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thropy and in affairs made addresses. | 
Men eminent in scientific research 
were not so well represented as they | 
should have been, but the names of. 
Professor Bailey, of Cornell, Professor 
Wesbrook, of Minnesota, and Dr. W J. 
McGee were on the program. 
The American Chemical Society em- 
phasized its national 
meeting in San Francisco. The Amer- 
ican Association for the Advancement 
of Science had also planned a visit to 
the Pacifie coast and to Hawaii, but | 
transportation across the sea could not 
be arranged. The chemists had a spe- 
cial train from Chicago, which carried 
over a hundred to California, where 
arrangements were made for elaborate 
entertainments and excursions and a 
scientific program under the presidency 
of Professor Bancroft, of Cornell. 
The International Geological Con- 
gress met this year at Stockholm, the 
International Zoological Congress at 
buda Pesth, the first International 
Congress of Entomology and the Inter- 
national Congress of Anatomists at 
Brussels, and the International Physi- 
ological Congress at Vienna. These 
meetings were attended by scientific 
men from all parts of the world, in- 
cluding large numbers from this coun- 
try. The Zoological Congress met last 
time in Boston and the Geological 
Congress will hold its next meeting in 
Canada. America and American sci- 
entific men are taking an increasing 
share in these international congresses, 
which within the past few years have 
Massachusetts 
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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 
assumed an important part in the ad- 
vancement of science. 
SCIENTIFIO ITEMS 
WE regret to record the deaths of 
Dr. Charles Anthony Goessmann, since 
1869 professor of chemistry at the 
Agricultural College, 
known for his important contributions 
to agricultural chemistry; of William 
Earl Dodge Scott, curator of ornithol- 
ogy at Princeton University, and of 
Dr. .Paul Mantegazza, the eminent 
Italian anthropologist. 
THE national memorial to Grover 
Cleveland is to take the form of a 
tower to be erected at Princeton as 
part of the buildings of the graduate 
school, with which Mr. Cleveland was 
closely identified during the last years 
of his life. The tower will be about 
150 feet high and 40 feet square. It 
will cost $100,000, of which sum $75,- 
000 have already been given. 
Proressor JosepH A. HoLMeEs, of 
the U. S. Geological Survey, formerly 
professor of geology and natural his- 
tory at the University of North Caro- 
lina and state geologist, has been ap- 
pointed by President Taft director of 
the newly-established Bureau of Mines. 
—Among the representatives appointed 
to attend the opening of the Mexican 
National University on September 22 
are Professor F. W. Putnam and Ro- 
land B. Dixon, from Harvard Univer- 
sity, and Professor Franz Boas, from 
Columbia University. 
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