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publications on education and history, died on 

 November 29th aged 63 years. 



Professor Marshal Oliver, of the De- 

 partment of Marine Engineering, U. S. Naval 

 Academy, died on November 26th at the age of 

 57 years. 



Peofessob George Frederick Armstrong, 

 professor of engineering at Edinburgh Uni- 

 versity, died on November 14th. He was 

 born in 1842 and became professor at Edin • 

 burgh in 1885. 



Dr. John Cockle, who was one of the oldest 

 members of the medical profession in Great 

 Britain, having qualified as a member of the 

 Royal College of Physicians in 1835, died on 

 November 14th. Dr. Cockle was in 1897 

 president of the Medical Society of London 

 and was the author of various papers on dis- 

 eases of the heart and of the organs of respira- 

 tion, on the poison of the cobra, etc. 



The ninth annual meeting of the American 

 Psychological Association will be held at Johns 

 Hopkins University on December 27th, 28th 

 and 29th, under the presidency of Professor 

 Joseph Jastrow. 



The American Physiological Society will 

 hold its thirteenth annual meeting in Balti- 

 more on Thursday and Friday, December 

 27 and 28, 1900. The usual smoker will be 

 held on Wednesday evening, December 26th. 

 Those who will require apparatus or other 

 necessities for the making of demonstrations 

 may commuuicate with Professor W. H. How- 

 ell, Johns Hopkins University. 



Dr. Adam Paulsen, director of the Meteoro- 

 logical Institute of Copenhagen, has gone to 

 North Finland to study the aurora. He un- 

 dertook a similar expedition last winter to 

 North Iceland. 



Mr. Marshall H. Saville, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, sailed from New 

 York, on November 21st, for Mexico, where 

 he will spend some six months exploring the 

 ruins of Mitla. 



Mr. Alfred P. Maudslay passed through 

 New York on November 27th, on his way to 

 Oaxaca, Mexico. 



Me. Walter E. Harper has explored some 



rock-shelters near Port Hacking, New South 

 Wales, finding stone axes at a depth of five 

 feet. Bone needles were also found in the 

 same deposits. 



According to Renter's Agency advices from 

 Laurvig announce that Captain Stokken arrived 

 there on November 20th, and expressed his 

 readiness to take part in the expedition being 

 organized by the Duke of Abruzzi, who is now 

 at Laurvig, to search for the three missing men 

 of the Duke's former expedition, among them 

 being a son of Captain Stokken. The expedi- 

 tion will probably start from Gotenborg on 

 board the whaler Cappella, which has been 

 chartered by the Duke and will probably reach 

 Franz Josef Land in the middle of July. The 

 island will then be thoroughly searched. The 

 expedition will be composed solely of Norwe- 



Wb learn from Nature that early in the sum- 

 mer a memorial was submitted to the Govern- 

 ments of South Australia and Victoria praying 

 that facilities might be granted to Mr. Gillen, 

 one of the inspectors of aborigines, and Professor 

 Baldwin Spencer for the continuance of their 

 investigations into the habits and folk-lore of 

 the natives of Central Australia and the North- 

 ern Territory. The memorial, which was 

 signed by all British anthropologists and many 

 prominent representatives of other sciences, 

 has met with a prompt and generous response. 

 The Government of South Australia has granted 

 a year's leave of absence to Mr. Gillen, and 

 the Government of Victoria has provided a sub- 

 stitute for Professor Spencer during his absence 

 from Melbourne. Mr. Syme, the proprietor of 

 the Melbourne Age, has contributed $5,000 to- 

 wards the ordinary expenses of the expedition. 

 The Government of South Australia has also 

 allowed the expedition to make use of the de- 

 pots and staff of the Transaustralian telegraph 

 for the forwarding and storage of supplies. 

 The explorers start in February, and it may be 

 confidently anticipated that, if the winter rains 

 make conditions favorable for traveling, they 

 will be rewarded with the same conspicuous 

 success which attended their expedition of 

 three years ago ; although the task before them 

 requires even greater tact, since the natives of 



