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work, including a report on tlie history of Kan- 

 sas during the Glacial Period, which is nearly 

 ready for publication by the Kansas University 

 Geological Survey. He celebrates this year 

 the fiftieth anniversary of his graduation at 

 Oberlin College, 0. 



It was incorrectly stated in the issue of 

 Science of June 8 that Dr. George Dock, of St. 

 Louis, had received the French war cross for 

 service in France. The item, which in some 

 way became distorted in the daily and medical 

 press, should have referred to Dr. Dock's son, 

 George Dock, Jr., a Dartmouth graduate of 

 1916, who has been in the American Ambu- 

 lance for more than a year and was for many 

 months in the vicinity of Verdun. There, in 

 the words of the citation, " s'est distingue . . . 

 par son mepris du danger et son entrain re- 

 marquable. Les 18 Septembre et 28 Decembre, 

 1916, s'est depense pour des evacuations dif- 

 ficiles et particulierement penibles sur des 

 routes sans eesse bombardees." 



Dr. Alexander Lambert, of New York, has 

 been ordered to France as medical adviser to 

 the War Eelief Commission of the Eed Cross 

 during the war. Dr. Tom A. Williams, of 

 Washington, goes to France at the end of this 

 month to fill an appointment as neurologist in 

 the French Service de Sante. 



Mr. George P. Engelhardt, curator of in- 

 vertebrates, and Mr. Jacob Doll, curator of 

 Lepidoptera in the Brooklyn Museum, have 

 undertaken an expedition to the plateau re- 

 gions of southwestern Utah and northern Ari- 

 zona. The objects of the field work will be 

 general, though particular attention will be 

 given to lepidoptera, small mammals and rep- 

 tiles. The expedition was made possible 

 through the generosity of Mr. B. Preston 

 Clark, of Boston. 



The University of Pennsylvania Museum 

 Expedition to study the Eskimos of Bering 

 Straits and of the northern coast of Alaska, 

 has left Seattle, Wash. It is financed by John 

 Wanamaker and headed by Lieutenant Van 

 Valin, who for three years was in the govern- 

 ment service as an inspector of schools in 

 Alaska. 



At the annual meeting of the Botanical So- 

 ciety of Pennsylvania held on the grounds of 

 Mr. Robert Le Boutillier, Wayne, Pa., on Sat- 

 urday, May 5, 1917, Dr. C. Stuart Gager gave 

 an address on " The aims and objects of the 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden." 



The annual congress of the Southeastern 

 Union of Scientific Societies was held in Lon- 

 don, in the rooms of the Linnean Society, on 

 June 6-9. Dr. William Martin, formerly gen- 

 eral secretary of the union, the president, had 

 as the subject of his address " The application 

 of scientific method." 



The eighth Halley lecture was delivered at 

 the University of Oxford, on June 12, by Pro- 

 fessor Arthur Schuster. The subject was 

 " Terrestrial magnetism : past, present and fu- 

 ture." 



Sir Alexander R. Binnie, the distinguished 

 English civil engineer, died on May 18, at 

 seventy-eight years of age. 



M. Joseph Eiban, honorary professor of the 

 faculty of sciences of Paris, known for work on 

 organic and applied chemistry, has died at the 

 age of eighty years. 



We learn from the London Times that it 

 has been decided to take over a part, at least, 

 of the Victoria and Albert Museum for the 

 accommodation of the Board of Education and 

 their staff. The Imperial Institute, which had 

 been selected for this purpose, is to be devoted 

 to other uses. The Trench Warfare Depart- 

 ment, which occupied part of the Board of 

 Education's premises in Whitehall, is to find 

 a place in the building in Millbank of the Brit- 

 ish-American Tobacco Company, who, upon 

 being informed of the needs of the govern- 

 ment, immediately offered to surrender their 

 headquarters on the understanding that other 

 premises should be found for their staff. Ar- 

 rangements are being made with an hotel to 

 supply the necessary accommodation. 



The National Museum has recently re- 

 ceived as a gift from Mrs. George W. Vander- 

 bilt the botanical specimens and books of the 

 Biltmore Herbarium, the well-known botan- 

 ical institution established and maintained for 

 many years by the late George W. Vanderbilt 



