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tary of the Treasury upon the efficiency of its scien- 
tific work and the condition of its equipment. The 
members of this committee shall serve without com- 
pensation, but shall be paid the actual expenses in- 
curred in attending its meetings. The period of ser- 
vice of the members of the original committee shall 
be so arranged that one member shall retire each year, 
and the appointments thereafter to be for a period of 
five years. Appointments made to fill vacancies oc- 
curring other than in the regular manner are to be 
made for the remainder of the period in which the 
vacancy exists. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 
Mr. J. J. H. TEAL, F.R.S., has been ap- 
pointed director general of the Geological 
Survey of Great Britain and Ireland, in succes- 
sion to Sir Archibald Geikie, who retired on 
February 28th. Sir Archibald has been in the 
service of the Survey for forty-six years and 
has reached the age limit. 
AT a meeting of the Canadian Mining Insti- 
tute held at Montreal on March 6th, it was 
unanimously decided to recommend the ap- 
pointment of Professor Frank D. Adams, as 
director of the Geological Survey of Canada 
in succession to the late Dr. Geo. M. Dawson. 
A COMMITTEE has been formed to erect at 
Heidelberg a monument in memory of three of 
its great scientific men, Bunsen, Kirchhoff and 
von Helmholtz. 
Proressor J. J. THOMSON, Cavendish pro- 
fessor of physics at Cambridge University, has 
been elected a member of the Atheneum Club 
under the provision which empowers the annual 
election of nine persons of distinguished emi- 
nence. 
Dr. M. I. Pupin, professor of electro-me- 
chanics, at Columbia University, and Dr. R. 
Mark Wenley, professor of philosophy at the 
University of Michigan, will represent their 
universities at the Ninth Jubilee of the Univer- 
sity of Glasgow, which takes place in June. 
Mr. Percy WIitson, of the New York Bo- 
tanical Garden, is accompanying Professor 
Todd’s expedition to the Dutch East Indies to 
observe the total solar eclipse. He will make 
collections for the Garden. 
Mr. JARED G. SmiTH, of the U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, left Washington on March 
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15th for Honolulu, to assume the directorship 
of the Agricultural Experiment Station. 
THE Division of Forestry of the U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture has selected from its 
working force two trained lumbermen with 
some knowledge of forestry to be sent to the 
Philippine Islands in compliance with a cable 
request of the Taft Philippine Commission. 
The persons selected for this work are Mr. 
Grant Bruce, formerly a State forester in 
New York, and Mr. Edward Hamilton. Both 
these men are expert lumbermen with some 
training in forestry, and have been selected in 
view of their special fitness for the Philippine 
work. A bureau of forestry was established in 
the Philippines in April, 1900, with Capt. 
George P. Ahern, Ninth United States In- 
fantry, in charge. ‘ 
AT a meeting of the American Academy of 
Arts and Sciences on March 13th, the following 
fellows were elected : 
Resident Fellows : 
ALEXANDER WILMER DurFfF, of Worcester, Physics. 
THEODORE LYMAN, of Brookline, Physics. 
LEWIS JEROME JOHNSON, of Cambridge, Tech- 
nology and Engineering. 
HENRY LioyD Smytu, of Cambridge, Technology 
and Engineering. ; 
FRANK SHIPLEY COLLINS, of Malden, Botany. 
EPHRAIM EMERTON, of Cambridge, Political Econ- 
omy and History. 
FRANK WILLIAM TAussiG, of Cambridge, Political 
Economy and History. 
Associate Fellows : 
ELIAKIM HASTINGS MOooRE, of Chicago, Mathema- 
tics and Astronomy. 
GEORGE ELLERY HALE, of Williams Bay, Physics: 
EDWARD LEAMINGTON NICHOLS, of Ithaca, phys- 
ies, in place of the late William Augustus Rogers. 
CYRUS GUERNSEY PRINGLE, of Charlotte, Ver- 
mont, Botany, in place of the late George Clinton 
Swallow. 
FRANKLIN PAINE MALL, of Baltimore, Zoology 
and Physiology, in place of the late Alfred Stillé. 
HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN, of New York, Zoology 
and Physiology, in the place of the late Othniel 
Charles Marsh. 
CHARLES OTIS WHITMAN, of Chicago, Zoology and 
Physics. 4 
WILLIAM STEWART HALSTED, of Baltimore, Medi- 
cine and Surgery, in place of the late William Alex- 
ander Hammond. 
