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Adamson, H. K. Benson, W. A. Lynott, Alice 

 Hamilton and J. B. Andrews. 



Dr. Charles. Lincoln Edwards, director of 

 nature study in the Los Angeles Public 

 Schools, gave an illustrated lecture on the 

 evening of August 16 before the California 

 Academy of Sciences on his experiences in the 

 Bahama Islands. 



The eighth biennial vacation course in con- 

 nection with the School of Geography at 

 Oxford was held this year between the 3d and 

 18th of August. The opening address was 

 given by Dr. Keltie on " The Progress of 

 Geography in the last half-century and its 

 present position." 



At the annual meeting of the British Phar- 

 maceutical Conference, held on July 12, Dr. 

 David Hooper devoted his presidential ad- 

 dress chiefly to an account of the drug re- 

 sources of India and the British colonies. 



Arthur Marion Brdmback, professor of 

 chemistry in Denison University since 1905, 

 died on August 12, aged forty-seven years. 



"William Scrugham Lyon, known as an au- 

 thority in botany and horticulture in the 

 Philippine Islands, died on July 20, in Manila. 

 Mr. Lyon served at one time as head of the 

 California State Board of Forestry. In 1902 

 he went to the Philippines for the Bureau of 

 Agriculture. In 1905, he left this bureau to 

 engage in the business of collecting and ex- 

 porting orchids, in which he continued until 

 the time of his death. 



Professor Scott, of the electrical engineer- 

 ing department of Robert College, Constanti- 

 nople, has been killed by contact with a wire 

 carrying 10,000 volts. 



Dr. J. A. Harvie-Brown, a Scottish landed 

 proprietor and ornithologist, died on July 26, 

 at the age of seventy-two years. 



Among deaths in the war announced in 

 Nature are: C. M. Selby, formerly assistant 

 naturalist in the Dublin National Museum; 

 A. St. Hill Gibbons, known for his geograph- 

 ical explorations in Africa; Arthur Poynting, 

 only son of the late J. H. Poynting, F.R.S., 

 an engineer; and George Andrew Herdman, 

 only son of W. A. Herdman, F.R.S., who, 



though only twenty years of age, had pub- 

 lished investigations on biological problems. 



The death is announced of Dr. Alexandre 

 Layet, formerly professor of hygiene at Bor- 

 deaux, and correspondent of the Paris Acad- 

 emy of Medicine. 



According to the report presented to the 

 British Medical Association, more than 400 

 British physicians have lost their lives at the 

 front in the past twelve months. 



Twenty graduates of American universities 

 left Paris for the front on August 16, as mem- 

 bers of a newly formed section of the Amer- 

 ican ambulance field service. 



The sum of $50,000 has been given by Mrs. 

 Streatfeild, to be held in trust jointly by the 

 Royal College of Physicians of London and 

 the Royal College of Surgeons of England, for 

 the promotion of research. 



It is announced that the present Lord Ave- 

 bury has handed to the British Museum au- 

 thorities, for retention in the national collec- 

 tion or distribution among provincial mu- 

 seums, certain portions of the late Lord Ave- 

 bury's collection of prehistoric and ethno- 

 graphical specimens from various parts of the 

 world, use of which was made in the writing of 

 " Prehistoric Times." The gift includes a fine 

 series from the early Iron Age cemetery at 

 Hallstatt, Upper Austria, which will be kept 

 in the British Museum, but many of the stone 

 implements are available for distribution. 



Regulations for enforcement of the new 

 federal migratory bird law have been approved 

 by President Wilson and now are effective. 

 Shooting is prohibited between sunset and 

 sunrise. Insectivorous birds are protected in- 

 definitely, and no open season is allowed. 

 Band-tailed pigeons, cranes, wood ducks, 

 swans, curlew, willet, upland plover and 

 smaller shore birds are protected everywhere 

 until September 1, 1918. 



In his address at the anniversary meeting 

 of the Royal Geographical Society, Mr. 

 Douglas Freshfield gave some details in regard 

 to the map of Europe and the Nearer East on 

 the 1:1,000,000 scale. Twenty-two sheets of 

 the map have been compiled by the society 



