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other link with the scientific society of the 

 latter half of the nineteenth century has been 

 snapped. All who had the happiness of know- 

 ing Huxley intimately are aware of the reli- 

 ance which he at all times reposed on the 

 advice and judgment of his lifelong helpmate. 

 Not only in all domestic concerns, but in ques- 

 tions of literary criticism and even of scien- 

 tific procedure, he never took a step without 

 consulting her, and her wide knowledge and 

 keen literary instincts made her aid invalu- 

 able to him." Mrs. Huxley wrote poems and 

 stories, and prepared a selection from Huxley's 

 writings, " Aphorisms and Reflections from 

 the Writings of T. H. Huxley." 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for associate physi- 

 cist, qualified in engineering, to fill a vacancy 

 in the Bureau of Standards at Pittsburgh, 

 Pa., at a salary ranging from $2,200 to $2,Y0O 

 a year, and a vacancy in the Bureau of Stand- 

 ards, at Washington, D. C, at a salary rang- 

 ing from $2,200 to $3,000 a year. 



The money subscribed in connection with 

 the jubilee celebration of Dr. A. Auwers has 

 been handed over to the Berlin Academy for 

 the foundation of a Bradley Prize, to be 

 awarded once every five years. 



We learn from The Scottish Geographical 

 Magazine that the first number of the Zeit- 

 schrift fur Yulkanologie, edited by Herr Im- 

 manuel Friedlaender of Naples, and devoted to 

 problems connected with volcanoes or volcanic 

 action, and to appear at irregular intervals, has 

 been issued. In his preface Mr. Friedlaender 

 explains that he has been endeavoring for 

 some years to found an international volcanic 

 institute at Naples, but has met with many 

 difficulties, financial and other. He has there- 

 fore established a private institute on a modest 

 scale, and in connection with it is issuing the 

 new journal, which is to contain both original 

 contributions and summaries and abstracts, 

 etc. The first number contains several orig- 

 inal papers, the four languages of English, 

 German, Italian and French being all repre- 

 sented. There are a number of fine illustra- 

 tions, both of Vesuvius and of other volcanoes. 



The interest that has recently been mani- 

 fested in radium has created a public demand 

 for information both practical and theoretical 

 in regard to the mineral deposits from which 

 it is derived. A short report by Edson S. 

 Bastin on the "Geology of the Pitchblende 

 Ores of Colorado," recently issued by the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, deals mainly with the geol- 

 ogy, mineralogy and origin of these deposits, 

 their practical utilization having been treated 

 somewhat fully in other publications. The 

 quantity of uranium ores mined in the United 

 States is exceedingly small, and the great bulk 

 of it, from Utah and southwestern Colorado, 

 does not carry pitchblende but contains the 

 brilliant yellow uranium mineral carnotite. 

 The small pitchblende production of this coun- 

 try is all from the one locality described in 

 this report, in the heart of Gilpin County. It 

 occurs as a constituent of mineral veins which 

 were first worked for their gold and silver con- 

 tent and which still yield important amounts 

 of these precious metals. It is notable that 

 the only other localities in the world where 

 pitchblende has been found in important 

 quantities in mineral veins are the Erzgebirge 

 (in Bohemia and Saxony) and the Cornwall 

 district (in England). Its mode of occurrence 

 in these countries is also described by Mr. 

 Bastin. 



Arrangements have been made between the 

 New York State College of Forestry at Syra- 

 cuse University and the Palisades Inter-state 

 Park Commission whereby the college will pre- 

 pare and carry out a plan of management for 

 the 14,000 acres of forest land controlled by 

 the commission and lying along the Hudson 

 River. The work of getting the forest land 

 into shape will be started about the middle of 

 August by four advanced students under the 

 direction of Professor Frank F. Moon, of the 

 College of Forestry, who was forester for the 

 former Highlands of the Hudson Forest Reser- 

 vation. The various properties will be mapped 

 out and cruised to ascertain the amount of 

 timber now standing and the amount to be 

 removed. In addition, the fire problem will be 

 studied and eventually a long term reforesta- 



