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[N. S. Vol. XL VI. No. 1175 



Crisp medal to Dr. E. J. Hilliard, of the Uni- 

 versity of Sydney. 



Dr. J. M. Coulter, head of the department 

 of botany, University of Chicago, delivered the 

 annual Phi Kappa Phi address at the Kansas 

 State Agricultural College on May 15. The 

 subject of Dr. Coulter's address was " Science 

 and the public service." 



Dr. Prank Waldo, of Cambridge, formerly 

 professor in the U. S. Signal Service, has vol- 

 unteered a series of eighteen lectures on 

 meteorology to the men at the Squantum avia- 

 tion camp of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. 



Professor H. H. Bartlett, of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, has given, during the week of 

 May 21-26, a series of five lectures, under the 

 auspices of the department of plant breeding, 

 of Cornell University. The topics of the lec- 

 tures follow: 



Elementary and collective species in nature. 



Evidences of mutation in plants and animals. 



The behavior of mutations and elementary spe- 

 cies in inheritance. 



The critics of the mutation theory. 



The most recent investigations of variation and 

 heredity in CEnothera. 



M. Emil Bodtroux, professor of philosophy 

 at Paris, has been appointed Herbert Spencer 

 lecturer at the University of Oxford for the 

 present year. A Romanes lecturer at the uni- 

 versity has not been appointed, the income hav- 

 ing been transferred to the emergency relief 

 fund of the university. 



Mr. Stephen Paget is preparing a biography 

 of the late Sir Victor Horsley, the distin- 

 guished English surgeon. 



Dr. Bert H. Bailey, since 1900 professor of 

 zoology at Coe College, died on June 22, aged 

 forty-two years. 



Dr. Joseph Weinstein, an instructor in 

 chemistry at Columbia University, died re- 

 cently in the laboratory of the university. He 

 was fifty-five years old, an analytical chemist 

 and was graduated from the College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons, Columbia University. 



Sm William D. ISTiven, P.R.S., formerly di- 

 rector of studies at the Royal Naval College, 



Greenwich, died on May 29, at the age of sev- 

 enty-five years. 



Dr. WiLLLiM Henry Besant, F.R.S., fellow 

 of St. John's College and lecturer on mathe- 

 matics, died on June 2, in his eighty-ninth 

 year. 



The annual meeting of the Society for the 

 Promotion of Engineering Education will 

 be held in Washington, D. C, on July 6 and 

 7 in connection with the educational com- 

 mittee of the advisory commission of the 

 Council of !N"ational Defense, instead of in the 

 northwest as formerly planned. The topic 

 which will be discussed at this meeting is 

 " The relation of the engineering school to 

 the national government during the present 

 emergency." F. L. Bishop is secretary of the 

 society. 



Captain Robert A. Bartlett, on June 30, 

 telegraphed to the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History from St. Johns, Newfoundland, 

 that he had taken command of the steam 

 sealer Neptune at that port, and that early on 

 July 1 he would steam for Sydney, C. B. The 

 eight tons of supplies shipped from New York 

 for the Crocker Land party are at Sydney and 

 will there be stowed on the Neptune. Captain 

 Bartlett expects to leave Sydney on either the 

 third or fourth of July for Etah, Greenland, 

 where the Crocker Land Expedition is now 

 quartered. Coincident with the leaving of the 

 Neptune, a special display devoted to the 

 Crocker Land Expedition has been installed 

 on the first fioor of the American Museum of 

 Natural History. The location of the expedi- 

 tion, as well as the probable course of its re- 

 turn, is indicated on a globe. This exhibition 

 also includes pictures of the vessels which have 

 been sent to the rescue of the party — the Nep- 

 tune being the third. There is also on view a 

 canoe of skin, the kyak, in which Dr. Harri- 

 son J. Hunt, a member of the party, who ar- 

 rived a few days ago, made part of his perilous 

 journey from the base at Greenland to civiliza- 

 tion. 



The government of the Union of South 

 Africa has appointed an advisory board to deal 

 with the development of the natural resources 

 of the country. A special scientific and tech- 

 nical committee has been appointed to carry 



