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spending the winter in Washington. The Coast 
and Geodetic Survey asked the Board to adopt 
this list of names. The United States Hydro- 
graphic Office had previously submitted a manu- 
script list of about 4,000 coastwise names which 
list had been compiled in that office and asked 
for its adoption by the Board. To that request 
the Board had responded by recommending 
that it be submitted to Father Algue for com- 
ment, correction and criticism. This list with 
Father Algue’s criticisms, together with the 
Coast and Geodetic Survey list was presented 
and discussed and, as the outcome, both lists 
were referred to the Hydrographic Office for 
comparison with a view to discovering cases of 
discrepancy. 
The Board proceeded with its usual routine 
cases, deciding 21 of them. Most of these are 
minor features in different parts of the country, 
and thus of only local interest. For example, 
whether it is Bobs or Bobbs, Douglas or Dou- 
glass, Mullin or Mullen, Reem or Reams, etc. 
Such cases are for the most part easily disposed 
of by getting, by correspondence, local infor- 
mation. 
Two or three cases were of wider interest. 
For a county in Idaho the Board adopts the 
form Nez Perce (not Nez Perces) conformably to 
the uniform practise in that county and in 
Idaho. Fora river in southwestern Iowa the 
form Nishnabotna was adopted in place of sev- 
eral other forms which have been more or less 
used. For three glaciers in Glacier Bay, 
Alaska, were adopted the names Carroll (not 
Woods), Grand Pacific (not Johns Hopkins), 
and Rendu (not Charpentier). All these names, 
including the rejected forms, are still in use, but 
there has been confusion in their application. 
The Board follows the original usage as printed 
on Coast and Geodetic Suryey map No. 3,095 
(edition of July, 1899). 
Finally, one more case in Alaska may be 
mentioned. The easternmost point of Kadiak 
is supposed to be the one seen by Bering in 
1741 and by him called St. Hermogenes; on 
some charts written Hermogenes. Cook in 
1778 called it Greville. Some of the Russian 
charts call it Yelovoi (spruce) and others Tol- 
stoi (broad). Its supposed native name is 
Chiniak, which on one chart has appeared as 
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Tuniak. The present local usage is reported to 
be Chiniak and this was adopted by the Board. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 
THE Geological Society of London has made 
the following awards for 1900: Wollaston 
medal, Dr. C. Barrois, Secretary of the Inter- 
national Geological Congress. Wollaston fund, 
Dr. A. W. Rowe, for papers on zonal geology 
and paleontology of the chalk of England; 
Bigsby medal, G. W. Lamplugh, of the British 
Geological Survey. Murchison medal to A, 
J. Jukes-Browne, ofthe same. Murchison fund, 
to T. 8. Hall, of Melbourne, for work on the 
Tertiary Geology of Victoria. Lyell medal to 
Dr. R. H. Traquair, pal-ichthyologist of Edin- 
burgh. Lyell fund to be divided between Dr. 
J. W. Evans, for work on Indian geology, and 
A. McHenry, of the Geological Survey of Ire- 
land. 
WILLIAM H. Crocker, of San Francisco, has 
offered to defray the expenses of a solar eclipse 
expedition to be sent by the University of Cali- 
fornia from the Lick observatory to Sumatra 
to observe the total eclipse of the sun on May 
17th. An astronomer and assistants will sail 
from San Francisco on February 19th to be 
absent until July. They will establish an ob- 
servatory camp somewhere within twenty miles 
of Padang, on the west coast of Sumatra. 
AT the revent International Congress of Hy- 
giene and Demography a committee was ap- 
pointed on the hygiene of streets, of which 
Dr. R. Hering of New York is the American 
member. 
AmonéG the honors conferred by Queen Vic- 
toria for the New Year are the K.C.B. on Sir 
William Turner, professor of anatomy in the 
University of Edinburgh, and baronetcies on Dr. 
William Church, president of the Royal College 
of Physicians, and Dr. Thomas: Barlow, a Lon- 
don physician. 
Proressor E. YON DRYGALSKI, of the Uni- 
versity of Berlin, has been elected an honorary 
corresponding member of the Royal Geograph- 
ical Society of London. 
THE Spencer Lens Company, Buffalo, N. 
Y., of which Dr. Roswell Park is president, 
announces that it has placed its scientific 
