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he gave a very graphic account of the habits of 
Nautilus which he had observed during his stay 
at Negros. 
PROFESSOR FREDERICK W. STARR, of the 
University of Chicago, has returned from a 
four months’ expedition among the Mexican 
Indians. He has secured valuable busts, photo- 
graphs and collections. 
THE section of vertebrate paleontology of 
the Carnegie Museum will have four field 
parties engaged during the coming summer in 
exploring the fossil-bearing horizons of the 
West. The work will be under the general 
direction of Mr. J. B. Hatcher, the Museum’s 
curator of vertebrate paleontology. One party 
will operate near Cafion City, Colorado, where 
during the past winter a valuable deposit 
of Dinosaur bones has been unearthed by Mr. 
W. H. Utterback. A second party will be in 
charge of Mr. C. W. Gilmore, and will continue 
the work that Has been so successful during the 
past two seasons in southern Wyoming. A 
third party will be in charge of Mr. O. A. 
Peterson, and will explore the Tertiary de- 
posits of western Nebraska, while the fourth 
party will devote its attention to the Cretaceous 
and Tertiary deposits of southern Montana. 
Important results are expected from the various 
field parties. 
Dr. HENRY C. Cow Es will conduct an 
expedition of students from the botanical 
department of the University of Chicago to 
the mountains of northwestern Montana and 
northern Idaho during August and a part of 
September. The purpose of this trip will be 
an ecological study of the various mountain 
conditions. 
S. M. Tracy, of Biloxi, Miss., has chartered 
a schooner for the summer, and will spend the 
next six months in a botanical exploration of 
the islands along the coast of the Gulf of 
Mexico. May, June, September and October 
will be spent on the south Florida coast, and 
July and August on the Texas coast. 
PROFESSOR ENGLER, director of the Botan- 
ical Garden at Berlin, is about to visit the 
Canary Islands, in order to study their flora; 
at the same time the botanist, Dr. Josef Born- 
muller, will also make an expedition. 
SCIENCE. 
[N. S. Vou. XIII. No. 330. 
THE funeral of the late Professor Henry A. 
Rowland took place during the recent meeting 
of the National Academy of Sciences, and Dr. 
8. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian In- 
stitution, and Dr. T. C. Mendenhall, President 
of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, were 
appointed a committee to represent the Acad- 
emy. 
A PORTRAIT of the late Dr. William Pepper 
was presented to the American Philosophical 
Society on April 12th by a number of members 
of the Society. An address was made on the 
occasion by Dr. Horace Howard Furnace. 
Dr. FREDERICK J. BROCKWAY, assistant dem- 
onstrator in anatomy in the College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons, Columbia University, died 
of meningitis at Brattleboro, Vt., on April 21st. 
He was born in 1860 and took his A.B. at Yale 
and his M.D. from the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons. 
WE regret also to record the death of Rich- 
ard P. Rothwell, since 1873 editor of the Engi- 
neering and Mining Journal. He was born in 
Ontario, Can., in 1836, and studied at Trinity 
College, Toronto, the Rensselaer Polytechnic 
Institute and the Paris School of Mines. Mr. 
Rothwell made numerous inventions and had a 
large practice as consulting mining engineer. 
He was president of the American Institute of 
Civil Engineers in 1872, and was a member of 
numerous foreign and American Scientific So- 
cieties. In connection with the Engineering 
and Mining Journal he published annually ‘ The 
Mineral Industry, its Statistics, Technology 
and Trade,’ and the company of which he was 
president, The Scientific Publishing Company, 
issued many books relating to industry and min- 
ing. His death, which was due to cancer, oc- 
curred on April 17th. 
PROFESSOR JOSEF VON FEDOR, professor of 
hygiene in the University of Buda Pesth and 
the author of many works on this science, has 
died at the age of fifty-seven years. 
THE death is also announced of Dr. P. Kohl- 
stock, lecturer on tropical hygiene at the Uni- 
versity of Berlin, and known for his researches 
on cholera and other subjects. He died at — 
Tien-Tsin, where he was engaged in research. 
