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pied during the past year in the preparation 

 of a work on igneous rocks, the first volume of 

 which has just been published by John Wiley 

 and Sons, has severed his connection with the 

 University of Chicago, and has started on a 

 visit to portions of Japan, China, the Philip- 

 pines and Java, under the immediate auspices 

 of the Smithsonian Institution of Washing- 

 ton. The purpose of his visit is the study of 

 the volcanic rocks of these regions in order to 

 complete the second volume, or descriptive 

 part, of his book. Publications may be sent 

 to him in care of the Smithsonian Institution 

 in Washington. 



Frederick Monsen has gone to the deserts 

 of Chihuahua and Sonora to make ethnolog- 

 ical research among the Indians of those parts 

 and to study the physical geography of the 

 region. Late in July, Mr. Monsen will visit 

 Arizona, where three months will be devoted 

 to investigation among the Hopi and Navajo 

 Indians, after which he will endeavor to photo- 

 graph the Grand Canyon from above by means 

 of kites which he will fly from the rim of the 

 canyon, sending them over 6,000 feet above 

 the surface of the river. Mr. Monsen returns 

 to New York next November. 



Mr. William B. Richardson, collecting for 

 the American Museum of Natural History in 

 Nicaragua, announces the shipment of a large 

 collection of birds and mammals made during 

 the last six months at points ranging in alti- 

 tudes from 700 to 5,000 feet. 



Albert A. Giesecke, Ph.D. (Cornell), has 

 been commissioned by the Peruvian govern- 

 ment to organize a system of commercial and 

 technical education in Peru, and will leave 

 in a short time for Lima. 



Professor Kengo Makino, of the department 

 of electrical engineering. University of 

 Waseda, Tokyo, Japan, is now on his way 

 home via Europe after a couple of years spent 

 at Cornell in post-graduate study. 



Dr. George Dock, of New Orleans, has 

 sailed for England and the continent. He will 

 attend the International Medical Congress at 

 Buda-Pesth. 



Dr. Alfred Dachnowski, of the botanical 

 department of the Ohio State University, is 



spending the summer in Europe. He will 

 visit the Azores, Italy, Switzerland and Ger- 

 many, and will make observations on forestry, 

 as practised in those countries. 



Eecent visitors at the Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 have been Mr. B. Barlow, of the Ontario 

 Experiment Station; Mr. W. Henry Grant, 

 secretary of the Canton Christian College, 

 Canton, China ; Mr. Osborn Ashton, of Cairo, 

 Egypt; Mr. Horace G. EJnowles, formerly 

 minister to Eoumania; Dr. Arthur Donaldson 

 Smith, Consul at Patras, Greece. 



At the University of Pennsylvania the ad- 

 dress before Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi 

 will be given by Professor H. C. Richards, of 

 the department of physics. 



Professor Charles S. Prosser has given a 

 course of lectures at Ohio State University 

 describing the opportunities for graduate 

 study in geology at some of the leading Amer- 

 ican universities. Those to which the greatest 

 attention has been given are Johns Hopkins, 

 Princeton, Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Cornell 

 and Chicago. 



Mr. John Hays Hammond gave the address 

 at the thirty-fifth annual commencement of 

 the Colorado School of Mines, held on May 28. 



The Croonian lecture of the Royal Society 

 was delivered on June 10, by Professor E. A. 

 Schafer, F.R.S., on " The Functions of the 

 Pituitary Body." 



The statue of Lamarck, erected by interna- 

 tional subscription, was unveiled in the Jardin 

 des Plantes, Paris, on June 13. 



Mr. Charles L. Buckingham, well known 

 as an inventor in the field of telegraphy and 

 as a patent lawyer, died at this home in New 

 York City on May 31, at the age of fifty-seven 

 years. 



The death of Dr. J. D. E. Schmeltz, director 

 of the State Museum of Ethnography at Ley- 

 den, Holland, is announced. He began his 

 work in the Godefroy Museum in Hamburg, 

 whence he was called to Leyden in 1884 as 

 assistant of Dr. Serrurier. Later on he be- 

 came director of the museum, and the develop- 

 ment of the collections during the last twenty 



