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2. An obituary notice in the London Times 
states that he was born at Pontreporth, near 
Swansea, in 1856, he matriculated at London 
University in 1872, and won a University schol- 
arship in geology, a subject in which he gradu- 
ated as B.Sc. with first-class honors in 1875. 
In the preceding year he was elected Bracken- 
bury scholar in natural science at Balliol Col- 
lege, Oxford; and in due course he was placed 
in the first class in mathematical moderations 
(1877), the final school of mathematics (1879), 
and the final natural science school (1880). 
For ashort time he was demonstrator in the 
Clarendon Laboratory under Professor Clifton ; 
but in 1881 he left Oxford to become principal 
of, and professor of mathematics and physics in, 
Firth College, Sheffield. Two years later, on 
the establishment of the University College of 
South Wales, he was appointed its first princi- 
pal, also acting as professor of physics; and 
this position he retained up to his death. In 
1894 he was chosen a fellow of the Royal 
Society, and in 1897 was elected a fellow of 
Jesus College, Oxford. His scientific work 
was mainly concerned with the measurement 
of electrical resistance, and he was a member 
of the committee of the British Association on 
that subject. In particular he was deeply 
interested in the determination of the standard 
ohm by the Lorenz method in absolute measure, 
i. €., conditioned only by the units of length 
and time and the properties of the ether; he 
constructed a Lorenz apparatus for his labora- 
tory at Cardiff, and took a prominent part in 
designing and testing another that was made in 
London for the McGill University. The cause 
of technical and scientific education in Wales 
owed much to his powers of organization, and 
he was vice-chairman of the Welsh Central 
Board for Intermediate Education, besides be- 
ing the first Vice-chancellor of the University 
of Wales. 
Dr. R. A. DALy, of Harvard University, has 
given up the plan of conducting a geological 
expedition to the North this summer. 
MAgor RonALD Ross, of the Liverpool School 
of Tropical Medicine, expected to leave for 
Sierra Leone on June 8, in charge of the fifth 
malarial expedition from the school. 
Atyiso B. Stryens, assistant professor of 
SCIENCE. 
cial support in the undertaking. 
[N. S. Vou. XIII. No. 338. 
pharmacy, in the University of Michigan, will 
spend a portion of the coming summer in New 
York City gathering old mortars, jars, shelf fix- 
tures, etc., which will be made the nucleus of a 
collection illustrating the history of pharmacy. 
A CORRESPONDENT of the London Times states 
that Dr. Stein, writing from Khotan on April 
22, reports the latest results of his excaya- 
tions in northern Chinese Turkestan. He 
has unearthed a large number of fine stucco 
sculptures closely resembling the Greco-Bud- 
dhist relics of the northwestern Punjab, prob- 
ably belonging to the first century of the Chris- 
tianera. Great difficulty is being experienced in 
excavating the colossal Buddhas, but valuable 
photographs have been taken of them, while 
the smaller pieces have been removed. Dr. 
Stein has now a fine illustration of what the 
big Stupa with its chapel and court was like in 
Khotan at the time of the Han dynasty. 
PROFESSOR WILLIAM PATTEN, of Dartmouth 
College, has been granted leave of absence for 
the first semester of the next academic year. 
He will attend the International Congress of 
. Zoologists in Berlin and afterwards explore the 
coast of the Baltic in Russia in search of speci- 
mens of Cephalaspis and other Ostracoderms. 
The United States Government, through its 
Geological Survey, has generously offered finan- 
Dr. Patten’s 
courses at Dartmouth will be given during his 
absence by Dr. J. H. Gerould. 
Dr. FRANK RUSSELL has recently reported 
to the Bureau of American Ethnology a suc- 
cessful archeological trip through southeastern 
Arizona, in the course of which a number of 
hitherto unknown ruins were discovered and 
reconnoitered. 
Proressor W. H. HoumsEs recently returned 
from a visit to the South Carolina State College, 
at Columbia, where he supervised the arrange- 
ment and installation of the Babcock collection 
of stone implements. This collection, which 
represents the findings of the late Dr. Babcock 
during thirty years’ residence in the district 
formerly occupied by the Catawba Indians, re- 
cently passed into the possession of the State ; 
and it is now available for inspection, as well 
as for systematic study. 
