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path of totality crosses Australia in latitudes 

 which, except in Queensland and in a corner 

 of New South Wales, are to the north of the 

 inhabited regions of the continent, and ends 

 near Norfolk Island in the Pacific. It is pos- 

 sible that an Australian expedition will ob- 

 serve the eclipse from the neighborhood of 

 Cunnamulla. 



Christmas Island is an isolated island lying 

 to the south of Java in Lat. S. 10° 25', Long. 

 E. 105° 42'. It is about 12 miles long and 

 nine broad and rises to a height of over 1,100 

 ft. ^ The population of the settlement, called 

 Flying Fish Cove, after the warship which 

 discovered the anchorage, is about 250, con- 

 sisting of Europeans, Indians, Malays, and 

 Chinese. The island is attached to the Straits 

 Settlements administration and was annexed 

 by the United Kingdom in 1888. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Charles R. Cross, professor emeritus of 

 physics at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, died on November 16 in Brook- 

 line aged seventy-three years. 



Dr. W. ,T. iLiYO delivered the Jolm B. 

 Murphy memorial address before the meet- 

 ing of the Clinical Congress of the Ameri- 

 can College of Surgeons in Phildelphia at 

 which meeting honorary fellowships in the 

 Eoyal College of Surgeons of Ireland were 

 conferred upon him and on Dr. C. H. Mayo. 



C. O. Maii.loux, chairman of the Interna- 

 tional Electrotechnical Commission, has been 

 invited by the President of the French Re- 

 public to deliver on November 24, the ad- 

 dress of eulogy on Ampere. The ceremony 

 will take place at the Sorbonne in Paris. 



The magnetic-survey yacht Carnegie, under 

 the command of J. P. Ault, returned to Wash- 

 ington on Thursday, November 10, thus 

 satisfactorily completing her two years' 

 world cruise. Dr. Bauer, director of the De- 

 partment of Terrestrial Magnetism, joined 

 the vessel at Panama and remained with her 

 until the arrival at Washington. Although 

 considerable rough weather was encountered, 

 it was found possible with the special appli- 



ances aboard the Carnegie, to make satisfac- 

 tory magnetic and electric observations daily. 

 Eight medical investigators, five Americans 

 and the other three British, sailed from New 

 York on November 16 on the Santa Teresa for 

 Peru, where they will undertake studies of the 

 physiological changes which enable people to 

 live permanently at high altitudes. The 

 party will make their headquarters at Cerro 

 de Pasco, Peru, situated in the Andes at a 

 height of over fourteen thousand feet. The 

 American members of the party are Dr. 

 Alfred 0. Redfield, assistant professor of phys- 

 iology at the Harvard Medical School; Dr. 

 Arlie V. Bock, M.D., of the Massachusetts 

 General Hospital; Dr. Henry S. Forbes, now 

 engaged in research in industrial medicine at 

 Harvard; Dr. C. A. L. Binger, of the Rocke- 

 feller Institute, New York, and Dr. George 

 Harrop, late of the Presbyterian Hospital, New 

 York. 



Sir Robert Wood, president of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons of Ireland, Sir William 

 Taylor, ex-president of the same organization, 

 and Professor Shoemaker, of The Hague, 

 visited the Mayo Clinic on November 1, 2, and 

 3. A meeting was held in their honor in the 

 lobby on November 2, at which time Sir Robert 

 Wood gave a brief talk on education in Ire- 

 land ; Sir William Taylor discussed the organi- 

 zation of the Royal College of Surgeons of 

 Ireland, and Professor Shoemaker spoke on 

 operations on the stomach and colon which he 

 had originated. 



A DELEGATION of Serbian physicians, guests 

 of the Rockefeller Foundation, visited the 

 Mayo Foundation on October 27 and 28. The 

 delegation is composed of Dr. G. J. Nikolitch, 

 under-secretary and first medical officer of the 

 Ministry of Health of Serbia ; Dr. G. Joannot- 

 itch, professor of pathologic anatomy, and Dr. 

 R. Stankovie, professor of internal medicine, 

 in the Belgrade Medical School. Mr. Frank B. 

 Stubbs, of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Dr. 

 Henry John, of Cleveland, accompanied the 

 delegation. 



Charles E. Weaver has resumed his profes- 

 sorship of geology in the University of Wash- 



