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received, from the Upper Cretaceous deposits along the Red Deer River of 

 Alberta, Canada, an exhibition specimen of a skull of the crested dinosaur 

 Stephanosaurus, a unique genus heretofore unrepresented in the collections. 

 Stephanosaurus is remarkable on account of the development on the top of 

 the skull of a high thin bony crest resembling that of the living Cassowary. 



Dr. D. Borodin, Russian economic entomologist, has been visiting Wash- 

 ington and has been looking up Russian entomological literature in the 

 libraries of this city. Before the revolution Dr. Borodin was director of the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station at Poltawa, in southern Russia. 



The honorary degree of Doctor of Sciences was conferred upon Messrs. 

 Frederick V. Coville, botanist in the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, and Frank vSpringer, paleontologist in the U. S. 

 National Museum, at the centenary graduation exercises of George Washing- 

 ton University on February 22. 



Mr. C. R. DeLong has been appointed chief of the chemical division of 

 the U. S. Tariff Commission, succeeding Dr. Grinnell Jones, who has re- 

 turned to Harvard University but retains a connection with the Commission 

 in an advisory capacity. The other members of the chemical staff of the 

 Commission are Messrs. S. D. Kirkpatrick, W. N. Watson, and A. R. 

 Willis. 



Dr. Alfred DoolittlE, professor of mathematics and instructor in as- 

 tronomy at the Catholic University since 1S98, died on February 23, 1921. 



Dr. Pentti Eskola, of the Geological Survey Commission of Finland, is 

 engaged in petrologic research at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington. 



Dr. Maurice C. Hall, of the Bureau of Animal Industry, has been elected 

 secretary of the Washington Alumni Chapter of the Society of the Sigma Xi. 

 The vSociety plans to have a series of informal inspection trips to the scientific 

 institutions of the city. 



Dr. L. I. Shaw, of the Bureau of Mines, has been elected treasurer of the 

 Chemical Society, succeeding the late Frederic P. Dewey. 



