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Crookes, Sir Arciiibald Geikie, Dr. J. S. Hal- 

 dane, reader in physiology at the University 

 of Oxford; Sir Joseph Larmor, Lucasian pro- 

 fessor of mathematics in the University of 

 Cambridge; Sir William Eamsay, Lord Ray- 

 leigh. Professor E. Rutherford, professor of 

 physics in the University of Manchester ; Pro- 

 fessor Silvanus P. Thompson, Dr. W. A. Til- 

 den and Sir J. J. Thomson. 



Me. Ch.ikles B. Dudley, of Altoona, Pa., 

 chemist for the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- 

 pany, has been elected president of the Inter- 

 national Congress on Testing Materials, which 

 has been in session in Denmark and will hold 

 its next meeting in New York in 1912. 



It is announced in Nature that Dr. A. du 

 Pre Denning, for several years lecturer in 

 experimental physics in the University of 

 Birmingham, and principal of the Municipal 

 Technical School, Smethwick, has been ap- 

 pointed by the secretary of state for India to 

 the newly-created post of superintendent of 

 industries and inspector of technical and in- 

 dustrial institutions in Bengal. 



Recent visitors at the Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 have been : Dr. Oskar Loew, late of the Porto 

 Rico Experiment Station, who is now en route 

 to Germany; Dr. H. T. Giissow, botanist of 

 the Central Experiment Station, Ottawa, Can- 

 ada; Mr. Aaronshon, director of the Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station in Palestine. Mr. 

 Aaronshon is engaged in preparing a report 

 on the dry-land crops of Palestine. 



Professor Junius ' Henderson, curator of 

 the University of Colorado Museum, spent the 

 first half of the summer vacation on the Cali- 

 fornia coast, collecting marine material, both 

 recent and fossil, and shipped to the museum 

 a large collection, especially rich in series 

 showing variation of species. He spent the 

 latter part of the season in northwestern 

 Colorado with three assistants, collecting bio- 

 logical and paleontological material, which is 

 to form the basis for a report on that region. 

 Dr. Francis Ramaley and Mr. W. W. Rob- 

 bins did a considerable amount of field work 

 for the same institution at Tolland, Colorado, 

 where the mountain botanical laboratory is 



situated, and Professor T. D. A. Cockerell 

 brought back valuable collections from 

 Europe, where he spent the summer. 



Mr. William Marconi reached New York 

 on the Caronia last week. 



Captain Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian 

 explorer, has decided to postpone his projected 

 expedition to the Arctic regions until June 1, 

 1910. 



We leam from Nature that the Scottish 

 expedition to Spitzbergen under Dr. W. S. 

 Bruce has arrived at Tromso on board the 

 steam yacht Conqueror, with all well on board. 

 The expedition, which left Leith in July, is 

 reported to have completed the survey of 

 Prince Charles Eoreland and made important 

 geological and other investigations. 



Lieutenant Shackleton will give an ac- 

 count of his antarctic exploration in a series 

 of lectures to be given in German and Aus- 

 trian cities during the month of January next. 



Miss Maru. Parloa, born in Massachusetts 

 in 1843, died at her home in Bethel, Conn., on 

 August 21. She was widely known as a 

 teacher and lecturer on cookery and other 

 home economic topics. A careful observer, 

 she contributed much which is of value to the 

 science of food and nutrition. In addition to 

 her popular lectures she gave instruction at 

 schools and special work on the preparation 

 of food for medical students. She was the au- 

 thor of many books and magazine articles on 

 cookery and home economic topics, as well as 

 of government bulletins on nutrition. She 

 was a pioneer in the home economics move- 

 ment in the United States in both its educa- 

 tional and practical sides and influential in 

 introducing such subjects into the public 

 schools. 



M. L. Bouveault, assistant professor of or- 

 ganic chemistry at the Sorbonne, Paris, has 

 died at the age of forty-five years. 



The deaths are also announced of Professor 

 V. F. Kremser, of the Berlin Meteorological 

 Institute; of Dr. Franz Meschede, formerly 

 professor of psychiatry at Konigsberg, and 

 of Dr. Fritz Erk, honorary professor of 

 meteorology at Munich. 



