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ing Professor W. J. Mead, of the department 

 of geology, W. E. Appleby, of the school of 

 mines. University of Minnesota; Professor W. 

 H. Emmons, University of Minnesota; Frank 

 Hutchinson, consulting engineer, Duluth, 

 Minn.; L. D. Davenport, mining engineer, 

 Hibbing, Minn.; and W. H. Graigo, mining 

 engineer, recently of South Africa, of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, v^ill go to China this 

 summer as consulting experts for the South 

 Manchuria Eailway company. The party will 

 sail from Seattle early in June and return in 

 October. Professor Mead writes: 



The South Manchuria Bailway company controls 

 partly developed iron and coal deposits near Mnk- 

 dan, South Manchuria. The iron deposits resemble 

 geologically those of the Lake Superior region. 

 The railway company has employed a group of 

 technical men famOdar ivith the Lake Superior iron 

 mining industry to make a thorough investigation 

 of the Manehurian deposits during the coming 

 summer and to advise on the best methods of open- 

 ing up and developing both the iron ore and the 

 coal. 



EXPEDITION TO THE UPPER BASIN OF THE 

 • AMAZON 



An expedition to the headwaters of the 

 Amazon River, under the leadership of Dr. H. 

 H. Rusby, dean of the school of pharmacy of 

 Columbia University, will sail for Antofa- 

 gasta, Chile, on June 1. The main object of 

 the expedition, which is financed by the H. 

 K. Mulford Company, is the collection of herbs 

 and plants likely to be of use in medicine, but 

 studies will be made of the fauna and 

 flora of the region. 



Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, statistician and 

 vice-president of the Prudential Life Insur- 

 ance Company, will accompany the expedition 

 to make a study of health conditions with a 

 view to the possibility of the acclimatization 

 of white men in the region. Other members 

 of the expedition are: Dr. William M. Mann, 

 assistant entomologist of the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, in charge of entomology; Dr. Everett 

 Pearson, University of Indiana, in charge of 

 ichthyology; Dr. Orland E. White, of the 

 Brooklyn Botanical Garden, representing Har- 



vard University, in charge of botany; and 

 George S. McCarthy, of Woodbury, N. J., 

 taxidermist. 



From Antofagasta, the expedition will travel 

 by way of the Guggenheim mining properties 

 to La Paz, Bolivia. From La Paz it will pass 

 through unexplored territory, crossing the 

 Andes at an elevation of more than 19,000 feet. 

 Calomar will be used as a base for the expe- 

 dition. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Eoyal Society on May 5 elected as 

 foreign members Dr. Albert Calmette, of the 

 Pasteur Institute; Dr. Henri Deslandres, of 

 the Paris Observatory; Professor Albert Ein- 

 stein, of the University of Berlin; Professor 

 Albin Haller, of the University of Paris; Pro- 

 fessor E. B. Wilson, of Columbia University, 

 and Professor P. Zeeman, of the University of 

 Amsterdam. 



Professor George C. Whipple, of the Har- 

 vard Engineering School and the Harvard 

 Technology School of Public Health, has been 

 elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Sani- 

 tary Institute of Great Britain. 



Dr. Otto Klotz, director of the Dominion 

 Observatory, Ottawa, has been elected presi- 

 dent of Section III. (Mathematical, Physical 

 and Chemical Sciences) of the Royal Society 

 of Canada. 



The following oflcers were elected at the 

 annual meeting of the Kentucky Academy of 

 Sciences on May 14: 



President, George D. Smith, Eastern Kentucky 

 State Normal School, Eichmond, Ky. 



Vice-president, Lucien Beckner, Winchester, Ky. 



Secretary, A. M. Peter, Experiment Station, 

 Lexington, Ky. 



Treaswrer, Chas. A. ShuU, University of Ken- 

 tucky, Lexington, Ky. 



Member of Publications Committee, D. W. Mar- 

 tin, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Ky. 



Bepresentative in the Council of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, A. 

 M. Peter. 



Dr. a. E. Mann, dean of the New York 

 State Agricultural College at Cornell Uni- 



