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a hundred during the past year, giving it a 
total of nearly a thousand members (962). 
Epwry B. Frost, director of the Yerkes Ob- 
servatory, has sailed for England and will 
probably remain in Europe until next spring. 
In his absenee, correspondence for the Yerkes 
Observatory should be addressed to Mr. S. B. 
Barrett, secretary. The duties of managing 
editor of The Astrophysical Journal have 
been assumed by Professor Henry G. Gale, of 
the department of physics, University of 
Chicago. 
Proressor F. R. Mouton, of the Univer- 
sity of Chicago, is sailing for Europe, where 
he will attend the International Congress of 
Mathematicians at Cambridge, England. 
Proressors R. Burton-Oprrz and Frank H. 
Pike, of the department of physiology of Co- 
lumbia University, have sailed for Europe. 
The former has a leave of absence until Feb- 
ruary, while Professor Pike will spend the 
summer abroad. Mr. Ernest L. Scott, of the 
University of Kansas, goes to Columbia as 
instructor in physiology. 
Proressor Francis H. Herrick, of Western 
Reserve University, will be absent on leave 
during the coming year in Europe. 
Dr. Ates HrpiicKa, curator of the di- 
vision of physical anthropology, U. S. Na- 
tional Museum, has gone to the Upper Yeni- 
sei region of Siberia, to carry on studies and 
collections for the museum and the Cali- 
fornia Exposition. From Upper Yenisei he 
will go to Irkutsk, and such other parts of 
Mongolia and Turkestan as he may have 
time to visit. After leaving Siberia he will 
visit Kiachtata in Chinese Turkestan, Mon- 
golia, and then follow the road to Urga, 
whence he will proceed along the old caravan 
route to China proper. 
Dr. Ritey D. Moore, aid division of phys- 
ical anthropology, U. S. National Museum, 
and Mr. John B. Harrington, ethnologist, of 
the School of American archeology, Santa Fé, 
New Mexico, will make a trip to St. Law- 
rence Island, Alaska, to make observations on 
the tribe of Eskimo which occupies that is- 
land. The data and material gathered are to 
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be incorporated in the exhibits of the U. S. 
National Museum at the California Exposi- 
tion in 1915. 
Dr. D. B. MacMirnan, of the Crocker 
Land Expedition, and Mr. A. C. Bent, of the 
Smithsonian Institution, have left in the 
power boat George Borup for the coast of 
Labrador on an ornithological and ethno- 
logical expedition. It has been erroneously 
announced in the newspapers that Mr. Mac- 
Millan has sailed for Crocker Land, the ex- 
pedition to which will be undertaken next 
year. 
Tue University of Illinois has celebrated 
the fiftieth anniversary of the passing of the 
Land Grant Act by unveiling the portrait of 
Jonathan B. Turner in the Dlinois Farmers’ 
Hall of Fame. President James in his com- 
mencement address on the Life and Labors 
of Professor Turner said: “All honor to 
Justin S. Morrill! But great as is the honor 
due to Mr. Morrill, the real credit for origi- 
nating the plan incorporated in the Land 
Grant Act belongs to an Illinois farmer and 
professor, Jonathan B. Turner.” The por- 
trait of Professor Turner was presented by 
his daughter, Mary Turner Carriel, who was 
present as the guest of the university. 
Masor Generat E. R. Festive, F.RS., 
mown for his researches in physics and at 
one time director of the Science Museum, 
London, died on May 16, aged seventy-three 
years. : 
Mr. B. J. Autstry, lecturer in physiology 
and hygiene at University College, Reading, 
and latterly emeritus professor of botany, 
died on June 2, aged eighty-three years. 
Tue U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 
nounces an examination on June 5, 1912, to 
fill a vaecaney in the position of agricultural 
propagator in the Philippine Service, at a 
salary of $1,600 per annum, and of xylotom- 
ist, at $1,000 per annum, in the Forest Sery- 
ice, at Madison, Wis. 
THE annual meeting of the Swiss Associa- 
tion of the Natural Sciences will be held at 
Altdorf on September 9 and 10. A cordial 
