May 10, 1901.] 
3. Education and experience............01--eeereeeerenee 15 
For the position of ethnologist in the Bureau 
of American Ethnology, at a salary of $1,500, 
an examination will be held as follows : 
1. Essay on ethnologic and archeologic subject..... 20 
2. Experience in ethnologic work (a) in the field ; 
(0) in writing, teaching, etc..........-....+5 ...-- 20 
8. Original publications on ethnologic and arch- 
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4. The geographic, ethnologic, and archeologic 
features of Arizona and New Mexico............ 30 
5. Literature of ethnology and archeology of 
southwestern United Staties...................0.08+ 10 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 
A MEETING was held at Cambridge Univer- 
sity on April 27th to arrange for some acknowl- 
edgment of the services to science and the 
University of Professor G. D. Liveing. Pro- 
fessor Liveing is now seventy-three years of 
age. In 1852 he organized the chemical labora- 
tory at Cambridge which was the first scientific 
laboratory in the University. 
Dr. EDMUND B. WILSON, professor of zoology 
at Columbia University, and Dr. J. Playfair 
MeMurrich, professor of anatomy at the Uni- 
versity of Michigan, are among the Americans 
who will attend the International Zoological 
Congress to be held in Berlin from the 12th to 
19th of August. 
THE U. S8. Biological Survey has been 
engaged for several years in studying the geo- 
graphic distribution of animals and plants in 
Texas, with a view to the preparation of maps 
showing the limitations of the life zones and 
faunal areas in that State. Mr. Vernon Bailey, 
chief field naturalist of the Biological Survey, 
has charge of this work and has recently gone 
to southwestern Texas to begin field operations 
for the season of 1901. He is assisted by Mr. 
H. C. Oberholzer. 
Dr. D. A. CARMICHAEL, recently appointed 
federal quarantine officer in San Francisco, 
has arrived in that city. He has presumably 
been given this appointment on account of his 
success in suppressing the plague in Honolulu. 
Dr. GEorGE BLUMER, of the Bender Labora- 
tory at Albany, has been appointed director of 
the Bureau of Bacteriology and Pathology, 
newly established by New York State. 
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Prorgessor H. Poronim and Dr. Aug. 
Denckmann have been appointed geologists in 
the Geological Bureau at Berlin. 
Mr. EvELYN BALDWIN, who is shortly to 
lead the North Polar expedition equipped by 
Mr. Ziegler, has gone to Norway and Denmark 
in connection with his preparations. He will 
shortly go to Dundee to join the steamer 
America which he recently acquired for the 
expedition. 
Mr. W. H. C. PyNcHON has given a course 
of six lectures at Trinity College upon the 
“Geology of the Connecticut Valley Lowland.’ 
Miss C. M. Dericx, lecturer in botany at 
McGill University, has been granted a year’s 
leave of absence, and will study botany under 
Strasburger at Bonn. 
Dr. THomMAS CONRAD PORTER, since 1866 
professor at Lafayette College, died on April 
27th, at the age of seventy-nine years. Dr. 
Porter at first taught the natural sciences at 
Lafayette College, while later his work was 
confined more especially to botany. He was 
made emeritus professor four years ago, but re- 
mained dean of the Pardee Scientific School. 
He was the author of a ‘ Botany of Pennsyl- 
vania,’ ‘A Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado’ 
and other works. He was a man of great 
learning, belonging to the older school of 
naturalists, and, although he left very valuable 
collections and notes, it is to be feared that a 
vast fund of valuable information is lost by 
his death. 
THE death is announced, at the age of 82 
years, of Mr. James Douglas Reid, who was 
interested in the construction of the early tele- 
graph lines in this country. He was the author 
of a book entitled ‘The Telegraph in America,’ 
and for a while conducted a journal devoted to 
telegraphy. 
WE regret also to record the death at the age 
of 82 years, of F. K. M. Feofilaktow, lately 
professor of geology in the University at Kiew, 
of Dr. Adolph Hirsch, professor of astronomy 
in the University of Neuchatel and director of 
the observatory, and of Dr. 8. Lamanski, the 
physicist of St. Petersburg. 
THE International Association of Academies 
