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6. Spherical astronomy 20 



Further information regarding these positions 



and blanks for applications may be obtained 

 from the U. S. Civil Service Commission, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The National Academy of Sciences will hold 

 its stated annual meeting, beginning on Tues- 

 day, April 18th. 



At the annual meeting of the Astronomical 

 Society of the Pacific on March 25th the sec- 

 ond award of its Bruce Gold Medal was an- 

 nounced. It was conferred upon Dr. Arthur 

 Auwers, of Berlin. 



SiE WiLLi.-iM Turner, professor of anatomy 

 in the University of Edinburgh, has been elected 

 President of the British Association for the 

 Bradford meeting of 1900. 



It is announced that Mr. Llewellyn W. 

 LongstafT, a member of the Royal Geographical 

 Society of Loudon, has contributed $125,000 

 towards the fund for the British Antarctic ex- 

 pedition. 



Dr. L. L. Hubbard has resigned the position 

 of State Geologist of Michigan. The American 

 Geologist states that he has taken this action 

 owing to the delay of the State Board of Audi- 

 tors in authorizing the publication of the Re- 

 ports of the Survey. 



Dr. E. V. WiLLCOX has resigned his position 

 as zoologist and entomologist in the Montana 

 Agricultural College and Station to accept a 

 position in the office of Experiment Stations in 

 the place of Dr. F. C. Kenyon, resigned. Dr. 

 Willcox will have charge of the departments of 

 zoology, entomology and veterinary science of 

 the Experiment Station Record. 



Mr. Le Grand Powers, of Minnesota, has 

 been appointed Chief Statistician in charge of 

 agricultural statistics, and Mr. William C. 

 Hunt, of Massachusetts, has been given charge 

 of the statistics of population in the twelfth 

 census. Mr. Hunt held the same position in 

 the census of 1890. Mr. Powers is Chief of the 

 Minnesota Bureau of Labor. 



M. FiLHOL has been elected an associate of 

 the Paris Academy of Medicine in the place of 



the late Dr. Worms. M. Filhol is a member of 

 the Paris Academy of Sciences, and has pub- 

 lished important memoirs in anatomy, zoology 

 and paleontology. 



Professor Luigi Cremona, professor of 

 mathematics at the University of Rome, and 

 Professor Alexander Karpinski, St. Petersburg, 

 Director of the Russian Geological Survey, 

 have been elected foreign members of the Bel- 

 gian Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. T. Grigor Brodie, lecturer on physi- 

 ology at St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School, 

 has been nominated by the Laboratories Com- 

 mittee of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and 

 Surgeons to be Director of the Research Lab- 

 oratories on the Thames Embankment. 



Mb. E. E. Green, .the well-known Ceylon 

 entomologist, has been appointed Government 

 Entomologist on the staff of the Agricultural 

 Department of that island; with residence at 

 the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya. He 

 is about to visit England, and will return to 

 Ceylon to take up his work about September. 

 For many years Mr. Green has been doing ad- 

 mirable work on the insects of Ceylon, with 

 especial regard to injurious species, and a better 

 selection could not have been made for the new 

 position. 



Dr. Walter R. Harper, of Sydney, New 

 South Wales, starts this month on a trip in the 

 New Hebrides to investigate the somatology 

 and folk-lore of that group. We are informed 

 by him that the museums of Australia, although 

 new, have already secured some remarkable 

 collections representative of Australian eth- 

 nology. The museum at Sydney, under the 

 curatorship of R. Etheridge, and the one at 

 Adelaide in charge of Dr. Stirling, are especially 

 good owing to the interest of their curators in 

 ethnology. Lately the Western government 

 sent a collecting party into the interior under 

 the leadership of Mr. Alex. Morton, Curator of 

 the Tasmanian Museum. This expedition was 

 successful and secured among other things a 

 series of carved bull-roarers, which are sacred 

 objects there. Lack of funds hampers the work 

 in Australia as elsewhere, and the field is yet 

 largely unknown. Much valuable material re- 

 mains to be investigated even in the Eastern 



