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pose, said consignee shall forfeit the full 

 amount of the bond: and Provided, further. 

 That all charges for storage, cartage and labor 

 on goods which are refused admission or de- 

 livery shall be paid by the owner or consignee, 

 and in default of such payment shall consti- 

 tute a lien against any future importation 

 made by such owner or consignee. 



Sec. 12. That the term ' territory,' as used 

 in this act, shall include the insular posses- 

 sions of the United States. The word * per- 

 son,' as used in this act, shall be construed to 

 import both the plural and the singular, as the 

 case demands, and shall include corporations, 

 companies, societies and associations. When 

 construing and enforcing the provisions of 

 this Act, the act, omission or failure of any 

 officer, agent or other person acting for or 

 employed by any corporation, company, society 

 or association, within the scope of his employ- 

 ment or office, shall in every case be also 

 deemed to be the act, omission or failure of 

 such corporation, company, society or associa- 

 tion as well as that of the i)erson. 



Sec. 13. That this act shall be in force and 

 effect from and after the first day of January, 

 1907. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Sir David Gill, H. M. astronomer at the 

 Cape of Good Hope, will succeed Dr. E. Ray 

 Lankester, director of the British Museum of 

 Natural History, as president of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 



A KNIGHTHOOD has been conferred on Dr. 

 W. H. Perkin, F.E.S., the jubilee of whose 

 discovery of the aniline dye mauve has re- 

 cently been celebrated. 



Sir James Dewar, Jacksonian professor of 

 experimental philosophy at Cambridge Uni- 

 versity and Fullerian professor of chemistry 

 at the Royal Institution, has received the Mat- 

 teucci medal of the Italian Society of Sciences. 



Dr. a. E. Dolbear, since 1874 professor of 

 physics at Tufts College, has retired from ac- 

 tive service under the provisions of the Car- 

 negie Foundation. 



Dr. a. G. Ruthven has been appointed 

 curator of the Museum of the University of 



Michigan. He is spending the summer in 

 Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, collecting 

 reptiles and studying their field relations for 

 the American Museum of Natural History. 



Dr. Albert Ernest Jenks, formerly the 

 chief of the Ethnological Survey of the Philip- 

 pine Islands, has been engaged in the cata- 

 loguing of the Philippine ethnological collec- 

 tion, purchased by the American Museum of 

 Natural History at the St. Louis Exposition. 



We learn from the London Times that at a 

 meeting of the master and fellows of Christ's 

 College, Cambridge, held on July 20, Mr. 

 Francis Darwin was elected honorary fellow, 

 and Dr. G. H. F. Nuttall, F.R.S., fellow of the 

 society. Mr. Darwin is foreign secretary of 

 the Royal Society. He was educated a.t 

 Trinity College and for many years was reader 

 in botany in the university and fellow of 

 Christ's, Dr. NuttaU, who has held teaching 

 posts at Johns Hopkins University and at the 

 University of Berlin, is now reader in "hygiene 

 at Cambridge. He is the chief editor of the 

 Journal of Hygiene, 



Dr. a, L. Crampton, of Maryland, has beeli 

 made chief of a division of the Bureau of In- 

 ternal Revenue, established to carry out the 

 provisions of the denatured alcohol act. In- 

 ternal Revenue Commissioner Yerkes is in 

 Europe making an inquiry into the operations 

 of denatured alcohol laws in England, Ger- 

 many and Holland. 



Professor H. M. Saville, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity and the American Museum of Natural 

 History, is this summer carrying on explora- 

 tions in Ecuador and Colombia. 



Dr. Augustine Henry, known for his bo- 

 tanical researches in China and elsewhere, is 

 at present in the United States, with a vie\^ 

 to studying forestry conditions. 



Professor Sollas, of Oxford University, 

 assisted by Professor Lugeon, has conducted 

 a party of students on a geological trip 

 through the Alps. 



The department of vertebrate paleontology 

 of the American Museum of Natural history 

 has three expeditions in the field this season. 

 Mr. Barnum Brown is continuing the search 



