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Wheelton Hind, and the Barlow-Jameson fund 

 to Mr. W. M. Hutchings. 



Dr. Eugen Waeming has been appointed 

 director of the Geological Survey of Denmark. 



Professor J. H. Marshall, who has re- 

 cently been engaged in aroheological re- 

 searches at Athens, has been appointed di- 

 rector-general of the Aroheological Survey of 

 India. 



We learn from the American Anthropolo- 

 gist that a conmiittee has been appointed at 

 the instance of the Societe d'Excursions 

 Scientifiques, to solicit funds for the erection 

 in Paris of a monument in honor of the late 

 Gabriel de Mortillet. Favorable response is 

 being made, and the names of a number of 

 American subscribers appear in the printed 

 list distributed by the committee. M. Louis 

 Giraus, 22 rue Saint Blaise, Paris, is the 

 treasurer. 



We learn from Nature that a medallion 

 bust of Sir George Airy is to be placed in the 

 northeast wall of St. Alphage Parish Church, 

 Greenwich, by his daughters. The bust has 

 been copied from the one in the Eoyal Observ- 

 atory, Greenwich. 



Dr. William LeRoy Broun, president of 

 the Agricultural and Mechanical College of 

 Auburn, Ala., died on January 23. 



Professor Emil Schepfee, a chemist, died 

 at Louisville, Ky., on January 22, at the age 

 of ninety years. 



Dr. Hugo von Ziemssen, the eminent Ger- 

 man pathologist, professor in the University 

 at Munich, died on January 20, at the age of 

 seventy-two years. 



Mr. Charles Egberts, a British surgeon 

 and the author of contributions to anthro- 

 pometry and natural history, died on Janu- 

 ary 8. 



The annual meeting of the board of regents 

 of the Smithsonian Institution was held on 

 January 22. There were present Chief Justice 

 Puller, chancellor, in the chair; William P. 

 Erye, president pro tempore of the United 

 States Senate; Senator S. M. Oullom, Senator 

 O. H. Piatt, Senator F. M. Cockrell, Eepre- 

 sentative Eobert Adams, Jr., Eepresentative 



Hugh A. Dinsmore, Dr. J. B. Angell, Eich- 

 ard Olney, George Gray, J. B. Henderson, 

 Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and Secretary 

 Langley. Dr. Andrew D. White, ambassador 

 at Berlin, and Eepresentative E. E. Hitt were 

 unable to be present. The secretary presented 

 his annual report for the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1901, of which we hope to give some 

 account when it has been published. The 

 needs of the United States National Museum 

 were considered and a resolution was adopted 

 providing for a committee, consisting of six 

 members of the board, whose duty it shall be 

 to represent to Congress the pressing necessity 

 of additional room for the proper exhibition 

 of specimens belonging to the National Mu- 

 seum, and of additional appropriations to 

 carry on the work of the museum. The chan- 

 cellor appointed as members of the committee 

 Senators Piatt, CuUom and Cockrell and Rep- 

 resentatives Hitt, Adams and Dinsmore. 



It is said that M. de Witte, the Russian 

 minister of finance, has drawn up a decree 

 making the metric system obligatory in Eus- 

 sia. The decree is now under the considera- 

 tion of the Imperial Council. 



Major Eonald Eoss announces that Dr. 

 Dutton has found a new kind of parasite, 

 which causes fever in human beings. The 

 parasite is said to be like the one which causes 

 the fly "disease among horses in South Africa. 



The Department of Superintendence will 

 hold its annual meeting at Chicago on Feb- 

 ruary 26 and 27 under the presidency of Mr. 

 G. E. Glenn, state school commissioner of 

 Georgia. Among the papers to be read 

 and discussed are: 'Obstacles to Educational 

 Progress,' Paul H. Hanus, professor of theory 

 and practice of education. Harvard Univer- 

 sity; 'The Danger of using Biological Anal- 

 ogies in Eeasoning on Educational Subjects,' 

 Dr. W. T. Harris, U. S. Commissioner of Edu- 

 cation, Washington, D. C; 'The High School 

 as the People's College versus Fitting Schools,' 

 Dr. G. Stanley Hall, president of Clark Uni- 

 versity, Worcester, Mass. Evening addresses 

 will be made by Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus, presi- 

 dent of the Armour Institute, Chicago, 111., 

 and Dr. Charles W. Dabney, president of the 



