January 3, 1902.] 



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We learn from the American Geologist that 

 Dr. H. M. Ami, of the Geological Survey of 

 Canada, who sustained a rather severe injury 

 to his left arm and shoulder last September, 

 from a fall down a steep cliff at Cap a L'Aigle, 

 below Quebec City, is sufficiently recovered to 

 resume his official duties at Ottawa. 



Dr. J. W. Spencer is at present engaged in 

 geological explorations in Central America. 



Under the auspices of the astronomical de- 

 partment of Columbia University Sir Robert 

 S. Ball will lecture in Havemeyer Hall, on 

 January 10, at 3 :30 P. M. His subject will be 

 'The Cause of an Ice Age.' 



Dr. Sven Anders Hedin, the Swedish 

 traveler, who recently reached Ladakh, Cash- 

 mere,^ from exploring the Gobi desert and 

 Thibet, has informed King Oscar that his 

 party was attacked by Thibetans during his 

 journey and that all his collections and almost 

 the whole of his caravan was lost, but that his 

 notes were saved. 



Dr. Ales Hrdlicka will start about January 

 first on his fourth expedition among the 

 Indians of the southwestern United States 

 and northern Mexico. These expeditions are a 

 part of the system of anthropological explo- 

 ration and investigation known as the Hyde 

 Expedition and are carried on under the direc- 

 tion of Professor P. W. Putnam for the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History. The ex- 

 penses of the present undertaking are generously 

 provided for by Mr. P. E. Hyde, Jr., of New 

 York City. Dr. Hrdlicka is in charge of the 

 somatological work of the Hyde Expedition 

 and his plan, now more than half fulfilled, is, 

 in the main, to ascertain the physical charac- 

 teristics of the extinct as well as the living 

 peoples in that area which has once been occu- 

 pied by the Cliff-Dwellers and Pueblos, and 

 by the Toltec, Aztec and Chechemec peoples. 

 It is hoped that on the present journey the 

 somatological part of the research in the 

 field will be completed. The principal tribes 

 that will be studied on the present trip are the 

 Pimas, Papagos, Taquis, Mayos, Tepehuanes, 

 Coras, Aztecs and Tarascos. Dr. Hrdlicka will 

 be accompanied and assisted by Mr. Gustavus 

 Meyers, of New York City. 



The editors of the Botanische Gentralblatt 

 for Great Britain are: Algse, Miss Barton, 

 British Museum (Natural History) ; Eungi, 

 Mr. Massee, Royal Gardens, Kew; Arche- 

 goniatae, Mr. A. Gepp, British Museimi (Nat- 

 ural History) ; Phanerogams, Mr. Daydon 

 Jackson, 21 Cautley Avenue, Clapham Com- 

 mon, S.W. ; Cytology, Professor Earmer, Royal 

 College of Science, S. Kensington ; Physiology, 

 Professor Vines, Headington Hill, Oxford; 

 Morphology, Dr. W. H. Lang, University, 

 Glasgow; Paleontology, Professor Scott, Old 

 Palace, Richmond, Surrey. 



Me. Clarence King, the eminent geologist, 

 died at Phoenix, Arizona, on December 24. 

 Born in Newport, R. I., he graduated from the 

 Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University 

 in 1852, and joined the California Geological 

 Survey in 1853. He was instrumental in the 

 organization of the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 of which he was director from 1878 to 1881. 

 We hope to give subsequently some account of 

 Mr. King's geological work. 



Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert, the well-known 

 agricultural chemist, died on December 23, 

 aged 83 years. With Sir John Bennet-Lawes, 

 he was over fifty years director of the Rothani- 

 sted Laboratory, and was for some years pro- 

 fessor of rural economy at Oxford University 

 He was a fellow of the Royal Society and a 

 correspondent of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences. 



Major Robert Temple, the well-known 

 southern engineer, died at Richmond, Va., 

 on December 22, at the age of seventy years. 



Nature records the death of the Rev. Hugh 

 Alexander Macpherson, of Glendale, at the 

 early age of forty-three. Mr. Macpherson was 

 an authority on the fauna of the lake country, 

 and had published an elaborate work on the 

 subject, 'A Vertebrate Fauna of Lakeland, 

 including Cumberland and Westmoreland, with 

 Lancashire North of the Sands.' He was 

 also the author of a book entitled 'British 

 Birds.' 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has offered the city 

 of Akron $70,000 for a free public library, 

 the city to guarantee $7,000 annually to main- 

 tain it. 



