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iary steamer Erik, and putting down a coal depot 

 at Etah, the Roosevelt will part company with 

 the Erik, turning south for home. 



I shall then endeavor to force the Roosevelt 

 through Kane Basin, Kennedy Channel and Robe- 

 son Channel, to winter quarters at Cape Sheridan 

 on the north coast of Grant Land. I hope to get 

 my ship to Cape Sheridan not later than Septem- 

 ber 15. 



Early in February, 1909, I shall leave the ship 

 with dogs and sledges, in the effort to reach the 

 Pole across the ice of the central Polar Sea. 



Returning I shall probably come down upon the 

 northern coast of Greenland, and follow that coast 

 back to the Roosevelt, which should be reached 

 about the end of June, 1909. 



If the sledging journey has been successful the 

 Roosevelt will then force her way south the latter 

 part of July, and I shall hope to get in touch 

 with the world again in September or October 

 of 1909. 



Should the effort of the spring of 1909 prove 

 unsuccessful, I have supplies and equipment with 

 which to remain another year, and make a second 

 attempt in February, 1910. 



Details of the movements of the expedition (as 

 far as the imperfect communication of the North 

 will permit) can be obtained from my friend, 

 Mr. H. L. Bridgman, secretary and treasurer of 

 the Peary Arctic Club. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The Oklahoma constitution contains a 

 provision making it obligatory upon tlie legis- 

 lature to establish a Geological Survey. In 

 pursuance of this provision the first state 

 legislature passed a law placing the survey 

 under the control of a commission consisting 

 of the governor, the state superintendent of 

 public instruction and the president of the 

 State University. The sum of $15,000 was 

 appropriated for the work. The com m ission 

 met on July 25, and elected as director Dr. 

 Ohas. N. Gould, head of the department of 

 geology at the State University of Oklahoma. 

 He was instructed to report as soon as pos- 

 sible on the building stone, road material, 

 and oil and gas of the state. Parties are now 

 in the field investigating these problems. 



Among the recently elected senators in 

 Italy are G. B. Grassi, professor of compara- 

 tive anatomy at Eome; A. Carle, professor of 



surgery at Turin; P. Foa, professor of patho- 

 logic anatomy at Turin; G. D. Novara, pro- 

 fessor of surgery at Genoa, and G. Paladino, 

 professor of physiology at Naples. 



The president and vice-presidents of the 

 Eoyal College of Surgeons of England, on be- 

 half of the council, addressed to Mr. Thomas 

 Bryant, F.R.C.S., a past-president of the col- 

 lege, on July 16, a letter congratulating him 

 on attaining the age of 80 years and still re- 

 taining perfect health of mind and body. 



Sums have now been received amounting to 

 a total of $225,000 for the Koch endowment, 

 to be applied in the crusade against tuber- 

 culosis as Dr. Koch may direct. 



The Cornplanter medal for Iroquois Re- 

 search administered by the Cayuga County 

 Historical Society, of Auburn, New York, has 

 been awarded to Dr. David Boyle, of Toronto. 



De. Alexander Tschirch, professor of 

 pharmacology at Berlin, has been elected 

 rector of the university. 



Dr. W. E. "Whitney has been appointed 

 non-resident professor of chemical research in 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



Professor Salvin-Moore has resigned the 

 directorship of the Liverpool Cancer Research 

 Committee, and the professorship of experi- 

 mental cytology in the university. 



President George T. Winston, of the North 

 Carolina Agricultural College and Station, 

 has retired with a pension from the Carnegie 

 foundation. 



Mr. p. G. Clapp, for a number of years 

 with the United States Geological Survey in 

 the investigation and reports of coal, oil, gas 

 and artesian waters, has resigned in order to 

 take up professional work in geology and 

 allied branches of engineering. 



Dr. Julius Hahn, professor of physics at 

 Vienna, will shortly reach the age of seventy 

 years and will retire from the active duties 

 of his chair. 



Dr. W. Donitz, head of the scientific de- 

 partment of the Royal Institute for Infectious 

 Diseases in Berlin, has celebrated his seven- 

 tieth birthday. 



