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Narragansett Bay in relation to the oyster 

 beds. 



Mh. p. H. Cowell, F.E.S., chief assistant 

 in the Eoyal Observatory, Greenwich, has 

 been appointed superintendent of the Nautical 

 Almanac, in succession to Dr. A. M. W. Down- 

 ing, who has retired. 



Professor Fitzgerald has resigned the 

 chair of engineering in Belfast University. 



Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau 

 of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, has been elected president of the Amer- 

 ican Therapeutical Society for the coming 

 year. The next meeting of the society will 

 be held in Boston in May, 1911, under the 

 auspices of the Harvard Medical School. 



The Pennsylvania Chapter of the Society 

 of the Sigma Xi has elected Professor I. J. 

 Schwatt president, and Professor Wm. Easby, 

 vice-president for the year 1910-11. 



Me. J. B. Tyrrell has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Canadian Institute. 



Mr. Alban Stewart, of the botanical stafE 

 of the New Hampshire College, has spent 

 more than a year on the Galapagos Islands, 

 making botanical notes and collections, which 

 he has since worked up for publication at the 

 Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, 

 under the direction of Dr. B. L. Robinson. 



Dr. Louis A. Bauer gave an address, under 

 the auspices of the Joseph Leidy Scientific 

 Society, " On the Cruise of the Carnegie," on 

 May 10 before the students of Swarthmore 

 College. 



Mr. Douglas Mawson, professor of geology 

 at the University of Sydney, is passing 

 through the United States on his way to Aus- 

 tralia. 



It will be remembered that Mr. Henry 

 "Wilde, P.E.S., D.C.L., D.Sc, who had already 

 founded at Oxford the Wilde readership in 

 mental philosophy, the John Locke scholar- 

 ship, and the Wilde lectureship in natural and 

 comparative religion, established recently an 

 annual lecture on astronomy and terrestrial 

 magnetism, to be called the HaUey lecture, 



" in honor and memory of Edmund Halley, 



some time Savilian professor of geometry in 



the university and astronomer royal, in con- 

 nection with his important contributions to 

 cometary astronomy and to our knowledge of 

 the magnetism of the earth." Dr. Wilde 

 delivered the first lecture on May 10, the title 

 chosen by him being " On Celestial Ejecta- 

 menta." 



It is announced that the erection of a labo- 

 ratory for research in chemistry at Harvard 

 University to be dedicated to the memory of 

 Dr. Wolcott Gibbs is now assured. The small 

 residue required has been underwritten by a 

 friend. The site of the laboratory will prob- 

 ably be near the University Museum. 



Dr. Noah Knowles Davis, professor emer- 

 itus of philosophy in the University of Vir- 

 ginia, has died at the age of eighty years. 



Sir William Huggins, eminent for his con- 

 tributions to astrophysics, past president of 

 the Eoyal Society and of the British Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, died on 

 May 12, at the age of eighty-six years. 



By action of the trustees of the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden, five research fellowships 

 in the Henry Shaw School of Botany have 

 been established, each carrying an allowance 

 of $500 per year. In memory of the late 

 president of the board of trustees of the gar- 

 den, who had held that office from the organi- 

 zation of the board until his death this spring, 

 these are to be known as the Rufus J. Lack- 

 land Eesearch Fellowships. 



Eeuter's agent at Georgetown, British 

 Guiana, says that Sir Francis Lovell, dean of 

 the London School of Tropical Medicine, has 

 concluded his tour in the West Indies. His 

 appeal for subsidies for the school from the 

 various governments has been successful, 

 useful sums being promised from all the 

 British possessions. Barbadoes has promised 

 £50 a year; the Windward Isles £50; the Lee- 

 ward Isles £100; Jamaica £100, and Trinidad 

 £100, and there is every likelihood that Brit- 

 ish Guiana will undertake to give a contri- 

 bution. 



In a report of the committee appointed by 

 Provost Harrison, of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, to consider plans for the future 



