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ganization in the promotion of scientific and 

 practical forestry. 



De. H. W. Wiley has received notice of 

 his election as honorary member of the 

 Physico-Chemical Academy of Italy for his 

 services to science and humanity. He has 

 also been awarded the medal of the first class 

 by the same academy. 



Professor von Leyden, of Berlin, has been 

 elected honorary president. Professor Czemy, 

 of Heidelberg, president, and Professors Pierre 

 Marie, of Paris, and Fibiger, of Copenhagen, 

 vice-presidents, of the International Associa- 

 tion for the Investigation of Cancer, founded 

 at Berlin on May 23. 



President Ira Eemsen, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, made the address at the open- 

 ing of the College of the City of Neve York. 



The Huxley lecture will be delivered at 

 Charing Cross Hospital on October 1, by Sir 

 Patrick Manson. The subject will be " Ee- 

 cent advances in science and their bearing on 

 medicine and surgery." 



Professor W. M. Davis, visiting professor 

 from Harvard University at the University of 

 Berlin for the year 1908-9, will give his 

 lectures in the first semester, instead of in 

 the second, as previously announced. 



Dr. M. F. G-uyer, professor of zoology at 

 the University of Cincinnati, who is in Eu- 

 rope on a leave of absence, has been invited 

 to deliver a series of lectures in the University 

 of Aberdeen. 



Dr. Beenhaed Fischer, docent at Bonn, has 

 been appointed director of the Pathological 

 Institute of the Senckenberg Society at 

 Frankfort. 



The Electrical World states that Dr. Ed- 

 ward P. Hyde, now of the Bureau of Stan- 

 dards, after October 1, will organize and 

 direct a department of physical research under 

 the auspices of and at the expense of the 

 National Electric Lamp Association. Dr. 

 Hyde and his staS will, it is announced by 

 the association, operate the new department 

 with entire freedom from commercial sug- 

 gestion and with the same frank publicity 



which has characterized his work at the Bu- 

 reau of Standards. 



A monujient in honor of Hermann von 

 Wissmann, the German African explorer, has 

 been unveiled at Lauterberg, in the Hartz. 



Dr. Morris M. Gibbs, of Kalamazoo, Mich., 

 a student of ornithology and allied sciences 

 and for years a frequent contributor to scien- 

 tific literature, died at his home on September 

 18. 



General J. F. Nery Delgado, for many 

 years director of the Geological Survey of Por- 

 tugal, died at Figueira-da-Foz on August 3, 

 in his sixty-fourth year. 



Cav. Enrico de Nicolis died at Verona, 

 Italy, on July 4. He had published many 

 important papers upon the geology of northern 

 Italy. 



Messes. J. P. Ault and C. C. Stewart, 

 working under the auspices of the department 

 of terrestrial magnetism of the Carnegie In- 

 stitution of Washington, made a record canoe 

 trip during the past summer, starting out 

 from Prince Albert and Cumberland House 

 in the Province Saskatchewan, Canada, and 

 extending up to the sixtieth parallel, via 

 Pelican Lake, Eeindeer Lake, Lac Du Brochet, 

 Sandy Lake, Husky Portage and Canoe Limit 

 (about one and one half miles north of the 

 sixtieth parallel). The trip embraced sixty- 

 eight days during June, July and August; 

 1,600 miles were covered by canoe and 71 

 portages varying from 100 yards to two miles 

 were made. The party encountered various 

 unique experiences and penetrated a region 

 inhabited by Eskimos, but rarely visited by 

 white man. A complete series of magnetic 

 observations was obtained along the entire 

 trip. 



De. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, has been assigned to continue the 

 work of excavation, preservation and repair 

 of the cliff dwellings and other prehistoric 

 ruins in the Mesa Verde National Park, Colo- 

 rado, under the special allotment for that 

 purpose by congress through the Interior De- 

 partment. The Mesa Verde National Park 



