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time with the pre-war expenditure. In such a com- 
parison the salaries of all employees now on war 
service would, of course, be deducted. 
Dr. J. S. Frerr, F.R.S., will deliver the Swiney 
lectures this year. The subject selected by the trustees 
of the British Museum, ‘‘The Mineral Resources of 
Europe,” is very appropriate to the circumstances of 
the time. The lectures, twelve in number, will be 
delivered in the hall of the Royal Society of Arts, 
commencing on November 14. Dr. Flett will deal with 
the coal resources, petroleum, iron ores, copper, tin, 
lead, and the precious metals of all the European 
countries, and one lecture will be devoted to the salt 
deposits of Germany, France, and Great Britain, and 
to a general review of the mineral resources of the 
countries of Europe, and their importance in the 
world’s trade and industry. 
A REMARKABLY fine skull of the Cretaceous horned 
dinosaur, Monoclonius, has just been added to the 
remains of fossil reptiles exhibited in the Geological 
Department of the British Museum (Natural History). 
The specimen, which measures nearly 5 ft. in length, 
was discovered by Mr. W. E. Cutler in the Belly River 
formation of Alberta, Canada, and is interesting for 
comparison with the still larger skull of Triceratops 
from Wyoming, U.S.A., already in the museum. 
Monoclonius is peculiar in having the largest horn on 
the nose, only diminutive horns above the eyes, while 
its extensive bony frill over the neck is pierced by two 
vacuities and provided behind with a pair of remark- 
able forwardly directed prominences. The brain-case 
of the fossil is especially well preserved, and a plaster 
cast of the cavity shows the usual diminutive size of 
the brain. 
WE regret to learn from the Revue Scientifique that 
Dr. Jean Boussac has died from wounds received in 
action in France. Dr. Boussac, who was born on 
March 19, 1885, was one of the most active and bril- 
liant geologists of the younger French school, and had 
done much important work for the Geological Survey 
of France. He was especially interested in the Eocene 
Nummulitic formations, and had travelled extensively 
in Europe and Egypt while attempting to correlate 
these deposits. His stratigraphical researches led to 
interesting results in understanding and restoring the 
oceanography of Eocene times. He also undertook a 
revision of the species of Nummulites to facilitate their 
use in geological work, and made many valuable ob- 
servations on the evolution of the shells of the Ceri- 
thiida. All Dr. Boussac’s researches were character- 
ised by marked originality, and his death causes a 
serious loss to geological science. 
Tue Norwegian explorer, Dr. Carl Lumholtz, has 
recently returned from a prolonged journey in the heart 
of Borneo. From the Daily Chronicle we learn some 
details of his work. After spending two months 
among the Murang Dyaks, he started on his journey 
to central Borneo in December, 1915. The 
route was from Banjermassin up the Barito 
and the Busang to the Miiller mountains, 
thence by the Mahakkan river back to the coast. Dr. 
Lumholtz’s work includes a new map of the watershed 
region of central Borneo and anthropological and photo- 
graphic records of the Dyaks of the Upper Mahakkan. 
He has also brought back large ethnographical and 
zoological collections. The expedition reached Sama- 
rinda on August 22 this year. 
A NEW expedition to tropical South America is 
announced by Dr. Hamilton Rice. In the Geograph- 
ical Journal for October (vol. xlviii., No. 4) Dr. Rice 
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says that he proposes to leave New York this month 
for Brazil, and to ascend the Amazon and Rio Negro 
to Santa Isabel, pushing on thence by steam launch 
to the Guainia. He hopes to reach the sources of the 
Guainia, which lies between the Papunaua branch of 
the Inirida and the Isana. Further, he proposes to 
survey and map the Casiquiari, which links the basins 
of the Orinoco and Amazon, and to solve some of the 
hydrographical problems of this region. Dr. Rice 
hopes to determine some longitudes with the help of 
wireless telegraphy, and to effect barometric deter- 
minations of altitude which will form the basis for a 
more accurate knowledge of the hypsometry of this 
part of South America than exists at present. 
Pror. VinzENz CzERNY, news of whose death, at 
seventy-four years of age, was received last week, was 
professor of surgery at Heidelberg University, and 
director of the Institute for Cancer Research in the 
same town. At the commencement of his career he 
showed for the first time that normal life was possible 
after extirpation of the stomach by operations on two 
dogs, one of which was alive and well five years later. 
Apart from his eminence as a surgeon, he will chiefly 
be remembered by his exertions in founding the Insti- 
tute for Cancer Research at Heidelberg, of which he 
was the first director, a task to which he brought all 
the energies of an enthusiastic and generous per- 
sonality. He was president of the International Con- 
ference on Cancer Research held in Paris in 1910, 
under the patronage of the President of the French 
Republic. 
By the death, in Edinburgh, of Dr. James Burgess, 
at the age of eighty-four, India has lost a veteran 
archeologist. Arriving in India before the Mutiny 
days, he was engaged in educational work at Calcutta 
and Bombay. But his bent for archeology led him to 
found the Indian Antiquary, which, since 1872, has 
taken a leading part in antiquarian and linguistic 
research. In 1874 he was placed in charge of the 
Archeological Survey of Western India, and at the 
close of his official career he had held for three years the 
post of director of the Archzological Survey of India- 
His original work was chiefly confined to his careful 
survey of the antiquities of Gujarat, and he published 
useful monographs on Elephanta, Somanath, Juna- 
gadh, and Girnar. He was closely associated with the 
great architect and antiquary, James Fergusson, and 
collaborated with him in the work on the ‘‘Cave 
Temples of India." It was near the close of his 
literary career that he undertook a new edition of 
Fergusson’s standard “‘ History of Indian and Eastern 
Architecture,’’ with somewhat disappointing results. 
It is on his work as a careful and energetic field- 
worker in the survey of Indian antiquities that his 
reputation mainly depends. 
Tue death on September 11, at the age of twenty-five, 
of Second-Lieut. Archibald W. R. Don, while on active 
service abroad, deprives the scientific world of one who 
showed exceptional promise. He was the fourth son 
of Mr. and Mrs, R. B. Don, of Tealing House, Forfar- 
shire, and The Lodge, Broughty Ferry. Educated at 
Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge, he won a 
major scholarship at the latter, and graduated first 
class in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1912. He was 
much loved and respected in a wide circle of under- 
graduates and senior members of the University, where 
his great influence was ever exerted for good. He 
devoted his attention to geology early in life, but 
determined to follow the profession of medicine, and 
after leaving Cambridge entered at St. Bartholomew’s 
Hospital. He intended, however, to pursue the study 
of his favourite science during his leisure hours, and 
