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tired from the assistant directorship of the 

 Geological Survey of Great Britain. He is 

 succeeded by Dr. H. Strahan, F.E.S. 



M. Leon l'Abbe, who has recently been re- 

 elected to the French senate, succeeds M. 

 Bucquosy as president of the Paris Academy 

 of Medicine. 



Mr. Arthur Silva White has resigned as 

 assistant secretary of the British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. 



Professor Hillhouse will retire from the 

 chair of botany in the University of Birming- 

 ham at the end of tho present session. 



Mr. K. James "Wallace, who has for several 

 years past been engaged in photographic re- 

 search at the Yerkes Observatory, as instructor 

 in photophysics, has resigned his position 

 there to become director of the research labo- 

 ratory of the Cramer Dry Plate Company at 

 St. Louis. It is a promising evidence of ap- 

 preciation of research that a commercial com- 

 pany engages the services of a scientific in- 

 vestigator for the improvement and further 

 development of its products. 



The Geological Society of London will this 

 year award its medals and funds as follows: 

 Wollaston medal, Mr. Horace B. Woodward, 

 F.E.S.; Murchison medal. Professor Grenville 

 A. J. Cole; Lyell medal. Professor Percy F. 

 Kendall; Bigsby medal. Dr. John Smith Plett; 

 Prestwich medal. Lady Evans; Wollaston 

 fund, Mr. Arthur J. 0. Molyneux; Murchi- 

 son fund, Mr. James V. Elsden; Lyell fund, 

 Mr. E. G. Carruthers and Mr. Herbert Brant- 

 wood Muff. 



Dr. John M. Coulter, head of the depart- 

 ment of botany in the University of Chicago, 

 was among those who returned to New York 

 on the Baltic after the ill-fated trip of the 

 steamer Bepublic. 



We learn from Nature that Professor J. 

 Arthur Thomson, of Aberdeen University, has 

 been invited by the lecture committee of the 

 South African Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science to give the " South African 

 Lectures " for 1909. The lectures are to be 

 delivered in August and September in Johan- 

 nesburg, Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Kimberley, 



Cape Town, Grahamstown and Durban, and 

 at the request of the committee they will have 

 special reference to the Darwin centenary. 



Mr. G. W. Bury has undertaken an expedi- 

 tion into southwest Arabia. 



Mr. Donald Mackay is engaged in explora- 

 tion in British New Guinea. He is attempt- 

 ing to ascend the Purari River, with a view to 

 making his way overland to the head waters 

 of the Ply Eiver. 



Dr. C. W. a. Veditz, professor of econom- 

 ies at George Washington University, has 

 been selected as a special expert agent for the 

 United States Department of Labor and Com- 

 merce to investigate the child-labor problem 

 and conditions in the principal industrial 

 countries of Europe. He will leave this coun- 

 try on February 3 and will remain abroad for 

 about eight months. 



President Eoosevelt has appointed Mr. W. 

 K. Moorehead, curator of archeology in 

 Phillips Academy, Andover, a member of the 

 United States Board of Indian Commission- 

 ers. 



Dr. Francis E. Fremantle, medical oficer 

 of health for Hertfordshire, has been ap- 

 pointed to the Edward Jenner lectureship in 

 public health at St. George's Hospital Medical 

 School, London. 



Under the auspices of the Pennsylvania 

 Society of the Archeological Institute of 

 America, a public lecture was given at the 

 University of Pennsylvania Museum on 

 Wednesday afternoon, January 27, on " Ex- 

 cavations and Eepairs at Casa Grande, Ari- 

 zona," by Professor J. Walter Fewkes, of the 

 U. S. Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Mr. Fred G. Plummer, chief of geography 

 in the National Forest Service, gave a lecture 

 on " The American Forests " before the de- 

 partment of geology of Colgate University, on 

 the evening of January 20. 



At the regular meeting of the Academy of 

 Science of St. Louis, held on January 18, 

 1909, with Professor Wm. Trelease presiding. 

 Professor W. H. Eoever, of the department of 

 mathematics of Washington University, pre- 

 sented a paper embodying his researches on 



