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Abstract

AT the Leyden International Zoological Congress, held last year, it was decided that the next meeting of the kind should take place in England, in September 1898, and that Sir William Flower, Director of the British Museum (Natural History), should be its President. We now learn, through the Times, that it has been determined that the 1898 Congress, the fourth of the series, shall meet at Cambridge, under the auspices of the University, simultaneously with the International Physiological Congress, which has arranged to go there in that year. London and Edinburgh were named as places of meeting in connection with the Zoological Congress, but it was felt that there were certain advantages in holding an international meeting of this character in a University town within easy distance of London, rather than in London itself. The organising and reception Committee consists of Prof. Alfred Newton, President; Mr. Adam Sedgwick,Vice-President; Messrs. J. W. Clarke and Sydney J. Hickson, Treasurers; and Messrs. S. F. Harmer and Arthur E. Shipley, Secretaries. With reference to the two prizes which will be awarded at the Congress for the best zoological papers, the Paris members of the permanent Committee suggest that the subject for the Tsar Alexander III. prize, which will be given for the first time, shall be “The Study of the Ruminant Mammalia of Central Asia, from a Zoological and Geographical Standpoint”; and that for the Tsar Nicholas II. prize, which was awarded last year at Leyden for the first time, the paper shall be “An Anatomical and Zoological Monograph of a Group of Marine Invertebrates.” These subjects are, however, in the nature of proposals which may be modified, since the Paris Committee will be glad to receive counter-suggestions and to learn the views of zoologists before making public the detailed programme of the prizes.