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the British Admiralty, Mr. W. J. Berry be- 

 comes assistant director and Sir Philip Watts 

 is to be retained as adviser on naval construc- 

 tion. 



We learn from Nature that Professor L. E. 

 Bouvier, of the Jardin des Plantes, has been 

 appointed " Ray Lankester Investigator " for 

 1912-13, and will occupy the Eay Lankester 

 table in the laboratory of the Marine Biolog- 

 ical Association at Plymouth. At the request 

 of the trustees, the nomination for this first 

 appointment was made by Sir E. Hay Lank- 

 ester, K.C.B., F.R.S. 



Dr. Irwin Shepard, of Winona, Minn., for 

 many years secretary of the National Educa- 

 tional Association, has resigned. 



Edwin Brant Erost, professor of astrophys- 

 ics in the University of Chicago and director 

 of the Yerkes Observatory at William Bay, 

 Wisconsin, has been granted leave of absence 

 for a year by the trustees of the university. 



Professor J. C. Arthur and Dr. E. D. 

 Kern, of Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., 

 are spending July and August studying the 

 plant rusts of Colorado, especially along the 

 lines of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway 

 in the southern half of the state, where the 

 problems of association and distribution of 

 species are unusually well presented. 



Dr. E. B. Copeland, dean of the College of 

 Agriculture, Los Baflos, P. I., who has been 

 visiting the United States, returned to the 

 Philippines at the end of August. 



Commander Evans, R.N., of the British 

 Antarctic Expedition, has left England for 

 New Zealand, where he will resume command 

 of the Terra Nova, which will proceed to the 

 south polar regions to meet Captain Scott and 

 his party. 



Professor C. Juday, of the University of 

 Wisconsin, gave two lectures on the physics 

 and chemistry of lake waters and their bio- 

 logical significance during the latter part of 

 July, at the Indiana University Biological 

 Station, Winona Lake, Indiana. 



Dr. Guy Montrose Whipple, of the School 

 of Education, Cornell University, has given 



three lectures on " The Training of Memory," 

 " The Psychology of the Marking System " 

 and " The Supernormal Child " at the sum- 

 mer session of the University of Illinois. 



Professor Eugene Lamb Richards, emeri- 

 tus professor of mathematics of Yale Univer- 

 sity, died on August 5, aged seventy-four 

 years. 



Dr. Maurice Howe Richardson, Moseley 

 professor of surgery at Harvard University, 

 died on July 31, aged sixty-one years. 



The deaths are also announced of Professor 

 Edmund von Neusser, known for his work on 

 internal diseases, at Vienna, and of Dr. 

 Monoyer formerly professor of ophthalmology 

 in the faculty of medicine of the University 

 of Lyons. 



The United States Civil Service Commis- 

 sion invites attention to the regular fall ex- 

 aminations for scientific assistants in the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, to be held October 

 16-17, 1912. Examinations will be given in 

 the following subjects: Agronomy, dairying, 

 entomology, farm management, forage crops, 

 horticulture, library science, nutrition of man 

 and calorimetry, plant breeding, plant path- 

 ology, pomology, seed testing, soil bacteriol- 

 ogy, soil chemistry, soil surveying. The com- 

 mission also announces examinations on Sep- 

 tember 4, to fill vacancies in the dairy di- 

 vision of the Bureau of Animal Industry, De- 

 partment of Agriculture, in the positions of 

 assistant dairymen, qualified respectively in 

 market milk investigations, dairy farming 

 and butter making, at salaries of from $1,500 

 to $1,740 a year. 



The sixth Congress of the International 

 Association for testing Materials will meet 

 in New York City from September 2 to 7. 

 The headquarters of the congress are at 29 

 West 39th St., New York City. 



The agricultural bill includes an appro- 

 priation of $80,000 on behalf of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Chestnut Tree Blight Commission for 

 the investigation and suppression of chest- 

 nut tree bark disease. The government is 

 authorized to cooperate with the states, in- 



