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Drs. F. B. Laxev (Yale, 1908) and J. E. 

 PogTie (Yale, 1909) have been appointed as- 

 sistant curators in the department of geology 

 of the IT. S. National Museum ; the former in 

 the division of applied geology and the latter 

 in the division of mineralogy. 



Dr. E. D. Duraxd, the director of the cen- 

 sus, has announced the appointment of experts 

 in statistics, economics, agriculture and manu- 

 factures to cooperate with him in the formula- 

 tion of the census schedules on which the 

 enumerators will enter the information they 

 obtain next April. The conferees on the 

 agricultural schedule are: Dr. J. L. Coulter, 

 instructor in agricultural economics in the 

 University of Minnesota; Dr. H. C. Taylor, 

 professor of agricultural economics in the 

 University of Wisconsin ; Dr. C. F. Warren, 

 Jr., professor of farm management in Cornell 

 University, and Dr. T. M. Carver, professor 

 of economics in Harvard University. The 

 conferees for manufactures and on population 

 are leading experts, being in most cases uni- 

 versity professors. 



The chief examiners in the sciences for the 

 college entrance examination board next year 

 are : in mathematics, Professor R. W. Prentiss, 

 of Rutgers College; in physics, Professor F. 

 A. Waterman, of Smith College; in chem- 

 istry, Professor Alexander Smith, of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago; in geography, Professor 

 A. P. Brigham, of Colgate University; in 

 zoology, Professor G. H. Parker, of Harvard 

 University, and in botany, Professor W. W. 

 Rowlee, of Cornell University. 



Professor Thomas C. Chamberlin, of the 

 department of geology of the University of 

 Chicago, and Dr. Rollin T. Chamberlin, have 

 returned from the expedition sent by the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago to study educational con- 

 ditions in the orient. 



The University of Chicago paleontological 

 expedition to the Permian of northern Texas 

 has returned from a most successful trip. 

 Numerous skulls and skeletons of small rep- 

 tiles and amphibians were secured, giving to 

 the University of Chicago, with its previous 

 collections from that formation, an excellent 

 representation of Permian vertebrates. 



The Michigan Biological Survey is, this 

 summer, investigating the fauna and flora of 

 Dickinson County, Michigan. The work is 

 under the direction of Alexander G. Ruthven, 

 the chief field naturalist of the survey, and 

 the members of the party, and the groups to 

 which they are giving primary attention, are 

 as follows: A. G. Ruthven and F. Gaige 

 (vertebrates), H. Baker (molluscs), W. W. 

 Newcomb (insects) and G. H. Coons (bot- 

 any). 



Mr. Myron L. Fuller, who has recently 

 completed his report on the differentiation of 

 the glacial drifts of Long Island, New York, 

 upon which he has been at work for the 

 United States Geological Survey for some 

 years, will sail in October for a trip around 

 the world, the principal stays being made in 

 India and Japan with shorter stops in Java 

 and Borneo. 



Dr. Juan Guitaras has consented to remain 

 director of sanitation and chairman of the 

 National Board of Health for Cuba, in view 

 of the fact that the government has now ap- 

 propriated sufficient funds for the work of the 

 department of sanitation. 



Professor W. M. Kerr, of Oregon, has been 

 elected president of the Association of Amer- 

 ican Agricultural Colleges and Experiment 

 Stations, at the recent meeting held at Port- 

 land, Oregon. 



Captain Herbert E. Purey Cust, R.N., 

 assistant hydrographer, has been appointed . 

 to be hydrographer of the British Navy in the 

 place of Rear- Admiral Arthur M. Field, F.R.S. 



The permanent commission of the Interna- 

 tional Association of Seismology was held at 

 Zermatt on August 30 with Professor Arthur 

 Schuster, F.R.S., as chairman. Among the 

 papers on the program was one by Professor 

 Harry Fielding Reid, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, on " Some Lessons of the Cali- 

 fornia Earthquake." 



Dr. Otto von Bollinger, professor of pa- 

 thology at Munich, has died at the age of 

 sixty-seven years. 



Dr. Karl Friedheim, formerly professor of 

 organic chemistry at Berne, has died at the 

 age of fifty-one years. 



