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Glacier Bay, where there has been a recession 

 of 8| miles at Muir Glacier from 1899 to 

 1911. A landing will be made in Muir Inlet 

 to see the buried forests, the vertical ablation 

 of over 1,200 feet of ice in 12 years, and 

 many other phenomena. The rapid recession 

 of Grand Pacific Glacier in Eeid Inlet at the 

 head of Glacier Bay now places part of this 

 fiord in Canada. The glacier melted back 

 6,000-7,400 feet in two months during the 

 summer of 1912, as was determined by N. J. 

 Ogilvie of the Canadian Boundary Survey. 

 At the International Boundary there is now 

 dry land and open fiord where the ice was at 

 least 1,750 feet thick as recently as 1894. 

 Sixty miles of Glacier Bay have been opened 

 to the ocean by glacier recession since 1794, 

 making an arm of the sea as long as Hardanger 

 Fiord in Norway. 



The National Geographic Society of Wash- 

 ington has made a grant of money to Pro- 

 fessor Martin to enable him to make detailed 

 studies at Grand Pacific and Muir Glaciers 

 while the excursion is in the Klondike. He 

 will (a) measure the recession of several ice 

 tongues in Glacier Bay, (h) look for advances 

 of glaciers, (c) study the exhumed forests in 

 relation to former glacial oscillations, and 

 (d) make soundings in Canada's new harbor 

 and other uncharted waters recently vacated 

 by the glaciers, to see the effects of ice sculp- 

 ture below sea-level. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 A TABLET in honor of Dr. Samuel Pierpont 

 Langley was unveiled in the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution on May 6. Addresses were made by 

 Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and Dr. John A. 

 Brashear. At the same time Langley medals 

 were awarded to M. Gustave Eiffel and Mr. 

 Glenn H. Curtiss. Later in the afternoon the 

 Aero Club of Washington arranged hydro- 

 aeroplane maneuvers on the grounds of the 

 Army War College in honor of Dr. Langley. 



The Chemical Society, London, will hold a 

 special meeting on May 22, when a lecture in 

 memory of Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff will 

 be delivered by Professor James Walker, 

 F.R.S., of Edinburgh. 



Dr. John M. Clarke, New York state geol- 

 ogist and director of the state museum, has 

 been invited by the president and council of 

 the Royal Society of Canada to deliver the 

 annual public address before the society at 

 Ottawa on May 28. 



Dr. E. F. Eoeber has been elected presi- 

 dent of the American Electrochemical Society. 



Dr. a. E. Kennelly, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, has been elected an honorary correspond- 

 ing member of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. 



Professor L. J. Landouzy, dean of the 

 Paris faculty of medicine, and known by his 

 researches on nervous diseases and tubercu- 

 losis, has been elected a member of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences, in succession to the late 

 M. Teisserenc de Bort. 



Secretary Lane has announced the selec- 

 tion of Professor Adolph C. Miller, who holds 

 the chair of economics and commerce in the 

 University of California, as first assistant 

 secretary of the interior. Secretary Lane in- 

 tends to assign to Mr. Miller general super- 

 vision of the Bureau of Education and of the 

 national parks; the direction of eleemosynary 

 institutions, such as Howard University and 

 the Government Hospital for the Insane, and 

 the handling of legislative matters in connec- 

 tion with the constructive policies of the de- 

 partment. 



Dr. Karl Koetschau, director of the 

 Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin, has ac- 

 cepted the directorship of the newly estab- 

 lished Central Museum in Dusseldorf. 



Dr. Albert M. Reese, professor of zoology 

 in West Virginia University, sailed on May 5, 

 from San Francisco, on the army transport 

 Sherman for Manila, to study the fauna of 

 the Philippines and other regions of the 

 orient, and to make collections for the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, from which institution he 

 holds a commission as " collaborator in zool- 

 ogy." He will return to the United States in 

 September. 



Former President George E. MacLean, of 

 the State University of Iowa, has accepted 

 temporarily the position of specialist in higher 



