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Proressor J. A. GinrutH, professor of vet- 
erinary pathology in Melbourne University, 
has been appointed administrator of the 
northern territory by the commonwealth goy- 
ernment. 
Tue Liverpool health committee has recom- 
mended the city council to lend the city engi- 
neer, Mr. J. A. Brodie, to the government of 
India for the purpose of assisting in laying 
out the new capital of India. 
Presipent Tarr appointed the following 
scientific men on the recent Assay Commis- 
sion: Professor - John Trowbridge, of Har- 
vard, Professor G. W. Stewart, of the Uni- 
versity of Iowa, Professor O. L. Shinn, of the 
University of Pennsylvania, Professor R. C. 
Benner, of the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. 
M. Benjamin, of the Smithsonian Institution, 
and Dr. L. A. Fischer, of the Bureau of 
Standards. 
THE Entomological Society of America has 
appointed Professor John B. Smith, Rutgers 
College, Dr. L. O. Howard, chief, Bureau of 
Entomology; Dr. E. P. Felt, New York state 
entomologist; Dr. W. M. Wheeler, Harvard 
University, and Dr. W. E. Britton, Connecti- 
cut state entomologist, as delegates to the 
centennial of the Philadelphia Academy of 
Sciences, to be held on the 19th, 20th and 21st 
of March. Professor George Grant Mac- 
Curdy will be the delegate from the Paris 
School of Anthropology. 
THE anniversary meeting of the Geological 
Society of London was held on February 16, 
when officers were appointed as follows: Presi- 
dent, Dr. A. Strahan, F.R.S.; vice-presidents, 
Professor E. J. Garwood, Dr. J. E. Marr, 
F.R.S., Mr. R. D. Oldham, F.R.S., and Pro- 
fessor W. W. Watts, F.R.S.; secretaries, Dr. 
A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., and Mr. H. H. 
Thomas; foreign secretary, Sir Archibald 
Geikie, K.C.B., president R.S.; treasurer, Mr. 
Bedford McNeill. The following awards of 
medals and funds were made: Wollaston 
medal, Mr. Lazarus Fletcher, F.R.S.; Murchi- 
son medal, Professor Louis Dollo; Lyell 
medal, Mr. Philip Lake; Wollaston fund, Mr. 
C. I. Gardiner; Murchison fund, Dr. A. 
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Morley Davies; Lyell fund, Dr. A. R. Dwerry- 
house and Mr. R. H. Rastall. 
Dr. Sven Hepin is planning a new expedi- 
tion to Asia. 
AN expedition to Newfoundland will be con- 
ducted next summer by Professor R. S. Tarr, 
of Cornell University, to which a limited 
number of students will be admitted. The 
geology and physiography of the island will 
be studied in the field. The party will carry 
its Own camping equipment. 
Proressor RaymMonp J. Poot, of the Uni- 
versity of Nebraska, has been granted a leave 
of absence from May 15, in order that he may 
continue his studies of the vegetation of the 
Sand Hills of Nebraska. It is planned to 
extend the detailed work of last summer over 
a wide territory and into portions of the hills 
that have never been visited by botanists. 
Special attention will be paid to the bunch- 
grass association, to the preparation of vegeta- 
tion maps and to the vegetation (exclusive of 
the alge) of the alkaline lakes which are 
scattered in great numbers throughout the 
region. A collection of herbarium specimens 
will also be made. Professor Pool will be 
assisted by Mr. Donald Folsom, who is at 
present the collector for the department of 
botany in the university. 
Dr. Davi T. Day, of the U. S. Geological 
Survey, has gone to Vienna, Austria, to attend 
the meeting of the International Commission 
of Petroleum Testing Methods. 
Proressor A. A. MicHetson, of the Univer- 
sity of Chicago, will give the annual address 
before the Michigan Academy of Science at 
Ann Arbor on March 27. His lecture will be 
on “Iridescent Colors of Birds and Insects.” 
Proressor H. S. Jennines, of the Johns 
Hopkins University, gave the tenth Hervey 
lecture at the New York Academy of Medicine 
on March 2, his subject being “Old Age, 
Death and the Meaning of Conjugation in 
Lower Animals.” 
Ar the meeting of the Chemical Society at 
George Washington University on February 
15, Dr. Frank Wigglesworth Clark, chief 
chemist of the U. 8S. Geological Survey and 
