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ceipts and in the amount annually granted for 

 scientific research the American compares un- 

 favorably with the British Association. The 

 difference is explained by the large number of 

 local associates. If the ' ladies ' noted above 

 are all associates the local contribution to the 

 §inds of the Association at Bradford amounted 

 to over $6,000. 



De. W J McGee, ethnologist in charge of 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology, has under- 

 taken an expedition to southwestern Arizona 

 and Sonora, for the purpose of continuing re- 

 searches among the Papago Indians and extend- 

 ing the studies to the practically unknown 

 Tepoka tribe, supposed to inhabit the eastern 

 shore of the Gulf of California, midway be- 

 tween the mouth of Colorado river and Tiburon 

 island. Not a word of the Tepoka language 

 has ever been recorded, and not a single speci- 

 men of their handicraft is in any museum. 



MM. Chauveau and Cornu have been desig- 

 nated by the Paris Academy of Sciences as 

 delegates to the International Commission on 

 Physiological Instruments, of which M. Marey 

 is the president. 



M. Yeesin, to whom the Paris Academy of 

 Moral Sciences recently awarded a prize of 

 15,000f. for philanthropic acts, has devoted the 

 sum to his anti-plague serum establishment at 

 Nha-trang. 



Sir Michael Fostee has returned to England 

 after having given a series of lectures before 

 the Cooper Medical College, San Francisco. He 

 was unable to be at Bradford as retiring presi- 

 dent of the British Association. 



Dr. W. L. Beyan, professor of philosophy in 

 the University of Indiana and vice-president, 

 attended the recent International Congress of 

 Psychology at Paris and will remain abroad 

 during the present year. 



J. G. HiBBEN, professor of logic in Princeton 

 University, is spending the year abroad and is 

 at present in Strasburg. 



Peofessoe Geoege T. Ladd, who holds the 

 chair of philosophy at Yale University, has re- 

 turned to the United States after a year's 

 absence spent chiefly in Japan and India, where 

 by special invitation he delivered lectures on 



philosophy and education at a number of the 

 leading universities. 



The Duke of Abruzzi, returning from his 

 Arctic expedition, reached Naples on September 

 17th, and was met at the station by the King 

 of Italy. He was welcomed with much en- 

 thusiasm. The London Daily Express states, on 

 what authority we do not know, that the Duke 

 of Abruzzi and Nansen will join in a North 

 Polar expedition. 



De. Alpeed Stille, formerly professor of 

 the theory and practice of medicine at the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, has died at the age of 

 eighty-seven years. He was the author of 

 numerous works on medicine. 



Peofessoe Johann Kjeldahl, director of 

 the chemical and physiological laboratory, Alt 

 Karlsberg, near Copenhagen, was drowned re- 

 cently while trying to save the life of a child. 

 He is known for the method of detecting nitro- 

 gen to which his name has been attached. 



The death is announced at the age of sev- 

 enty-three years of Dr. Friedrich Griepenkerl, 

 professor of agriculture in the University of 

 Gottingen. 



De. a. Graham Bell in his address as 

 president to the Board of Managers of The 

 National Geographic Society referred to the 

 desirability of securing for the Society a build- 

 ing in Washington in which to establish the na- 

 tional headquarters. Mr. Bell stated that the 

 plans for the proposed Memorial Building to 

 the late president, Hon. Gardiner Greene Hub- 

 bard, are gradually taking form and assuming 

 a practicable phase, and it is not unlikely that 

 a Memorial Building may be erected this year 

 and offered for the use of the Society. It is 

 proposed that the building should contain a few 

 small rooms that could be used as offices, a 

 library and map-room, and a hall or meeting 

 place sufficiently large to seat about 100 people. 

 This would accommodate the Board of Mana- 

 gers and committees of the Society, and also 

 permit of small scientific meetings of the Fel- 

 lows of the Society. The Memorial Building, 

 if erected, will place the Society in a much 

 better position to receive the International 

 Congress of Geographers, which has been in- 

 vited to assemble in Washington under its aus- 



