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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVr. No. 407. 



Mr. Edwin C. Eckel has resigned from the 

 staff of the New York State Museum at Al- 

 bany to accept a position under the U. S. 

 Geological Survey at Washing-ton. 



KiiCHi MiYAKE, Ph.D. (Cornell, 1902), has 

 recently received an appointment from the 

 government of Formosa for two years' travel 

 and study in Europe. Dr. Miyake is a gradu- 

 ate of the Doshisha College in Japan, after- 

 wards spending four years at the Tokyo Im- 

 perial University. He entered Cornell Uni- 

 versity in September, 1899, where he spent 

 two years in continuing his graduate work, 

 giving especial attention to fertilization and 

 embryology in the Phycomycetes and in the 

 Abietinse. He sailed from ISTew York for 

 Bonn on October 7. 



Dr. Max Proebst has been advanced, by 

 royal decree, from the position of director of 

 the Eoyal Statistical Bureau of Bavaria to 

 that of an independent chief directorship, and 

 the Order of Merit has been bestowed on him 

 in recognition of his services. Dr. Karl Trutz- 

 er now assumes the position formerly held by 

 Dr. Proebst. 



King Oscar, of Sweden, has bestowed the 

 Grand Cross of St. Olaf on Capt. Otto Sver- 

 drup, the arctic explorer, and has given him 

 an annual allowance of $800. 



The eightieth birthday of John Fritz, iron- 

 master and inventor, of Bethlehem, Pa., will 

 be celebrated by a dinner given in his honor 

 at the Waldorf-Astoria, in the ballroom, on 

 Friday, October 31. The dinner will also sig- 

 nalize the founding of the John Fritz gold 

 medal, for achievement in the industrial sci- 

 ences, the medal to be awarded annually by a 

 committee of members of the American So- 

 ciety of Civil Engineers, the American Society 

 of Mechanical Engineers, the American Insti- 

 tute of Mining Engineers and the American 

 Institute of Electrical Engineers. The organ- 

 izing committee having the matter in charge 

 on behalf of these societies has already raised 

 $6,000, representing the contributions of some 

 500 members of the engineering professions 

 in this country and in Europe. The medal has 

 been entrusted to the American sculptor, Vic- 

 tor D. Brenner. 



Mr. Jacob Richards Dodge, connected with 

 the department of agriculture from its organi- 

 zation in 1862 until he retired in 1893, and 

 known for his contributions to agriculture and 

 statistics, died at Woburn on October 7, at the 

 age of seventy-nine years. 



The death is announced of two well-known 

 American physicians : Dr. John Bryne, past 

 president of the American Gynecological So- 

 ciety, and Dr. Abel M. Phelps, past president 

 of the American Orthopedic Society. 



Dr. John Hall Gladstone, F.E.S., known 

 for his researches on chemical combinations 

 and the relations of chemical and optical sci- 

 ence, formerly professor of chemistry at the 

 Eoyal Institution, died on October Y, at the 

 age of seventy-five years. 



Dr. B. J. Stokvis, professor of pharmacology 

 and general pathology at the University of 

 Amsterdam, died on September 29, at the age 

 of sixty-eight years. 



Dr. Jean Habel, of Berlin, known for his 

 explorations in the Andes and in Canada, 

 died on September 11. 



M. Vincent Leohe Chesnevieus, the French 

 traveler and geologist, has died at the age of 

 eighty-six years. 



The twelfth annual meeting of the Ohio 

 Academy of Science will be held at Columbus, 

 November 28 and 29. Members desiring to 

 present papers are requested to send titles and 

 time required to the secretary on or before 

 November 1. 



At the first meeting of the Geological Con- 

 ference of Harvard University, informal 

 reports were made by ofiicers of the Division 

 of Geology on their summer work. Professor 

 Shaler spent part of the summer in Alaska, 

 noting especially the mountain forms and 

 fiords of our northwestern coast. Professor 

 Davis, accompanied by two advanced stu- 

 dents, made an excursion through southern 

 Utah and northern Arizona, visiting the 

 Colorado Canyon at Toroweap valley, and 

 making special study of the Hurricane fault; 

 he afterwards examined some of the Basin 

 ranges and the Tertiaries at Green river. Pro- 

 fessor Wolff completed the Franklin folio, New 

 Jersey, for the U. S. Geological Survey, and 



