Garrett Biblical Institute, Chicago....Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, first Baron Alcester....Rev. A. B. Earl, a well-known evangelist.

March 31.-Anton Caspar Hesing, a well-known Chicago editor....Charles Henry Mills, Baron Hillingdon....Rowland Clegg Clegg-Hill, third Viscount Hill....Lieut.-General Sir George Tompkins Chesney, K.C.B., M.P. for Oxford, England....Comtesse de Beaujeu, head of one of the oldest French-Canadian families.

April 1.-Charles Camille Doucet, distinguished French dramatic author, and member and permanent secretary of the French Academy....Samuel J. Lee, a prominent colored lawyer of Charleston, S. C....John F. Cook, British Vice-Consul at St. Louis....Ex-Mayor Henry L. Fish, of Rochester, N. Y....Henry Ellis, superintendent of Cambridge (Mass.) manual training school....Very Rev. Robert Payne Smith, D.D., Dean of Canterbury, England.. Hugh Burgess Jones, one of Baltimore's best known citi. zens....Dr. Isaac M. Himes, dean of the medical depart ment of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

April 2.-David Marvin Stone, for many years editor of the New York Journal of Commerce....William Steenstrand, the great English cotton operator....Mrs. Leonard W. Jerome, once a celebrated New York belle....Gen. Thomas J. Jordan, of Philadelphia, a veteran of the Civil War.

April 3.-Henry Hammond, of Connecticut, for many years a leading anti-slavery agitator, and more recently State Railroad Commissioner....Major Andrew J. Hamilton, who planned the tunnel which released 105 prisoners from Libby Prison during the Civil War....Mrs. Paran Stevens, a noted society leader of New York City.... Rev. Barton H. Cartwright, a pioneer Methodist preacher of Illinois....Dr. Chauncey Boughton, a prominent citizen of Saratoga Springs, N. Y....John H. Houston, of Greenville, S. C., one of the defenders of Fort Sumter....Captain Laughlin McKay, a survivor of American clipper ship commanders.

April 4.-Anthony Quinton Keasbey, a leading New Jersey lawyer.... Ex-Governor William R. Marshall, of Minnesota....Gen. Leverett W. Wessells, of Connecticut.... M. A. McLean, first Mayor of Vancouver, B. C.

April 5.-Ex-Representative Benjamin Gwinn Harris, of Maryland....A. W. M. Matheson, for many years Mas

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ter in Chancery in Ottawa, Ont.... Ex-Mayor Jabez L. Peck, of Pittsfield, Mass....Joseph A. Donohoe, formerly president of the Donohoe-Kelly Bank of San Francisco.... G. H. Heilborn, managing editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer....Major Louis Souther, of Springfield, Ill., for many years managing editor of the Illinois State Journal.

April 6.-Surgeon John W. Coles, U.S.N. (retired).... M. Vischnegradsky, formerly Russian Minister of Finance. ...Reuben Brooks Poole, for thirty years librarian of the New York City Y. M. C. A....Gen. John G. Farnsworth, agent for New York State at Washington....Charles Auguste Merlin, Senator of France....Theophilus B. Horwitz, a prominent Baltimore lawyer....Anthony McHugh Cannon, one of the first settlers of Spokane Falls, Wash.

April 7.-John Wallace, an early settler in Nebraska.... Signor Curtopassi, Italian Ambassador to Russia....ExGovernor James Lawson Kemper, of Virginia.

April 8.-Governor Joshua Perkins Hopkins Marvil, of Delaware....Henri Marie Léon, Marquis d'Andigne, Senator of France.... William Henderson, of Glasgow, one of the founders of the Anchor Line....Frederick Ferdinand Myhlertz, Danish Consul at Philadelphia....Judge A. Scott Sloan, formerly a member of Congress from Wisconsin.

April 9.-W. Jennings Demorest, the New York publisher....Father F. H. Parke, Vicar-General of the Roman Catholic diocese of West Virginia....Brother Jasper, prefect of studies at Manhattan College, New York City.... William Momberger, artist, of New York City....Felix Joachim Triest, for many years connected with the German-American press of New York City.... Col. Asher Harmon, of the Twelfth Virginia Cavalry, C.S.A....Capt.

