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Zealand, Dr. E. J. Tilly ard; India, Mr. C. F. 

 G. Beeson; Queensland, Mr. F. Balfour 

 ^rowne; Britisli Guiana, Mr. G. E. Bodkin; 

 Ceylon, Mr. F. A. Stockdale; East Africa Pro- 

 tectorate, Mr. T. J. Anderson; Federated 

 Malay States, Mr. P. B. Eickards ; Gold Coast, 

 Mr. W. H. Patterson ; Imperial Department of 

 Agriculture for the West Indies and Leeward 

 Islands, Mr. H. A. Ballou; Mauritius, Mr. G. 

 G. Aucldnieck; Northern Ehodesia, Dr. Ayl- 

 mer May; Southern Ehodesia, Mr. E. W. 

 Jack; Seychelles, Dr. J. B. Addison; Sierra 

 Leone, Mr. H. Waterland; Straits Settlements, 

 Mr. P. B. Eichards; Sudan, Mr. H. H. King; 

 Trinidad, Mr. F. W. Urich, and Uganda, Mr. 

 0. C. G<o-wdey. 



Professor C. E. McClung, head of the de- 

 partment of zoology in the UniTcrsity of 

 Pennsylvania, national president of the Sigma 

 Si, and chairman of the section of biology and 

 apiculture of the National Eesearoh Council, 

 addressed the Michigan Chapter of the Sigma 

 Xi at the annual initiation and banquet on 

 June 3 oDi the " Eelation of the Sigma Xi to 

 the National Eesearoh Council." Professor 

 E. C. Case, of the University of Michigan, 

 gave a brief memorial of Samuel Wendell 

 Williston. 



FRENATiE, the Entomological Club of the 

 University of Minnesota, holds regular meet- 

 ings every Tuesday throughout the year, at 

 4:30 P.M. in the entomological laboratories, 

 Uuiversity Farm, St. Paul. During the sum- 

 mer special field trips will be arrai:iged. Ento- 

 piolc^ists visiting the Twin cities are inivited 

 ,to attend and to take part in these meetings. 

 Among the visitors and speakers of the past 

 year have been : H. E. Ewing, of the National 

 Museum.; W. E. Dove, Bureau of Entomology; 

 T. B. McGath, of the Mayo Institution; H. E. 

 Strickland, of the Canadian Entomological 

 Service; Professor H. L. Osborn, of Hamline 

 University, and Professor Sadao Toshida, of 

 Osaka, Japan. 



The death is announced of Mr. Henry 

 Lindenkohl, cartographer of the U. S. Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey, in his eighty-second 

 year, after fifty-nine years of service with the 



Survey. Mr. Lindenkohl was born in Hesse- 

 Cassell, Germany, and became an American 

 citizen) in 1861. 



Dr. James Hervey Hyslop, secretary of the 

 American Institute for Psychical Eesearoh, 

 formerly professor of philosophy in Columbia 

 University, died on June 17, in the sixty-sixth 

 year of his age. 



I Dr. Frank Shipley Collins, who for many 

 ^ears has been recognized as one of the fore- 

 most American authorities upon the Algw, 

 ,died suddenly of heart disease at New Haven, 

 Conn., on May 25, in his seventy-third year. 

 Born on February 6, 1848, he was for the 

 greater part of his life a resident of Maiden, 

 Mass., where he became an expert accountant 

 ,in the employ of a large rubber manufacturing 

 company. He early develoi)ed an interest in 

 botany and was a leading spirit in the Middle- 

 ,sex Institute, a local scientific organization 

 which did much creditable work, including the 

 preparation of the Flora of Middlesex county, 

 ,Mass., of which Mr. CoHins was co-editor with 

 the late Lorin L. Dame. In 1895 Mr. CoUins 

 iWas one of the founders of the New England 

 Botanical Club, of which he was president from 

 ,1902 to 1905. In 1899 he became one of the 

 associate editors of Rhodora, the journal of the 

 ,club, a position that he held with distinguished 

 ability until his death more than twenty-one 

 years later. ' The greater part of his eontri- 

 .butions to science relates to the marine algse, 

 on which group he published many papers. In 

 association with Professor W. A. Setchell and 

 the late Isaac Holden, he edited an extensive 

 ,and highly valued series of algal exsiccatw, the 

 Phycotheca Boreali-Americana. In recognition 

 of bis excellent scientific work he was ap- 

 pointed associate of the Harvard University 

 Museum, was elected a fellow of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received 

 the honorary degree of D.Sc. from Tufts Col- 

 lege. 



The following quotation is taken from the 

 Bulletin of Wheaton College imder the head- 

 ing " Our new professors" : 



Our former biology teacher because of a change 

 in view or for some other reason was teaching the 



