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Peofessoe E. B. Vooehees, of Eutgers Col- 

 lege, has been appointed president of the New 

 Jersey State Board of Agriculture. 



Me. Otto E. Jennings has been appointed 

 custodian of botanical collections at the Car- 

 negie Museum, Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. Jennings 

 has been Professor Kellerman's herbarium 

 assistant for two years in the Ohio State Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. E. W. Olive, who has been studying for 

 the past year some nuclear problems of certain 

 lower plants in the laboratory of Professor 

 Strasburger, has received another grant from 

 the Carnegie Institution and will continue 

 his work in the laboratory of Professor Harper, 

 at Madison. 



Peofessoe Vernon E. Maesters, of the de- 

 partment of geology in the University of 

 Indiana, is spending a year's leave of absence 

 at Columbia University, pursuing work in 

 geology and anthropology. 



Me. Geoege T. Hastings, a graduate of 

 Cornell University and assistant in botany in 

 that university in 1899-00, recently returned 

 from Santiago, Chili, where for two years he 

 has been teacher of science in the English 

 Institute. Mr. Hastings made a good collec- 

 tion of plants from central Chili during his 

 stay there and is now preparing sets for dis- 

 tribution to herbaria. He is doing this work 

 in the botanical department at Cornell. 



Peofessoe Blanchard, of Paris, accom- 

 panied by Dr. R. Wurtz, professor in the 

 medical faculty of the University of Paris, 

 and twelve students of the Paris Institut de 

 Medecine Coloniale, paid a visit to the London 

 School of Tropical Medicine on December 28. 



As we have already stated. Dr. Hans Gadow, 

 F.E.S., lecturer on zoology in the University 

 of Cambridge, is coming to America at the 

 end of March for the pui-pose of giving six 

 lectures on ' The Coloration of Amphibia and 

 Eeptiles,' specially prepared for the Lowell 

 Institute in Boston. He desires to secure en- 

 gagements for lectures in other institutions. 

 Communications regarding engagements for 

 lectures may be sent directly to Dr. Gadow 

 at the University Museum of Zoology, in 

 Cambridge, or, after March 15, in care of Pro- 



fessor W. T. Sedgwick, Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, Boston. 



It is expected that Dr. Alexander Graham 

 Bell, bringing the remains of James Smithson 

 on the steamship Princess Irene, will arrive in 

 New York this week. It is planned that the 

 Dolphin, of the U. S. Navy, will meet the 

 steamship and carry the remains of Smithson 

 to Washington. 



The District of Columbia Library Associa- 

 tion has held a meeting in memory of the late 

 Henry Carrington Bolton and Marcus Baker. 

 Professor P. W. Clarke made the principal 

 address on Dr. Bolton, and Dr. W. H. Dall, 

 the principal address on Mr. Baker. 



The Max Miiller Memorial Eund, which is 

 to be held in trust by the University of Oxford 

 for the promotion of learning and research in 

 the history, archeology, languages, literature 

 and religion of ancient India, now amounts to 

 about $12,000. 



It is proposed to erect at Eome a memorial 

 to the eminent mathematician, Luigi Cremona, 

 and it is hoped that the contributions will 

 be international in character. Subscriptions 

 should be sent to Signer I. Sonzogno, Piazza 

 San Pietro in Vincoli, 5, Eome. 



The death is announced of Miss Anna Win- 

 lock, of the Harvard College Observatory. She 

 was the daughter of Professor Joseph Win- 

 lock, superintendent of the Nautical Almanac, 

 and later, until his death in 1875, director of 

 the Harvard College Observatory. At this 

 time Miss Winlock entered the observatory as 

 a computer and subsequently assisted in the 

 preparation of a large number of important 

 papers issued from the observatory. 



The death is announced of the eminent pro- 

 fessor of psychiatry and nervous diseases in 

 the University of Berlin, Dr. Eriedrich Jolly. 

 Professor Jolly, who was born at Heidelberg in 

 1844, occuiDied professorial chairs at Wiirzburg 

 and at Strasburg before he was called to 

 Berlin in 1890. We regret also to record the 

 deaths of M. Jean Dufour, professor of plant 

 physiology at Lausanne at the age of forty- 

 three years; of Dr. A. Edmund Hess, pro- 

 fessor of mathematics at Marburg, at the age 

 of sixty years ; of Dr. Sophus Euger, professor 