James H. Eldridge, an early explorer of Bering Straits. ....Pay Director James Fulton, U.S.N....Major Hugh Brady Fleming, U.S.A. (retired)....Hon. William H. Hunt, of St. Albans, Vt....John Sawyer, of Wellesley Hills, Mass., a prominent worker in the anti-slavery cause.

in charge of St. Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco....William F. Spotswood, of Petersburg, Va....Benjamin G. Bloss, founder of the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association....Judge David Aiken, of Greenfield, Mass....Dr. Gideon E. Moore, a chemist and assayist of New York City.

April 14.-Prof. James Dwight Dana, of Yale....James W. Scott, a well-known Chicago newspaper man....Mayor John Waters, of Newport, R. I....Rev. Dr. John Miller, of New Jersey.

April 15.-Julius Lothar von Meyer, the celebrated German chemist....Dr. John P. Blackmer, the prohibitionist and temperance worker, of Springfield, Mass....Charles H. Van Benthuysen, head of a well-known Albany (N. Y. printing house....Major Archibald B. Freeburn, U.S.A.) (retired)....Leverett Saltonstall, ex-Collector of the Port of Boston.

April 16.-Charles H. Mansur, Assistant Comptroller of the U. S. Treasury, formerly a member of Congress from Missouri.

April 17.-Dr. Charles Neidhard, a well-known homoopathic physician of Philadelphia.

April 18.-Ex-Governor Robert Charles Wickliffe, of Louisiana....Granville Perkins, a well-known artist and

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....The Cuban insurgent leader, General Guillermo Moncada.

April 10.-Ex-Mayor James Hoskinson, of Erie, Pa.... Harry O. Tillman, a well-known Detroit politician....ExSheriff Addison Crowley, of Chautauqua County, N. Y.

April 11.-Ex-Senator Clinton McCullough, of Elkton, Md....Mrs. Nancy Smith, of Spring Hill, Mass., one of the oldest pensioners of the Revolution....Frederick W. Knowland, general freight manager of the Central Pacific R. R.

April 12.-Hon. James H. Campbell, U. S. Minister to Sweden and Norway under President Lincoln....Hamilton Easter, founder of the oldest dry goods house in Baltimore....Dr. William Hunter Birckhead, of Newport, R. I. ....Paul Chenavard, the French painter....Dr. Benjamin F. Westbrook, a well-known physician of Brooklyn, N. Y. April 13.-Dr. David L. Starr, a Prohibitionist of Pittsburgh, Pa.... Rev. Edward F. Brady, an eminent Paulist

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Jorge Isaacs, a celebrated author of Colombia, some of whose novels have been translated into English....Judge George Holbrook, of Connecticut....Colonel Thomas P. Robb, first mayor of Sacramento, California.

April 20.-George W. Baker, a well-known California attorney.

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in July next from Eastern points, as the railway and hotel rates have been reduced one-half, and the extension of return tickets to September 1 will afford opportunity for many attractive side-trips through the interesting mountain scenery of the West. Conservative estimates place the probable attendance at over 10,000. Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia College, chief editor of the Educational Review, will preside. The choice of Dr. Butler to this important and honorable post is significant. It has not been customary for the Association to go outside the ranks of public school teachers and superintendents in electing its chief officers. Dr. Butler, however, while not a public school man himself, has been intimately associated with public school teachers for years, and has devoted no small share of his energies to an improvement in the methods of pedagogical training. It is freely conceded that he especially represents the most progressive tenden

cies in the teachers' profession, and his influence, through the Educational Review, in elevating the standards of primary as well as secondary and higher instruction throughout the country is increasingly great. The regular sessions of the Association proper, which will occupy four days, July 9-12, will be preceded by a meeting of the National Council of Education, a body of sixty teachers chosen by election from the general membership, which will hold two public sessions daily, July 5-8. On the afternoons of July 10, 11 and 12, the various departments will meet-they are Kindergarten, Elementary Education, Secondary Education, Higher Education, Normal Education, Music, Art, Business, Industrial and Child-study. The Herbart Club will meet July 10 and 11. In the morning sessions of the general Association the following will be the leading topics of discussion : "Co-ordination of Studies in Elementary Education," "The Duty and Oppor tunity of the Schools in Promoting Patriotism and Good Citizenship," and "The Instruction and Improvement of Teachers Now at Work in the Schools."

