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took an active interest in education and gave 

 large sums to the Johns Hopkins Medical 

 School, Bryn Mawr College and the Bryn 

 Mawr School for Girls in Baltimore. 



SiE John Cameron Lamb, long connected 

 with the British post office and chairman of 

 many departmental committees, the author of 

 works dealing with improvements in the use of 

 the cable and the wireless telegraph and the 

 construction of lifeboats, died on March 30, 

 at the age of sixty-nine years. 



The Eoyal Astronomical Society has by a 

 vote of 59 to 3 passed a resolution as follows: 



That this meeting approves of the admission of 

 women as fellows and associates of the society, 

 and requests the council to take all necessary steps 

 to render their election possible. 



The twenty-fourth session of the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory of Leland Stanford 

 Junior University at Pacific Grove, Cali- 

 fornia, will begin on Monday, May 24, 1915. 

 The regular course of instruction will con- 

 tinue six weeks, closing July 3. Investigators 

 and students working without instruction may 

 make arrangements to continue their wort 

 through the summer. The laboratory will be 

 under the supervision of Professor G. C. 

 Price, instructor in charge. 



Professor J. Paul Goode, of the University 

 of Chicago, has just issued the map of Africa 

 in two forms, physical and political, and the 

 fourth pair in the series of wall maps for col- 

 leges and schools upon which he has been at 

 work for some years. The maps are 46 x 66 

 inches in size, the physical map printed in 

 twelve colors, the political map in nine colors. 

 These maps are entirely new, from original 

 sources, and represent an earnest effort to 

 achieve the highest quality of work in the map 

 makers art. 



The American Ornithologists' Union will 

 meet in San Francisco, May 18-20. Eastern 

 members will leave New York on May 6, 

 reaching San Praneisco on the evening of 

 May 15. Two days, May 10-11, will be spent 

 at the Grand Canon, and two days and a half 

 at Los Angeles. The sessions will be held at 

 The Inside Inn, within the Exposition 

 Grounds, with the annual dinner on the even- 



ing of May 18. Friday, May 21, will be de- 

 voted to a trip to the Farallon Islands, on the 

 TJ. S. Fisheries steamer Albatross, and other 

 trips will be arranged in accordance with the 

 number of visitors and their inclinations. 



The Southwestern Anthropological Society 

 was organized on March 2Y, at Santa Fe. 

 The report of the organization committee was 

 unanimously adopted and Dr. Livingston Far- 

 rand, president of the University of Colorado 

 and formerly professor of anthropology at Co' 

 lumbia University, was elected president, 

 Dr. F. E. Mera was elected vice-president 

 Paul Eadin, secretary, and Judge R. H, 

 Hanna, treasurer. The members of the com- 

 mittee of research elected were Professor P, 

 E. Goddard and Mr. Niels Nelson, of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York City; Professor Franz Boas, of Co- 

 lumbia University; Professor A. L. Kroeber, 

 of the University of California; Professor A. 

 Tozzer, of Harvard University, and Mrs. Stev- 

 enson, of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 

 Drs. Farrand and Radin are ex-officio members 

 of this committee. 



The magnetic survey vessel Carnegie left 

 Brooklyn on March 6, bound on a two years' 

 cruise, via the Panama Canal. The region of 

 work will be chiefly in the Pacific Ocean and 

 in the south Atlantic and south Indian oceans. 

 A complete circuit of the earth between the 

 parallels of 60°-65° south is to be attempted, 

 November, 1915-March, 1916, starting out 

 from Port Lyttleton, New Zealand, as a base. 

 The Carnegie is commanded on this cruise by 

 Mr. J. P. Ault, who will be assisted in the 

 scientific work by Dr. H. M. W. Edwards 

 (second in command) and by observers Johns- 

 ton, Luke and Sawyer. Dr. Mauchly accom- 

 panies the vessel as far as Panama in order to 

 assist in the inauguration of the work in at- 

 mospheric electricity which, with the aid of 

 new appliances, is to be made a special fea- 

 ture on this cruise. 



The appeal for subscriptions to the Sir 

 William White Memorial Fund has resulted, 

 we learn from Nature, in a sum of $15,000, 

 contributed by 455 subscribers. The com- 

 mittee of the fund has decided that the most 



