March U, 1904.] 



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A BRONZE statue of the late Professor Sedg- 

 wick, by Mr. Onslow Ford, has been unveiled 

 in the newly erected geological museum of 

 the University of Cambridge. 



Mr. Eussell Wheeler Davenport, a well- 

 known metallurgist, died at Philadelphia, on 

 March 2, at the age of fifty-five years. 



The death is announced of Mr. Henry 

 Michaelson, supervisor of Pike's Peak forestry 

 reserve and a writer on irrigation and forestry 

 matters. 



General Charles Alexander McMahon, 

 F.E.S., died in London, on February 21, at 

 the age of seventy-four years. After per- 

 forming distinguished military and civil ser- 

 vice in India, he took up the study of geology 

 at the age of forty years and studied at the 

 Eoyal School of Mines under Professors Judd 

 and Huxley when fifty years of age. He sub- 

 sequently carried on important geological 

 studies of the rocks of the Himlayas and in 

 other directions. 



Sir Edward Sieveking, a well-known phys- 

 ician and author of important works on nerv- 

 ous diseases, died in London on February 24, 

 at the age of eighty-eight years. 



Dr. V. Eodella, professor of chemistry at 

 the Technical Institute at Novara, has died 

 as the result of poisoning in the course of 

 chemical experiments. 



The death is also announced of M. Oal- 

 landreau, member of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences in the section of astronomy. 



The common council of the city of Detroit 

 has declined Mr. Carnegie's offer of $750,000 

 for library buildings. 



The Washington Evening Star states that 

 congress has appropriated $25,000 for the con- 

 tinuation of Dr. S. P. Langley's experiments 

 on aerial flight. 



The women of the Marine Biological Labo- 

 ratory at Woods Hole are making an organ- 

 ized effort to raise $5,000 for a dormitory for 

 women students. All those who are inter- 

 ested in this work are earnestly requested to 

 send their subscriptions to the treasurer, Mr. 

 D. Blakely Hoar, 220 Devonshire Street, Bos- 

 ton, Mass. 



King Edward has offered one hundred 

 guineas to the proposed London Institute of 

 Medical Sciences. 



We learn from the Chemical News that the 

 Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society 

 of South Africa has decided to make six 

 awards annually of fifty pounds each, accom- 

 panied by a gold medal and diploma, for the 

 following subjects: mining, milling, cyan- 

 iding, chemistry (pure and applied), metal- 

 lurgy (other than milling and cyaniding), and 

 agricultural chemistry. These prizes are open 

 to the members, associates and students of the 

 society. Papers dealing with the South Af- 

 rican mining industry are to have precedence 

 in the awards. 



The American Society of Civil Engineers, 

 by a vote of 1,139 to 662, has decided not to 

 become one of the constituent societies in the 

 occupancy and control of the proposed union 

 engineering building, for the erection of which 

 Mr. Andrew Carnegie has promised to give 

 $1,500,000. The civil engineers own a build- 

 ing on West Fifty-seventh Street near Seventh 

 Avenue. 



Nature states that an astronomical society 

 has been formed at Newcastle-upon-Tyne 

 under the presidency of the Eev. T. E. Espin, 

 who will give the first lecture, at the Literary 

 and Philosophical Society's rooms, on March 

 11, on ' The Work of an Amateur Observa- 

 tory.' The honorable secretary of the society 

 is Mr. J. D. Hastings, Warkworth House, 

 Tynemouth. 



The Prussian Government will take over 

 the serum institutions founded in the neigh- 

 borhood of Marburg by Professor Behring. 



Eeutee's Agency is informed that an ex- 

 pedition left England, on February 26, by the 

 steamship Olenda for West Africa, under the 

 leadership of Lieutenant Boyd Alexander, who^ 

 is accompanied by his brother. Lieutenant C. 

 Alexander and Captain G. Gosling. The ob- 

 ject of the expedition is to conduct a survey 

 of part of the eastern portions of the North- 

 ern Nigerian Protectorate and also to make 

 zoological collections. The expedition will 

 proceed direct up the Niger to Lokoja, whence- 

 it will travel along the Benue, afterwards; 



