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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVI. No. 405. 



Dr. Henry C. McCook, known to scientific 

 men for his publications on ants and spiders, 

 has retired after a service of about thirty- 

 three years from the pastorate of a Presby- 

 terian churcli in Philadelphia owing to ill 

 health. 



Professors Josiah Eoyce and George H. 

 Palmer, of the philosophical department of 

 Harvard University, have leave of absence for 

 the present year. Professor Palmer has sailed 

 for England. 



Brigadier-General William H. Foravood, 

 TJ. S. A., who was recently retired as surgeon- 

 general, was tendered a banquet on Septem- 

 ber 19 at Washington. 



Professor Wilhelm Wundt, the eminent 

 psychologist, has, on the occasion of his seven- 

 tieth birthday, been made an honorary citi- 

 zen of the city of Leipzig. 



Professors Julius Wiesner and Karl 

 Goebel, who hold respectively the chairs of 

 botany at Vienna and Munich, have been 

 elected corresponding members of the Got- 

 tingen Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Eduard Richter, professor of geography 

 at Graz, has been made a member of the Vien- 

 na Academy of Sciences. 



_Dr. Adolf Engler, professor of botany at 

 Berlin, is at present engaged in an expedition 

 to Africa. 



An expedition from the Liverpool School 

 of Tropical Medicine under Major Ronald 

 Ross, has gone to the Suez Canal to institute 

 preventive measures against malaria. 



Dr. Wilhelm Muthman, of the Munich 

 Institute of Technology, has received a grant 

 of 3,000 Marks for researches in inorganic 

 chemistry, from the fund for German indus- 

 try. 



President Pritchett, of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, has accepted the invi- 

 tation of the trustees of the Lowell Textile 

 School to deliver the address at the dedication 

 of its new buildings, the date of which has not 

 yet been announced. 



Major Gorgas, chief of the sanitary depart- 

 ment at Havana during the American occu- 

 pation, has returned to the United States. Be- 

 fore leaving Cuba he was given a dinner by 



President Palmer, who expressed the gratitude 

 of Cuba for the eificient services rendered the 

 island and the city, especially in the suppres- 

 sion of yellow fever. 



Dr. G. M. Guiteras, yellow fever expert of 

 the Marine Hospital Service, has returned to 

 the United States after an absence of three 

 years in Cuba. Pie has been ordered to Phila- 

 delphia. 



Professor C. R. Van Hise, who for a num- 

 ber of years has devoted himself particularly 

 to the investigation of the metamorphic for- 

 mations has been placed by the U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey in charge of its studies of this im- 

 portant group. He is being assisted by Mr. 

 C. K. Leith in the preparation of a compre- 

 hensive monograph of the Lake Superior re- 

 gion, by Dr. W. S. Bayley in the completion of 

 field work in the famous Menominee district, 

 by Dr. W. H. Hobbs in the continuation of 

 surveys in Connecticut, where the metamor- 

 phic problems are of decided interest, and by 

 Dr. Florence Bascom in area! and structural 

 studies in the Pennsylvania district. 



Professor Henry S. Williams, of Yale 

 University, is devoting this season to the con- 

 tinuation of his studies, for the U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey, of problems of the Devonian for- 

 mations in Pennsylvania, New York and 

 jMaine, looking to a systematic correlation of 

 the present knowledge of all the rocks of the 

 country of Devonian age. He is being assisted 

 by Mr. E. M. Kindle. 



Professor Dr. Adolf Schmidt, of Gotha, 

 has been appointed director of the Potsdam 

 Magnetic Observatory in succession to the 

 late lamented Professor Eschenhagen. He 

 takes charge on October 1. 



Mr. Edward R. Smart, in charge of trigono- 

 metric work in the Island of Trinidad, spent 

 some time at the Coast and Geodetic Survey, 

 familiarizing himself with the instruments 

 and methods in use in the geodetic and mag- 

 netic work. Father Edmond Goetz, S.J., 

 likewise familiarized himself at the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey with magnetic instruments 

 and methods, preparatory to work he eon- 

 templates undertaking, starting out at Bul- 

 wayo, Rhodesia. 



