December 2, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



547 



Wilson; Modern buildings in Cambridge and 

 their architecture, by T. H. Lyon; The coming 

 of age of long-distance wireless telegraphy 

 and some of its scientific problems (Sir Henry 

 Trueman Wood Lecture), by Professor J. A. 

 Fleming; and The preservation of stone, by 

 Noel Heaton. 



An inter-allied exhibition of hygiene will 

 take place in Strasbourg on May 1, 1923, on 

 the occasion of the centenary of Pasteur's 

 birth. The commissioner general is Profes- 

 sor Borrel, the secretary general M. Emile 

 Henry. 



A Senate joint resolution by Senator Hef- 

 lin of Alabama would authorize that $50,000 

 be spent in the erection of a monument in 

 the city of Washington to Major-General 

 William C. Gorgas, former surgeon-general 

 of the army, in commemoration of the serv- 

 ices rendered by him to humanity. 



Raynee M. Bedell, electrical engineer, 

 brother of Professor Frederick Bedell, of 

 Cornell University, died of tetanus on Novem- 

 ber 5, at Montclair, N. J. 



Dr. Merwin Porter Snell, a member of 

 the scientific staffs of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution and the Bureau of Fisheries in the 

 years 1881-1889, died at his home at Stam- 

 ford, Connecticut, on September 23, 1921, at 

 the age of fifty-eight years. 



.The death is announced on October 29 of 

 William Speirs Bruce, the oeeanographer and 

 polar explorer. 



Dr. Francis Arthur BAiNBRroGE, university 

 professor of physiology at St. Barthomew's 

 Hospital, died on October 27th at the age of 

 eighty-six years. 



Etienne Boutroux, professor of philosophy 

 at the Sorbonne since 1885, died in Paris on 

 November 22; at the age of seventy-six years. 

 Dui'ing 1910 M. Boutroux delivered a series 

 of lectures at Harvard University. 



The death is reported from Paris, at the 

 age of seventy-two years, of the French engi- 

 ner, M. Albert Sarpiaux, who had long 

 been connected with the scheme for the con- 

 struction of a tunnel under the English Chan- 

 nel. 



Dr. Pierre Henri Soillier, honorary pro- 

 fessor of the Lyons Medical Faculty and corre- 

 sponding member of the Academie de Mede- 

 cine, has died at the age of eighty-eight years. 



Our attention has been called to the fact 

 that Dr. Emil A. Budde, whose death was an- 

 nounced in the issue of Science for November 

 18th, was president of the Electroteehnical 

 Commission and not of the Electrochemical 

 Commission as there stated. The succession 

 of presidents of the Electroteehnical Commis- 

 sion has been Kelvin, Mascart, Elihu Thom- 

 son and Budde. 



The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 

 will meet in Toronto witli the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science, 

 and will join in the program of Section D 

 of the association. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



FUR SEALS OFF THE FARALLONS 



So little is known regarding the whereabouts 

 of the Alaska Fur Seals during the period of 

 their absence from their breeding grounds on 

 the Pribilof Islands, that the following definite 

 record will be of interest. 



The observations here recorded were made 

 by Mr. John Kunder, at that time keeper of the 

 Farallon Light Station, and communicated to 

 me by Captain H. W. Rhodes, superintendent 

 of lighthouses, 18th district, San Francisco. 



Mr. Kunder states that on or about March 4, 

 1920, at 9 A.M. a herd of seals appeared about 

 two miles due south of the Farallons. They 

 presented a compact front line about three 

 miles in length. They were about two miles 

 away when first observed and were moving 

 toward the island. They appeared to stop for a 

 moment to gaze at the object at their front, 

 then their left wing slowed down and the right 

 moving rapidly, the seals jumping out of the 

 water, the line veered around in regular mili- 

 tary formation and a new line was formed 

 which moved off in a west-northwest direction. 

 After completing the new formation the herd 

 moved very fast. The line was well-formed at 

 all times, there being few or no stragglers. 



When fijst seen approaching, Mr. Kunder 



