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THE Organising Committee of the third International Zoological Congress, to be held at Leyden, September 16-21, has sent us a copy of the provisional programme. The programme contains some details with reference to the work proposed, not given in our previous notes on the forthcoming Congress. At the first general meeting, a discourse will be delivered by Dr. Weismann; Mr. Haviland Field's scheme for bibliographical reform will be reported upon by M. E. L. Bouvier; and a report on the prize instituted in 1892, at the Moscow meeting, will be made by M. Blanchard. At the second general meeting, Prof. Milne Edwards will give a discourse, and Dr. F. E. Schulze will propose the nomination of a commission of three members to draw up, in three languages, the code of zoological nomenclature. Dr. John Murray will address the third general meeting. With regard to the sections: up to the middle of July, the first section had been promised a communication on Weismanism, by M. A. Giard; on cellular theory, by Mr. A. Sedgwick; on Plankton studies, by Prof. Victor Hensen; and a paper by Dr. S. Apathy. Dr. Bowdler Sharpe will address Section II. upon the classification of birds; and there will be papers on the origin of the lacustrine fauna of European Russia, by Prof. N. Zograf (Moscow); on the fauna of Borneo, by J. Buttikofer; and on Pithecanthropus erectus, by Dr. E. Dubois. In the third section, Prof. W. Leche (Stockholm) will read an odontological paper, and there will also be papers by Prof. R. Semon (Jena) and Prof. O. C. Marsh. In the fourth section, papers referring to the classification of living and fossil invertebrates, and bionomy, will be read by Dr. V. Salensky, Dr. C. W. Stiles, M. Blanchard, and Prof. S. J. Hickson. The section of entomology has received papers by M. E. de Selys-Lon-champs, Father E. Wasmann, Dr. A. Fritze, and Prof. G. Canestrini. In Section VI., papers on the comparative anatomy and embryology of invertebrates will be read by A. de Korotnev, M. E. Perrier, Prof. J. W. Spengel, and Prof. Herdman. We understand that up to now the following delegates have been officially announced by the respective foreign Governments:— Belgium, Prof. Ed. van Beneden, Prof. Ch. van Bambeke, Prof. Gilson, and Prof. Lameere; France, Prof. Milne Edwards. MM. R. Blanchard, E. Bouvier, A. Certes, J. de Guerne, H. Filhol, Ch. Schlumberger, and L. Vaillant; Great Britain, Sir W. H. Flower, Prof. Sydney J. Hickson, Dr. J. Anderson, Dr. St. George Mivart, and Dr. P. L. Sclater; Sweden, Prof. F. A. Smith; Switzerland, Prof. Th. Studer, and E. Jung; United States (Department of Agriculture), Dr. C. W. Stiles.