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Dr. WARREN P. LoMBARD, professor of 
physiology in the University of Michigan, will 
spend the summer abroad and will attend the 
International Physiological Congress to be held 
in Turin in September. 
Dr. FRANZ Boas, professor of anthropology 
in Columbia University and curator of eth- 
nology in the American Museum of Natural 
History, has been appointed philologist in the 
Bureau of American Ethnology. The appoint- 
ment is an honorary one, and Dr. Boas will 
direct the work from New York City. 
PROFESSOR WILLIAM JAMES offers a course 
next year at Harvard University on ‘The Psy- 
chological Elements of Religious Life,’ based on 
the Gifford lectures now being given at Edin- 
burgh. 
Dr. T. C. HopKIns, professor of geology at 
Syracuse University, will work on the geologi- 
cal survey of Indiana during the summer vaca- 
tion. An attempt will be made to complete 
the work for a new edition of the geological 
map of Indiana. 
THE Carnegie Museum has despatched Mr. 
W. E. C. Todd, custodian of the collections in 
orvithology, Dr. D, A. Atkinson and Mr. George 
Mellor to the Maritime Provinces and New- 
foundland to make natural history collections 
for the museum during the coming summer. 
Professor J. B. Hatcher is engaged in taking up 
fossils at Cafion City, Colorado, Mr. O. A. 
Peterson is continuing the work begun by Pro- 
fessor Hatcher in western Nebraska last year, 
and the quarry at Camp Carnegie, on Sheep 
Creek, Wyoming will be worked during the 
coming summer by a party under Mr. C. W. 
Gilmore. 
PROFESSOR C. L. BRISTOL, of New York Uni- 
versity, left New York on June 1 to direct the 
Biological Station at Bermuda. 
THE house-boat Megalops of the Zoological 
Survey of Minnesota, under the direction of 
Professor Nachtrieb, has been hauled ashore 
near the head of Lake Pepin, a few miles below 
Red Wing, where it will be used as station head-- 
quarters. A gasoline launch has been purchased 
for this station, and, in line with the plan begun 
with the rowboat Zosa, has been called Calli- 
nectes. There is also to be constructed a boat 
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specially adapted for dredging and similar work. 
This boat will be called Branchippus. Pro- 
fessor Nachtrieb will send a party of four into 
the Lake Vermillion region and the N.E. corner 
of Minnesota. A party of two will conduct 
special investigations in the Lake of the Woods, 
and another will carry on work at the Lake 
Pepin station. 
Sir COURTENAY BOYLE, permanent secretary 
of the Board of Trade, died in London on May 
19. Sir Courtenay had in various official po- 
sitions contributed much to the applications of 
science especially as supervised by the govern- 
ment. 
Mr. E. W. Parsons died in London on May 
20. He was interested in submarine teleg- 
raphy and had done scientific work in connec- 
tion with the transit of Venus and in other 
directions. 
Mr. ANTHONY WILKIN died at Cairo on May 
17. Although only twenty-four years of age, 
he had accomplished good work in several 
scientific expeditions. He was a member of 
the Cambridge anthropological expedition to 
Torres Straits, and had carried on archeological 
work in Egypt with Professor Flinders Petrie. 
Ir is announced that Mr. John D. Rocke- 
feller has given $200,000 for the foundation of 
an institute for medical research, and it is un- 
derstood that this fund will be increased as 
needed. We lack in America an institution 
corresponding to the Pasteur Institute in Paris 
or the institution in London recently endowed 
by Lord Iveagh. It appears that this need will 
be met by Mr. Rockefeller’s gift, though the 
exact scope of the institution is still under con- 
sideration. 
Ir is said that Mr. Alfred Harmsworth has 
subscribed $50,000 toward an institute in Lon- 
don for the cure of lupus by exposure to light. 
THE U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 
nounces that owing to lack of applicants the 
examination, announced to be held on June 3, 
for the position of secretary of the National 
Bureau of Standards, Treasury Department, 
has been postponed to June 22, and will be 
held in any city in the United States where 
postal free delivery has been established. The 
duties of this position are those of general sec- 
