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the Institution of Civil Engineers, and a grant 

 to Westminster Hospital. The memorial was 

 accepted by Mr. Alexander Eoss, the president 

 of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and now 

 occupies a position on the right hand of the 

 entrance hall. The medallion consists of a 

 portrait of Sir William, carved in relief in 

 white stone, with a warship visible in the dis- 

 tance. The carving is mounted on grey marble, 

 and carries underneath it a tablet, on which 

 are inscribed the words : " Sir William Henry 

 White, K.C.B., LL.D., D.Sc, F.E.S., Presi- 

 dent, 1903-1904, Director of Naval Construc- 

 tion, 1885-1902. A Tribute from the Ship- 

 builders of Many Nations." Above is a scroll 

 bearing the motto, "Build Staunch, Build 

 True." 



George Anthony Hill, at one time assist- 

 ant professor of physics in Harvard Univer- 

 sity, the author of a number of text-books in 

 physics and mathematics, died on August 17, 

 aged seventy-four years. 



John P. D. John, at one time professor of 

 mathematics and astronomy in DePauw Uni- 

 versity and later president of the institution, 

 died on August 7, at the age of seventy-three 

 years. 



Johannes Eanke, professor of anthropology 

 at Munich, has died aged eighty years. 



Sir William Henry Power, F.E.S., distin- 

 guished for his contributions to sanitation and 

 public health, died on July 28, aged seventy- 

 four years. 



Eowland Trimen, F.E.S., formerly curator 

 of the South African Museum, author of works 

 on the butterflies of South Africa, died on 

 July 25, at the age of seventy-six years. 



Edgar H. Harper, professor of mathemat- 

 ical physics in University College, Cork, 

 known for his work on aviation, has been 

 killed while serving as lieutenant. 



F. W. Caton, for a time connected with the 

 Welcome Chemical Research Laboratory, and 

 later lecturer on chemistry and inspector 

 under the Staffordshire Educational Com- 

 mittee, was killed on June 28, while serving as 

 second lieutenant in the British army. 



Geoffrey W. Smith, fellow of New College, 

 Oxford, captain in the British Army, has been 

 killed in France. Dr. Alfred G. Mayer writes : 

 " In his death biology loses one of its ablest 

 students, his researches upon the effects pro- 

 duced by parasites upon the secondary sexual 

 characters of Crustacea being a classic of sci- 

 ence. He was among the first of the univer- 

 sity men to enter the service of his nation, 

 and in a letter to me he expressed his regret 

 at leaving his studies, but ' England had need 

 of many junior officers and many of these 

 must be killed, so I must go as soon as pos- 

 sible.' High as his scientific attainments were, 

 few men have been endowed with the rare 

 charm of personality he possessed, and thus 

 doubly must we mourn him." 



The Susquehanna Eiver Archeological Ex- 

 pedition, in charge of Messrs. W. K. Moore- 

 head, Alanson Skinner and George P. Done- 

 hoo, finished its work on August 1. The party 

 consisted of nine men, and began work at the 

 head of the river, Otsego Lake, New York 

 state. A preliminary survey was made of the 

 entire river, from its source to Chesapeake 

 Bay. Local students and collectors cooper- 

 ated with the expedition at various points. 

 The party examined a large number of sites 

 along the Susquehanna, and exposed ancient 

 villages attributed to the Delaware, Shawnee, 

 Iroquois and Andaste Indians. A collection 

 of several thousand specimens was secured for 

 the Museum of the American Indian, Heye 

 Foundation. The most important discovery 

 during the journey was the location and exca- 

 vation of an Andaste cemetery, near Athens, 

 Pennsylvania, where fifty-seven skeletons were 

 unearthed, with interesting specimens of Iro- 

 quoian pottery, pipes and stone implements. 

 Contrary to absurd newspaper reports, none of 

 the skeletons were abnormal, nor were they 

 found in a mound. One of the burials, of the 

 so-called " bundle " type, was of unusual inter- 

 est, since it was covered by a deposit of the 

 antlers of the Virginia deer. 



The annual general meeting of the Society 

 of Chemical Industry was held in Edinburgh 

 on July 19-21. According to the account in 

 Nature, the meeting this year took the form 



