November 1, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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November 26 — Lieut.-Commander R. H. Leigh, 

 U.S.N. : " Deep-sea Navigation : Latitude." 



December 3 — Lieut.-Commander R. H. Leigh, 

 U.S.N. : "Deep-sea Navigation: Longitude." 



December 10 — Professor Poor : " The Sun and 

 its Motions." 



December 17 — Professor Poor: "The Making 

 of an Almanac." 



January 14 — Dr. R. A. Harris: "Tides: their 

 Characteristics, Observation and Prediction." 



January 21 — Dr. R. A. Harris: "The Causes 

 and Representation of the Tides." 



January 28— Dr. R. A. Harris: "Tidal Cur- 

 rents and Meteorological Tides." 



February 4 — " How Charts are made and used." 

 Lecturer to be announced. 



February 11 — Dr. L. A. Bauer: "The Magnetic 

 Survey of the Pacific Ocean by the Carnegie In- 

 stitution." 



February 18 — Professor Hallock: "Finding the 

 North Magnetic Pole." 



February 25 — Capt. Howard Patterson: "The 

 History of the Compass and its Errors." 



The Reed collection of heads, horns and 

 skins of Alaskan big game animals, which for 

 three years has been on exhibition at the 

 Union Club in Victoria, B. C, has been se- 

 cured for the New York Zoological Park. The 

 collection was formed by Mr. A. S. Reed, an 

 English sportsman, during an extensive series 

 of hunting adventures in the northwest, and 

 contains the finest lot of heads of giant moose, 

 caribou, Alaskan brown bear, white mountain 

 sheep and walrus ever brought together. 

 Owing to the disappearance of the big game 

 of Alaska, it is doubtful whether it would 

 now be possible for any one to bring together 

 such a collection of extra large specimens. 

 Several of the objects are, by experts, believed 

 to be the finest of their kinds in existence. 

 The collection is widely known among the 

 sportsmen of America and Europe. It arrived 

 at the Zoological Park on October 16, and was 

 temporarily stored in the horn room of the 

 lion house. The collection was secured 

 through the efforts of Dr. W. T. Hornaday, 

 who last winter was instrumental in found- 

 ing the National Collection of Heads and 

 Horns, owned by the New York Zoological 

 Society. It comes to New York as the gift 

 of Emerson McMillin, Esq., a prominent 

 member of the Camp-fire Club of New York. 



The collection is valued at $10,000; but by 

 reason of the purpose to which it will be de- 

 voted, it was finally acquired at a total cost 

 of $5,500. It was secured barely in time to 

 forestall its sale abroad. A German sports- 

 man passed through New York City on his 

 way to Victoria to purchase the collection, 

 when he learned that it had been secured two 

 weeks previously by the authorization of Mr. 

 McMillin. 



Nature states that a meeting of the Inter- 

 national Meteorological Committee was held 

 at Paris on September 10 and following days. 

 The committee consists of seventeen members, 

 appointed at the conference at Innsbruck in 

 1905. Ten members were present, including 

 the director of the Japanese service. Two 

 places were vacant by death. The principal 

 subjects discussed were the scheme of organ- 

 ization of international meetings for meteor- 

 ological purposes; marine charts and weather 

 signals; a number of items of the interna- 

 tional daily weather service, including reports 

 by wireless telegraphy; and various proposi- 

 tions concerning the meteorology of the globe, 

 in which were included one on the necessity 

 for observing stations in the regions of cen- 

 ters of action of the atmosphere, another on 

 the necessity for new charts of isotherms for 

 the globe, and a third on the desirability of 

 daily observations from selected stations, in 

 order to trace the course of meteorological 

 changes over the globe. A number of special 

 commissions were appointed to report upon, 

 or carry out, the various proposals. M. Mas- 

 cart, president of the committee, was unfor- 

 tunately prevented by illness from attending 

 the meetings with the exception of one held 

 at his house for the discussion of the question 

 of international organization. At the close 

 of the session he resigned the office of presi- 

 dent, and Dr. Shaw, director of the British 

 Meteorological Office, was elected president. 

 M. Angot, M. Mascart's successor at the Bu- 

 reau Central, takes his place also as a member 

 of the committee. Dr. Hellmann, director of 

 the Prussian Meteorological Institute, was 

 elected secretary, in succession to Professor 

 Hildebrandsson, who retires upon his with- 

 drawal from the post of director of the Royal 



