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boats and a motor boat of eighteen tons, in which 

 excursions may be made as far as the English 

 coast. 



The number of workers in attendance at the 

 station, which in former years has varied between 

 thirty and forty, has doubled, and it has been 

 found necessary to make considerable enlarge- 

 ments in order to accommodate all those who 

 request the hospitality of the station. 



The aquarium and the old work-rooms have 

 been pulled down and reconstructed on better 

 plans, and 24 new rooms have been added, all 

 lighted by large windows and supplied with all 

 the scientific equipment which modern technique 

 demands. These rooms are intended as private 

 laboratories and are placed at the disposal of 

 students from abroad at an annual rental of 

 1,500 frs., payable to the faculty of sciences of 

 the University of Paris. This charge is notably 

 less than that made by the Zoological Station at 

 Naples. It must be understood, however, that 

 the Roscoff Station makes no pretensions of 

 duplicating that at Naples. Situated as it is on 

 the shore of a tidal sea, whose fauna is quite dif- 

 ferent from that of the Mediterranean, it is, on 

 the contrary, a natural complement to the more 

 southern station. 



THE BOQOSLOF ISLANDS 

 The following notes have been received from 

 the North American Commercial Company, of 

 San Francisco, under date of June 30, 1908 : 



Our Dutch Harbor log contains the following: 

 " Wednesday, June 17th, 1908 : The Bush passed 

 here for Unalaska at three P.M. from the Seal 

 Islands. Captain Munger returned on the Rush. 

 He went up to the islands on the UcCulloch. On 

 the way down the Bush had intended doing a 

 little surveying around Bogoslov, but the naviga- 

 ting officer could not find the islands." The com- 

 pany's letter of the 17 th instant from St. Paul 

 Island says : " The McCullock, returning from 

 Bogoslov, reports the disappearance of McCullock 

 and Perry peaks. A reef adjoining Castle Rock 

 now forms a small bay. We are not in possession 

 of all the facts." 



It will be remembered that the Bogoslofs 

 are a group of three small volcanic islands in 

 the southern part of Bering Sea and thirty- 

 seven miles northwest of the island of Un- 

 alaska. One of these islands, Castle Eock, 

 has been known since 1796, Fire Island has 



been known since 1883, while the third one, 

 Perry Island, rose from the sea about the time 

 of the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. 



There is a brief account and photographs of 

 these islands published by Dr. Jordan and 

 Mr. G. A. Clark in the Popular Science 

 Monthly for December, 1906, pp. 481-489. 

 J. C. Branner 



Stanford Univebsitt, Cal., 

 September 17, 1908 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Academy of Sciences at Turin has 

 awarded its Eiberi prize of the value of $4,000 

 to Professor Bosio, of Turin, for his discov- 

 eries in relation to the biological reactions to 

 arsenic, tellurium and selenium. 



Sir James Dewar, Fullerian professor of 

 chemistry at the Eoyal Institution, London, 

 and Professor O. D. Chvolson, professor of 

 mathematical physics at St. Petersburg, have 

 been elected foreign members of the Belgian 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Mr. Wilbur Wright, as has been fully re- 

 ported in the daily press, has made with his 

 aeroplane at Le Mans a flight lasting one hour, 

 thirty-one minutes and thirty-five seconds and 

 covering 66.6 kilometers. He has also made a 

 flight with a passenger lasting 55 minutes and 

 30 seconds and covering 58 kilometers. 



Dr. Luthur H. Gulick has resigned the 

 directorship of physical training in the New 

 Tork public schools to become secretary of 

 the Physical Training Department of the 

 National Young Men's Christian Association. 



Dr. S. Tscherny, of Kiev, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the university observatory 

 in Warsaw. 



Mr. Egbert Nelson has been appointed to 

 the newly created post of electrical inspector 

 of mines in Great Britain. 



Professor L. H. Bailey has been given 

 leave of absence from the directorship of the 

 College of Agriculture of Cornell University 

 to devote his time to the chairmanship of the 

 commission appointed by President Eoosevelt 

 to investigate the conditions of rural life. 

 He expects to be at Ithaca during the present 

 month and in Washington during November 



