May 31, 1912] 
THE members of the Bureau of Chemistry 
have presented to Dr. H. W. Wiley, as a fare- 
well gift, a chest containing 144 pieces of 
flat silver, a massive meat platter with side 
- dishes, and a porringer, pap spoon and cup 
for Harvey W. Wiley, Jr., born on May 16. 
The plate on the mahogany chest is inscribed 
as follows: “To Harvey W. Wiley, whose 
leadership has been an inspiration to all who 
have had the privilege of knowing personally, 
day by day, the breadth and depth of his well- 
stored mind, his unshakable integrity and his 
splendid poise and never-failing geniality 
under any and all conditions. From the 
Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, 1883-1912.” 
AN expedition for the further collections of 
fossil American horses for the Peabody Mu- 
seum, Yale University, will be conducted this 
summer under the direction of Professor 
Richard S. Lull, associate curator in verte- 
brate paleontology. The party will explore in 
the Panhandle region of Texas and the banks 
of the Niobrara River in central Nebraska. 
Mr. Frederick Darby, one of the preparators 
in the Peabody Museum, and possibly one or 
two volunteers will accompany the expedition. 
Mr. A. E. Pratt, accompanied by his son, 
Mr. Felix B. Pratt, arrived in Piura, Peru, on 
May 38, direct from London via Barbados and 
Panama. ‘They outfitted in Piura for the trip 
overland to Iquitos on the Upper Amazon. 
The object of the expedition is the collection 
of natural history specimens, chiefly butter- 
flies, beetles and birds. The first sets go to a 
private collection and the rest to the British 
Museum of Natural History. Mr. Pratt and 
his son have spent three years in similar work 
in the interior of New Guinea, and have also 
worked in Australia, Madagascar and South 
America. They carry a full outfit and will 
proceed by way of Huaneabama, Jaen and the 
Maraton. From Iquitos they will follow the 
Amazons down to Para, and thence back to 
England. 
Tue Journal of the American Medical As- 
sociation states that the scientific investiga- 
tions at Teneriffe have received a new exten- 
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sion by the erection of a station for observing 
anthropoid apes. Professor Rothmann, of 
Berlin, and Frau Professor Selenka, of 
Munich, have been sent to Teneriffe by the 
department of education to make preparations 
to this end, since it may be expected that in 
the uniformly warm climate there the animals 
may be kept in the open air through the entire 
year under the conditions of life that are 
natural to them. 
Mr. ArtHur Maurice Hocart has been 
elected to a senior scholarship at Exeter Col- 
lege, Oxford, for two years for the purpose of 
carrying out anthropological research in Fiji. 
PROFESSOR JOSEPHINE FE, TILDEN, of the Uni- 
versity of Minnesota, has been given leave of 
absence on half salary, for the coming year, 
to carry on botanical research in the Islands 
of Tahiti and New Zealand. 
Proressor ARTHUR GORDON WEBSTER, of 
Clark University, sailed on the Mauretania on 
May 22 to take part as a delegate of the 
United States government in the Radio-Tele- 
graphic Conference held in London in June, 
to represent Clark University at the quarter- 
millennial celebration of the Royal Society in 
July and to attend the International Congress 
of Mathematics at Cambridge in August. 
Professor Webster is one of the six Americans 
whose names appear on the international com- 
mittee of the congress. 
Dr. Wititam H. F. Appison, of the medical 
department of the University of Pennsylvania, 
has sailed for Germany, to study with Pro- 
fessor Edinger at Frankfurt-am-Main. 
T. Poote Maynarp, Ph.D. (Hopkins), has 
resigned as assistant state geologist, Geolog- 
ical Survey of Georgia, and will open an 
office as a consulting and mining geologist. 
H. R. Futton, associate professor of botany 
in the Pennsylvania State College and botan- 
ist in the station, has been appointed botanist 
and. vegetable pathologist in the North Caro- 
lina College and Station. 
Dr. BERNHARD FITTIGE, associate professor 
of chemistry at Marburg, died on April 27, 
aged sixty-two years. 
