JllLY 17, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



83 



Professor H. H. Turner, F.R.S., has been 

 elected correspondent of the Paris Academy 

 of Sciences in the section of astronomy. 



The prize of £50 of the Gordon-Wigan 

 fund, Cambridge University, for a research in 

 chemistry has been awarded to Mr. L. A. Levy 

 for his research entitled " Investigations on 

 the fluorescence of platinocyanides." 



Dr. 0. Hoffman-Bang, director of the 

 Copenhagen Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Denmark, is visiting the stations in this 

 country. 



Dr. Bertram H. Buxton, professor of 

 pathology in the Medical College and director 

 of the department of experimental pathology 

 of Cornell University, is on his vcay to Lon- 

 don, where he will remain until September. 



The Roosevelt, Commander Peary's Arctic 

 exploring ship, left the pier at East Twenty- 

 fourth Street, New York City, on the after- 

 noon of July 6. Commander Peary, his crew 

 and invited guests, including members of the 

 Arctic Club, were on board the vessel, which 

 was convoyed by a government tug to City 

 Island, whence it proceeded to Oyster Bay, 

 where President Roosevelt inspected it. 



News has been received to the effect that 

 Dr. Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer, left 

 Gartok, a town in Tibet, on the headwaters 

 of the Indus, early in November of last year, 

 with the intention of spending the winter at 

 Khotan, in Chinese Turkestan. He planned 

 to return to Leh, in the valley of the Indus, 

 this summer. 



Colonel David Bruce, who wiU be in charge 

 of the new commission to proceed to East 

 Africa to investigate the sleeping sickness, 

 will be accompanied by Captain A. E. Ham- 

 erton. 



Dr. Guillermo Patterson, Jr., has resigned 

 an assistantship in pathological and physi- 

 ological chemistry in Cornell University, and 

 is on his way to the Isthmus of Panama, 

 where he will collect samples of medicinal 

 herbs for analysis and will continue his 

 studies on local climatology. His address will 

 be: Apartado No. 116, Panama City. 



Mr. Herbert J. Spinden, of the Peabody 

 Museum, Harvard University, has been com- 



missioned by the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History to spend the summer among the 

 Nez Perce Indians and other tribes speaking 

 dialects of the same linguistic stock, for the 

 purpose of securing data on such phases of 

 their culture as he has not previously investi- 

 gated. The museum has received permission 

 from the U. S. governrment to send the Rev. 

 G. L. Wilson to Fort Berthold Reservation, 

 North Dakota, in order that he may pro- 

 cure additional information regarding the 

 traditions and tribal history of the Mandan 

 Indians. 



Professor W. M. Davis's summer sciiool of 

 geology has opened successfully. He has 

 studying under him foreign as well as Amer- 

 ican students. By the time he reaches Gren- 

 oble in July he will have at least fifteen in his 

 party. 



The executive board of the International 

 Botanical Society has appointed Edward W. 

 Berry, of the Johns Hopkins University, 

 American editor for paleobotany of the Bo- 

 tanisches Ceniralblatt. 



The following are among the pensions 

 which were granted during the year ended 

 March 31, 1908 (amounting in all to £1,200), 

 and which are payable under the provisions 

 of the British Civil List: Sir Edwin Ray 

 Lankester, K.C.B., £250, in consideration of 

 his eminent services to science; Dr. John Hall 

 Edwards, £120, in recognition of his devotion 

 to the furtherance of radiography in its appli- 

 cation of medical and surgical science; Mrs. 

 Sarah Elizabeth Tichborne, £60, in considera- 

 tion of the useful discoveries of her husband, 

 the late Dr. 0. R. C. Tichborne, in chemistry 

 and pharmacology, and of her inadequate 

 means of support; Mrs. Theodora Copeland, 

 £60, in recognition of the services rendered to 

 astronomical science by her husband, the late 

 Dr. Ralph Copeland, and of her inadequate 

 means of support; Mrs. Jessie Wilhelmina 

 Blyth, £60, in consideration of the eminent 

 attainments of her husband, the late Professor 

 James Blyth, in physical science. 



We learn from Nature that a monument to 

 the memory of Boucher de Perthes was un- 

 veiled at Abbeville on June 8. Boucher de 



