APRIL 19, 1912] 
the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hull, 
on Friday and Saturday, April 26 and 27. 
Dr. H. V. Wilson is president and Dr. E. W. 
Gudger secretary. 
Tuer Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 
New Zealand, which came into existence on 
August 30, 1862, will celebrate its jubilee this 
year. It is proposed to mark the occasion by 
holding a gathering in Christchurch. 
Messrs. ConsTABLE AND COMPANY announce 
the publication, beginning in April, of a new 
quarterly review to be called Bedrock. The 
acting editor is Mr. H. B. Grylls, and there 
is an editorial committee consisting of Sir 
Bryam Donkin, Professor E. B. Poulton, Dr. 
G. Archdall Reid and Professor H. H. Turner. 
Tue American Museum of Natural History 
has secured, through the generosity of Mr. J. 
P. Morgan, Jr., the collections of minerals 
and meteorites left by the late Stratford C. H. 
Bailey, of Oscawana-on-Hudson. Mr. Bailey 
had been an indefatigable collector for many 
years and had assembled representatives of 
nearly three hundred falls and finds of meteor- 
ites, at least twenty-one of which are new to 
the museum’s already great foyer collection. 
EXTENSIVE infection of the San José scale 
has been discovered on trees in the southern 
part of Wisconsin by Professor J. G. Sand- 
ers, of the University of Wisconsin. Pro- 
fessor Sanders, who is also state nursery in- 
spector, reports that steps are being taken to 
control the pest and prevent its spreading be- 
yond the area affected already. 
Tue return of the Terra Nova brings from 
the British Antarctic Expedition news of im- 
portance, if not as exciting as that from 
Amundsen. Captain Scott, who was nearing 
the South Pole at the latest report, remains 
another year to complete his scientific work, 
which should be a valuable contribution to 
polar knowledge. The magnetic, meteorolog- 
ical and biological observations will form 
welcome additions to those of.previous ex- 
plorers. Those in geology will probably prove 
to be of primary value. Near Granite Harbor 
have been discovered marble, topaz, fossils 
(probably Crustacean it is said), and coal of 
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economic value. Two species of wingless in- 
sects were found in large numbers, and are an 
unexpected addition to Antarctic fauna. 
Scientific men will await with interest the de- 
tailed report on the fossils, with their refer- 
ence to, or connection with, the Antarctic 
specimens from Seymour and other islands 
to the east of Palmer Land. It will be re- 
called that Larsen, in 1892 and 1893, brought 
from Seymour Island, petrified wood and mol- 
lusea. In 1902 Professor Otto Nordenskiold 
very greatly increased knowledge along these 
lines. His collections from Seymour, Snow 
Hill and Cockburn Islands were rich in types 
of the Jurassic system. Among fossils dis- 
covered by him were beeches, cycads, ferns, 
firs, pines ammonites, ete., and of giant pen- 
guins, seven feet tall, considerably larger 
than the emperor penguin of to-day. 
THE Carnegie, in command of W. J. Peters, 
arrived at Manila early in February and is 
now en route to Suva, Fiji Islands. From 
thence she will proceed to San Diego, Cali- 
fornia, instead of Acupulco, Mexico, as orig- 
inally announced. Besides Mr. Peters, the 
present scientific personnel consists of Dr. H. 
M. W. Edmonds and Messrs. H. D. Frary and 
H. F. Johnston. Dr. N. E. Dorsey, Ph.D. 
(Hopkins, ’97), has resigned his position as as- 
sociate physicist in the United States Bureau 
of Standards, having been appointed research 
associate in the department of terrestrial mag- 
netism of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 
ington. He will have charge of special ex- 
perimental and theoretical work, in which he 
will be assisted by Dr. R. H. Galt. Mr. E. 
Kidson continues the general magnetic sur- 
vey of Australia. The following have been 
appointed magnetic observers: D. W. Berky, 
for work in northwest Africa with Mr. W. H. 
Sligh; Donald Mackenzie and H. R. Schmitt, 
members of Mr. J. P. Ault’s party in Peru, 
Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay; OC. W. Hew- 
lett for ocean observational work aboard the 
Carnegie, beginning at San Diego, and A. D. 
Power. Professor H. D. Harradon, A.B. 
(Bates, 706), has been appointed translator and 
librarian. 
