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Britain: Professor Osier, Dr. Kerr, Mr. White 

 Wallis and Mr. Cloudesley Brereton. British 

 Colonies: Sir Jolin Cockburn, K.C.M.G. 

 Switzerland: Dr. F. Zollinger (Ziiricli). 

 France: M. Sigalas (Bordeaux), Professor 

 Lefevre (Lille), and Professor Chabot 

 (Lyons). Belgium: Dr. Decroby. Russia: 

 Professor Chlopine. Portugal: Professors 

 Saccadura and Curry Cabral. United States: 

 Dr. Walcott, Dr. Gulick, Professor Da Costa. 



Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, will undertake the work 

 of excavation, preservation and repairs in con- 

 nection with the cliff dwelling's and other pre- 

 historic ruins in the Mesa Verde National 

 Park, Colorado. The Mesa Verde National 

 Park was created by act of congress approved 

 June 29, 1906. It is on the border of the 

 Montezuma valley, just south of the ancient 

 Montezuma road, and contains some of the 

 best preserved relics of the prehistoric cliff 

 dwellers in the country. Dr. Fewkes is to 

 have the direction of the scientific work of 

 unearthing and preserving the Mesa Verde 

 ruins and an adequate sum has been allotted 

 by the Interior Department for the purpose. 

 He will proceed to Colorado after the com- 

 pletion of extensive excavations at Casa 

 Grande, Arizona. This work is undertaken 

 jointly by the Department of the Interior and 

 the Smithsonian Institution. 



Mb. E. W. Berry is engaged in the study of 

 the paleobotany of the Coastal Plain deposits 

 under the auspices of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey. 



Mr. H. B. Kummel, state geologist of New 

 Jersey, and Mr. M. L. Fuller, of the U. S". 

 Geological Survey, have completed an ex- 

 tended review of the Cretaceous, Tertiary and 

 Pleistocene formations of New Jersey, in con- 

 nection with the cooperative investigations 

 and correlation of the Atlantic and Gulf 

 Coastal Plain deposits by the United States 

 and the various State Surveys under the 

 direction of Mr. Fuller. 



An investigation of the maximum glacia- 

 tion of the Sierra Nevada is being made by 

 Willard D. Johnson, geologist of the United 

 States Geological Survey, who will this year 



complete a study along the full length of the 

 east flank of the range, including a bordering 

 zone of the Basin ranges, and will also make 

 a reconnaissance in Carson Valley at the ex- 

 treme northern end of the High Sierras. 



Dr. Ankermann, assistant in the Berlin Mu- 

 seum of Ethnology, will in October under- 

 take explorations in Kamerun, for which the 

 state has made a grant of 20,000 Marks. 



At the fortieth annual meeting of the Can- 

 adian Medical Association to be held in Mon- 

 treal from September 11 to 14, under the 

 presidency of Dr. Alexander McPhedran, To- 

 ronto, Dr. Davy Eolleston, London, will de- 

 liver the address in medicine; Dr. Ingersoll 

 Olmsted, Hamilton, the address in surgery, 

 and Dr. J. George Adami, Montreal, the ad- 

 dress in pathology. 



The Joule studentship of the Royal Society 

 has been awarded to Dr. T. H. Laby, of the 

 University of Sydney, now of the Cavendish 

 Laboratory, Cambridge, for an investigation 

 of the conditions of condensation and super- 

 saturation of vapors other than steam. 



Professor Walter Baldwin Spencer, 

 F.R.S., professor of biology in the University 

 of Melbourne (formerly scholar of Exeter and 

 fellow of Lincoln, Oxford), has been elected 

 to an honorary fellowship at Exeter College. 



On the recommendation of the council of 

 the Royal College of Physicians the Baly 

 medal was awarded to Ernest H. Starling, 

 M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., Jodrell professor of 

 physiology. University College, London, as 

 having preeminently distinguished himself in 

 the science of physiology. 



The Keith prize (a gold medal and £50) 

 for the biennial period 1903-5 has been award- 

 ed by the council of the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh to Thomas H. Bryce, M.A., M.D., 

 for his two papers on the histology of the 

 blood of the larvae of Lepidosiren paradoxa, 

 published in the Transactions of the society 

 within the period. 



Professor Ernest Everett Bogue, head of 

 the department of forestry of the Michigan 

 Agricultural College, died at Lansing, Mich., 

 on August 19, at the age of forty-three years. 



