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Dfi. Henry H. Kusby, dean of the New 

 York College of Pharmacy, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed official expert in 

 drug products for the U. S. government. 



Dr. T. r. HoLGATE, professor of mathe- 

 matics and dean of the College of Liberal 

 Arts of Northwestern University, has been 

 granted a year's leave of absence, and Dr. U. 

 S. Grant, professor of geology, has been ap- 

 pointed acting dean for one year. Dean Hol- 

 gate sailed for Glasgow on September 5 and 

 expects to spend most of the year at Cam- 

 bridge. 



Professor Da^id P. Todd, in charge of the 

 Lowell Expedition to the Andes, left Alianza 

 in northern Chile on August 3, taking with 

 him the IS-inch Amherst telescope to re- 

 mount at a higher station in the Andes, near 

 Lima, Peru. Mr. A. G. Use, chief mechan- 

 ician of Alvan Clark & Sons, and Mr. Earl C. 

 Slipher, of the Lowell Observatory, form part 

 of the expedition, which has secured at the 

 Alianza station photographs of the annular 

 eclipse of July 10, drawings and photographs 

 of the ringless phase of Saturn, and over 

 5,000 photographs of Mars, symmetrically 

 placed at the late opposition, exhibiting every 

 part of the planet's surface, and many of them 

 showing clearly the much-disputed double 

 canals. 



. Dr. N. L. Britton, director of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, and Mrs. Britton, are 

 now engaged in botanical explorations in 

 Jamaica. 



Professor J. Behrens, of the Experimental 

 Station at Augustenburg, Baden, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Biological Institute for 

 Agriculture and Forestry at Dahlem, near 

 Berlip. 



Mr. Eoe E. Eemington, A.B. (Colorado, 

 1905), instructor in chemistry in the Iowa 

 State University, has become chemist in 

 charge of the fertilizing department of 

 Armour and Co., Chicago. 



The officers of the Esperanto Scientific 

 Association, which met in connection with the 

 recent Esperanto Congress at the University 

 of Cambridge, are as follows : Professor 



Adolphe Schmidt, head of the Meteorological 

 Observatory at Potsdam, as president; Pro- 

 fessor J. J. Thomson, who holds the chair of 

 experimental physics at Cambridge; and M. 

 Rene Benoit, director of the International 

 Office of Weights and Measures in Paris, as 

 vice-presidents; and Professor Rene de Saus- 

 sure (Geneva), as general secretary. 



A MONUMENT to Mendeleef, the great Rus- 

 sian chemist, is to be erected by subscription 

 on the gTOunds before the University of St. 

 Petersburg. 



The Place du College de Prance will, by 

 decision of the Paris Municipal Council, here- 

 after be known as the Place Marcellin Berthe- 

 lot. 



Dr. Oren Root, professor of mathematics 

 in Hamilton College, died on August 26, at 

 the age of sixty-nine years. He succeeded his 

 father as professor of mathematics at Hamil- 

 ton in 1881. 



Mr. Samuel Henshaw, who served for some 

 years as head gardener of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, died on Staten Island on 

 July 16. 



Professor Karl Vogel, director of the 

 Astrophysical Observatory at Potsdam, died 

 on August 13. 



Dr. K. S. Storch, professor of chemistry in 

 the Veterinary School of Vienna, died on 

 July 22, at the age of fifty-five years. 



We regret also to see announcements of the 

 death of Dr. John Kerr, F.R.S., formerly pro- 

 fessor of mathematics in the Glasgow Free 

 Church Training College, and of Sir William 

 Robertson Copeland, a Glasgow engineer, who 

 had made a special study of drainage and 

 water supply. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission invites 

 attention to the examination scheduled to be 

 held on September 11, 1907, for the position 

 of acting assistant surgeon in the Public 

 Health and Marine Hospital Service. 



The emperor of China has established a 

 zoological garden in the Imperial Gardens at 

 Pekin, and animals, said to be of the value 

 of $2,000,000, have been purchased by the 

 Chinese minister at Berlin. 



