FEBRUARY 8, 1901.] 
Society of Arts on January 31st, on ‘ Astro- 
nomical Photography with the Great Visual 
Telescope of the Yerkes Observatory.’ 
Dr. C. W. ANDREWS, of the Geological De- 
partment of the British Museum, has, on ac- 
count of ill health, been granted leave of 
absence for three months, which he proposes to 
employ in studying the geology of Egypt and 
the Soudan. It is earnestly hoped that he may 
be able to return to his excellent work on fossil 
reptiles and birds. 
Proressor W. B. Scorr, of Princeton Uni- 
versity will deliver a course of sixteen lectures 
before the Wagner Institute in Philadelphia, 
the first one to be given early in February. 
THE officers of the Entomological Society of 
London have been elected as follows: Presi- 
dent, the Rey. Canon Fowler; Treasurer, Mr. 
Robert McLachlan, F.R.S.; Secretaries, Mr. 
Herbert Goss and Mr. H. Rowland-Brown ; Li- 
brarian, Mr. George C. Champion ; and as other 
Members of Council, Professor T. Hudson Beare, 
F.R.S., and Messrs. R. Adkin, Charles G. Bar- 
rett, William L. Distant, H. St. J. Donis- 
thorpe, Charles J. Gahan, Robert W. Lloyd, 
Edward Saunders, G. H. Verrall and Colbran 
J. Wainwright. 
THE Geological Society of France has elected 
the following officers for the year 1901: Presi- 
dent, M. Carez; Vice-Presidents)s MM. Haug, 
van den Broeck, Dereims, Nicklés ; Secretaries, 
MM. Gentil, and Pervinquiére ; Vice-Secretaries, 
MM. Giraud, Mémin, Treasurer, M. Léon Janet ; 
Librarian, M. Ramond. 
WE regret to record the death of Mr. Frederic 
W. 4H. Myers, which occurred on January 17th 
at Rome, where he had gone, we understand, 
at the invitation of Professor William James. 
Mr. Myers was an accomplished poet and man 
of letters, but is best known to the general 
public for his enthusiastic devotion to the cause 
of psychical research. Mr. Myers was born in 
1843, being a son of the Vicar of Keswick, and 
was elected Fellow of Trinity College, Cam- 
bridge in 1865. Since the establishment of the 
Society for Psychical Research in 1882, he 
devoted himself largely to its work, being its 
honorary secretary. He was one of the authors 
of ‘Phantasms of the Living,’ and has left 
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ready or nearly ready for publication a work on 
‘Human Faculty.’ 
Dr. SEDGWICK SAUNDERS, the medical of- 
ficer of health and public analysis for the city 
of London, and the author of numerous contri- 
butions to hygiene and public health, died on 
January 18th, at the age of seventy-six years. 
CoNSUL GENERAL McCNALLY has reported to 
the State Department the death of Miles Rock, 
inGuatemala. Mr. Rock was born at Ephrata, 
Lancaster County, Pa., October 10, 1840. He 
was graduated from Lehigh University, in 1868 
as civil engineer. From 1868 to 1869 he taught 
mathematics and mineralogy at Lehigh Univer- 
sity. In 1870 went to the observatory at Cor- 
dova, Argentine Republic as astronomical as- 
sistant to Dr. B. A. Gould. remained in 
Cordova for three years, mapping the stars of 
the Southern heavens. From 1874 to 1877 
he was employed by the United States hydro- 
graphic office, determining latitude and longi- 
tude in the West Indies and Central America. 
In 1878 he was an assistant on the Wheeler 
survey west of the 100th meridian, determin- 
ing latitude and longitude, and from 1879 to 
to 1883 he was assistant astronomer at the 
United States Naval Observatory at Washing- 
ton, and observed the transit of Venus at San- 
tiago in 1882. 
THE five series of Alaskan birds secured at 
Point Barrow by Mr. E. A. MelIlhenny has been 
divided into several representative collections. 
Most of these have now been disposed of, the 
best ones going to the Academy of Natural 
Sciences, Philadelphia, to the Hon. Walter 
Rothschild, Tryng, England, and to the Car- 
negie Museum at Pittsburg, Pa. 
THE Board of Estimate and Apportionment 
of New York City has approved the plans and 
specifications of the New York Public Library 
building, and appropriated $2,850,000 for its 
erection. This is in addition to the $540,000 
already appropriated for the removal of the old 
reservoir and the building of vaults. The total 
cost of the library will consequently be $3,390, - 
000. It has been decided to build the library 
of white marble which adds about $400,000 to - 
the original estimate. 
Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE has offered to give 
