June 4, 1909] 



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There has recently been erected on Mt. Wil- 

 son a small permanent observatory especially 

 designed for this purpose. Here Mr. Abbot, 

 with the assistance of Dr. L. E. Ingersoll, of 

 the University of Wisconsin, -wUl study dur- 

 ing the next few months. The expedition 

 will also spend some time on the summit of 

 Mt. Whitney, 14,500 feet high, where the In- 

 stitution plans to erect in July a shelter of 

 stone and steel for the use of scientific in- 

 vestigators engaged in researches of any kind 

 for which high altitudes, dry air and clear 

 skies are desirable. 



Ealph S. Taer, of Cornell University, will 

 spend the summer in making a further study 

 of the glaciers of Alaska. He will be accom- 

 panied by Professor Lawrence Martin, of the 

 University of Wisconsin. 



Professor Otto Nordenskjiold and Dr. 

 Hilmar Skoog will this summer conduct ex- 

 plorations in Greenland. 



Dr. Alexander Petrunkevitch, honorary 

 curator of arachnida in the American Museum 

 of Natural History, will spend July and Au- 

 gust collecting arachnida and other forms of 

 insect life in Texas, Mexico and Guatemala. 



Professor J. Horace Faull, of the Univer- 

 sity of Toronto, has been granted leave of ab- 

 sence for the academic year 1909-10. He is 

 continuing his studies on the cytology of the 

 Ascomycetes, particularly of the Laboulben- 

 iaceae at the Laboratories of Cryptogamic 

 Botany, Harvard University. 



Superintendent George McEjerrow, of the 

 department of farmers' institutes in the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin, 

 has sailed for England to attend the annual 

 meeting of the British National Sheep Breed- 

 ers' Societies, held in connection with the 

 Eoyal Stock Show, June 21, at Gloucester, 

 England. Mr. McKerrow, will deliver the 

 annual address on " How We Can Improve 

 the Sheep Industry." 



A portrait of the late CarroU D. Wright, 

 president of Clark College, has been presented 

 to the college, and will be unveiled at the me- 

 morial services to be held on July 14. The 

 speakers will include President G. Stanley 

 Hall for the university and Dean Eufus J. 

 Bentley for the college. 



Dr. G. a. Gibson, of Edinburgh, has under- 

 taken to edit the medical and scientific papers 

 and articles of the late Sir William Tennant 

 Gairdner, and to preface the volume with a 

 biography. 



A monument in honor of Michel Servetus 

 will be unveiled at Vienna in the department 

 of Isere on August 14. Professor J. C. Hem- 

 meter, of Baltimore, will make one of the ad- 

 dresses. 



M. J. loRNS, Ph.D. (Cornell), who has been 

 for several years horticulturist of the Porto 

 Kico Experiment Station at Mayaguez, died 

 of typhoid fever in San Juan on May 17. 



Dr. Charles Burnham Porter, formerly 

 professor of clinical surgery at Harvard Med- 

 ical School, died on May 21 at the age of sixty- 

 nine years. 



Dr. William Wightman, of the Public 

 Health and Marine Hospital Service, died at 

 Guayaquil, Ecuador, on May 17, from yellow 

 fever. 



Mr. George C. Edson, of St. Alban's, Ver- 

 mont, known for his work on the geology of 

 the state, died on May 24. 



Dr. Bindon Blood Stonet, E.E.S., a dis- 

 tinguished Irish engineer, died at Dublin, on 

 May 5, in his eighty-first year. 



M. Jules Ernest ISTaville, formerly pro- 

 fessor of philosophy in the University of 

 Geneva, died on May 27, at the age of ninety- 

 two years. 



Dr. Heineich von Eanke, professor of dis- 

 eases of children at the University of Munich 

 and known also for his work on hygiene, agri- 

 culture and archeology, has died at the age 

 of seventy-nine years. Professor Johannes 

 Eanke, the eminent anthropologist and physi- 

 ologist, of the University of Munich, is his 

 brother, and Leopold von Eanke, the historian, 

 was his uncle. 



The deaths are also announced of Dr. Oskar 

 Emil, emeritus professor of physics at Breslau, 

 at the age of seventy-four years; of Dr. Her- 

 mann von Stahl, professor of mathematics at 

 Tubingen, at the age of fifty-six years ; of 

 Dr. Alfred Partheil, professor of pharma- 

 ceutical chemistry of Konigsberg, aged forty- 

 eight years, and of Dr. Otto Biermann, pro- 



