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in the navy department at salaries ranging 

 from $1,200 to $2,200 a year. On September 

 9, there will be an examination to fill vacan- 

 cies in the position in the Department of 

 Agriculture of assistant crop technologist, at 

 salaries ranging from $1,500 to $2,000 per 

 annum, and of crop technologist, at salaries 

 ranging from $2,000 to $3,000 per annum, de- 

 pending upon the training and experience 

 shown. 



The Minnesota legislature has voted $5,000 

 a year towards the maintenance of a Pasteur 

 Institvite at Minneapolis. 



The members of the Liverpool University 

 archeological expedition which left Liverpool 

 at the end of April have reached Aleppo, from 

 the mountains of Arabistan and are returning 

 to England. Interesting discoveries are re- 

 ported. 



The first Congress of Stomatology will be 

 held in Paris from August 1 to 5, under 

 the presidency of Dr. Galippe, of Paris, and 

 Dr. Revier, of Lille. Practitioners of all 

 nationalities will be allowed to take part in 

 the proceedings. 



During the first three weeks of July, Mr. 

 S. P. Fergusson conducted a third expedition 

 to Mount Washington, N. H., for the purpose 

 of comparing the meteorological conditions on 

 the summit with those of the free air, employ- 

 ing kites to lift the meteorographs. Continu- 

 ous records of atmospheric pressure, tempera- 

 ture, humidity and the velocity of the wind 

 have been maintained on the summit (1,916 

 meters) and at Twin Mountain (426 meters) 

 during a part of each summer in 1905, 1906 

 and 1907. In cooperation with Professor 

 Rotch, who assumed the cost of the additional 

 experiments, the same instrumental equipment 

 was employed by Mr. Clayton in obtaining 

 kite-flights near Mt. Washington at the time 

 of the international observations on July 22 

 to 27 inclusive. 



Mary W. Whiti.ey, professor of astronomy 

 at Vassar College and president of the Nan- 

 tucket Maria M'.tchell Association, has been 

 for a week at the Maria Mitchell Memorial on 

 Nantucket, giving instructive talks to mem- 



bers and their guests on " Maria Mitchell " 

 and on " Recent Discoveries in the Solar Sys- 

 tem." Professor Whitney has appointed a 

 building committee to consider plans for an 

 observatory to house properly an equatorial 

 telescope recently donated to the association. 

 Already the sum of $2,138 has been subscribed 

 and the association in charge of the memorial 

 hopes for subscriptions to enable them not 

 only to house the telescope but also to equip 

 the observatory so that it may be available for 

 astronomical classes in the near future. 



Reuter's Agency is informed that news has 

 been received at the Scottish Oceanographical 

 Laboratory of the arrival of the Scottish 

 Arctic expedition on board the steamship 

 Phoenix at Prince Charles Foreland. Very 

 heavy weather was encountered after leaving 

 the Norwegian coast, and a large quantity of 

 ice exceptionally far to the south and west of 

 Bear Island. This ice continued to Spitz- 

 bergen. When Dr. William S. Bruce and his 

 companions arrived at Prince Charles Fore- 

 land on June 11 they found the country com- 

 pletely covered with snow. The expedition 

 experienced considerable difficulty in landing 

 the scientific instruments, equipment and 

 stores on account of a perpendicular wall of 

 ice, which fringed the coast. Captain Hjal- 

 mar Johansen joins the expedition this month. 



We learn from Nature that a long excur- 

 sion, extending from August 15 to August 24, 

 has been arranged by the Geologists' Associa- 

 tion. The district selected is Appleby and its 

 surroundings, and the party will be under the 

 direction of Dr. J. E. Marr, F.R.S. Interest- 

 ing observational work has been allocated for 

 each day, and the arrangements which have 

 been made for visitors will ensure comfort at 

 a moderate expense. The party will leave 

 Euston at 11 :30 a.m. on August 14, and geol- 

 ogists who wish to avail themselves of the 

 opportunity offered should eommimicate with 

 Mr. A. C. Young, 17 Vicar's Hill, Lewisham, 

 S.E. The association has arranged an excur- 

 sion also in connection with the centenary cele- 

 brations of the Geological Society in Septem- 

 ber next. The excursion will be to Reading 

 on September 28, and will be conducted by 



