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logued. Unfortunately the United States and 

 Russia were not represented at the Conference. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Peofessoe Hbney F. Osboen, professor of 

 zoology, at Columbia University, and curator 

 of vertebrate paleontology of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, has been appointed 

 paleontologist in the United States Geological 

 Survey. Professor Osborn's special field of 

 work will be to take charge of the vertebrate 

 paleontology of the Survey, especially with 

 reference to the completion of the monographs 

 for which the illustrations were prepared under 

 the direction of the late Professor O. C. Marsh. 



It is reported by cablegram from London that 

 Professor E. C. Pickeringof Harvard University 

 has been in conference with Sir David Gill 

 with a view to a survey of the east coast of 

 Africa, in v/hich it is said American men of 

 science will participate. 



The Society for the Promotion of Engineering 

 Education, on July 5th, elected the following 

 officers for the ensuing year : President, Pro- 

 fessor C. O. Marvin of the Kansas State 

 University; Vice-President, Professor Albert 

 Kingsbury of the Worcester Polytechnic Insti- 

 tute ; Secretary, Professor H. S. Jacoby of Cor- 

 nell University ; Treasurer, Professor C. A. 

 Waldo of Purdue University. 



De. Thomas H. Noeton, lately professor of 

 chemistry in the University of Cincinnati, who 

 was recently appointed by the President to 

 establish a United States Consulate at Harpoot, 

 Turkey, in Asia, has sailed on the steamship 

 Archiniede, of the Italian line, for Constanti- 

 nople. 



De. W. C. Stubbs, director of the Louisiana 

 Experiment Station, has been selected by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture to visit the Hawaiian 

 Islands and report upon the most feasible plan 

 for the establishment of an agricultural experi- 

 ment station there. Dr. Stubbs will spend the 

 month of August in the Islands investigating 

 the locations best adapted to a station, the lines 

 of work which should be undertaken, and mat- 

 ters relating to the necessary equipment and 

 expense of maintenance. 



De. S. a. Knapp, of Louisiana has gone to 

 Porto Rico on a similar mission. These pre- 

 liminary investigations are in accordance with 

 the recent acts of Congress making appropria- 

 tion for the office of Experiment Stations of the 

 Department of Agriculture, providing for the 

 establishment of agricultural experiment sta- 

 tions in these island possessions. 



De. J. Waltee Fewkes of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology has returned to Washington 

 after eight months absence in the field devoted to 

 a further study of the Hopi Indians in Arizona. 



De. Cleveland Abbe, Jr., of Winthrop Col- 

 lege, is spending the field season in Western 

 North Carolina and Virginia as special assistant 

 to one of the hydrographic parties of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey. He is engaged in special 

 study of the physiography of this district while 

 also assisting in the hydrographic survey that 

 is being made by the co-operation of the N. C. 

 State Geological Survey and the U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey. 



Peofessoe Josiah Royce, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has been invited to give a course of 

 lectures at Dublin University. 



Peofessoe Geoege- Lincoln Goodale, of 

 Harvard University, will be absent on leave 

 next year, and Dr. Rodney H. True has been 

 appointed lecturer in botany for the year. 



A conversazione was held at the London 

 Medical Graduates' College and Polyclinic on 

 July 4th, when the museum was inaugurated, 

 and Professor O^ler, of Baltimore, gave an ora- 

 tion on ' The Teaching of Practical Medicine.' 



At a dinner given on June 24th, in honor of 

 the yellow fever expedition of the Liverpool 

 School of Tropical Medicine, Mr. A. L. Jones 

 subscribed £1000 towards the erection of a 

 hospital for tropical diseases in Liverpool. In 

 addition to smaller gifts, two subscriptions of 

 £500 from Mr. Blaize, of Lagos, and Mr. John 

 Holt, of Liverpool, were announced. 



The annual visitation of the Royal Observa- 

 tory at Greenwich, which was this year, owing 

 to the solar eclipse, postponed for a month, 

 took place on June 26th. Among those pres- 

 ent were Sir David Gill, from the Cape of Good 

 Hope, Sir William Huggins, Sir George Stokes 



