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Edward County, Va., onApriI19,1827. He held 

 professorships in the universities of South Caro- 

 lina and Georgia and in Hampden-Sidney Col- 

 lege. During the Civil War he was a lieuten- 

 ant-colonel and aid-de-camp on the staff of 

 General Eobert E. Lee. In 1865 he was ap- 

 pointed professor of mathematics in the Uni- 

 versity of Virginia, and became emeritus profes- 

 sor five years ago. 



De. Erich Nymann, a Sweedish naturalist 

 from Upsala, has died at Munich on his return 

 from a three year's expedition to the Malay 

 Archipelago and New Guinea. 



A FIELD party from the Botanical Department 

 of the University of Chicago is making an eco- 

 logical study of North Manitou Island, in the 

 northern part of Lake Michigan. They will be 

 at work during August and September. 



Me. James Mooney, of the Bureau of Amer- 

 ican Ethnology, has recently gone to the old 

 Cherokee country in North Carolina for the 

 purpose of completing his studies of the tradi- 

 tions, games, and medical practice of the Cher- 

 okee Indians. He has an extended memoir on 

 the creation myths and traditions of the tribe 

 in the Nineteenth Report of the Bureau, which 

 is now well advanced in the press ; and he has, 

 in more or less advanced preparation, two or 

 three additional memoirs on the tribe, one or 

 more of which he plans to complete by aid of 

 information to be obtained during the autumn. 



Peofessor C. E. Beechee, of Yale Univer- 

 sity, is conducting an expedition to the Grand 

 Canyon of the Colorado and Arizona. 



It is reported that Dr. Riggs, of the ^Field 

 Columbian Museum, has discovered a nearly 

 perfect skeleton of a dinosaur on the banks of 

 Gunnison River, Colorado. 



The American Chemical Society will hold its 

 next general meeting in Chicago during Christ- 

 mas week. A committee has been appointed 

 to arrange for the celebration of the 25th anni- 

 versary of the foundation of the Society which 

 will occur on April 6, 1901. 



The British Medical Association will hold its 

 next annual meeting at Cheltenham under the 

 presidency of Dr. G. B. Ferguson. 



The members registered at the International 

 Medical Congress numbered 6170, nationalities 



being represented as follows : France, 2293 ; 



Russia, 805; German 5', 572; the United States, 

 412; Italy, 324; Great Britain, 222; Spain, 219; 

 Belgium, 147; Austria, 141; Argentine Repub- 

 lic, 108; Switzerland, 101. 



At the Paris Electrical Congress, reports will 

 be presented as follows : ' Dynamo Electric Ma- 

 chinery,' Professors. P. Thompson; 'Units,' 

 M. Hospitaller; 'Photometry,' M. Violle ; 

 ' Asynchronous Generators and Compounding 

 of Alternators,' M. Leblanc ; ' Rotary and Rec- 

 tifying Converters,' M. P. Janet ; ' Use of Con- 

 densers,' M. P. Boucherot ; ' Tramway Current 

 Supply,' M. Postel-Vinay ; ' Electric Lamps,' 

 M. Blondel ; ' Electro-chemistry,' M. Bouilhet ; 

 'Calcium Carbide Furnaces,' Gen. Sebert; 

 'Wireless Telegraphy,' M. Blondel and Capt. 

 Ferrie. 



A CIVIL service examination will be held 

 sometime during September or October to fill 

 the position of chemist in the U. S. Geological 

 Survey at $1400 per year. Candidates will be 

 examined in theoretical and physical, inorganic, 

 organic and analytical chemistry, assaying, 

 elementar}' mineralogy and scientific French 

 and German. The duties of the position in- 

 volve especially assaying and other branches of 

 analysis relating to geological work. The 

 positions of physicist and assistant physicist in 

 the U. S. Geological Survey, at §1800 and $600 

 respectively, are likewise to be filled upon ex- 

 amination. The date of this examination has 

 been postponed from August 21 to September 20. 



A PEOSPECTIVE publication of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology is the extensive dictionary 

 of the Natick (Indian) language of Massachu- 

 setts, compiled by the late James Hammond 

 Trumbull, and for some time preserved in the 

 original manuscript by the American Anti- 

 quarian Society, at Worcester. The vocabulary 

 is of much interest and value as one of the two 

 most extensive records of the language of the 

 aborigines of New England — the other being 

 the well known Eliot Indian Bible. It will 

 form the initial number of a new series of bul- 

 letins to be issued by the bureau in a superior 

 style of publication ; the size, paper and binding 

 correspond with those of the annual reports. 

 The authority for this new series of publications 



