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Proressor F. O. Grover, head of the de- 
partment of botany in Oberlin College, has 
been appointed by the faculty to represent the 
college in the Ohio Biological Survey. 
Proressor G. C. Comstock delivered the an- 
nual Sigma Xi address at the University of 
Michigan on May 24, speaking on “ The Vis- 
ible Universe as a Subject of Current Specu- 
lation.” 
Proressor Exvior Buackwe.per, of the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin, delivered an illustrated lec- 
ture on “The Physical Geography of China 
and its Influence upon the People,” on May 3 
under the auspices of the College of Science 
Student’s Union of the University of Illinois. 
The union was organized this year with repre- 
sentatives from the various scientific societies, 
and it has been so successful that the engineer- 
ing societies are planning a similar union. 
Professor H. C. Taylor, head of the depart- 
ment of agricultural economics at the Univer- 
sity of Wisconsin, gave three lectures at the 
University of Illinois on May 16 and 17 on 
the following topics: “The Economic Condi- 
tions which Determine Types of Dairy Farm- 
ing,” “The Economic Aspects of the Farm 
Problem,” and “ The Value of Cost Account- 
ing on the Farm.” Dr. A. L. Winton, of the 
Chicago Laboratory of the U. S. Bureau of 
Chemistry, lectured last week at the univer- 
sity on “ Microscopie Food and Agricultural 
Analysis,” under the auspices of Phi Lambda 
Upsilon, the honorary chemical fraternity. 
THE one hundred and thirtieth Harveian 
festival will be held in the hall of the Royal 
College of Physicians, London, on May 31, 
when the president, Dr. Charles Watson Mac- 
Gillivray, will give the Harveian Oration on 
“Some Memories of Old Harveians, with 
Notes on their Orations.” 
Unprr the auspices of the Geographical 
Society of Philadelphia, a botanic and geo- 
graphic expedition is to be made this summer 
to southern Florida by Professor John W. 
Harshberger, of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania. Professor Harshberger has made two 
previous trips to Florida and this expedition 
is to complete his studies in the Everglades 
region of the extreme southern part of the 
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peninsula. The itinerary will be approxi- 
mately as follows: Making Fort Meyers on the 
west coast headquarters, Professor Harsh- 
berger will first investigate the region in that 
vicinity; visits will be made to several of the 
islands along the gulf coast; the Caloosa- 
hatche will be ascended by power boat to Lake 
Okeechobee and the flora of that inland lake 
will be studied. Then the attempt will be 
made (if the drainage canal has been suffi- 
ciently constructed) to cross the Everglades 
to Fort Lauderdale on the east coast. As no 
botanical geographer has ever crossed the 
Everglades, unusual opportunities will be pre- 
sented to study a region of great scientific 
interest. Photographs will be taken of the 
vegetation, the region will be mapped botan- 
ically, and a collection of the more interesting 
plants will be made. An abstract of the re- 
sults of this expedition will be published in 
the October number of the Bulletin of the 
Geographical Society of Philadelphia. 
TuHroucH the liberality of a friend, the 
Smithsonian Institution will be enabled to 
participate in a zoological expedition to the 
Altai Mountain region of the Siberian-Mon- 
golian border, central Asia, an exceedingly in- 
teresting territory, from which the National 
Museum at present has no collections. Mr. 
Ned Hollister, assistant curator, division of 
mammals, U. 8. National Museum, will repre- 
sent the institution and make a general collec- 
tion of the birds and mammals. He will have 
as afield assistant Mr. Conrad Kain, of Vienna, 
Austria, an Alpine guide. The party leaves 
New York on May 22 for London, whence the 
field will be reached by way of St. Petersburg 
and the Siberian Railway. The scene of the 
survey and exploration, the Altai Mountain re- 
gion, is a particularly wild country. These 
mountains are inhabited by the largest of the 
wild sheep, which, with the ibex, will form the 
principal big game animals sought by the 
party, but a complete and general collection 
of smaller mammals and birds will also be 
made. At present it is the expectation of the 
party to remain in the field for four months, 
returning to the United States about the first 
of October. 