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION.

Many teachers in the Eastern portion of the country who cannot go to Denver in July will avail themselves of the privileges offered by the American Institute of Instruction, which will meet at Portland, Maine, on the same dates as the Denver gathering. The Institute is a far more venerable and perhaps not less enthusiastic body than its larger competitor, though it has never attempted to cover so broad a territory. Its membership includes many of the leading educators and writers on educational subjects, especially in the Eastern States; its presiding officer this year is Superintendent Stetson, of Maine.

UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION OF NEW YORK.

As regards the interests of higher and secondary education, the yearly University Convocation at Albany has attained an importance second to that of no other similar assembly. This year's meeting will be held one week earlier than formerly-June 27-29. Presidents Harper, of Chicago; Eliot, of Harvard, and Schurman, of Cornell, will take part.

ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.

Another body very largely academic in the complexion of its membership is the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Under the presidency of Prof. E. W. Morley, of Cleveland, the forty-fourth meeting of the Association will be held this year at Springfield, Mass., August 28-31. The Association meets in nine sections, as follows: "A," Mathematics and Astronomy; "B," Physics; "C," Chemistry; "D," Mechanical Science and Engineering; "E," Geology and Geography; "F," Zoology; "G," Botany; "H," Anthropology; "I," Economic Science and Statistics. A vice-president and secretary are designated for each section: the permanent secretary of the entire Association is Prof. F. W. Putnam, of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University.

AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.

The twenty-seventh annual session of this Association will be held at Cleveland, July 9-11, 1895, at the invitation of Adelbert College, of Western Reserve University. The

chairman of the local committee of arrangements is Prof. S. B. Platner, of Adelbert College. The programme of papers will be issued toward the end of June. The Association is officered exclusively by university and college professors. The president for the current year is Prof. John H. Wright, of Harvard. Prof. Herbert Weir Smyth, of Bryn Mawr College, acts as secretary.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.

The general meeting of this body has been fixed to begin at Niagara Falls on June 18, and will probably continue three days. The president of the Institute is Prof. Edwin J. Houston, of Philadelphia; the secretary is Mr. Ralph W. Pope, of New York City.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING ENGINEERS.

Secretary Raymond informs us that while the time and place of the next meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers have not been definitely fixed as yet, there is a pretty general expectation and desire which render it probable that the meeting will be held in Pittsburgh, Pa., about the early part of October next. At the annual meeting, February 19, Mr. Jos. D. Weeks, of Pittsburgh, was elected president for the ensuing year, to suc

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ceed Mr. John Fritz, of Bethlehem, Pa. An adjourned continuation of the annual meeting was held in Florida, from March 27 to April 8, including sessions at Ocala, Tampa Bay and St. Augustine, visits to phosphate mines of the West Coast region, the "Disston Plantations" of land reclaimed by extensive drainage-canals, and the beautiful scenery and winter resorts of the East Coast, from Palm Beach to St. Augustine. At this meeting the name of Prof. Joseph Le Conte, of the University of California, was added to the brief list of the honorary members of the Institute, in recognition of his distinguished services to American geology, and particularly to the science of oredeposits. This subject has been for two years past the theme of a most animated and suggestive discussion by the members of the Institute, on the basis of a brilliant and elaborate treatise contributed by the late Prof. Franz Posepny, of Vienna, and presented at the Chicago International meeting of August, 1893. This treatise, with the discussion, will be shortly published by the Institute in a separate volume.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. The next meeting of this organization will take place in Detroit, Mich., June 25-28. There will be professional sessions in the mornings, as usual, excursions to points of interest in the afternoons, and a reception on one of the evenings. Eckley B. Coxe, of Drifton, Pa., is president of the Society, and F. R. Hutton, of New York City, secretary.

