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Abstract

THE 59th annual meeting of the Association of German Naturalists and Physicians will take place at Berlin from the 18th to the 24th inst. General meetings will be held on the 18th, 22nd, and 24th, the sections, of which there are thirty, meeting at other times when and where they wish in the various places offered them for that purpose. At the same time there will be an exhibition of scientific apparatus, instruments, and educational objects. On the morning of each day a journal will be issued containing information of interest to members, and as much as possible of the proceedings at the various meetings of the preceding day. The Physical Section is under the Presidency of Dr. von Helmholtz and Dr. Kirchhoff. Amongst the papers to be read are the following:—The microscope as an aid to physical investigation, by Dr. Lehmann; the determination of the electro-chemical equivalents of silver, by Dr. Köpsel; electrical discharges, by Dr. Goldstein; on Palmieri's investigations into the development of electricity in the condensation of steam, by Dr. Kalischer. The Presidents of the Chemical Section are Drs. Hoffmann and Landolt. In this Section there will be papers on silver oxydul, by Herr von der Pforten; a new synthesis of naphthaline derivatives, by Dr. Erdmann; and on a. peculiar phenomenon of reaction, by Herr Liebreich. In the Botanical Section there will be papers on Goethe's influence on botany, and on the reception of water by the external organs of plants. In the Zoological Section papers will be read on dual eyes in insects, on the origin of the frontal ganglion in Hydro-philus, on freshwater Bryozoa, the Protozoa of Kiel Bay, on the boundaries of zoo-geographical regions from the point of view of ornithology, the fauna of North German lakes, and on the old Peruvian domestic dog. In the Section for Geography and Ethnology there will be several papers on Africa, especially on the Congo region; one on the Kurds, others on South Polar ex ploration, on the Goajira Indians, and on the importance of the Xingu for the ethnology of the northern part of South America. A great majority of the sections are occupied with medical subjects. One of these will be devoted to the discussion of the condition of Europeans in different climates, their diseases, acclimatisation, &c. The last section of all is devoted to scientific education.