June 11, 1915] 



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the suminer studying the stratigraphy of the 

 western slope of the Cascades. Both of these 

 pieces of work will, be carried on for the Ore- 

 gon Bureau of Mines and Geology. During 

 three weeks of the summer between July 12 

 and Aiigust 1, Professor Smith in cooperation 

 with Professor Sweetser, of the botany de- 

 partment, University of Oregon, will conduct 

 a field class to Crater Lake. 



Professor John H. Schappner, of the Ohio 

 State University, will spend two months this 

 summer in Kansas, Arizona and California, 

 making a detailed study of the conifers of 

 North America. 



Dr. W. Ealph Jones, scientific assistant in 

 plant pathology in the office of Fruit Disease 

 Investigations, of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, died on May 17, in the thirty- 

 second year of his age. Dr. Jones was a grad- 

 uate of Johns Hopkins University and had 

 been engaged in the study of small-fruit dis- 

 eases for several years. 



Dr. Samuel Baldwin Ward, since 1884 

 dean of the Albany Medical College and pro- 

 fessor of the theory and practise of medicine, 

 died on June 3 at the age of seventy-three 

 years. He was graduated from Columbia 

 University in 1861 and from the medical de- 

 partment of Georgetown University in 1864. 

 From 1867 to 1869 Dr. Ward was curator of 

 the medical museum of Columbia University. 

 He was professor of anatomy at the Woman's 

 Medical College of the New York Infirmary 

 from 1867 to 1870, and of surgery from 1870 

 to 1876. Prom 1876 to 1884 he was professor 

 of surgical pathology at the Albany Medical 

 College. 



Many American men of science, especially 

 the geologists Vho participated in the Gaspe 

 excursion of the Twelfth International Geo- 

 logical Congress, 1913, will learn with regret 

 of the recent death at Gaspe, of Commander 

 William Wakeham, Dominion inspector of 

 marine fisheries in the Lower River and Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence. Commander Wakeham was 

 the courteous and delightful host on this oc- 

 casion, of the geological party on board his 

 cruiser Princess in a trip down Gaspe Bay. 

 Dr. Wakeham's entire professional life was 



spent on that coast, first as physician, then as 

 magistrate and inspector of fisheries for the 

 Quebec coast, and subsequently as His Maj- 

 esty's commissioner for the preservation, of 

 the fisheries in Canadian Atlantic waters. He 

 attained distinction for his intimate knowl- 

 edge of fish, fish breeding and fisheries pro- 

 cedures and was recognized as a leading au- 

 thority in these fields, while his long life and 

 intimate concern with all the activities of the 

 coast made him the most influential and most 

 widely informed personality of the Gaspe 

 country. 



Among the passengers on the Lusitania was 

 James Blaine Miller, of the Coast and Geod- 

 etic Survey. No information in regard to him 

 has been received and there is practically no 

 doubt that he went down with the vessel. 

 James Blaine Miller was born in Erie County, 

 Pennsylvania, October 30, 1883. He gradu- 

 ated from Oberlin College, Ohio, in June, 

 1903, with the degree of bachelor of arts. He 

 was appointed an aid in the survey June 18, 

 1903, was promoted to assistant September 1, 

 1906, and during his twelve years of service 

 was employed chiefly on hydrographic and 

 leveling work in various localities. In 1904 

 he was engaged in surveys in Porto Rico. In 

 1906 he was in command of the steamer En- 

 deavor in the survey of Chesapeake Bay; in 

 1906 he was placed in command of the steamer 

 Research in the Philippine Islands; in 1909 

 he was transferred to the command of the 

 FatTiomer; in 1911 he returned to the United 

 States and in the fall of that year he was 

 placed in command of the steamer Patterson 

 for surveying work in the Hawaiian Islands 

 and on the coast of Alaska. He was detached 

 from the command of the Patterson in March 

 of the present year, and had been granted leave 

 for several months to take a trip abroad. 



Science of June 4 mentions the death in the 

 European war of Joseph Dechelette and Cap- 

 tain M. Bourlon, both of whom have made 

 valuable contributions to French archeology. 

 The last number of L' Anthropologic adds to 

 these Captain Rene Avelot, knovm for his 

 contributions to geography and especially those 

 dealing with the ancient populations of cen- 



