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eluding any papers read before the associa- 

 tion, the production of any mechanism or 

 processes in the fabrication, design, or finish- 

 ing of cotton goods, comprising mill construc- 

 tion, the generation of power and its dis- 

 tribution, or any of the works tributary to 

 the cotton manufacture. 



E. P. Meinecke, Ph.D. (Heidelberg), has 

 accepted a position as expert in the Office of 

 Investigations in Forest Pathology in the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry. This office, as 

 organized at present, consists of: Dr. Haven 

 Metealf, pathologist in charge; Drs. George 

 G. Hedgcock and Perley Spaulding, patholo- 

 gists; Carl Hartley and E. J. Humphrey, 

 assistants; Dr. E. P. Meinecke, expert. 



Mr. Theo. Kryshtofovich, of the Russian 

 Government Agricultural Commission, is vis- 

 iting America for the purpose of finding out 

 what American agricultural methods, ma- 

 chinery and plants it would be worth while 

 to introduce into the Russian steppes. He 

 has been particularly interested in the hardy 

 American fruits. He makes his headquarters 

 at 3059 Magnolia Avenue, St. Louis. 



Dr. E. Lindhaed, director of the Royal 

 Agricultural Experiment Station at Tystofle, 

 Denmark, and Dr. Kolpin Ravn, professor of 

 plant pathology in the Royal Agricultural 

 College of Copenhagen, are visiting America 

 for the purpose of studying American meth- 

 ods of forage crop production and applications 

 of plant pathology. 



Mr. Frank M. Chapman, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, and Mr. Louis 

 Fuertes, have returned from an ornitholog- 

 ical expedition to the West Indies. 



Dr. Charles R. Stockard, of the Cornell 

 Medical School and secretary of the American 

 Society of Naturalists, will be at the Naples 

 Zoological Station till the first of August. 



Dr. R. R. Gates has sailed for Europe to 

 attend the International Botanical Congress 

 at Brussels as a representative of the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden and the St. Louis Academy 

 of Sciences. 



Professor E. B. McGilvary, of the depart- 

 ment of philosophy of the University of Wis- 



consin, was elected president of the Western 

 Philosophical Association at the recent meet- 

 ing at the University of Iowa. 



The eighteenth James Forest lecture of the 

 Institution of Civil Engineers will be de- 

 livered in London, on June 22, by Sir John 

 Gavey, C.B., on " Recent Developments of 

 Telegraphy and Telephony." 



The Research Club of the University of 

 Michigan held a memorial meeting on April 

 20 to commemorate the centennial of Dalton's 

 " New System of Chemical Philosophy." The 

 program was as follows : " John Dalton and 

 his Achievement: A Glimpse across a Cen- 

 tury," by Professor R. M. Wenley ; " The 

 Atomic Theory," by Professor S. L. Bigelow; 

 " Daltonism to Date," by Professor C. E. 

 Guthe. 



The Society for Philosophical Inquiry, of 

 Washington, D. C, held a memorial meeting 

 at the George Washington University, on 

 May 3, in honor of the late Dr. William T. 

 Harris, formerly U. S. Commissioner of Edu- 

 cation. The program was as follows : 



" The Genesis of the Philosopher," Rev. Dr. J. 

 MaeBride Sterrett. 



" His Philosophy," Edward E. Richardson, Ph.D. 



" Dr. Harris as U. S. Commissioner of Educa- 

 tion," Dr. Elmer Ellsworth Brown, U. S. Com- 

 missioner of Education. 



" Dr. Harris as Interpreter of Dante," Rev. Dr. 

 I'rank Sewall. 



" Impressions of Dr. Harris as Teacher of 

 Philosophy," Rev. Dr. U. G. B. Pierce. 



Address by ex-Governor John W. Hoyt. 



Address by Rev. Dr. Samuel S. Laws. 



Walter Craig Kerr, president of Westing- 

 house, Church, Kerr and Company, previously 

 assistant professor of engineering in Cornell 

 University, of which institution he was a 

 trustee at the time of his death, died on May 

 8, at the age of fifty-two years. 



Dr. Julius KiJHN, until recently professor 

 of agriculture at Halle, has died in his eighty- 

 fifth year. 



Dr. Eugene Hodenpyl, formerly adjunct 

 professor of pathological anatomy in the Col- 

 lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia 



