hold its fourth annual 
meeting at Indianapolis, December 25th to 27th. The address of 
the retiring President, Dr. J. P. D. John, will be given on the 
evening of the 25th. As last year the programme was crowded, 
it has been decided to organize four sections this year: A, 
Zoology; B, Botany ; C, Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics ; 
D, Geology and Geography. 
_ —The British Association at its Bath ee beset ot ERE 
mg grants for Geology, Biology, Geography and Anthropology : 
Geological Record, £80; Exretic Blocks, £10; Volcanic Phe- 
nomena of Japan, £25; Volcanic Phenomena of Vesuvius, £20; 
Fossil Phyllopoda of the Paleozoic Rocks, £20; Eocene Beds of 
the Isle of Wight, £15 ; Fossil Secondary and tagr Plants of 
the United Kingdom, £15; Zoology and Botany of the West 
