May 23, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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gan, is the author of the book on 'Volcanoes of 

 North America,' the standard work on the 

 subject. Mr. Borchgrevink, when in the South 

 Polar regions, examined the volcanoes Erebus 

 and Terror, the most southern known volcanoes 

 on the globe. He made a careful study of 

 volcanic conditions in the far south, which 

 will enable him to compare volcanic conditions 

 of the far south with those in the center of the 

 globe. 



The three scientists go as the representatives 

 of the National Geographic Society by whom 

 their expenses are paid. On their return they 

 will make a special report to the Society which 

 will be published in the journal of the society. 

 The National Geographic Magazine. 



The importance of this expedition of the 

 National Geographic Society cannot be too 

 highly appreciated. The United States Gov- 

 ernment has no funds to send a scientific ex- 

 pedition to foreign territory. It is most im- 

 portant that eruptions which have taken place 

 and are now going on should be studied at the 

 earliest possible moment. A scientific investi- 

 gation of Mount Pelee on Martinque and La 

 Soufriere on St. Vincent and conditions of the 

 neighboring islands will greatly enhance our 

 knowledge of what is going on in the earth 

 below the surface. The sooner the investiga- 

 tion is started the more comprehensive will be 

 the results. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Council of the Eoyal Society has recom- 

 mended for election to membership the follow- 

 ing fifteen candidates : Mr. H. Brereton Baker, 

 Professor Henry T. Bovey, Professor Eubert 

 Boyce, Mr. John Brown, Mr. William Bate 

 Hardy, Mr. Alfred Harker, Mr. Sidney S. 

 Hough, Mr. Robert Kidston, Mr. Thomas 

 ]\Iather, Mr. John Henry Michell, Mr. Hugh 

 Frank Newall, Professor William M. Flinders 

 Petrie, Mr. William Jackson Pope, Mr. 

 Edward Saunders and Dr. Arthur Willey. 



Professor C. S. Minot, of the Harvard 

 Medical School, has been granted leave of 

 absence and will spend part of the year abroad. 

 He will, however, give the presidential address 

 at the Pittsburgh meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 



and will return for the meetings of scientific 

 societies during Convocation week. 



The Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, and Dr. B. F. Galloway, chief of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, will receive the 

 degree of LL.D. at the Missouri State Univer- 

 sity at the June commencement. 



Dr. W. H. Metzler, head of the department 

 of mathematics in Syracuse University, has 

 recently been elected a Fellow of the Royal 

 Society of Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh. 



The gold medal of the London Linnean So- 

 ciety has been awarded to Professor Rudolf 

 Albert von Kolliker, of Wiirzburg. 



Dr. J. E. DuERDEN, of Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, will take the place, for the coming 

 year, of Professor H. V. Wilson, at the Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina. Professor Wilson 

 has leave of absence and will spend the year 

 abroad. 



Major Ronald Ross, F.R.S., has been ap- 

 pointed the head of a new department of the 

 Jenner Institute of Preventive Medicine, Lon- 

 don. The department is to be devoted to the 

 systematic study of the animal parasites. 



The Lawes Agricultural Trust Committee 

 has appointed Mr. A. D. Hall, principal of 

 the Agricultural College, Wye, to succeed the 

 late Sir Henry Gilbert, F.R.S., as director of 

 the Rothamsted Experimental Station. 



Professor George E. Beyer, professor of 

 entomology at Tulane University, Dr. Oliver 

 L. Pothier, of the New Orleans Charity Hos- 

 pital, and Dr. Parker, of the Marine Hospital 

 service, have gone to Vera Cruz, where they 

 will make an inquiry into the relation of the 

 mosqtiito to yellow fever. 



Dr. T. a. Jaggar, of Harvard University, 

 and Dr. E. 0. Hovey, of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History have proceeded to the 

 seat of the volcanic disturbances at St. Pierre 

 for geological investigation. 



Mr. Perry O. Simons, for the past three 

 years engaged in the collection of scientific 

 specimens in Chile and other South American 

 countries for the British Museum, has been 

 murdered by a native guide. 



