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Peofessoe G. Feedeeick Weight, of Ober- 

 lin College, and Mr. F. B. Wright arrived at St. 

 Petersburg on the 14th instant. It will be re- 

 membered that they were in the midst of the 

 troubles in northern China. 



De. N. L. Beitton, director in-chief of the 

 New York Botanical Gardens, has returned 

 from Europe, where he has secured a number 

 of important collections and made arrange- 

 ments for exchanges. 



Llewellyn Le Count, assistant in engineer- 

 ing at Columbia University, died on November 

 15th at the age of twenty two years. He wag 

 graduated this year from the school of applied 

 science of the university. 



The Auk records the death of Mr. Charles C. 

 Marble until recently editor of Birds, a mag- 

 azine of popular ornithology. 



Applied science is deeply indebted to Mr. 

 Henry Villard for his interest and faith in engi- 

 neering works, especially the application of 

 electricity before their commercial importance 

 was commonly understood. Mr. Villard was 

 also interested in pure science. Thus the 

 Baudelier Expedition from the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History to Peru and Bolivia 

 was equipped; by him in 1892, and he main- 

 tained it until 1894. The results of this expe- 

 dition to the region of highest pre-Columbian 

 culture in South America form the nucleus of 

 the archeological collection that is now open to 

 the public in the west gallery of the American 

 Museum of Natural History. Mr. Villard also 

 furthered investigations among the native peo- 

 ples of the Columbia Eiver Valley. 



Tufts College will open a small laboratory 

 for marine biology at South Harpswell, Maine, 

 next summer. The fauna there is very rich, 

 and the locality is a delightful one in which to 

 spend the summer. There will be opportunities 

 for a few investigators. All inquiries should be 

 addressed to Professor J. S. Kingsley, Tufts 

 College, Mass. 



The meeting of Naturalists of the Central 

 and Western States at Chicago, last year, was so 

 successful that a second meeting will be held at 

 the Hull Biological Laboratories, University of 

 Chicago, on Thursday and Friday, December 



27 and 28, 1900, when it is expected that a per- 

 manent organization will be eflected. The 

 provisional program is as follows : Thursday, 

 10 A. M. — General meeting in Room 24, Zoolog- 

 ical Building (furnished with a projecting lan- 

 tern), for organization and reading of the more 

 general papers. 1 to 2 p. m. — Luncheon at 

 the Quadrangle Club. S p. m. — Discussion : 

 State Natural History Surveys ; methods, re- 

 sults, cooperation. 6:30 P. M. — Dinner at the 

 Quadrangle Club. Friday, 9 A. M. — General 

 meetings for reading of papers. At this time 

 at least two sections, one in Zoology and one 

 in Botany, will be formed, at which the more 

 special papers will be read. The committee 

 on the meeting is E. A. Birge, Chairman; C. 

 R. Barnes, T. G. Lee, C. C. Nutting and C. B. 

 Davenport, Secretary. 



The New York section of the Society of 

 Chemical Industry holds its next meeting on 

 November 23d at the Chemists' Club, 636 W. 

 55th Street, instead of at the College of Phar- 

 macy as hitherto. The usual informal dinner 

 before the meeting will be held at the Hotel 

 Grenoble, 7th Avenue and 56th Street. 



The American Forestry Association will hold 

 a meeting in Washington, on the morning of 

 Wednesday, December 12th. The meeting will 

 be primarily a business meeting. The Board 

 of Directors will make its annual report and 

 ofiRcers will be elected for the ensuing year. 

 Members who are in the neighborhood of Wash- 

 ington are urged to be present. 



The National Irrigation Congress is meeting 

 in Chicago this week. In addition to special 

 papers on the scientific aspects of irrigation 

 and forestry, addresses have been arranged by 

 Secretary Wilson, of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, General Miles and other prominent 

 men. 



It is announced from St. Petersburg that 

 Baron Toll's polar expedition, under the aus- 

 pices of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, is 

 wintering in the Kara Sea, on the northeastern 

 coast of Siberia. It will send an expedition to 

 the Taimyr Peninsula next spring to establish 

 an observation station. 



It will be remembered that Benjamin Frank- 

 lin bequeathed to the city of Boston $5,000, 



