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suitable form, which the memorial could take 

 would be the establishment of a research 

 scholarship in naval architecture to he named 

 after Sir William- White ; and it has been ar- 

 ranged to hand over to the council of the In- 

 stitution of Naval Architects the greater part 

 of the funds subscribed so that a sum of at 

 least £100 a year shall be available for the 

 scholarship, which will be administered by the 

 council of that institution. In addition, a 

 medallion portrait will be placed in the new 

 building of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 

 and, finally, at the suggestion of Lady White, 

 a donation of one hundred guineas has been 

 made to the Westminster Hospital, where Sir 

 William White passed away. 



The Washington Academy of Sciences is 

 giving a series of lectures in the auditorium 

 of the New National Museum, to which the 

 public is invited. All these lectures are illus- 

 trated by lantern slides. The program is as 

 follows : 



March 18 — "The Volcano Kilauea in Action," 

 by Arthur L. Day. 



March 25 — "Nematodes, their Eelations to Man- 

 kind and to Agriculture, " by N. A. Cobb. 



April 1 — "High Explosives an-d their Effects," 

 by Charles E. Munroe. 



April 8 — ' ' Insects and their Relation to Disease, ' ' 

 by W. D. Hunter. 



April 15 — "The Earth," by E. S. Woodward. 



Some years ago the buildings of the aqua- 

 rium: at Rothesay, which was for a time one 

 of the well-knovm " sights " of the Clyde, were 

 taken over by the Marquis of Bute. The 

 buildings have through his generosity pro- 

 vided a local habitation for the Buteshire Nat- 

 ural History Society, of which Dr. J. N. Mar- 

 shall is president, while they have also served 

 to house a valuable and developing museum 

 collection of the local fauna and flora. Lord 

 Bute has now installed a small laboratory for 

 biological research and provided the most 

 necessary equipment, including a motor boat. 

 Mr. L. P. W. Eenouf, of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, has been placed in charge and, as he is 

 desirous of making the laboratory a thor- 

 oughly convenient center for research work 



on the wonderfully rich marine fauna and 

 flora of the Clyde estuary, he will be grateful 

 for the gift of books and pamphlets bearing 

 upon marine zoology and botany. 



The sundry civil act as passed by the last 

 session of congress contained appropriations 

 of $1,355,520 for the United States Geological 

 Survey. Most of the appropriations for the 

 Survey are included in this great government 

 supply bill, but in addition to the above-stated 

 amount $40,000 was appropriated in the leg- 

 islative bill for rents, so that the total amount 

 appropriated is $1,395,520. The principal 

 items in the appropriations for the Geological 

 Survey for the fiscal year ending June 30, 

 1916, are as follows: 



Topographic surveys $350,000 



Geologic surveys 350,000 



Mineral resources of Alaska 100,000 



Mineral resources of the United States . . 75,000 



Chemical and physical researches 40,000 



Geologic maps of the United States 110,000 



Gaging streams, etc 150,000 



Surveying national forests 75,000 



The biU also appropriates $175,000 for print- 

 ing and binding survey reports, to be ex- 

 pended by the public printer, and $1,500,000 

 for the new Interior Department building, 

 which is to accommodate the office of the Sec- 

 retary of the Interior, the Geological Survey, 

 the Reclamation Service, the Land Office, the 

 Indian Office and the Bureau of Mines, all 

 bureaus of the Interior Department whose 

 work is closely related to that of the survey 

 and among all of which there is more or less 

 constant cooperation. The total cost of the 

 new building has been fixed at $2,596,000. 



The test and certification of watches, 

 chronometers and other timepieces has been 

 carried on for many years at the Kew Ob- 

 servatory in England, at the Besangon Ob- 

 servatory in France and at the observatories of 

 Geneva and Neuchatel in Switzerland, but no 

 such tests have been made for the public in 

 this country, except for a few years at Tale 

 University many years ago. This line of work 

 is now started at the Bureau of Standards, 

 and Circular No. 51, entitled " Measurement 



