ing and Mining Journal'; Frederick J. Brockway, assistant demonstrator of anatomy at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University; F. M. Raoult, the eminent chemist, professor at Grenoble; Paul Chaix, professor of geography at Geneva; Josef von Fedor, professor of hygiene at Buda Pesth, and Adolph Hirsch, professor of astronomy at Neuchatel. Two men of science lost their lives in the direct pursuit of knowledge: Dr. P. Kohlstock died at Tien-Tsin, while making researches on tropical diseases, and Dr. Menke was murdered by natives while on an exploring expedition to Macquari Island.
The erection of a memorial to Huxley in Ealing, near London, where he was born and received his early education, is contemplated. A bronze medallion portrait has been advocated for the central feature of the design, which may take the form of a simple mural tablet or of a more worthy monument as funds are obtainable. Subscriptions are not confined to the neighborhood or land of Huxley's birth, and those who may be desirous of assisting should communicate with the secretary to the fund, Mr. B. B. Woodward, 120 The Grove, Ealing, London, W.
A meeting was held at Cambridge University on April 27 to arrange for some acknowledgment of the services to science and the University of Prof. G. D. Liveing. Professor Liveing is now seventy-three years of age. Ii> 1852 he organized the chemical laboratory at Cambridge, which was the first scientific laboratory in the University.—Mr. Herbert Spencer celebrated his eighty-first birthday on April 27. Mr. Spencer lives quietly at Brighton. His health is fair, but he is unable to undertake much literary work.—A silver loving cup was presented by a number of teachers to Mr. Thomas Meehan, the veteran horticulturist and botanist, of Philadelphia, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday.
Dr. Edmund Arthur Engle, professor of mathematics at Washington University, St. Louis, and dean of the College of Engineering, has been elected president of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.—Mr. J. H. H. Teall has succeeded Sir Archibald Geikie as director-general of the British Geological Survey.
Several important scientific positions under the government will be filled by civil service examination on June 3. These include the positions of plant physiologist and plant pathologist in the Department of Agriculture, with salaries of $1,800 per annum, and the position of ethnologist in the Bureau of American Ethnology, with a salary of $1,500. Further particulars can be obtained by addressing the Civil Service Commission at Washington, D. C.
At the last meeting of the Rumford Committee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences a grant of $300 was awarded to Prof. Arthur A. Noyes in aid of a research on the effect of high temperatures upon the relative conductivity of aqueous salt solutions.—Dr. Edmund B. Wilson, professor of zoology at Columbia University, and Dr. J. Playfair McMurrich, professor of anatomy at the University of Michigan, are among the Americans who will attend the International Zoological Congress to be held in Berlin from the 12th to the 19th of August.
The arrangements for the celebration of the bicentennial of the Yale University in October next have now been made public. The addresses include one by President Gilman, of the Johns Hopkins University, on 'Yale in its Relation to Science and Letters,' and one by Prof. W. H. Welch, of the same University, on 'Yale in its Relation to Medicine.'
The United States Department of Agriculture has established an agricultural experiment station in Porto Rico, which will be under the direction of Mr. Frank D. Gardner, now of the Division of Soils.