NATIONAL ROAD CONFERENCE AT ATLANTA.

The National League for Good Roads will probably not hold a convention during this year, but the central committee of the National Road Conference, of which Governor Levi K. Fuller, of Vermont, is chairman, and which was authorized by the conference at Asbury Park in July last to call another conference this year, has arranged to combine with the directors of the Cotton States and International Exposition at Atlanta in calling a general conference or parliament of all associations and prominent individuals concerned in the movement for good roads to meet there on October 17, 18 and 19, at which time the Farmers' National Congress, the Bankers' Association, and perhaps other bodies, will be in session or about closing. Notice will be given through the press to all concerned, and it is especially intended that exhibitors of road-making machinery shall be invited to join in a practical demonstration of methods of road building under varying conditions, at that time. The details of this plan will be communicated to them when fully determined.

NATIONAL IRRIGATION CONGRESS.

The fourth National Irrigation Congress will be held at Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the four days beginning September 16, 1895. The first Southern Irrigation Congress will be held at Atlanta, Ga., for the three days beginning October 8, 1895. The present year is witnessing more progress for the irrigation cause than any previous one Mr. William E. Smythe, of the Irrigation Age, is active in arousing interest in the approaching congresses. NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION.

The twenty-second annual Conference of Charities and Correction is to meet at New Haven, Conn., May 24-30, 1895. The Conference discusses the whole field of charities and correction, including the care of the insane and feebleminded, soldiers' homes, dependent and delinquent chil dren, prisons and reformatories, charity organizations, sociological instruction in colleges, etc. Robert Treat Paine, of Boston, will preside. Special attention will be given to the subjects of charity organization in cities and sociological instruction in institutions of learning, though a very full programme has been prepared, and papers are promised by experts on a vast range of topics.

SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION.

The American Social Science Association will meet at Saratoga in September, but the programme has not yet been prepared.

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

The forty-sixth annual meeting of the American Medical Association will be held in Baltimore, on May 7, 8, 9 and 10. All the sessions will be held in the new Music Hall, which is large enough to accommodate not only the general sessions, but also the different sections. The programme of the general sessions so far as determined will consist of addresses of welcome by the Governor of Mary. land, the Mayor of Baltimore and members of the local medical profession; the annual address of the president, Dr. Donald Maclean, of Detroit, Mich., and general ad

dresses on "Medicine," by Dr. William E. Quine, of Illinois; on "Surgery," by Dr. C. A. Wheaton, of Minnesota, and on "State Medicine," by Dr. H. D. Holton, of Vermont. In these addresses the most marked advances of the year in these departments of medical knowledge are summarized and critically discussed. There are twelve sections devoted to the special branches of medicine and surgery, all of which will hold two sessions each day to discuss the scientific and practical subjects brought before them. In the section on Neurology and Medical Jurisprudence, hypnotism will be the special subject for a symposium, in which some of the most eminent neurologists in the country are expected to take part.

It is expected that from 1,500 to 2,000 physicians will be in attendance. Entertainments will be provided by a committee composed of the most representative of Baltimore's medical men.

The influence of this great national Association is constantly extending. Its membership is composed of representative men and covers every State and Territory in the Union. At the meeting in May a proposition will be voted upon to admit to equality of membership representatives of the medical profession from the Dominion of Canada, Labrador and Newfoundland. As this proposition will doubtless carry, the present year will witness the union of the entire medical profession of North America speaking the English language. The Pan-American Medical Congress held in. Washington in 1893, which was called at the instance of this Association, has already laid the foundation for the union of the profession of the entire western hemisphere.

