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of the roof. Finally a rounded, rope-like roll 

 of snow hung pendant from the edge of the 

 roof, in the shape of a very flat U, the ends 

 remaining fast on the edge of the roof. 



NOTE 



" The Progress of Science as illustrated by 

 the Development of Meteorology " is the sub- 

 ject of Professor Cleveland Abbe's Presi- 

 dential Address before the Philosophical So- 

 ciety of "Washington, read December 8, 1906, 

 and published in the Bulletin of the Society, 

 Vol. XV., pp. 27-56, 1907. 



E. DeC. Ward 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. Eollin Thomas Chamberlin and Dr. 

 Stephen Eeid Capps, who received the degree 

 of doctor of philosophy at the summer convo- 

 cation of the University of Chicago, have been 

 given appointments in the U. S. Geological 

 Survey. 



It is announced that Commander E. E. 

 Peary is about to leave New York for the 

 Arctic regions on the Roosevelt. 



Lieutenant E. H. Schackelton sailed from 

 London on July 30 on the Endurance for the 

 Antarctic regions. 



Dr. John B. Watson, of the department of 

 psychology at Chicago University, has been 

 spending some time at the Station for Marine 

 Biology of the Carnegie Institution at Dry 

 Tortugas, where he has been studying the 

 habits of the sea-gulls. 



Professor F. S. Earle, formerly in charge 

 of the mycologieal collections at the New York 

 Botanical Garden and later director of the 

 Cuban Agricultural Experiment Station, has 

 spent several weeks at the garden, continuing 

 his investigations of the gill-fungi. 



In the issue of Science for July 26 it was 

 stated that Dr. Charles A. White is now the 

 oldest living geologist in North America. Our 

 attention has been called to the fact that Dr. 

 Martin H. Boye, of Coopersberg, Pa., though 

 best known as a chemist, was from 1838 to 

 1843 assistant geologist, as well as chemist, to 

 the Pennsylvania Geological Survey. Dr. 



Boye was bom at Copenhagen on December 6, 

 1812. He and Dr. Wolcott Gibbs are the only 

 surviving founders of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, and Dr. 

 Boye is the only surviving founder of the 

 Association of American Geologists and Nat- 

 uralists which developed into the association. 

 Lawrence C. Johnson, of Patchuta, Miss., 

 though primarily an attorney and counsellor 

 at law, has also made valuable contributions 

 to geology and was publishing as recently as 

 last year. Mr. Johnson was born at Chester, 

 S. C, on August 18, 1822. 



President G. Stanley Hall, Ph.D., LL.D., 

 of Clark University, was announced to 

 give at the summer session of the University 

 of Chicago a series of five lectures on the 

 following subjects : " The Pedagogy of His- 

 tory," " Moral and Eeligious Education," 

 " The Ideals and Methods of Teaching," 

 " The Claims of Modern versus Ancient 

 Languages," and " The Peelings." 



Dr. Lewellys F. Barker, professor of 

 medicine in Johns Hopkins University and 

 formerly head of the department of anatomy 

 in the University of Chicago, gave the doc- 

 torate address at the eighty-fifth commence- 

 ment of Eush Medical College, held in Chi- 

 cago, on July 12, on " The Psychic Side of 

 Medicine." 



Professor Willis Grant Johnson, associate 

 editor of the American Agriculturist, has 

 been appointed trustee of the New York State 

 Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva 

 to succeed Milo H. Owen, deceased. Pro- 

 fessor Johnson is a graduate of the Ohio 

 State University and of Cornell Univer- 

 sity and has been a close student of entomol- 

 ogy and allied agricultural branches while 

 instructor at Stanford University and at 

 the University of Illinois. He was for some 

 years entomologist of the Maryland State 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Dr. Egon von Oppolzer, associate pro- 

 fessor of astronomy at Innsbruck, has died 

 at the age of thirty-seven years. 



There will be a civil service examination, 

 on September 4 and 5, to fill existing vacan- 

 cies in the position of hydrographic surveyor 



