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neiit citizens of Morgantown and a number of 

 the officers of the University of West Virginia. 



The following is the list of persons who 

 attended one or more of the excursions: 



I. C. White, Morgantown, W. Va., leader; J. 

 R. Macfarlane, Pittsburgh, Pa., assistant leader; 

 H. L. Fairchild, University of Rochester; B. K. 

 Emerson, Amherst College; C. R. Eastman, Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., Cambridge; J. B. Hatcher, Carnegie 

 Museum, Pittsburgh; F. B. Peck, Lafayette Col- 

 lege; C. S. Prosser, Ohio State University; A. E. 

 Turner, President Waynesburg College; A. R. 

 Crook, Northwestern University; U. S. Grant, 

 Northwestern University; Florence Bascom, 

 Bryn Mawr College; G. C. Martin, Johns Hop- 

 kins University; A. E. Ortmann, Princeton Uni- 

 versity; A. W. Grabau, Columbia University; 

 H. W. Shimer, Columbia University; Miss Ida 

 H. Ogilvie, Columbia University; R. R. Hice, 

 Beaver, Pa.; J. C. Williams, Ridgeway, Pa.; 

 Miss L. K. Miller, Groton, Mass.; F. H. Oliphant, 

 Oil City, Pa.; D. E. Crane, Sewickley, Pa.; A. 

 S. Coggeshall, Carnegie Museum; L. S. Cogge- 

 shall, Carnegie Museum; Sidney Prentice, Car- 

 negie Museum; Claude McD. Hamilton, of the 

 Pittsburgh Despatch, Pittsburgh. 



Amadeus W. Grabau. 



Columbia University. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



M. BouviER has been elected a member of 

 the Paris Academy of Sciences in the section 

 of anatomy and zoology in the room of the 

 late M. Filhol. 



Professor Angelo Heilprin sailed on the 

 12th instant for the West Indies to complete 

 his observations on the volcanoes of Mar- 

 tinique and St. Vincent. 



Gen. a. W. Geeely, chief of the U. S. Sig- 

 nal Service, has returned from Alaska, where 

 he had been inspecting the work on the Gov- 

 ernment telegraph line from Valdez to Eagle 

 City. 



The daily papers report that President 

 David Starr Jordan has been successful in 

 securing a valuable collection of fishes in the 

 Bay of Apia, Samoa, some four hundred and 

 fifty species, many of them new, having been 

 collected. 



A PARTY, under the direction of Professor 

 Birksland, has left Copenhagen for Nova 



Zembla to study the aurora borealis during 

 the summer. 



Professor W. E. Ritter, of the University 

 of California, has secured funds for the erec- 

 tion of a marine laboratory at San Pedro, 

 which will be used as a center for the bio- 

 logical study of the Pacific coast. 



Lieutenant W. E. Safford, U. S. Navy, has 

 resigned his commission in order to take the 

 position of assistant curator in the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry of the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment. His specialty will be tropical botany. 

 Mr. Safford has been engaged for many years 

 in collecting material and information rela- 

 ting to useful plants of the countries visited 

 by him in cruising. 



EoBERT L. Randolph, M.D., associate pro- 

 fessor of ophthalmology and otology in the 

 Johns Hopkins Medical School, has recently 

 received the Boylston prize for a paper en- 

 titled 'The Role of the Toxins in Inflamma- 

 tions of the Eye.' 



The Paris Society of Geography has con- 

 ferred its Ducros-Aubert prize on Dr. Huot, a 

 physician in the Ereneh colonies. 



Dr. MIaetin Eickee, custodian of the Mu- 

 seum of Hygiene of the University of Berlin, 

 has been appointed director of the Hygienic 

 Institute. 



The Advisory Committee of Public Hygiene 

 of France has elected as members MM. Ed. 

 Bonjean, Thierry, Binot, Brouardel, Boulloche 

 and Courtois-SuiEt. 



We learn from the American Geologist that 

 a bust of the late Dr. Edward W. Claypole has 

 been placed in the assembly hall of the Throope 

 Polytechnic Institute. The presentation ad- 

 dress was made by President W. H. Knight, of 

 the Los Angeles Academy of Sciences, and it 

 was accepted by Dr. Norman Bridge for the 

 board of trustees. 



Dr. William S. Bradshear, president of the 

 Iowa State College at Ames, died on August 

 4, at the age of fifty-two years. 



The deaths are also announced of Dr. W. 

 Iveson Macadam, lecturer on chemistry in the 

 School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges of 



