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plant pathologist. This promotion takes 

 effect on September 15. 



Dr. W. H. Willcox, lecturer at St. Mary's 

 Hospital Medical School, London, has been 

 appointed senior scientific analyst to the Brit- 

 ish Home Office in succession to the late Sir 

 Thomas Stevenson. 



Dr. Eric A. Nobbs has been appointed di- 

 rector of agriculture in Ehodesia. He was 

 graduated in agricultural science at the Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh in 1899 and for the last 

 six years he has been agricultural assistant to 

 the Cape government. 



Dr. Heinrich Moritz has been appointed 

 director of the Observatory of Eio de Janeiro. 



Dr. von der Borne has been given charge of 

 the earthquake station at Krietern, near 

 Breslau. 



Mr. Egbert Newstead, the lecturer in eco- 

 nomic entomology and parasitology in the 

 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, will go 

 to Jamaica in the first week of November to 

 undertake the investigation of the ticks there 

 responsible for certain diseases in animals, 

 and of disease-bearing insects. He may be 

 accompanied by a medical research investiga- 

 tor, whose duties would be to investigate in- 

 digenous diseases of the island. 



Dr. Sven Hedin's family, at Stockholm, 

 has received the following telegram from the 

 secretary to the viceroy of India, dated 

 Simla, August 31: "Dr. Sven Hedin is well 

 after a hard and successful journey. He 

 reaches Simla early in September and sends 

 you hearty greetings." 



In spite of a heavy sea, the Pourquoi Pas 

 left Cherbourg, on August 31, for Madeira. 

 Mme. Charcot and Mme. Waldeck-Eousseau 

 will leave the vessel at Buenos Ayres. 



On the occasion of the celebration of the 

 fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the 

 University Museum, Oxford, a bust wiU be 

 unveiled of the late Professor Weldon, who 

 held the Linacre chair of comparative anat- 

 omy until his death in 1906. 



Dr. Ernst Loeb, the botanist, has died at 

 Berlin at the age of sixty-six years. 



Dr. Max Eosenmund, professor of topog- 



Dr. L. p. Barclay, formerly representing 

 the Bausch and Lomb Optical Company, died 

 on September 1, at the Loomis Sanatorium, 

 Liberty,. N. T. 



Dr. Henry Youle Hind died at Windsor, 

 Nova Scotia, in August, at the age of eighty- 

 five years. He was a native of Nottingham, 

 England, but came to Canada in 1847, after 

 receiving his education at Leipzig, Cambridge 

 and in France. He was geologist to the Eed 

 Eiver exploring expedition in 1857, and had 

 charge of the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan 

 expedition of the following year. He ex- 

 plored a part of Labrador in 1861, made a pre- 

 liminary geological survey of New Brunswick 

 in 1864, examined at a later date the gold dis- 

 tricts of Nova Scotia, and explored mineral 

 lands in Newfoundland in 1876. 



According to the London Times active 

 preparations have been in hand for some time 

 past in England and in New Zealand for the 

 despatch of relief food-supplies and equipment 

 for Lieutenant Shackleton and his comrades 

 to McMurdo Sound in the Antarctic regions, 

 where they are wintering preparatory to the 

 sledge journeys to the south, east and west at 

 the beginning of October. The supplies from 

 London were shipped to Lyttelton, New Zea- 

 land, by the Eoyal mail steamer Paparoa, on 

 September 3, and from Liverpool by the steam- 

 ship Surrey, where they will be put on board 

 the Nimrod; but meats, butter, cheese, woolen 

 goods, etc., will be procured in New Zealand. 

 The Nimrod will take food-supplies for thirty- 

 eight men for one year, to provide against the 

 possibility of being frozen in. A number of 

 firms have made the expedition presents of 

 their own commodities. The Nimrod will 

 leave Lyttelton for the Antarctic on Decem- 

 ber 1, and she is at present in dry dock in that 

 port undergoing repairs. The Nimrod left 

 Lieutenant Shackelton and his party in the 

 best of health at McMurdo Sound base, 77j 

 degrees south latitude, on February 22, and 

 she returned to Lyttelton. She successfully 

 landed all the stores at the above base before 

 sailing, viz. : portable house, 33 feet by 19 feet 

 by 8 feet; acetylene gas plant; two years' 

 food-supplies, equipment, ponies, dogs, motor- 

 car, coal, oil, etc., in fact everything neces- 



