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Greenwich Observatory, has retired in accord- 

 ance with the rules of the admiralty service. 

 He has been connected with the observatory 

 for forty-eight years. 



Professor Marston T. Bogebt, of Columbia 

 University, was injured by an explosion in 

 his classroom on February 20, while making 

 a demonstration to his class in chemistry. It 

 is expected that he will be confined to the 

 house for about two weeks. 



Bertha Stoneman, D.Sc. (Cornell, 96), 

 who has for the past six years been professor 

 of botany at the Huguenot College, Welling- 

 ton, Cape Colony, is on her way to America 

 on leave of absence. 



Margaret C. Ferguson, Ph.D. (Cornell, 

 1901), instructor of botany at Wellesley Col- 

 lege, delivered a lecture before the Boston So- 

 ciety of Natural History, on February 3, on 

 ' The Development of the Gametophytes, Fer- 

 tilization and Related Phenomena in Pines.' 



Dr. Emil EJRAEPELIN, of the University of 

 Heidelberg, has gone to the Dutch East In- 

 dies to study insanity among the natives. 



Professor Wilhelm Uhltofp, professor of 

 ophthalmology at Breslau, has been appointed 

 secretary for the next meeting of the German 

 Men of Science and Physicians. 



Dr. Karl Burckhabdt, formerly geologist 

 in the Museum of La Plata, has been ap- 

 pointed chief geologist of the Geological Sur- 

 vey of Mexico. 



Dean Bovey and Professor Durley, of the 

 faculty of applied science of McGill Uni- 

 versity, are visiting engineering schools in 

 the United States with a view to the new rail- 

 way department at McGill. 



According to the New York Evening Post 

 the official delegates to the sixth annual con- 

 ference of American Universities were as 

 follows: Clark University, President Hall; 

 University of Michigan, Professor Richard 

 Hudson ; Johns Hopkins University, President 

 Eemsen and Dr. Gilman; Leland Stanford, 

 Jr., University, President Jordan and Instruc- 

 tor A. H. Suzzalo; University of California, 

 President Wheeler, Professor C. M. Bakewell 

 and Dr. Irving Stringham; University of 

 Pennsylvania, Professors Penniman and New- 



bold; Cornell University, Professor Thomas 

 F. Crane; University of Wisconsin, Professor 

 D. C. Munro; Columbia University, President 

 Butler, Professors Smith, Carpenter and 

 Perry; the Catholic University of America, 

 Dr. George M. Boiling; Harvard University, 

 President Eliot; Princeton University, Presi- 

 dent Wilson, Professor Andrew F. West, Dean 

 Fine and Professor Hibben; University of 

 Chicago, President Harper, Professors Paul 

 Shorey and A. W. Small; Tale, President 

 Hadley, Secretary Stokes and Professor 

 Lounsbury. 



Dr. Emil Alexander de Schweinitz, di- 

 rector of .the Biochemic Laboratory of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture and dean 

 of the Medical Department of Columbian 

 University, well known for his contributions 

 to bacteriology, died at Washington on Feb- 

 ruary 15, in his thirty-ninth year. 



James A. Skilton, a writer on social ques- 

 tions and a student of Herbert Spencer, 

 died in Brooklyn on February 19, at the age 

 of seventy-five years. 



Dr. Edward John Chapman, from 1853 to 

 1895 professor of mineralogy in the Univer- 

 sity of Toronto, died at the beginning of 

 February, at the age of eighty-three years. 



De. William Francis died on January 18, 

 at the age of eight-five years. He was a 

 member of the printing and publishing firm 

 of Taylor and Francis and had been for more 

 than fifty years one of the editors of The 

 Philosophical Magazine. He had translated 

 and abstracted many papers on chemistry and 

 physics. 



M. FiRMiN Bocourt, formerly curator of the 

 Paris Museum of Natural Plistory, died on 

 February 4, at the age of eighty-five years. 

 His connection with the museum began in 

 1834, and on its behalf he made scientific 

 journeys to Siam, Mexico and elsewhere, be- 

 ing known especially for his work on the 

 reptiles. The deaths are also announced of 

 Baron de Ujfalvy, professor at the University 

 of Paris, known for his researches in anthro- 

 pology and his travels in central Asia, and 

 of Dr. Luigi Barbera, professor of philosophy 

 at the University of Bologna. 



