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dent of the American Museum of N'atural 

 History. Mr. MacMillan reports that both 

 the relief vessels sent to his aid, the George 

 B. Gluett and the Danmarh, have failed to 

 reach him and urges that a third be sent, as 

 otherwise the party will be obliged to adopt 

 Eskimo methods and live on the country. 



George H. Sherwood, acting chairman of 

 the Crocker Land Committee, composed of 

 representatives of the American Museum of 

 Natural History, the American Geographical 

 Society and the University of Hinois, an- 

 nounces that the steam sealer Neptune will 

 be sent with all possible dispatch. This third 

 eilort to reach the party in the frozen north 

 will cost at least $40,000, provided that the 

 Neptune is able to reach the base at Etah, 

 Greenland, and return by September next. 

 The Committee hopes that in view of the ex- 

 traordinary expenses it will receive substantial 

 financial aid from the public. Erom the sci- 

 entific point of view, the results of the ex- 

 pedition fully justify the heavy cost, it is 

 said, although Crocker Land, which Rear- 

 Admiral Peary thought he saw, has proved a 

 land of mirage. Among other things, the 

 party has discovered six new islands and 

 mapped and explored Finlay Island, seen more 

 than sixty years ago by Sir John Franklin, 

 and yet never, so far as is known, actually 

 visited by man. 



The Crocker Land Expedition went north 

 in 1913. Doctor Hovey, as chairman of the 

 eommittee-in-charge of the expedition, left 

 New York in 1915 to carry aid to Mr. Mac- 

 Millan. He was in charge of the steamer 

 George B. Cluett, which was chartered from 

 the Grenfell Association. The Gluett reached 

 North Star Bay in September, 1915, but, 

 owing to the formation of ice, could not pro- 

 ceed further north. In this emergency 

 Doctor Hovey proceeded a hundred and fifty 

 miles to the headquarters of the expedition at 

 Etah. Three members of the Crocker Land 

 Expedition managed to reach Holatenberg in 

 south Greenland and from there took ship 

 for Cojjenhagen. Dr. Hovey remained with 

 the Crocker Land party. In response to an 

 appeal from him, the committee chartered the 

 steamer Danmarh from the Greenland Mining 



Company and dispatched her north to the 

 relief of the party. The Danmarh was re- 

 ported on August 20 last buffeting the ice in 

 Melville Bay. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan, of Chicago, was 

 elected president of the American Medical As- 

 sociation at the meeting held in New York 

 City last week. The meeting of the associa- 

 tion next year will be at Chicago. 



In honor of Dr. J. J. Stevenson, emeritus 

 professor of geology in New York University, 

 the faculty club house will be known as Steven- 

 son Hall. One of the residences on the cam- 

 pus has been converted into a faculty club 

 house, the equipping of the building for that 

 purpose being done by the class of 1902. 



Professor James F. Kemp, since 1891 pro- 

 fessor of geology in Columbia University, has 

 retired from active service owing to the im- 

 pairment of his health. 



Base Hospital No. 5, the Harvard Medical 

 School unit, is reported as having arrived in 

 Paris. Major Eobert U. Patterson is in 

 command of this unit, of which Dr. Harvey 

 Gushing is director. Professor W. B. Can- 

 non accompanies the unit to make investiga- 

 tions on the cause and treatment of " shock." 

 Mr. McKeen Cattell is assisting him. 



Dr. Livingston Farrand, president of the 

 University of Colorado, will shortly go to 

 France under the auspices of the Rockefeller 

 Foundation to undertake work for the control 

 of tuberculosis. 



CoLUMBU University has conferred its doc- 

 torate of science on Dr. George E. Hale, di- 

 rector of the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, 

 on Dr. Robert A. Millikan, professor of phys- 

 ics in the University of Chicago, and on Mr. 

 Guglielmo Marconi. 



New York University has conferred the de- 

 gree of doctor of laws on Dr. Charles S. Mac- 

 Donald, the alienist, and on Mr. Theodore N. 

 Vail, president of the American Telegraph and 

 Telephone Company. 



Dr. Raymond Dodge, professor of psychology 

 at Wesleyan University, has been appointed to 



