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many voleanic peaks, some rising over 3,700 
ft. Caves abound. The climate is delightful 
and healthful; the nights cool. The mean 
annual temperature is 76°, the average dur- 
ing the coolest winter month 73°, during the 
warmest month 79°. The early morning 
temperature averages 70° in summer, 63° in 
winter. The average daily maximum is 88° 
in summer, 83° in winter. The highest tem- 
perature recorded on the island last year was 
99°. The highest at Mayaguez was 96°. 
Vegetation is beautiful, distinctly tropical 
and luxuriant. 
The pelagic flora and fauna of the Mona 
passage are especially interesting. Trawls, 
dredges, aquaria, etc., will be provided. Fine 
opportunity is offered for the study of animal 
and plant anatomy, embryology, physiology, 
taxonomy, morphology, experimental mor- 
phology, ecology, climatic relations and breed- 
ing; tropical fauna and flora, marine and 
land, and problems on geographic distribution 
and bird migration. 
Correspondence of all interested is invited. 
All who intend to come for summer study, or 
for other portions of the year, should write 
several months in advance. 
F. L. Stevens, 
Director 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Tue lord provost of Glasgow proposes to 
convene a conference to promote an interna- 
tional memorial to Lord Lister in Glasgow. 
For the meeting of the British Association 
for the Advancement of Science, which is to 
be held this year at Dundee, beginning on 
September 4, under the presidency of Pro- 
fessor EK. A. Schafer, F.R.S., the following 
presidents have been appointed to the various 
sections: Mathematical and Physical Science, 
Professor H. L. Callendar, F.R.S.; Chemistry, 
Professor A. Senier; Geology, Dr. B. N. 
Peach, F.R.S.; Zoology, Dr. P. Chalmers 
Mitchell, F.R.S.; Geography, Sir Charles M. 
Watson, K.C.M.G., O.B., R.E.; Economic Sci- 
ence and Statistics, Sir Henry H. Cunyng- 
hame, K.C.B.; Engineering, Professor <A. 
Barr; Anthropology, Professor G. Elliot 
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Smith, F.R.S.; Physiology, Mr. Leonard Hill, 
F.R.S.; Botany, Professor F. Keeble; Educa- 
tional Science, Professor J. Adams; Agricul- 
ture, Mr. T. H. Middleton. 
Proressor CHARLES SEDGWICK Minor has 
been selected by the German government as 
Harvard exchange professor at the University 
of Berlin for 1912-18. Dr. Rudolf Eucken, 
professor of philosophy at Jena, has been 
appointed exchange professor at Harvard Uni- 
versity. 
Dr. Wittiam T. Bricuam, director of the 
Bishop Museum, Honolulu, has been made a 
corresponding member of the Imperial Acad- 
emy of Science, St. Petersburg, and of the 
Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesell- 
schaft at Frankfort. 
Tue following have been elected corre- 
spondents of the Academy of Natural Sciences 
of Philadelphia: Viktor Goldschmidt, Car- 
lotta J. Maury, John Casper Branner and 
Charles Haskins Townsend. 
Proressor W. Op.iine, F.R.S., of Oxford 
University, has resigned the Waynflete pro- 
fessorship of chemistry, which he has held for 
forty years. 
Prorressor A. H. Purpur, who for nearly 
sixteen years has held the chair of geology 
in the University of Arkansas, and since 1907 
ex-officio state geologist of Arkansas, has 
been elected state geologist of Tennessee to 
succeed Dr. Geo. H. Ashley, resigned. 
D. W. OuERN, professor of geology at the 
University of Oklahoma, has been appointed 
director of the Oklahoma Geological Survey 
to succeed Chas. N. Gould, who has resigned 
to enter private work. 
Mr. Myron L. Futter, a geologist on the 
U. S. Geological Survey, and Mr. Frederick 
G. Clapp, formerly of the survey, have organ- 
ized an association known as the Bureau of 
Associated Geological Engineers with offices 
in Boston and Pittsburgh. 
Mr. E. Nevinte Nevitu, director of the 
Natal Government Observatory, Durban, is 
retiring from office, and will in future live in 
England. 
