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eral resources of the United States, has re- 

 quested to be relieved of duty as chief of the 

 division of mining and mineral resources, in 

 order to devote his time to the preparation for 

 the survey of an exhaustive report, on the 

 petroleum resources of the United States. 

 The director has accepted Dr. Day's resigna- 

 tion and has designated Mr. Edward Wheeler 

 Parker to succeed him as chief of the division 

 of mining and mineral resources. Mr. Walde- 

 mar Lindgren will be associated with Mr. 

 Parker in the work of this division, and to 

 him has been assigned the scientific super- 

 vision of those parts of the annual report on 

 mineral resources that relate to the metal- 

 liferous ores. 



President Jordan, of Stanford University, 

 has just returned from a visit to Australia 

 and New Zealand. The purpose of this visit 

 was the giving of a course of lectures in the 

 University of Sydney on " The American Uni- 

 versity, its Organization and Ideals." Lec- 

 tures on the same subject were given later at 

 the universities of Melbourne and Adelaide 

 and at the colleges at Christchurch, Welling- 

 ton, Auckland and Wanganui in New Zealand. 

 An addi-ess was given on " Agassiz as a 

 Teacher " in the University of Sydney on the 

 centenary of the birth of Agassiz. 



Dr. Tempest Anderson, Professor A. E. 

 Porsyth, F.K.S., Mr. D. G. Hogarth, Lieut.- 

 Colonel Prain, F.E.S., and Professor C. S. 

 Sherrington, F.E.S., have been elected mem- 

 bers of the council of the British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. 



The meeting of the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, which is to be 

 held next year at Dublin, under the presidency 

 of Mr. Francis Darwin, will open on Septem- 

 ber 2. It will be remembered that Sir George 

 Darwin presided over the South African 

 meeting of the association two years ago. 

 The London Times states that the election of 

 Mr. Francis Darwin is appropriate in view of 

 the fact that the meeting next year will mark 

 the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of 

 "The Origin of Species." "The Origin of 

 Species " was, however, published towards the 

 close of the year 1859. 



It is proposed to recogiiize in some suitable 

 manner the scientific services of Professor J. 

 G. McKendrick, F.E.S., who has lately re- 

 tired from the chair of physiology at Glasgow. 

 Dr. G. Haberlandt, professor of botany at 

 the University of Graz, has been elected a 

 member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Vladimir V. Podvysookij, director of 

 the Imperial Institute for Experimental Medi- 

 cine at St. Petersburg, has been appointed 

 chairman of the committee appointed by the 

 Eussian government for the investigation of 

 cancer. 



It is reported in the daily papers that Dr. 

 H. W. Wiley, while abroad, is making arrange- 

 ments for an international conference to be 

 held in this country to consider legislation on 

 pure food and adulterations. 



Professor Wm. Bullock Clark, of the 

 Johns Hopkins University, who is spending 

 the summer in Europe, will attend as a dele- 

 gate and member the celebration of the found- 

 ing of the Geological Society of London, and 

 of the German Geological Society. Professor 

 Harry Fielding Eeid, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, will also be a delegate to the anni- 

 versary meeting of the Geological Society of 

 London. 



Mr. H. C. Plummer, assistant in the Oxford 

 University Observatory, has been appointed 

 fellow at the University of California and will 

 be stationed at the Lick Observatory. 



Dr. Charles K. Swartz, working under the 

 auspices of the United States and Maryland 

 Geological Surveys, will this summer complete 

 a portion of work on the Paleozoic formations 

 of western Maryland, being assisted by Dr. 

 Ohern and Mr. T. Poole Maynard. 



Dr. M. W. Twitchell, professor of geology 

 at the University of South Carolina, will be 

 engaged during the summer in investigating 

 the Coastal Plain deposits of South Carolina. 

 Harlan I. Smith is making a preliminary 

 archeological reconnoissance of Wyoming for 

 the American Museum of Natural History. 

 This state is the center of an extensive field 

 unknown areheologically. Mr. Smith is en- 

 deavoring to interest local scientific and educa- 



