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De. John C. Smock, for many years state 

 geologist of New Jersey, has been given the' 

 degree of LL.D. by Eutgers College. 



Me. William Marconi was entertained by 

 the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 

 neers on January 15. 



De. T. C. Chambeelin, professor of geology 

 at the University of Chicago, has been re- 

 elected president of the Chicago Academy of 

 Sciences. 



Lord Kelvin expects to visit the United 

 States at the end of next month. 



Dr. B. O. Peiece^ Hollis professor of mathe- 

 matics and natural philosophy at Harvard 

 University, has returned from Europe. He 

 expects to resume the duties of his professor- 

 ship at the beginning of next year. 



Professor C. H. Eigenmann has leave of 

 absence during March, and will visit some of 

 the caves of western Cuba to secure a series 

 of the cave fauna and especially specimens of 

 the cave fishes Stygicola and Lucifuga. 



Professor Mortimer E. Cooley, head of the 

 department of mechanical engineering in the 

 University of Michigan, was nominated for 

 the presidency of the Michigan Engineering 

 Society, at the session of January 8, held at 

 Grand Eapids. 



Professor William Hallock, of Columbia 

 University, has been elected president of the 

 New York State Teachers' Science Associa- 

 tion. 



Professor Kossel, who holds the chair of 

 physiology at Heidelberg, has been elected a. 

 member of the Stockholm Academy of 

 Sciences. 



Professor Sadebeck, director of the Botan- 

 ical Museum at Hamburg, has retired. 



The Colonial Museum at Harlem has ar- 

 ranged to commemorate, on June 15, the two- 

 hundredth anniversary of the death of the 

 naturalist, Rumphius, who for forty years car- 

 ried on work in botany and other branches of 

 natural history on the Island Amboina, one 

 of the Molucca Islands. A medal will be 

 struck which can be obtained, silver or bronze, 

 and a memorial book will be issued. 



A COMMITTEE has been formed at Cromarty, 

 the birthplace of Hugh Miller, the purposes of 

 which are to erect a museum and library to 

 celebrate the centenary of Hugh Miller's birth. 



Dr. Alpheus Hyatt, curator of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, assistant in in- 

 vertebrate paleontology in the Harvard Mu- 

 seum of Comparative Zoology and professor' 

 of biology and zoology in Boston University, 

 one of the most eminent of American natural- 

 ists, died suddenly from apoplexy at Cam- 

 bridge on January 15, aged sixty-three years. 



Mr. J. F. Ward, a well-known engineer, 

 died on January 16, aged seventy-one years. 



T. T. T. Thorell, a distinguished arach- 

 nologist, died at Helsingborg, Sweden, on De- 

 cember 23, in his seventy-second year. 



Dr. C. p. Tiele, professor of comparative 

 religions at the University at Leyden, died on 

 January 13 at the age of seventy-one years. 



De. Hugo von Perger, professor of applied 

 chemistry in the Technological Institute in 

 Vienna, has died at the age of fifty-nine 

 years. 



Mr. James P. Shipman, who published a 

 number of papers on the geology and paleon- 

 tology of the region about Nottingham, re- 

 cently died at the age of fifty-three years. 



The position of chief mechanician in the 

 National Bureau of Standards at a salary of 

 $1,400 will be filled by civil service examin- 

 ation on February 26. 



We learn from Nature that Dr. W. A. Herd- 

 man, F.R.S., professor of zoology at Univer- 

 sity College, Liverpool, sailed for Ceylon on 

 December 26, 1901, to undertake for the gov- 

 ernment an investigation of the pearl oyster 

 fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. He is accom- 

 panied by an assistant, and in Ceylon the in- 

 spector of the fisheries and his staff will co- 

 operate and provide boats and divers. A 

 suitable steamer for dredging and trawling 

 will be placed at Professor Herdman's disposal 

 by the Government of Ceylon; and the neces- 

 sary gear and apparatus for collecting and 

 observational work, and for biological experi- 

 ments, have been sent out in advance. Pro- 

 fessor Herdman has arranged to take samples 



