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Hall, Jr., of the University of Michigan, Pro- 
fessor Charles A. Young, of Princeton Univer: 
sity, and Professor Ormond Stone, of the Uni- 
versity of Virginia. 
CAPTAIN BERNIER was at Ottawa last week 
with a view to obtaining a grant from the Gov- 
ernment for his polar expedition. He has also 
opened subscriptions in the principal Canadian 
Cities. He estimates the cost of the expedition 
at $130,000. 
THE amount of new blood on the recently 
elected Council of the Geological Society o 
London is not great, being confined to Pro_ 
sfesor Theodore T. Groom and the Right Rever- 
end J. Mitchinson, D.D. We see that Dr. 
Mitchinson was elected a Fellow only last 
year, but he was bishop of Barbados and is 
now master of Pembroke College, Oxford. 
Dr. J. G. ADAMI, professor of pathology at 
McGill University, will attend the International 
Congress of Tuberculosis, to be held at London 
in July. He has been appointed vice-president 
of the section of pathology and bacteriology. 
PROFESSORS ANDREW F. WEsT and J. Mark 
Baldwin, of Princeton University, have been 
appointed delegates to the Ninth Jubilee of the 
University of Glasgow. 
Dr. EpwiIn A. BARBER has been appointed 
secretary of the Pennsylvania Museum and 
School of Industrial Art and curator of the 
museum. 
Dr. ASAPH HALL has resigned from the 
Board of Managers of the Observatory of Yale 
University. 
Ir is reported that the Secretary of the Navy 
has decided not to order the trial by court- 
martial of Professor Stinson J. Brown against 
whom charges were filed by Capt. Charles H. 
Davis, Superintendent of the Naval Observa- 
tory, but has detached Professor Brown from 
duty at the Observatory and placed him on 
waiting orders. He will be detailed for duty 
elsewhere as soon as an assignment can be found. 
It is also reported that Captain Davis will 
probably be assigned to the command of a ship 
in the course of the summer. 
Mr. Frep J. ALLEN, of Auburn, N. Y., has 
been nominated by President McKinley as 
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Commissioner of Patents in the place of Mr. 
C. H. Duell, who has resigned in order to re- 
sume private practice. 
Kine Epwarp VII. has signified to the 
President and Council of the Marine Biological 
Association his pleasure in becoming the patron 
of the Association. 
M. Anton CARLES is making progress with 
the model for the monument of Pasteur which 
is to be erected in his native town. In addition 
to the statue of Pasteur, which is said to be 
very effective, there is a model personifying 
science who holds a wreath of laurel towards 
Pasteur, and another figure of a woman hold- 
ing two young children who are supposed to 
have been saved from death by Pasteur’s dis- 
coveries. f 
Dr. GEORGE PRATT STARKWEATHER, as- 
sistant professor of applied mechanics in the 
Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, 
died at New Haven on March 21st. Dr. Stark- 
weather graduated from the Sheffield Scientific 
School in 1891 and was last year promoted 
from an instructorship to an assistant professor- 
ship. He was only twenty-eight years of age. 
Dr. GEORGE T. FAIRCHILD, from 1879 to 
1897 president of the Kansas State Agricultural 
College, died on March 16th, in his sixty-second 
year. He was at the time of his death pro- 
fessor of English Literature at Berea College. 
Dr. JoHN W. GRIFFITH, for several years 
senior physician to the Finsbury Dispensary 
and medical officer of health to Clerkenwell, 
died recently at Camberwell in his 82d year. 
He was best known to naturalists as part author 
of Griffith & Henfrey’s ‘ Micrographie Diction- 
ary.’ 
THE death is also announced of Mr. W. J. 
Williams, for many years clerical assistant to 
the secretary of the Zoological Society of Lon- 
don. 
ALEXANDER MACFARLANE, M.A., D.Sc., 
LL.D., will deliver a course of six lectures en- 
titled ‘British Mathematicians ofthe Nineteenth - 
Century,’ at Lehigh University, beginning April 
12,1901. The life and work of the following 
will be presented in the order named: George 
Peacock (1791-1858); Augustus DeMorgan 
