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part of the astronomical equipment given to 

 Swarthmore by Senator William C. Sproul, 

 was installed this year in the new observatory 

 provided for it. The observatory of Dorpat, 

 Russia, has requested copies of the photo- 

 graphs of the Morehouse Comet, made on 

 October 14, 15, 16 and lY, at the Sproul Ob- 

 servatory, Swarthmore College. These photo- 

 graphs will be published in the proceedings of 

 the Russian observatory. 



The sum of $8,000 required to purchase the 

 home for the widow and children of the late 

 Major Carroll has now been subscribed. The 

 subscriptions came mainly from medical 

 officers of the army and the Marine Hospital 

 Service and from physicians. 



Professor J. D. Cunningham, of the Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh, eminent for his ser- 

 vices to anatomy, has died at the age of fifty- 

 nine years. 



Dr. Wilhelm Zopf, professor of botany at 

 Miinster, has died at the age of sixty-two 

 years. 



The deaths are also announced of Mr. G. F. 

 Beacon, a distinguished British civil engineer, 

 and of Dr. Wilhelm Miiller, professor of 

 pathological anatomy at Jena. 



The Congress has appropriated the sum of 

 $25,000 for the expenses of the Congress of 

 Hygiene and Demography, which is to be 

 held in Washington next year. 



A JOINT meeting of the International Sci- 

 entific Association of Colonial Agriculture of 

 Paris and the Society of Tropical Studies of 

 Brussels, will take place in Paris on July 9, 

 to make arrangements for holding tlie Inter- 

 national Congress of Tropical and Colonial 

 Planters and Experts interested in tropical 

 agriculture, which will take place in Brussels 

 in May, 1910. 



The Gamma chapter of the honorary fra- 

 ternity of Phi Lambda Upsilon has been es- 

 tablished at Columbia. Membership is lim- 

 ited to chemists and chemical engineers in 

 the faculty, graduates and advanced students. 



The following addresses have been delivered 

 at the regular monthly meetings of the Oregon 

 Academy of Sciences : April meeting, " Cre- 

 mation vs. Earth Burial," by Colonel A. W. 



Miller ; May meeting, " Douglas Fir," by Dr. 

 J. E. Cardwell ; June meeting, " Alaska dur- 

 ing the Klondike Eush," by Albert M. Grilley, 

 illustrated by stereoptican views. 



The wall majos, atlases and text-books, rep- 

 resentative of many of the best appliances 

 used for geographical education in Europe, 

 which were collected last year by the Amer- 

 ican Geographical Society, are now on exhibi- 

 tion in the university summer schools of the 

 middle west. The exhibition opened at the 

 University of Wisconsin on April 15, at the 

 University of Minnesota on June 4 and at the 

 Ohio State University on June 21. The later 

 exhibitions will open at the University of Chi- 

 cago, June 15 ; Denison University, Granville, 

 Ohio, September 15 ; University of Cin- 

 cinnati, October 15 ; State Normal School of 

 Michigan, Ypsilanti, November 24, and the 

 University of Michigan, December 1. The 

 University of California and Leland Stanford 

 Junior University have secured the collection 

 for dates not yet assigned and when it goes to 

 the Pacific coast it will probably remain there 

 for some time. Not a few teachers think that 

 the collection will be especially helpful in the 

 normal schools and it is expected that many 

 of them will exhibit it. The material is loaned 

 to any educational institution that desires it. 



At a recent meeting of the County Schools 

 Commissioners of Georgia, in convention at 

 Tallulah Falls, June 29 and 30 and July 1, 

 the subject of birds in their relation to agri- 

 culture was discussed, and it was decided to 

 introduce the subject as a study into the com- 

 mon schools of the state. Professor E. J. H. 

 DeLoach, of the University of Georgia College 

 of Agriculture, was asked by the convention 

 to prepare a bulletin on the subject, which is 

 to be published by the state school commis- 

 sioner and distributed, free of charge, to all 

 school teachers in the state. Georgia is rich 

 in bird life, both in summer and winter, and 

 the teachers will be able with proper guidance 

 to greatly strengthen the fight for bird pro- 

 tection in the state. 



A forestry survey of the State of Illinois 

 is now in progress under the joint auspices of 

 the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural His- 



