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active; they are planning to take the excur- 
sionists up Mt. Rainier through the superb 
forest that clothes the lower slopes of this 
great volcano, to the hotel situated near the 
timberline, whence the glaciers of the higher 
slopes may be seen; and also to Crater Lake, 
the waters of which occupy a huge cavity of 
engulfment in a once lofty volcano, one of 
the most remarkable features of the west, al- 
though as yet not widely known. Two days 
will be spent in Washington, where visits will 
be made to various scientific bureaus of the 
government. The final meeting in New York 
will be made the occasion of a more general 
invitation than can be given for a limited 
excursion on a railway train; and. at that 
time, it is desired that the European geog- 
raphers should have opportunity of meeting 
a large number of their American colleagues. 
Due announcement will be made of the place 
and date of this final meeting, as well as of 
the speakers and the subjects that they will 
treat. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
At the meeting of the London Institution 
of Electrical Engineers on May 16, a marble 
bust of the late Lord Kelvin was presented 
to the institution on behalf of Lady Kelvin. 
Some of the associates and students of Dr. 
Simon Flexner during the period from 1899 
to 1904, when he was professor of pathology at 
the University of Pennsylvania, have pre- 
sented to the university a portrait showing 
Dr. Flexner in his laboratory, painted by 
Adele Herter, of New York City. 
At the annual meeting of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, held on May 
8, 1912, it was voted, upon the recommenda- 
tion of the Rumford Committee, to award the 
Rumford premium to Frederic Eugene Ives 
for his optical imventions, particularly in 
color photography and photo-engraving. 
Tue Bessemer gold medal of the British 
Tron and Steel Institute has been awarded to 
Mr. John Henry Darby. Mr. Darby’s con- 
nection with the iron and steel trades is best 
known from his association, as far back as in 
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the year 1880, with the introduction of the 
basic process. The first open-hearth furnaces 
for the manufacture of steel on a large scale 
erected in Great Britain were those built 
under Mr. Darby’s superintendence at Brymbo. 
THE congratulations of the council of the 
Chemical Society, London, have been offered 
to Mr. E. Riley, who has completed sixty years 
of fellowship, and to Major C. E. Beadnell, 
R.A., Mr. H. O. Huskisson and Mr. F. Nor- 
rington, who, during 1911, attained their 
jubilee as fellows. 
Mr. Mark A. Car Leton, for the past eighteen 
years in charge of grain investigations in the 
Bureau of Plant Industry, and well known as 
the introducer and propagator of Durum 
wheat and the Swedish select oat, has resigned 
his present position to take charge of the work 
of the Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Blight 
Commission. 
Mr. C. E. Craic, instructor in agronomy in 
Purdue University, has accepted the position 
of agronomist in the Polytechnic School at 
Porto Alegre, Brazil. 
Dr. Mavrice J. Bass, assistant professor of 
mathematics at the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, has been elected president of the Asso- 
ciation of Teachers of Mathematics of the 
Middle States and Maryland. 
Mr. H. C. K. PrumMer has been elected, 
as we learn from Nature; by the board of 
Trinity College, Dublin, to be royal astron- 
omer in Ireland, in succession to Dr. E. T. 
Whittaker, who was recently elected professor 
of mathematics at Edinburgh University. 
Mr. Plummer is the son of Mr. W. E. Plum- 
mer, director of the Liverpool Observatory, 
and has been second assistant to Professor H. 
H. Turner at the Oxford University Observa- 
tory since 1901. 
Art the annual meeting of the British Insti- 
tution of Civil Engineers, held on April 30, 
the following were elected president and vice- 
presidents: President, Mr. Robert Elliott- 
Cooper; vice-presidents, Mr. A. G. Lyster, 
Mr. B. H. Blyth, Mr. J. Strain and Mr. G. 
Robert Jebb. The council of the institution 
has made the following awards for papers read 
