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awarded to Mr. J. E. S. Moore, associate of 

 the college, in recognition of work which he 

 has already' carried through and is still con- 

 tinuing in the Huxley Research Laboratory, 

 in connection with his investigations into the 

 African lake fauna and his stiidies in cytology 

 and nuclear metamorphosis, commenced at the 

 Naples Zoological Station. The medal is in- 

 tended as an award for research carried out 

 in the Huxley Laboratory in some branch of 

 natural science in which Huxley was distin- 

 guished. The recipient has the option of a 

 silver-gilt medal, and the award is in either 

 case accompanied by the balance of the inter- 

 est on the capital siim invested for the pur- 

 chase of books, instruments or as an aid to 

 research. 



At a recent meeting of the Geographical 

 Society of Christiania, at which Captain 

 Sverdrup and other members of his recent 

 expedition were entertained, it was announced 

 that the Grand Cross of the Order of St. 

 Olaf had been conferred upon Captain Sver- 

 drup, that the Fram medal in gold was to be 

 bestowed upon Peter Henriksen, and that the 

 other members of the expedition were to re- 

 ceive the same in silver. 



Me. J. Allen Howe has been appointed 

 curator and librarian of the Museum of Prac- 

 tical Geology in succession to Mr. P. W. Rud- 

 ler, who has retired. 



Dr. William Eiddick Whitehead, author of 

 many works on medicine and surgery, died at 

 Denver on October 13, aged seventy years. 

 He established the departments of medicine in 

 the University of Colorado and the University 

 of Denver. 



Chief EsamEER Hexry Schuyler Ross, U. 

 S. N., retired, died in Lugano, Italy, on 

 October 13. 



Dr. Adolfo Targioni-Tozzetti, emeritus 

 professor of comparative anatomy at 

 Florence, died at Careggi, on September 18, 

 aged seventy-nine. 



Dr. Alexander W. M. van Hasselt, for 

 many years president of the Dutch Entomolog- 

 ical Society, one of the oldest medical officers 

 of the Dutch Army, has died in Amsterdam, 

 aged eighty-eight years. 



Dr. Rudolf Finkener, professor of chem- 

 istry in the School of Mines at Berlin, died 

 on September 14, aged sixty-eight years. 



The Harpwell Laboratory was open during 

 the past summer from June 14 until Septem- 

 ber 12. Seventeen persons availed themselves 

 of the facilities afforded. Considerable atten- 

 tion was devoted to the surface fauna and 

 some of the forms collected prove interesting. 

 Among them are a Copelate tunicate allied to 

 Appendicularia, but with separate sexes, indi- 

 viduals with eggs and sperm being taken one 

 evening. An actinotrocha differing consid- 

 erably from that of more southern waters ap- 

 peared on several evenings in small numbers. 

 During a few evenings Mitraria was very 

 abundant and on three nights large numbers 

 of the small pteropod. Spinalis gouldii, were 

 found. Later in the season (September) the 

 young of some gymnosomatous pteropod (pos- 

 sibly Clione) were common. Polygordiics, in 

 all stages, was abundant, while the young of 

 various annelids were present in great va- 

 riety and enormous numbers. A few Tomop- 

 terisj one with ripe eggs, were taken late in 

 the season, but these were smaller than those 

 found farther down the coast. The whole sea- 

 son was very late. Echinoderm larvse were 

 very few and, except in the case of the sand 

 dollar, Echinarachnius, attempts at artificial 

 impregnation were unsuccessful. 



It is reported that by the sale of a building 

 at the corner of Madison Avenue and Forty- 

 second Street to Dr. Andrew H. Smith and 

 Davison H. Smith for $250,000, another por- 

 tion has been added to the site on which the 

 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research is 

 to be erected. 



It is reported that M. Robert Lebaudy, the 

 French traveler, has sent the vice-rector of 

 the University of Paris $1,600 to maintain 

 two sttidents at the University of Chicago for 

 a year. 



Dr. Sven Hedin, the Asiatic explorer, has 

 presented his zoological, botanical and geo- 

 logical collections to the University of Stock- 

 holm. 



The German government has presented the 

 official reports of the German Deep Sea Expe- 



