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of Vienna, were elected foreign associates of the 
society. 
— The committee of the Franklin institute, having 
in charge the organization of the electrical exhibi- 
tion to be held in Philadelphia, has secured a site for 
the building on the large vacant lot bounded by 
Thirty-second and Thirty-third Streets, Lancaster 
Avenue, and Foster Street, which, by the liberal action 
of the Pennsylvania railroad company, has been 
leased to the institute for the purpose of the exhibi- 
tion for a nominal consideration. 
The meeting of the American association for the 
advancement of science, which will be held this year 
in Philadelphia, and the expected presence of many 
representatives of the British association, which will 
meet this year in Montreal, will attract a numerous 
and influential scientific gathering in Philadelphia 
during the time of holding of the exhibition; and, in 
be 
SCIENCE. 
will join the towers. The building will have second- 
story apartments at its ends, with stairways leading 
up in the towers from the ground floor. The towers 
themselves will be three stories high. Two long and 
narrow hall-ways will afford communication between 
these apartments. The remainder of the ground will 
be enclosed by a large triangular building one story 
in height, and joined to the main hall. 
The circular of information, with blank forms of 
application for space, may be obtained by addressing 
a request therefor to the secretary of the Franklin 
institute. 
—It is proposed to establish a monthly American 
meteorolugical journal. It will begin with from twen- 
ty-four to thirty-two octavo pages, and will be en- 
larged as rapidly as is justified by the support given 
it. The first number will,probably, appear about the 
1st of May. It will be published in Detroit by Dr. 
W. H. Burr. The edit- 
ing will be in the hands of 
Prof. M. W. Harrington of 
Ann Arbor, and he ear- 
nestly requests contribu- 
SAOSSCUPEWEST, PHILA | 
order that so exceptional an opportunity to promote 
the interests of science shall not be lost, Congress has 
been requested to authorize the holding of a national 
conference of electricians, to convene in Philadelphia 
at that time. Should Congress make the proper pro- 
visions for holding such a conference, the results 
promise to be of much value. 
The accompanying figure is a view of the exhibition 
building, which is now in process of erection, and 
which, by the terms of the contract, will be finished 
by the 15th of June. 
The main building will be rectangular, having a 
length of two hundred and eighty-three feet, and a 
breadth of a hundred and sixty feet. A tower sixty 
feet high will be situated at each of the four cor- 
ners of this building. One central arch of a hundred 
feet span, and two hundred feet in length, will cover 
the greater portion of the space occupied by this 
building; while two smaller ones, having a span of 
thirty feet, and running parallel to it on either side, « 
tions from meteorologists. 
The publication price is 
placed at three dollars. All 
communications of a busi- 
ness character are to be ad- 
dressed to W. 
Co., 100 Griswold Street, 
Detroit, Mich.; all others, 
to Prof. M. W. Harrington, 
Ann Arbor, Mich. 
— The funeral of the late 
Dr. J. F. Julius Schmidt, 
director of the observatory 
at Athens, was of a public 
character, and the king 
_and queen of Greece were 
present at the observatory 
during the delivery of the 
oration. 
— The German geographical ‘congress will be held 
in Munich from the 17th to the 19th of April. The 
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principal subjects of discussion will be, the present 
situation of polar research, the latest proposals for the 
alteration of the meridian, the glacial period, and the 
making of school wall-maps. Several well-known 
travellers and investigators have already promised to 
speak. 
— An international ornithological congress will be 
a 
held for the first time in Vienna on April 7; and an — 
exhibition of birds, and all that concerns their capture, 
transport, housing, and feeding, will be open April 
4to14. The subjects for discussion at the congress 
will be, (1) a proposal for an international bird-pro- 
tection act; (2) the origin of the domestic fowl, and 
the best means of improving the species; and (3) the. 
foundation of stations for ornithological observa- 
tions all over the inhabitable world. Communica- 
tions should be addressed to Dr. Gustav von Tages 
3 Marokkanergasse, Vienna. 
