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expedition, and a gold watch to Lieutenant 

 Campbell, who led the northern party of the 

 same expedition. The Victoria medal is 

 awarded to Colonel S. G. Burrard, F.E.S.; 

 the Gill memorial to Miss Lowthian Bell ; the 

 Murchison award to Major H. D. Pearson; 

 the Cuthbert Peek grant to Dr. Felix Oswald ; 

 and the Back bequest to Mr. W. S. Barclay. 



The position of chief of the Forest Service, 

 now held by Professor Henry S. Graves, who 

 succeeded Mr. Gifford Pinehot, has been 

 placed under the classified civil service. The 

 position will become vacant only on voluntary 

 resignation or on removal for failure to carry 

 out properly the duties of the office. 



The expedition to explore the regions of 

 the Amazon left Philadelphia for the south on 

 the yacht Pennsylvania on March 19. The 

 expedition is being made under the auspices 

 of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, 

 and will extend over a period of three years. 

 The leader of the expedition is Dr. William 

 C. Farrabee, curator of the American section 

 of the museum. The yacht is in command 

 of Dr. J. H. Eowen, a retired officer of the 

 TJ. S. Navy. The other members of the expe- 

 dition are : Dr. Franklin B. Church, who will 

 make a special study of tropical diseases, and 

 Mr. Sandy McNabb, a traveler of wide ex- 

 perience. 



Professor W. A. Henry, emeritus professor 

 of agriculture of the University of Wiscon- 

 sin and for many years dean of the College 

 of Agriculture, is on his way back from a trip 

 to Panama, Jamaica and Cuba. He will 

 spend some time at his large peach farm near 

 Wallingford, Conn. 



The Cutter lectures on preventive medicine 

 and hygiene will be given at the Harvard 

 Medical School by George C. Whipple, pro- 

 fessor of sanitary engineering. Harvard Uni- 

 versity, on " The Use of Vital Statistics." 

 The dates and subjects are: March 31, "With 

 Truth " ; April 2, " With Imagination " ; April 

 5, " With Power." 



Before the Geographic Society of Chicago, 

 on March 28, at Fullerton Hall, a lecture was 

 given by Professor Merritt L. Fernald, of 



Harvard University, the title being "The 

 Mountains and Barrens of Newfoundland and 

 the Gaspe Peninsula." 



Mr. F. E. Matthes, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, gave a lecture on March 18 before 

 the Appalachian Mountain Club of Boston on 

 " The Glaciers of Mount Eainier." On 

 March 19 he repeated this lecture at Wellesley 

 College. On March 20 he spoke to the classes 

 in civil engineering and mining of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology on " The 

 Sculpture of the Yosemite Valley and the 

 manner in which it is brought out on the 

 Yosemite Map." On March 22 he spoke to 

 the classes in civil engineering, mining and 

 geology of Dartmouth College on the " De- 

 lineation of Land Forms as Exemplified by 

 the Map of the Yosemite Valley." 



Vladimir Karapetofp, professor of electrical 

 engineering at Cornell University, will ad- 

 dress students at four southern colleges, 

 namely, Clemson College, S. C, on April 2; 

 Georgia School of Technology at Atlanta, on 

 April 4; Alabama Polytechnic Institute in 

 Auburn, on April 7, and University of Ten- 

 nessee at Knoxville, on April 10. In each of 

 these places he is scheduled for three events: 

 a lecture for electrical students on electro- 

 static and magnetic circuits, a general address 

 on the development of personality and a lec- 

 ture-recital on musical expression. 



A memorial window to Ealph Stockman 

 Tarr, late professor of physical geography in 

 Cornell University, who died March 20, 1912, 

 was dedicated in Sage Chapel last week. The 

 window was unveiled by Professor Lawrence 

 Martin, of the University of Wisconsin, for- 

 merly an assistant under Professor Tarr. 

 Acting President Crane accepted the me- 

 morial on behalf of the university. 



Dr. Ira Van Gieson, formerly instructor in 

 pathology in Columbia University, and at one 

 time director of the New York State Patho- 

 logical Institute, died in New York City on 

 March 24. 



Dr. Prince Albert Morrow, the eminent 

 dermatologist of New York City, died on 

 March 17, aged sixty-six years. 



