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sion of Biology and Agriculture, Botanical 

 Society of America, the name of A. S. Hitch- 

 cock was omitted. 



Information has been received from Dr. 

 L. A. Bauer that the observations made by his 

 party at Cape Palmas, Liberia, during the 

 total solar eclipse of May 28-29, were suc- 

 cessful. 



Dr. Walter Hough left Washington in 

 May for Arizona, to conduct ethnological and 

 archeological explorations in the White Moun- 

 tain Apache Reservation for the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology. 



Mr. Charles M. Hoy, of the N"ational Mu- 

 seum, has left for Australia, to collect animals 

 and other biological material for the museum. 



Professor W. H. Twenhofel, of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, and a party of six stu- 

 dents, five from the University of Wisconsin 

 and one from Tale University, will devote the 

 summer of 1919 to a study of the geology of 

 Anticosti Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence. The 

 party will leave Madison about June 20 and 

 expects to return about October 1. 



Professor J. Paul Goode, of the University 

 of Chicago, gave the final address of the year's 

 program of luncheon meetings of the Civic 

 Industrial Section of the Association of Com- 

 merce of Chicago, in the ball room of the Mor- 

 rison Hotel Thursday, May 29. The subject 

 of the address was " America as a world 

 powejr." 



Major A. 0. Leuschner, acting chairman of 

 the Division of Physical Sciences, Ifational 

 Research Council, delivered an address on 

 " The determination of the orbits of comets 

 and planets " before the Washington Academy 

 of Sciences on May 2Y. 



The Croonian lecture of the Royal Society 

 was delivered on May 29, by Dr. H. H. Dale 

 on " The biological significance of anaphy- 

 laxis." 



The Halley lecture was delivered by Pro- 

 fessor Horace Lamb at the University of Ox- 

 ford Museum, on May 20. The subject was 

 " The tides." 



The Association for the Advancement of 

 Laboratory Science among Women will offer 

 through Dean Carey M. Thomas, of Bryn 

 Mawr College, who is about to leave for 

 France, $2,000 to Mme. Curie to come to the 

 United States in 1920-21 to lecture in wom- 

 en's colleges and in other institutions. 



Nature records the death of Dr. Milan 

 Stefanik, formerly attached to the Meudon 

 Observatory. In 1906 he went, with others of 

 the staif, to the subsidiary observatory at 

 Mont Blanc, where he continued his study of 

 the infra-red from the point of view of tel- 

 luric absorption, making his observations from 

 different altitudes on the mountain. In 1910 

 Dr. Stefanik established at his own expense an 

 observatory in the island of Tahiti to pursue 

 his researches, and was therefore conveniently 

 placed to observe the solar eclipse of April 28, 

 1911. Dr. Stefanik became a general in the 

 French army, and met his death at a compara- 

 tively early age in an aeroplane accident in a 

 flight from Italy to Bratislava, the capital of 

 his native land of Slovakia. 



The death is announced of Sir Edward 

 Charles Stirling, F.R.S., of Adelaide, South 

 Australia, the explorer and ethnologist. 



Colonel D. Rintoul, senior science master 

 and head of the physics department of Clifton 

 College, died on April 21, of pneumonia, at 

 the age of fifty-seven years. 



The Okefinokee Society, recently organized 

 for the purpose of bringing about the preser- 

 vation for scenic and scientific purposes of 

 Okefinokee Swamp and other natural wonders 

 in the southeastern United States, held its 

 first meeting at Waycross, Georgia, on June 3. 

 This was followed in the evening by an illus- 

 trated public lecture on Okefinokee Swamp by 

 S. W. McCallie, state geologist of Georgia, 

 and a trip to the swamp by visiting members 

 the next day. The society desires the coopera- 

 tion of botanists, zoologists and nature-lovers 

 throughout the covmtry. Those who have not 

 already been communicated with can obtain a 

 copy of the constitution and other information 

 by addressing the secretary. Dr. J. F. Wilson, 

 Waycross, Georgia. 



