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Dr. Hovey and his party, and it was expected 

 that Knud Rasmussen, who has been in Green- 

 land for two years, will join them. 



According to a press dispatch from Punta 

 Arenas, Chile, Lieutenant Sir Ernest H. 

 Shackleton has rescued the members of his 

 Antarctic expedition who were marooned on 

 Elephant Island. Lieutenant Shackleton re- 

 turned to Punta Arena on September 3 with 

 his men safe and well on board the rescue ship 

 Yelcho. This was the fourth attempt made 

 by Sir Ernest Shackleton to rescue the twenty- 

 two men who had been marooned on Elephant 

 Island since April 24. The other attempts, 

 made during June and July, failed on account 

 of unfavorable ice conditions. 



Dr. W. G. MacCallum, professor of pathol- 

 ogy in Columbia University, expects to return 

 to New Tork this month from a trip to Hono- 

 lulu, Eiji, New Zealand, Australia, Java, 

 Borneo, Celebes and Sumatra. During this 

 trip, which has lasted since February, he has 

 given some attention to prevailing diseases 

 in these islands. 



Dr. George T. Moore, director of the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden, has returned from a 

 trip, which has lasted since February, he has 

 spent a few days at the biological station of 

 the University of North Dakota, collecting and 

 studying the algas of that region. 



Dr. George W. Crile, professor of surgery 

 in Western Reserve University, on August 25, 

 gave an illustrated lecture before the graduate 

 school in medical sciences of the University 

 of Illinois, Chicago, on " Exhaustion and 

 Restoration." On August 31, Professor C. R. 

 Bardeen, dean of the medical school of the 

 University of Wisconsin gave a lecture before 

 the school, his subject being " Study of the 

 Anatomy of the Heart in the Living by Use of 

 the X-ray." 



Professor Burton D. Meyers, of the Uni- 

 versity of Indiana, recently gave an illustrated 

 lecture on " The Normal Position of the Hu- 

 man Stomach" to the faculty and students 

 of the Graduate School in Medical Sciences 

 of the University of Illinois. 



The Archangel Society is collecting the 

 sum of $12,500 to obtain information of two 

 Russian expeditions which sailed in 1912 under 

 Lieut. Brusiloff and M. Rousanoff. 



President Wilson has signed the bill re- 

 cently passed by Congress appropriating $35,- 

 000 for the erection at Washington of a memo- 

 rial to John Ericsson, inventor of the Monitor 

 and distinguished as an engineer. 



Professor Thomas Gregor Brodie, associ- 

 ated with Professor A. B. Macallum, in the 

 department of physiology of the University of 

 Toronto since 1908, died on August 20, at the 

 age of fifty years. Professor Brodie was in 

 London, where he was serving as a captain in 

 the Canadian Army Medical Corps. 



Mr. Charles Dawson, who died on August 

 10 at the age of fifty-two years, was a solicitor, 

 who devoted attention to the fossil remains of 

 reptiles found in the Wealden formations 

 quarried round Hastings, and made a large 

 collection, which he placed in the British Mu- 

 seum. In 1912 he discovered the now famous 

 skull and mandible of Eoanthropus dawsoni in 

 a very old gravel at Piltdown. 



At the beginning of July, as we learn from 

 Nature, a party of thirty men, led by Mr. 

 Birger Johnsson, left Sweden for Spitsbergen 

 in order to work the coal deposits at the head 

 of Bell Sound (Braganza Creek) and Isfjord. 

 At Braganza Creek the coal, though of Ter- 

 tiary age, is said to be of good burning qual- 

 ity, and there is an average thickness of 2.15 

 meters over an area of about 100 kilometers. 

 At the Pyramid Hill and in BunsoVs Land, 

 at the head of Isfjord, on the other hand, the 

 coal is culm of Carboniferous age, and is not 

 so good as at Braganza. None the less, these 

 two areas are calculated to yield about 3,000 

 million tons of good coal. Other members of 

 the expedition are Mr. S. Ohman, who will be 

 responsible for the mapping ; Mr. H. Odelberg, 

 agronomist, who will see to the provisioning; 

 Mr. E. Lundstrom, who will serve as botanist 

 and make a map according to Professor De 

 Geer's photographic method; and a paleontol- 

 ogist, Mr. Erik Andersson, of Upsala, who was 

 recently studying the fossil fishes of Spits- 



