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have invited their members to contribute. A 

 general committee under the chairmanship of 

 Lord Brassey has been formed. The form 

 which the memorial is to take will depend 

 upon the support which is given, about SY.SOO 

 having already been received. 



Dr. Charles Budd Robinson, economic bot- 

 anist of the Bureau of Science of the Philip- 

 pine Islands has been killed by natives in the 

 Amboyna Islands in the Malay Archipelago. 

 Dr. Robinson was born in Pictou, N. S., in 

 1871; he received his bachelor's degree from 

 Dalhousie University in 1891 and his doctor's 

 degree from Columbia University in 1906. 

 He was the author of researches on the eco- 

 nomic and systematic botany of the Philip- 

 pines. 



The death is announced in London on De- 

 cember 15, of Dr. Penry Vaughan Bevan, pro- 

 fessor of physical science at the Royal Hollo- 

 way College. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for technical assistant 

 in pharmacology, for men only, to fill vacan- 

 cies in this position in the Division of Phar- 

 macology, Hygienic Laboratory, Public Health 

 Service, at salaries ranging from $1,800 to 

 $2,000 a year. 



The next grants from the Elizabeth Thomp- 

 son Science Fund will be made in February, 

 1914. Applications should be sent in to the 

 secretary, Dr. Charles S. Minot, Harvard Med- 

 ical School, Boston, Mass., before February 

 I, 1914. 



The Edward N. Gibbs Memorial Prize 

 Fund, the income of which amounts to about 

 five hundred dollars, was established by the 

 wife and 'daughter of the late Edward N. 

 Gibbs, and is used in aiding investigators into 

 the cause and treatment of diseases of the 

 kidney. The recipient of the fund is chosen 

 annually. The committee will select the 

 worker for 1914 about the first of February, 

 and request all persons who desire to work 

 under this fund, to send to the committee of 

 the Edward N. Gibbs Memorial Prize Fund, 

 17 West 43d Street, N. Y. City, their applica- 



tion together with a statement of their fitness 

 to prosecute such investigations, giving the 

 laboratory in which they have studied, and 

 any researches conducted by them, in order 

 that the committee may be guided in the se- 

 lection of the recipient of the fund for 1914. 



The Colony of the Straits Settlements has 

 voted a sum of £350 to Mr. Chamberlain's 

 fund for the extension of the London School 

 of Tropical Medicine. 



News has been received from the Stef- 

 ansson expedition that the scientific men and 

 members of the crews of the Alaska and Mary 

 Sachs were safe and well in winter quarters 

 at Collinson Point, fifty miles from Flaxman 

 Island, on the Arctic Circle. 



The Puget Sound Marine Station located 

 at Friday Harbor, Washington, will be open 

 next summer under the directorship of Pro- 

 fessor Theodore C. Frye, the head of the de- 

 partment of botany at the University of 

 Washington. Plans are under consideration 

 to increase facilities and to make most satis- 

 factory the conditions surrounding the inves- 

 tigations in marine biology which are in 

 progress. The laboratory will be open during 

 the entire summer season. Professor Frye is 

 now in the east consulting with those inter- 

 ested in the problems under consideration at 

 Friday Harbor. 



The Second Annual Conference of Editors 

 of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Sta- 

 tions will be held at the State University of 

 Kentucky, June 25 and 26, 1914. Invitations 

 to this conference have been sent to all the 

 agricultural colleges and stations in the 

 United States. Inquiries in regard to the 

 meeting may be forwarded to B. E. Powell, 

 executive secretary of Conferences, Urbana, 

 Illinois. 



At a meeting of the Royal Institute of 

 British Architects, Mr. Lionel Earle, perman- 

 ent secretary of the Ofiice of Works, in the 

 course of discussion on a paper by Mr. W. A. 

 Forsyth on the repair of ancient buildings, 

 mentioned that the treatment of decaying 

 stone due to sulphuric acid in the air had 



