Januaet 28, 1910] 



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Montreal Harbor Commission, on " The Construc- 

 tion and Development of Harbors." 



William George Tight, professor of geology 

 and natural history at Denison University 

 from 1887 to 1901 and since then until a few 

 months ago president and professor of geology 

 at the University of New Mexico, fellow of the 

 Geological Society of America and of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, died at Glendale, Cal., on January 

 15, at the age of forty-five years. 



Mr. William Abner Eddy, known for his 

 work in aerial photography, has died at Bay- 

 onne, N. J., in his sixtieth year. 



Colonel George Earl Church, born in 

 Massachusetts in 1835, but latterly residing in 

 England, known for his geographical work in 

 various parts of the world, died on January 4. 



Dr. Friedrich Kohleausch, author of the 

 " Lehrbuch der praktisehen Physik " and for- 

 mer president of the Physikalisch-Teclmische 

 Eeichsanstalt, died suddenly at his home at 

 Marburg, Germany, on January 18. 



Dr. Moritz Greshoff, director of the Co- 

 lonial Museum at Haarlem, known for his 

 work on physiological botany, has died at the 

 age of forty-seven years. 



The late Darius Ogden Mills, of New York 

 City, has bequeathed $100,000 to the American 

 Museum of Natural History; $50,000 to the 

 New York Botanical Garden and $25,000 to 

 the American Geographical Society of New 

 York City. 



The first Hookworm Conference was held 

 in Atlanta, Ga., on January 18 and 19. The 

 conference opened with about 500 in atten- 

 dance and a representation from twelve states. 

 Dr. Henry F. Harris, secretary of the Georgia 

 State Board of Health, was elected temporary 

 chairman and Mr. William Whitford, of 

 Chicago, secretary. The principal speaker was 

 Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles, U. S. Public 

 Health and Marine-Hospital Service, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. A permanent organization was 

 effected under the name " Southern Health 

 Conference." 



The Boston Transcript reports that four 

 interconnected projects for fisheries exhibits 



at Soiith Boston are proposed. These are an- 

 aquarium, a fish culture station, a museum of 

 the appliances, methods and industrial sta- 

 tistics of the fisheries, and a trade school for 

 fishermen. 



The department of vertebrate paleontology 

 of the American Museum of Natural History 

 has received as a gift from Mr. Charles Lanier,. 

 one of the trustees, a skull of the Cretaceous- 

 dinosaur Triceratops. This specimen was col- 

 lected in the Laramie Cretaceous of Seven- 

 Mile Creek, Western County, Wyoming, about. 

 forty-five miles northwest of Edgemont, Souths 

 Dakota, by Mr. Charles H. Sternberg. 



The Naples Table Association for Promo- 

 ting Laboratory Eesearch by Women an- 

 nounces that applications for the table sup- 

 ported by the association should be made be- 

 fore March 1. The fourth prize of $1,000 for a 

 thesis containing laboratory research in biolog- 

 ical, chemical or physical science will be 

 awarded in April, 1911. Further information 

 may be obtained from Mrs. A. D. Mead, 283' 

 Wayland Avenue, Providence, E. L 



Me. Eoosevelt has written from Nairobi, 

 under the date of December 15, 1909, the fol- 

 lowing letter to the secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution : 



I have to report that the Smithsonian Expedi- 

 tion under my charge has now finished its work 

 in British East Africa and is about to leave for- 

 Uganda. The collections made in British East: 

 Africa include: 



Mammals, large, in salt 550 



Mammals, small, in salt 3,379 



Birds 2,784 



Reptiles and batrachians, about . . 1,500 



Freshwater and marine fish, about 250 



Total vertebrates 87463 



In addition the collections include a large num- 

 ber of mollusks and other invertebrates; several 

 thousand plants; in the neighborhood of two 

 thousand photos; anthropological materials, etc. 

 Up to January lY only a little over a quarter- 

 of the collections enumerated in Mr. Eoose- 

 velt's letter had reached the institution. In 

 addition to the mammals mentioned by him,, 

 there have, however, already been received per- 

 haps 150 skulls of large mammals which are- 



