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Bering Sea are rapidly ohauging the conditions 

 of native life ; so that within a few years their 

 primitive customs, and perhaps the tribes them- 

 selves, will be extinct. 



The expedition, after leaving Vladivostok, 

 will go by sea to the northeastern part of the 

 Sea of Okhotsk, where they will establish their 

 winter quarters. Mr. Jochelson expects to 

 spend the winter among the tribes of this coast, 

 part of whom belong to the great Tungus 

 family which inhabits the greater part of Si- 

 beria, while others belong to a little-known 

 group of tribes inhabiting the extreme north- 

 eastern portion of Asia. Mr. Bogoras will 

 make a long journey by dog-sledge across that 

 part of the country which is north of the 

 peninsula of Kamtchatka, and will spend much 

 of his time among the Chukchee, whose mode 

 of life is quite similar to that of the Eskimo 

 of the Arctic coast of America. Mr. Bogoras 

 is exceptionally well prepared for this work, 

 since he has spent several years among the 

 western Chukchee, who are a nomadic tribe, 

 and subsist on the products of their large herds 

 of reindeer. There is also a small tribe of 

 Eskimo living on the Siberian coast, whom 

 Mr. Bogoras expects to visit. 



Mr. Jochelson, after finishing his work on 

 the coast of the Okhotsk Sea, will proceed 

 northwestward, crossing the high mountains 

 which stretch along the coast, on a trail never 

 before visited by white men. Over this route 

 he expects to reach the territory of another iso- 

 lated tribe, the Yukagheer. On a former expe- 

 dition Mr. Jochelson visited a western branch 

 of this tribe, whom he reached starting from 

 Irkutsk, in southern Siberia. Owing to the 

 difficulties of the passage, Mr. Jochelson will 

 not return to the coast of the Okhotsk Sea, but 

 will continue his journey westward through 

 Asia, and reach New York by way of Moscow 

 and St. Petersburg. 



Both Mr. Jochelson and Mr. Bogoras have 

 carried on a series of most remarkable investi- 

 gations in Siberia, which are at present being 

 published by the Imperial Academy of Sciences 

 in St. Petersburg. The results of their previous 

 investigations embrace a mass of information 

 on the customs, languages, and folk-tales of the 

 tribes whom they visited. 



It may be expected that their journey, which 

 will extend over a period of two years, will re- 

 sult in a series of most interesting additions to 

 the collections of the Museum, and in an im- 

 portant advacement of our knowledge of the 

 peoples of the world. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



A MOVEMENT has begun in London to arrange 

 for the erection of a memorial in honor of the 

 late Sir William Flower. 



The Eoyal Society of Surgeons of England 

 has elected, in connection with the celebration 

 of its centenary, a number of honorary fellows, 

 subject to their attendance at the celebration. 

 These include Dr. I. H. Cameron, Toronto 

 University ; Dr. William S. Halsted, Johns 

 Hopkins University ; Sir W. H. Hingston, Laval 

 University ; Dr. W. W. Keen, Jefferson Med- 

 ical College ; Dr. T. G. Roddick, McGill Uni- 

 versity ; Dr. J. C. Warren, Harvard University, 

 and Dr. R. F. Weir, Columbia University. 



Peofessoe Camillo Golgi, eminent for his 

 researches on the nervous system, has been 

 made a senator of the kingdom of Italy. 



Professor Rudolf Lipchitz, professor of 

 mathematics in the University at Bonn, has 

 been elected a correspondent of the Paris 

 Academy for the section of geometry. 



Sir John Evans has been elected chairman 

 of the Society of Arts, London. 



Mr. Grant-Ogilvie, principal of the Heriot- 

 Watt College, has been appointed director of 

 the Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh. 



Lord Kelvin has been elected Master of 

 the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers for 

 the year 1900-1901. 



The steamship Queen which arrived at Vic- 

 toria on August 4th from Alaska had among its 

 passengers W. F. King, the British Alaskan 

 Boundary Commissioner ; O. H. Tittman, the 

 American member of the Commission, and O. 

 B. French, assistant. They have concluded 

 their work on White, Chilkoot and Chilkat 

 passes. 



Dr. W. J. Holland, ofthe Carnegie Museum, 

 sailed for Europe on August 7th. He will be 

 absent for four weeks. 



