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Mr. Charles "W. Trigg, who has been en- 

 gaged in research on coSee at the Mellon In- 

 stitute for the past four years, has taken charge 

 of the technical department of the King Coffee 

 Products Corp., Detroit, Mich. Mr. Trigg will 

 remain a senior fellow of the institute. 



Dr. Irving Hardesty, professor of anatomy 

 in the school of medicine, Tulane University, 

 has been granted a leave of absence for 1920— 

 1921, which he will spend at the University of 

 California. 



Whitman Cross, E. E. Larson and C. P. 

 Eoss, of the U. S. Geological Survey, have 

 spent the summer field season in the southern 

 part of the San Juan region, Colorado. 



Charles T. Kirk, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has 

 spent five months as economic geologist in Co- 

 lombia and other Spanish- American countries. 



Dr. Stephen S. Visher, assistant professor 

 of geography, Indiana University, has been 

 granted a semester's leave and is now in Eu- 

 rope. He is working on the problem of con- 

 tributions to civilization, with special reference 

 to Spain, France, Ireland and Scotland. 



H. Foster Bain has been making geological 

 examinations in Yunnan, southern China. 



Professor Homer R. Dill, director of the 

 vertebrate exhibit in the museum of the Uni- 

 versity of Iowa, is in charge of an expedition 

 to Honolulu. Upon returning to the United 

 States in October, Professor Dill will lead 

 a party to the region on the border between 

 Washington and British Colutmbia where col- 

 lections will be made for the museiun. 



Mr. William L. Finley has been commis- 

 sioned by the National Geographic Society to 

 secure motion pictures of the rarer birds and 

 mammals of North America. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Finley have visited Arizona and the. Gulf 

 Coast of Texas, in the pursuit of this work. 



Dr. Frederick Starr, associate professor of 

 anthropology in the University of Chicago, is 

 giving three illustrated lectures at the uni- 

 versity on August 25, 26 and 27. The sub- 

 ject of his first lecture will be " The Nosatsu 

 Kai," of the second " Ema," and of the last, 

 " The Ascent of Mount Fiji." Professor 



Starr returned a few months ago from an- 

 thropological researches in Japan and Corea. 



We learn from The Condor that the Na- 

 tional Parks Service this year inaugurated a 

 system of instruction in natural history for 

 visitors to Yosemite National Park. Through 

 cooperation with the California Fish and 

 Game Commission, Dr. H. C. Bryant gave 

 instruction from June 1 to August 31. Dr. 

 L. H. Miller, department of biology. Southern 

 Branch, University of California, was in 

 Yosemite during part of the summer and 

 toward the end of the season he conducted 

 similar work at Fallen Leaf Lake, in the 

 Tahoe region. The programs include lectures 

 on the plant and animal life of the mountains, 

 to be illustrated in part by lantern slides and 

 moving pictures. Field trips will be arranged 

 for parties of different ages. 



The Civil Service Commission announces 

 an examination for naturalist in the Bureau 

 of Fisheries for duty on the steamer Albatross, 

 at $2,200 a year. Applicants must have 

 graduated from a college or university of 

 recognized standing and have had at least two 

 years' experience in biological or hydrographic. 

 investigations. 



The Bulletin of the American Mathemat- 

 ical Society states that Gustav Foch, of 

 Leipzig, offers for sale the library of the late 

 Professor Moritz Cantor, of Heidelberg, the 

 historian of mathematics. The library con- 

 sists of about 2,000 volumes and 2,500 

 pamphlets. 



New laboratories for research on the origin 

 and treatment of tropical diseases were opened 

 at Liverpool on July 24 by Lord Leverhulme. 

 The laboratories are named after Sir Alfred 

 Jones, the Liverpool shipowner, who took a 

 great interest in the pioneer work done in the 

 investigation of tropical diseases at Liverpool, 

 and made provision in his will for the erec- 

 tion of a laboratory and for the buildings in 

 which the work had hitherto been carried on. 



The second International Congress of Com- 

 parative Pathology will be held at Home in the 

 spring of 1921 under the presidency of Pro- 

 fessor Perroncito. Communications should be 



