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Dr. J. K. Small, head curator of the mu- 

 seums and herbarium of the New Tork Botan- 

 ical Garden and Mr. J. J. Carter, of Pleasant 

 Grove, Pennsylvania, have spent about four 

 weeks in botanical exploration of the unknown 

 interior of the Andros Islands, thus comple- 

 ting the botanical survey of the Bahamian 

 archipelago. 



Dr. J. E. Moore, professor of surgery in the 

 University of Minnesota, was seriously in- 

 jured on February 25 by the fall of the tempo- 

 rary roof in the building where he was con- 

 ducting a class in surgery. It is expected that 

 he will recover. Nine students were more or 

 less seriously injured. 



The New Tork alumni of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University held their annual dinner on 

 March 2, when Dr. Simon Flexner, director of 

 the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Eeseareh, 

 presided. 



Professor James H. Tufts, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, will deliver a series of ten 

 lectures on " Present Problems in Metaphysics 

 and the Theory of Knowledge," before the 

 department of philosophy, psychology and edu- 

 cation of the Johns Hopkins University, 

 March 9-19. 



Dr. W. S. Franklin, professor of physics at 

 Lehigh University, lectured before the Middle- 

 town Scientific Association of Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity on the " Practical Applications of the 

 Gyrostat." 



Mr. F. W. Darlington, of Pittsburgh, Pa., 

 lectured before the electrical engineering stu- 

 dents at the University of Minnesota on Feb- 

 ruary 23 on " The Electrification of Steam 



The first discourse given on the new foun- 

 dation of the Halley lecture at Oxford Uni- 

 versity will be delivered by the founder. Dr. 

 Henry Wilde, F.E.S. 



A tablet in memory of Ross Gilmore Mar- 

 vin, who was drowned in the Arctic Ocean on 

 the Peary Polar expedition, will be unveiled 

 in Sage Chapel, Cornell University, next 

 month. Commander Peary will give the 

 memorial address. 



Foreign papers state that the inhabitants of 

 Gross-Lichterfelde, the native place of Otto 

 Lilienthal, have decided to erect a monument 

 to the memory of their countryman, who was 

 amongst the earliest practical pioneers in avia- 

 tion, and met his death in 1896 while making 

 a flight at Gomberg, in the province of Bran- 

 denburg. The monument will be erected 

 either on the hill on the slopes of which Lilien- 

 thal made his early experiments, or in the 

 square on the bank of the Teltour Canal. 



The Rev. G. F. Whidborne, known for his 

 work in geology, died on February 14, at the 

 age of sixty-four years. 



Colonel C. F. Conder, of the British Army, 

 who made important explorations in Palestine,, 

 died on February 16. 



Dr. Henri Dufocr, professor of physics at 

 Lausanne, has died at the age of fifty-eight 

 years. 



The following awards of the Mary Kingsley 

 medal have, as we learn from Nature, been 

 made by the Liverpool School of Tropical 

 Medicine : Mrs. Pinnock, in recognition of the 

 services rendered to the cause of tropical med- 

 icine and sanitation by her brother, the late 

 Sir Alfred Jones, founder and first chairman 

 of the school ; Mr. W. Adamson and Professor 

 W. Carter, for assistance rendered in the 

 foundation of the school; Prince Auguste 

 d'Arenberg, president of the Suez Canal Com- 

 pany, for his campaign against malaria at 

 Ismailia; Sir William Macgregor, Governor 

 of Queensland, for his services to sanitation 

 and tropical medicine while governor of 

 Lagos; Surgeon-General Walter Wyman, head 

 of the Marine Hospital Service in the United 

 States, for the organization which he has 

 given to the service under him and for the 

 manner in which he has always supported sci- 

 entific principles in public sanitation; Sir 

 Alfred Keogh, recently Director-General of 

 the Royal Army Medical Corps, for the organ- 

 ization which he has given to the service under 

 him and for the manner in which he has al- 

 ways supported scientific principles in public 

 sanitation. The medal for valuable contribu- 

 tions to the scientific and educational side of 

 tropical medicine has been awarded to Pro- 



