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The Hon. James Mackintosh Bell, director 

 of the New Zealand Geological Survey, will 

 lecture at Harvard University on October 11 

 on " Travel in Little Explored Parts of New 

 Zealand." 



Dr. W. McM. Woodworth, of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, has undertaken to edit the proceedings of 

 the Seventh International Zoological Con- 

 gress. 



The London Times states that the Fliicki- 

 ger gold medal has been awarded to Professor 

 Edouard Heckel, the director of the Colonial 

 Institute at Marseilles. The medal was 

 founded by Dr. F. A. Fliickiger, of Strasburg, 

 in 1893, and is awarded every five years, in 

 recognition of steps taken to promote the ad- 

 vancement of scientific pharmacy, irrespective 

 of nationality. Mr. E. M. Holmes, the cura- 

 tor of the museums of the Pharmaceutical 

 Society of Great Britain, received the first 

 medal, and the second was presented to Dr. C. 

 Schmidt, of Marburg. 



Captain James M. Phalen and Lieutenant 

 Henry J. Nichols, assistant surgeons, U. S. 

 Army, have been appointed members of the 

 army board for the investigation of tropical 

 diseases, replacing Captains Percy Ashburn 

 and Charles P. Craig, assistant surgeons, who 

 have been ordered to return home, their tour 

 of duty on foreign service having expired. 



Dr. Harold L. Lyon has resigned his posi- 

 tion as assistant professor of botany at the 

 University of Minnesota to accept a position 

 as assistant director of the pathological labora- 

 tory on the experiment station maintained by 

 the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, 

 at HonQlulu. 



Mr. Homer D. House has resigned the asso- 

 ciate professorship of botany and bacteriology 

 in Olemson College, South Carolina, and will 

 spend the coming year at the New York Bot- 

 anical Garden. 



Mr. Edward C. Johnson, formerly assistant 

 in botany at the University of Minnesota, has 

 been appointed assistant pathologist in the 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Professor Henry S. Munroe, head of the 

 department of mining of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, has returned, after a five-months' trip in 

 South America. He spent most of his time 

 in Bolivia. 



Professor Charles Harrington, of the 

 Harvard Medical School, attended the Con- 

 gress of Hygiene and Demography, which met 

 at Berlin at the close of September. 



Dr. James G. Hardy, professor of mathe- 

 matics at Williams College, and Dr. H. F. 

 Clelland, professor of geology, have been given 

 leave of absence for the second half of the 

 present academic year. 



The autumn lectures at the New York 

 Botanical Garden will be delivered in the 

 lecture hall of the museum building of the 

 garden, Bronx Park, on Saturday afternoons, 

 at 4 o'clock, as follows: 



October 5 — " The Salton Sea and its Effect on 

 Vegetation," by Dr. D. T. MaeDougal. 



October 12 — " Collecting Fungi in the Wilds of 

 Maine," by Dr. W. A. Murrill. 



October 19^" The Forms and Functions of 

 Leaves," by Dr. C. Stuart Gager. 



October 26 — ■" The True Grasses and their 

 Uses," by Mr. George V. Nash. 



November 2 — "The Giant Trees of California: 

 their Past History and Present Condition," by 

 Dr. Arthur Hollick. 



November 9 — " The Progress of the Develop- 

 ment of the New York Botanical Garden," by 

 Dr. N. L. Britton. 



November 16 — " Edible Roots of the United 

 States," by Dr. H. H. Busby. 



Professor Leveson Francis Vernon Har- 

 COURT, emeritus professor of civil engineering 

 at University College, London, died on Sep- 

 tember 14, at the age of sixty-eight years. 



The U. S. Civil Service Conmiission an- 

 nounces an examination on October 16-17, to 

 £11 vacancies as they may occur in the posi- 

 tion of scientific assistant in the Department 

 of Agriculture, at salaries ranging from $840 

 to $2,000 per annum, depending upon the ex- 

 perience and qualifications of appointees. As 

 a result of this examination certification will 

 be made to fill two vacancies in the position of 

 scientific assistant in rural engineering (road 



