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vicinity of Coats Land and emerging at Mc- 

 Murdo Bay, Victoria Land or King Edward 

 Land. The program includes a circumpolar 

 battymetrical survey, especially in relation to 

 the study of former continental connections. 

 Mr. C. E. Borchgrevink will also conduct a 

 new expedition to South Polar regions. The 

 expedition, the financial and other details of 

 which have already been settled, has been ar- 

 ranged under the auspices of the International 

 Polar Exploration Commission at Brussels. 



A PARTY sent by the government to investi- 

 gate the circumstances connected with the 

 murder by Ilongote tribesmen of Dr. William 

 Jones, of the Field Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, Chicago, has recovered the valuable col- 

 lection made during the past two years. 



At the 665th meeting of the Philosophical 

 Society of Washington, held on April 26, Pro- 

 fessor Max Planck, of Berlin, gave a lecture 

 entitled " Die Mechanik als Grundlage der 

 Physik," complimentary to the American 

 Physical Society. 



Mr. J. G. Jack wiU conduct a Field Class 

 at the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, 

 on Saturdays during the spring and early 

 summer, to assist those who wish to gain a 

 more intimate knowledge of the native and 

 foreign trees and shrubs which grow in New 

 England. 



Professor Baskerville announces a course 

 of lectures by eight or ten recognized experts in 

 the City of New York upon such subjects as 

 water supply, sewage, gas, storage of com- 

 bustibles, food adulteration, etc. 



The Sioux City Academy of Sciences held 

 its annual meeting on April 13. Its program 

 was devoted to a Darwin memorial which was 

 as follows: 



" The Biography of Charles Darwin," Professor 

 H. C. Powers. 



" Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural 

 Selection," Rev. Manley B. Townsend. 



" The Principle of Natural Selection as Applied 

 in Education," Professor E. A. Brown. 

 ' " A Philosophy Out of Darwin," Rev. Ralph P. 

 Smith. 



Professor F. W. Mott, F.E.S., began on 

 April 20 a course of two lectures at the Royal 



Institution on " The Brain in Relation to 

 Right-handedness and Speech." On April 24 

 Mr. R. T. Giinther began a course of two 

 lectures on " The Earth Movements of the 

 Italian Coast, and their Effects." The Fri- 

 day evening discourse on April 23 was de- 

 livered by Mr. Alexander Siemens on " Tan- 

 talum and its Industrial Applications." 



Henry August Hunicke, formerly professor 

 of chemistry in Washington University, and 

 later chemist for the Anheuser-Busch Brewing 

 Association and a practising chemical engi- 

 neer, died at St. Louis on April 5 at the age 

 of forty-eight years. 



Albert B. Porter, for ten years professor 

 of physics at the Armour Institute, Chicago, 

 and later engaged in the manufacture of scien- 

 tific instruments, died on April 17, at the age 

 of forty-three years. 



Mr. Frederick Kato, who was interested 

 in mineralogy, died of pneumonia in his home 

 on Jersey City Heights on April 20, at the age 

 of forty-three years. 



Dr. Fritz Roemer, director of the Sencken- 

 berg Museum of Natural History at Frank- 

 fort, has died at the age of forty-two years. 



At the meeting of the American Philosoph- 

 ical Society in Philadelphia on April 22, Mr. 

 Edwin Swift Balch presented the following 

 resolution which was passed unanimously: 



Whereas, The United States in former years 

 made many brilliant discoveries in the Antarctic, 

 including the continent of Antarctica by Charles 

 Wilkes, and 



Whekeas, The United States have not taken any 

 part in the recent scientific explorations of the 

 South Polar regions; 



Resolved, That the American Philosophical So- 

 ciety requests the cooperation of the scientific and 

 geographical societies of the United States, to 

 urge on the United States Navy and the general 

 government, that it do make sufficient appropria- 

 tions to fit a government vessel to thoroughly 

 explore and survey the coast of Wilkes Land, and 

 other parts of Antarctica. 



By recent act of the legislature provision 

 has been made for a biological station to be 

 located on the shores of Devil's Lake, North 

 Dakota. An appropriation has been made for 

 building laboratories and providing annual 



