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Geological Survey in the investigation of the 

 geology of the Atlantic Coastal Plain forma- 

 tions. This work will be done under the 

 direction of Professor W. B. Clark, of the 

 Maryland State Survey. 



The geology of the Wilmington, Phoenixville 

 and Honey Brook quadrangles in southeastern 

 Pennsylvania will be mapped this summer by 

 Miss Florence Bascom, assistant geologist of 

 the U. S. Geological Survey and associate 

 professor in Bryn Mawr College. She will 

 complete the survey of the crystallines of the 

 Wilmington and Phoenixville quadrangles and 

 make a preliminary survey of the Honey 

 Brook quadrangle, with a view to gaining fur- 

 ther light on the problem of the Piedmont 

 gneisses. 



Areal and economic surveys in Georgia, 

 North Carolina, South Carolina and Ten- 

 nessee will be made this summer by Mr. 

 Arthur Keith, geologist, of the U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey, assisted by Mr. D. B. Sterrett. 



Mr. William L. Finley met with a some- 

 what serious accident by the fall of his horse 

 while he was engaged in photographing bald 

 eagle and osprey nests on San Clamente 

 Island. 



Mr. E. G. Woodruff, instructor in mineral- 

 ogy at the Oklahoma State University, has 

 been granted a year's leave of absence to study 

 at Harvard, where he has secured a scholar- 

 ship. 



Mr. John G. Hall, assistant in the Har- 

 vard department of botany, has been elected 

 to the position of assistant in plant pathology 

 in the North Carolina Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. 



At the general meeting of the British In- 

 stitute of Hygiene, held last week, Sir • Will- 

 iam Broadbent was elected president and Sir 

 William Bennett, Surgeon-General Cleghorn, 

 Sir Alfred Cooper, Mr, Mayo Robinson and 

 Professor Sims Woodhead were elected as vice- 

 presidents of the association. 



Dr. Paul Drude, who last year went to 

 Berlin as professor of physics and director of 

 the physical laboratory, died by suicide on 

 July 5, at the age of forty-two years. Dr. 

 Drude was editor of the Annalen der Physih 



and was eminent for his theoretical and ex- 

 perimental researches on the electromagnetic 

 theory of light. 



The death is announced of Dr. Joseph 

 Korosy, director of the Statistical Bureau at 

 Buda Pesth and the author of important 

 studies on demography. 



The death is announced of Dr. George W. 

 Atherton, since 1882 president of the Penn- 

 sylvania State College. He was bom in 

 Massachusetts in 1837, and graduated from 

 Yale University in 1863. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 noimces an examination, on August 29-30, to 

 secure eligibles from which to make certifica- 

 tion to fill at least ten vacancies in the posi- 

 tion of assistant engineer, at salaries of $1,400 

 to $1,600 per annum and two or more at a 

 salary of $1,800 per annilm each, in the Philip- 

 pine Service, and similar vacancies as they 

 may occur in that service. 



The French Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science is holding its thirty-fifth 

 meeting at Lyons this week, under the presi- 

 dency of M. Gabriel Lippmanru 



An International Congress on Polar Ex- 

 ploration will meet at Brussels, beginning on 

 September 7. Further information may be 

 obtained from M. Lecointe, director of the 

 Brussels Observatory. 



The International Committee on Aero- 

 nautics, of which M. Hergesell is president, 

 will hold its fifth biennial congress at Milan 

 at the beginning of September. M. Palazzo, 

 director of the Italian Meteorological Service, 

 will be the president of the congress. 



The seventh annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties 

 will meet at Indianapolis, Ind., on September 

 6 at 3 P.M., under the presidency of Dr. Henry 

 M. Whelpley, of St. Louis. 



By action of the legislature of Indiana, the 

 Indiana University has been given the man- 

 agement of the Donaldson farm, a tract of 

 one hundred and eighty-two acres of timber 

 land, on which are the openings to extensive 

 caves and to the richest blind-fish localities' 



