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The International Association for the Advancement 
OF Science, Arts and Education, will hold its Second Inter- 
national Meeting at Glasgow, in the University and in the 
International Exhibition, from July 29 to September 27, 1901. 
Besides serving as a link among universities and learned 
societies, &c., one of the most important functions of the 
meeting will again be, as at Paris last year, to study and 
interpret the matters of scientific, geographic and other interest 
afforded by the Exhibition, by means of lectures and conferences, 
with demonstrations and visits under skilled guidance. The 
various national groups which co-operated last year at Paris 
will again be represented at Glasgow ; and their lectures and 
conferences, &c., will include Pure and Applied Physics, 
and Chemistry, Electricity and Engineering, Agriculture 
and Forestry, Geography and Colonisation, Hygiene, Scottish 
History and Archaeology, Fine Art, &c. Much attention is also 
being paid to education in its many branches — Child Study, 
Nature Study, Methods of Science Study, Modern Language 
Study, Manual and Technical Education, Museums, Geo- 
graphical Education, History and Organisation of Secondary 
Education, the whole concluding with a series of conferences 
on immediately “ Realisable Progress in Education.” The 
General Secretary is M. Liard, Permanent Secretary of State 
for Higher Education, Paris, assisted by Professor Patrick 
Geddes, who may be addressed at 83, Bath Street, Glasgow. 
Death of Mr. Stillman. — We take the following from 
the Westminstev Gazette of July 10 : — 
“ We announce with deep regret that Mr. W. J. Stillman 
died at his house in Surrey on Saturday, in his seventy-fourth 
year. It is only some nine or ten weeks since the autobiography 
of the well-known special correspondent of the Times was 
published, and his many friends had hoped that there was 
little truth in the disquieting rumours in circulation a week 
or two ago. 
“ Mr. Stillman, who, as our readers will not need reminding, 
was a frequent contributor to our correspondence columns, was 
born in 1828 at Schenectady, New York State. His father was 
a mechanic and inventor ; his mother a remarkable woman of 
the old Puritan stock. The boy was brought up under the 
shadow of a repressive religion, tending to a morbid anxiety of 
soul rather than to edification and light. At the age of ten he 
decided that, in the interest of his spiritual development, he 
must leave home and live his own life. Accordingly he ran 
away with a comrade of as many years and, as he thought, of 
an equally enterprising spirit. But the expedition was not a 
success, and the runaways did a wise thing by returning home 
after a few days of the free life. With very little more care for 
the material needs of a journey, Stillman set out some ten years 
later for a voyage across the Atlantic. 