During the three days just preceding the Association meeting, the American Academy of Medicine, whose membership consists exclusively of alumni of "respectable institutions of learning," will hold sessions in Baltimore. The chief objects of this organization are, to bring those physicians who are alumni of classical, scientific and medical schools into closer relations with one another, and to encourage young men to pursue regular courses of study in classical and scientific institutions before beginning the study of medicine; the membership is over 700.

AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION.

The American Bar Association will hold its eighteenth annual meeting at Detroit, Mich., on August 28, 29 and 30, 1895. The programmes will not be printed for some time, and it is not possible yet to announce the readers of papers. There is always an address by the president, containing a summary of legislation in the various states during the past year, and an annual address, and two or more additional papers, besides reports of committees and debate thereon. In connection with the meetings of the Association there will be a meeting of the section of Legal Education, and also of the section of Patent Law. The officers of the Association are: president, James C. Carter, of New York; secretary, John Hinkley, of Baltimore; treasurer, Francis Rawle, of Philadelphia. It is understood that the commissioners on uniform State laws (particularly in regard to marriage and divorce, forms of acknowledgments of deeds, and bills and notes) are expected to meet at Detroit just before the Association meeting.

AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.

The librarians of the country will meet at Denver in July or August of the present year. It was the original intention to hold the annual meeting in the week of August 12, but an urgent request was made that the date be changed to July, in which case the meeting would follow the great

gathering of teachers. This matter will be decided later by the executive committee. The Association is now officered by the following librarians: president, H. M. Utley, Detroit Public Library; vice-presidents, J. C. Dana, Denver Public Library; Mary S. Cutler, of the New York State Library School; Ellen M. Coe, New York Free Circulating Library; secretary, Frank P. Hill, Newark Public Library; recorder, Henry J. Carr, Scranton Public Library; treasurer, George Watson Cole, Jersey City Public Library. The membership numbers about 600 and includes the most progressive librarians in the country, those who fully recognize the educational importance of the modern library movement.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ELOCUTIONISTS.

The National Association of Elocutionists meets for the week beginning June 24, 1895, in Boston. This association, now in the fourth year of its existence, is the first and only national organization of professional readers, lecturers and, teachers in the world. Its object is to advance the study of expression both as an art and as a science by raising the standard of execution and by investigation of the phenomena of speech and action. During the short period of its activity over seventy papers have been read at its annual meetings, representing the best thought of the profession, while the greater number of successful readers in the East have been heard at its evening entertainments. The active membership includes representative readers, speakers, actors and teachers of all branches of elocutionary work, from the elementary exercises of the kindergarten to the most advanced oratoric and dramatic instruction in colleges and special schools. Beside the regular membership, all who are interested in the work of the organization may attend its meetings and take part in its discussions by becoming associate members. Among the subjects announced for papers and discussions at the coming meeting are: "Methods of Teaching Psychology in Expression," various phases of the "Technique of Voice and Action," "Elocution in Colleges," "Stammering," and the adoption of a more accurate nomenclature. Three hours daily are devoted to these subjects, while four evening sessions are given up to readings and recitals by eminent representatives of the artistic side of elocution. The Association publishes an annual report embodying the greater number of the papers presented and much of the viva voce discussions thereon. Members of the profession, either in the United States or Canada, are eligible to membership.

Following are the officers for the present year: president, F. F. Mackay, Broadway Theatre Building, New York City; vice-presidents, George R. Phillips, New York City; F. Townsend Southwick, New York City; secretary, Thos. C. Trueblood, Ann Arbor, Mich.; treasurer, E. L. Barbour, New Brunswick, N. J.; chairman board of directors, William B. Chamberlain, Chicago, Ill.; chairman literary committee, S. H. Clark, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.; chairman ways and means committee, Robert I. Fulton, Delaware, O.; chairman of trustees, Hannibal A. Williams, New York City.

The Association is making a special effort to have every city of twenty-five thousand and more inhabitants provide a separate school for the instruction of stammerers, where they will not merely receive the proper vocal training, but be constantly under the supervision, during school hours, of teachers familiar with the treatment of such deficiencies and able to check every tendency to fall back into the old habit. Such schools have been eminently successful in Germany.