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Dr. W. G. Miller, provincial geologist, On- 

 tario ; "William Nicol, professor of mineralogy. 

 Queen's University; Dr. Chas. Palache, as- 

 sistant professor of mineralogy. Harvard Uni- 

 versity; Dr. Joseph W. Richards, professor of 

 metallurgy and mineralogy, Lehigh Univer- 

 sity; Walter S. Landis, I«high University; 

 Dr. H. Monmouth Smith, professor of chem- 

 istry, Syracuse University; J. S. Stanley- 

 Brown, editor Geological Society of America; 

 Dr. Frank E. Van Horn, professor of min- 

 eralogy and geology. Case School of Applied 

 Science; Dr. T. L. Walker, professor of min- 

 eralogy and petrography, University of To- 

 ronto; Dr. Fred E. Wright, Carnegie Insti- 

 tution; Dr. C. W. Wright, U. S. Geological 

 Survey. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 At the Put-in-Bay meeting of the Astro- 

 nomical and Astrophysical Society of Amer- 

 ica, the following officers were elected for the 

 ensuing year: 



President — E. C. Pickering. 

 First Vice-president — G. C. Comstock. 

 Second Vice-president — W. W. Campbell. 

 Secretary — W. J. Hussey. 

 Treasurer — C. L. Doolittle. 



Councilors — Ormond Stone, W. S. Eichelberger, 

 Frank Schlesinger, W. J. Humphreys. 



A committee was appointed with power to de- 

 termine the time and place of the next meet- 

 ing. 



The British Ornithologists' Union will 

 celebrate its fiftieth anniversary in December 

 next, when gold medals will be presented to 

 the four surviving original members : Dr. 

 F. Du Cane Godman, F.E.S., Mr. P. S. God- 

 man, Mr. W. H. Hudleston, F.E.S., and Dr. 

 P. L. Sclater, F.E.S. 



Dr. Josiah Eoyce, of Harvard University, 

 gave one of the principal addresses before the 

 third International Philosophical Congress, 

 which began its sessions at Heidelberg on 

 September 1. 



The First International Moral Educational 

 Congress is being held at the University of 

 London, September 25-29, under the presi- 

 dency of Professor Michael E. Sadler. 



Professor D. J. Hamilton, F.E.S., has, in 

 consequence of ill health, resigned the chair of 

 pathology in the University of Aberdeen. 



Mr. F. B. Smith, director of agriculture 

 for the Transvaal, is visiting England. 



Dr. Emil Ekaepelin, professor of psychia- 

 try at Munich, who has been visiting this 

 country, has returned to Germany. 



Dr. J. C. Bose, professor in the University 

 of Calcutta, India, author of " Eesponse in 

 the Living and Non-living," " Plant Eesponse, 

 as a Means of Physiological Investigation " 

 and of " Comparative Electro-physiology," 

 has been lecturing for the past few months on 

 the continent and in England on the phenom- 

 ena as brought out by his methods of experi- 

 mentation. He expects to visit this country 

 during October and November, and wishes to 

 visit the more prominent institutions of the 

 east and middle west. He will be very glad 

 to lecture on his researches free of charge to 

 university audiences or before scientific so- 

 cieties. Any institution that may wish to 

 make arrangements for a series of three or 

 four lectures by Dr. Bose, may address him 

 in care of Mr. E. N. Tagore, Box 135, Univer- 

 sity Station, Urbana, 111. 



Professor C. H. Hitchcock will leave for 

 Hawaii on the first of October. He goes to 

 complete his book upon the Hawaiian volca- 

 noes, which is to be published by the Hawaiian 

 Gazette Company of Honolulu. Kilauea 

 was never in better condition for study than 

 now. The great pit is gradually filling up, 

 and when the hydrostatic pressure of the 

 column is too great to be maintained in its 

 place the lava will escape into some unseen 

 subterranean caverns, if it does not flow out at 

 the surface on the lower ground. 



Brigadier General James Allen, chief of 

 the United States Signal Corps, attended the 

 International Electrical Congress at Mar- 

 seilles, France, from September 14 to 19, as a 

 representative of the United States army. 

 Incidentally he will make a general investi- 

 gation of what is being done in the develop- 

 ment o-t war balloons and aeroplanes. 



President Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard 

 University, is to deliver, on October 15, the ad- 



