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members of the expedition marooned in Eoss 

 Sea, and is hopeful of finding Lieutenant Mac- 

 intosh's party well. Before the departure of 

 the Aurora a civic reception was given at 

 Dunedin in honor of Sir Ernest Shackleton, 

 who arrived there in company with Dr. E. Mc- 

 Nab, minister of marine. 



De. Barton Warren Evermann, of the Mu- 

 seum of the California Academy of Sciences, 

 spent a portion of December in the east. He 

 represented the academy as a delegate at the 

 dedication of the new building of ceramics at 

 the University of Illinois. At the annual 

 meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science at 

 Indianapolis, on December 8 and 9, which was 

 .devoted chiefly to papers dealing with a cen- 

 tury of science in Indiana, he presented a 

 paper on " A Century of Zoology in Indiana." 

 At a meeting of the Washington Biological So- 

 ciety Dr. Evermann spoke on the work the 

 California Academy of Sciences is doing in 

 the installation of habitat groups, illustrating 

 his remarks with colored slides. The same ad- 

 dress was given at Butler University. 



Professor E. A. Millikan, of the University 

 of Chicago, will give on the Hitchcock Foun- 

 dation at the University of California, the fol- 

 lowing lectures : 



' ' Electricity in the Nineteenth Century. ' ' 



"X-rays and the Birth of the New Physics." 



"The Electron — Its Isolation and Measure- 

 ment. ' ' 



"Brownian Movements and Sub-electrons." 



"The Structure of the Atom." 



' ' The Nature of Radiation. ' ' 



Professor E. P. Lewis, of the University of 

 California, recently lectured at the State Uni- 

 versity of Iowa on the following subjects: 

 " The Multiple States of Nitrogen as Indicated 

 by Its Spectra," " The Spectroscopic Explora- 

 tion of the Heavens," and " The Electrical 

 Properties of Plames." 



Dr. Lewellys E. Barker, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, delivered an address on " In- 

 ternal Secretions," before the Medical Society 

 of the City and County of Denver, on Decem- 

 ber 26. 



At the stated meeting of the Geographic So- 

 ciety of Chicago on January 12, Professor Em- 



manuel de Martonne, associate professor of 

 geography, of the University of Paris, gave an 

 illustrated lecture entitled, " The Battle Fields 

 of France." 



John Finlayson, an explorer, for whom Fin- 

 layson Eiver and Finlayson Lake in Yukon 

 territory were named, died on January 8, aged 

 one hundred and five years. Finlayson, who 

 was a native of Scotland, prospected and mined 

 gold in California and Oregon until he was 

 eighty-sis years old and then went to British 

 Columbia and Tulton territory, where he ex- 

 plored large areas in which white men had 

 never penetrated. 



Me. Daniel Oliver, F.E.S., died on Decem- 

 ber 23, at his residence at Kew, in his eighty- 

 seventh year. He was professor of botany at 

 University College, London, from 1861 to 1888, 

 and afterwards keeper of the herbarium and 

 library at Kew Gardens. 



Mr. F. W. Levander, editor of the Journal 

 and Memoirs of the British Astronomical Asso- 

 ciation, died on December 20, aged seventy- 

 seven years. 



Peofessor Jean Baptiste A. Chauveau, the 

 eminent biologist, member of the Section of 

 Agriculture of the French Academy of Sci- 

 ences and of the Academy of Medicine, died 

 on January 4, in Paris. 



The manuscript for a report on " The Peat 

 Deposits of Connecticut " was in the hands of 

 Dr. Charles A. Davis, of the Bureau of Mines, 

 at the time of his death. Careful search has 

 failed to locate this manuscript. It is possible 

 that it had been sent for criticism to some 

 scientific worker and had not been returned. 

 Any one who has knowledge regarding this 

 manuscript is requested to address Professor 

 Herbert E. Gregory, Tale University, New 

 Haven, Conn. 



At the first session of the American Con- 

 gress on Internal Medicine, held in ISTew York 

 on December 28 and 29, there was foimded the 

 new American College of Physicians, and 

 sixty-five physicians were given fellowships, 

 the selection having been made by the council 

 of the congress. 



