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minal lines in Pittsburgh on or before July 

 9, holders of same will be entitled up to 

 August 31 to a continuous passage ticket 

 by the route over which going journey was 

 made, at one third the first-class limited fare. 



Extraordinary concessions have been made 

 for this Convention by the above-named Pas- 

 senger Associations in allowing the purchase 

 of tickets for the going journey eight days 

 prior to any of the scheduled meetings and 

 extending this privilege up to and including 

 June 30. For obvious reasons this conces- 

 sion has been slightly modified as above noted 

 by the Western Passenger Association. The 

 extension of time limit on the return tickets 

 to August 31 is decidedly out of the ordinary. 

 An exception of the usual rule requiring the 

 return journey to be made at least three days 

 after adjournment, was granted at the earn- 

 est request of the Chairman of the Local 

 Committee, Dr. W. J. Holland, expressed 

 through the Chairman of the Transportation 

 Committee, Col. Samuel Moodjy, Assistant 

 General Passenger Agent of the Penna. Lines 

 West of Pittsburgh. 



The Southeastern Passenger Association 

 will sell tickets on the regular certificate plan 

 conditions, namely: Certificates to be issued 

 in connection with going ticket three days 

 before (Sunday not included) and two days 

 after the first day of meeting, and to be hon- 

 ored for return tickets up to and including 

 third day of adjournment. This means that 

 tickets will be sold on June 25, 26, and 27 

 and honored for the return journey from June 

 28 to July 6 inclusive. Instructions regard- 

 ing purchase of tickets, obtaining certificates, 

 and having certificates acknowledged and 

 validated at Pittsburgh are the same as those 

 given above for the other Passenger Associa- 

 tions with the exception, however, that no 

 certificate will be honored iot the return ticket 

 unless presented during the time that the 

 meeting is in session or within three days 

 (Sunday not included) after adjournment. 



The Transcontinental Passenger Associa- 

 tion has not granted a special rate for this 

 Convention, but suggests that delegates using 

 their lines avail themselves of the privileges 

 afforded by purchasing a nine-months' tourist 



ticket. This means transportation from ex- 

 treme Western points to territory granting 

 the rates above given, at two cents per mile, 

 and is about equivalent to a rate of one fare 

 and one third for the round trip. 



The Southwestern Passenger Association 

 has refused to grant any reduction of fare 

 for this Convention. 



George A. Waedlaw, 



Local Secretary. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES. AND NEWS. 



The Senate of Dublin University has voted 

 to confer the degree of Doctor of Science on 

 Professor J. Willard Gibbs, of Tale Univer- 

 sity. 



Dr. Carlos Finlay, of Havana, eminent for 

 his work on yellow fever, has been given the 

 degree of Doctor of Science by Jefferson Med- 

 ical College, from which he graduated in 1855. 



It appears from reports in the daily papers 

 that American men of science — Dr. E. T. Hill, 

 U. S. Geological Survey; Dr. Angelo Heilprin, 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences; 

 Dr. T. A. Jagger, Harvard University, and 

 Dr. E. 0. Hovey, the American Museum of 

 Natural History — have made careful obser- 

 vations of the geological conditions following 

 the volcanic eruptions in the lesser Antilles. 



President Damd Starr Jordan will leave on 

 June 12 on the steamer Sierra for Samoa, 

 where he will spend the summer in the inves- 

 tigation of the fishes and other marine animals 

 of the Samoan islands. The work will be done 

 for the United States Fish Commission, and 

 Professor Vernon L. Kellogg, of Stanford Uni- 

 versity, will accompany Dr. Jordan. 



Mr. J. S. Budgett, F.Z.S., Balfour .student 

 of the University of Cambridge, left England 

 on May 22 for Uganda, via Mombasa, on a 

 mission from the Zoological Society of Lon- 

 don. He will proceed to the southeastern corner 

 of the Protectorate, and take up a station on 

 the Semliki River, where he will collect mam- 

 mals and birds, study the fishes, and endeavor 

 to investigate the habits of the okapi in the 

 forest of Mboga. Mr. Budgett, who has al- 

 ready paid two visits to the Gambia, is a 



