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Congress of Orientalists 



At the suggestion of the Smithsonian Institution, the Department 

 of State has designated Prof. Paul Haupt, of Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity ; Dr. C. R. Lanman, of Harvard University; Prof. Morris 

 Jastrow, of the University of Pennsylvania, and Prof. A. V. W. Jack- 

 son, of Columbia University, to represent the United States at the 

 Fifteenth International Congress of Orientalists to be held in Copen- 

 hagen in the latter part of August, 1908. Dr. Haupt, who is honorary 

 associate in historic archeology in the National Museum, will repre- 

 sent the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum. 



Smithsonian Grants 



Prof. E. L. Nichols, of Cornell University, who has been carrying 

 on a research on the properties of matter at the temperature of liquid 

 air, has received a further grant from the Institution to enable him to 

 continue his work during the coming year. 



A grant from the Smithsonian fund has recently been approved in 

 behalf of Mr. F. L. Hess, of the U. S. Geological Survey, for the 

 preparation of a bibliography of the literature on tin. 



A grant has also been approved in behalf of Prof. William Hallock, 

 of Columbia University, to make investigations of a physical nature 

 in the well, 3,300 feet deep, of the Yough River Oil and Gas Com- 

 pany, near Oakland, Maryland. 



The research on the flow of air through a nozzle for the purpose of 

 determining the factors that make for efficiency in the production of 

 liquid air, which has been carried on under the direction of Prof. 

 W. P. Bradley, of Wesleyan University, has been brought to comple- 

 tion, and the results are being prepared for publication. 



Mr. Bailey Willis, of the U. S. Geological Survey, who has spent 

 some months in Europe, under a Smithsonian grant, investigating 

 current theories regarding the structure of the Alps, has submitted a 

 short preliminary report of his work. A full account of the investiga- 

 tion and the conclusions reached is in preparation. 



The Upas Tree in the Philippines 



The Smithsonian Institution has received a communication from 

 Dr. E. D. Merrill, Chief of the Bureau of Botany at Manila, in which 

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