NOVEMBER 3, 1899. ], 
officers of the Association resident in New York. 
Professor R. S. Woodward, president ; Professor 
W. Hallock, secretary of the council; Professor 
J. F. Kemp, chairman of the geological section, 
and Dr. R. T. MacDougal, secretary of the bo- 
tanical section. 
Mr. O. F. Cook of the Division of Botany, , 
Department of Agriculture, has been detailed 
to make a preliminary examination of the plant 
products of Puerto Rico with reference to the 
introduction of new and useful tropical plants 
into that island. Mr. Cook is accompanied by 
Mr. G. N. Collins of the Department of Agri- 
culture as photographer, and by Mr. George 
P. Gall, who is sent by the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution to collect material for the National Herb- 
arium. The expedition left New York on Oc- 
tober 28th by the United States transport 
MacPherson. 
Mr. R. E. Snodgrass, assistant in entomology 
in Stanford University, and Mr. A. H. Heller, 
student in zoology, have just returned from a 
ten months collecting trip to the Galopagos 
Islands. The collections are large ; birds, fish 
and insects and spiders being represented by 
especially large numbers of specimens. The 
collections belong to Stanford University under 
whose auspices the expedition was made. 
PRoFessoR HENRY S. CARHART, of the de- 
partment of physics of the University of Michi- 
gan, who is absent on leave, is at the Physical 
Technical Institute, Berlin. He is comparing 
the electromotive force of the standard Clark 
cell with that of the standard cell of the Insti- 
tute. 
THE following members of faculties of the 
University of Michigan, who were absent from 
the University last year on leave, have returned: 
Professor Volney M. Spalding, of the depart- 
ment of botany; Alexander Ziwet, junior pro- 
fessor of mathematics ; George W. Patterson, 
junior professor of physics, and Perry F. Trow- 
bridge, instructor in organic chemistry. Dur- 
ing his absence abroad the degree of Ph.D. 
(Munich), was conferred on Professor Patter- 
son. His thesis, which is entitled ‘Hine Ex- 
perimentelle und theoretische Untersuchung 
des Selbstpotentials,’ is published in the October 
number of Wiedemann’s Annalen, Leipzig. 
SCIENCE. 
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PROFESSOR BALDWIN SPENCER has been ap- 
pointed honorary director of the National Mu- 
seum at Melbourne in succession to the late 
Sir Frederick M’Coy. The trustees of the 
Museum believe that it should be removed to a 
more central site. 
THE Bradshaw lecture of the Royal College 
of Surgeons will be delivered by Mr. H. G. 
Howse, who will take as his subject ‘A Centen- 
nial Review of Surgery.’ 
A LARGE and valuable collection of paintings 
of the fishes inhabiting the fresh and salt water 
about Japan is being exhibited in the museum 
of the University of Michigan. The collection 
was a present to the University by Frederick 
Stearns, of Detroit. The paintings are in water 
colors and are the work of a Japanese artist. 
GRANTS have been made from the Moray 
endowment of the University of Edinburgh to 
Professor E. A. Schifer for purposes of research 
on the central nervous system, and to Dr. John 
Malcolm for purposes of research on the altera- 
tions in bone marrow produced by nucleins and 
their allies. 
Dr. JAMES H. Leusa, of Bryn Mawr Col- 
lege, has compiled a card catalogue of psychol- 
ogy containing about 10,000 titles. The cata- 
logue consists of the contents of periodicals 
from 1860-1899. The periodicals selected are 
not confined to those devoted to psychology, 
but include many journals, such as Nature, the 
American Journal of Science, etc., in which psy- 
chological articles might be readily overlooked. 
There are, indeed, many journals omitted, such 
as the German physiological archives, but it is 
hoped that these may be indexed at some future 
time. Dr. Leuba offers to supply mimeographed 
copies of the catalogue on standard cards at a 
price not to exceed $50.00. 
Mr. W. A. Snow, late instructor in ento- 
mology, in Stanford University, was drowned 
October 10th in San Francisco harbor. He was 
swept overboard from a small launch while 
greeting General Funston and the 20th Kansas 
Volunteers, just returned from Manila. Mr. 
Snow was a son of Chancellor F. H. Snow of 
the University of Kansas, and had been an in- 
structor in entomology in the University of 
Kansas, the University of Illinois, and Stanford 
