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versity. While in this position he joined 

 Torell and Nordenskiold in their expedition to 

 Spitzbergen in 1861, went -withlSTordenskiold's 

 expedition to Beeren Island and Spitzbergen 

 in 1868 and accompanied the frigate Josefine 

 on her voyage to the Azores, England and 

 North America in 1869. On the death of 

 Professor Sundevall in 1871 Smitt, though 

 only thirty-two years old, was appointed to 

 succeed him as professor and Lntendant at the 

 Natural History Museum of the state. Smitt 

 wrote several papers on marine invertebrates, 

 notably bryoza, but it was for his work on 

 fish that he was best known, especially his 

 critical list of the Salmonida3 in the state 

 museum. Of late years he had paid much 

 attention to the gobies. His scientific knowl- 

 edge was freely bestowed in attempts to help 

 the Swedish fisheries. 



Dr. EIael Schumann, titular professor of 

 botany at Berlin and curator of the Royal 

 Botanical Museum, well known for his con- 

 tributions to our knowledge of fiowering 

 plants, has died at the age of about fifty years. 



We regret also to record the death of Henry 

 Perrotin, director of the Observatory at Nice 

 at the age of fifty-eight years; of Dr. W. W. 

 Markownikow, professor of chemistry in the 

 University of Moscow; of Dr. Hermann Em- 

 minghaus, formerly professor of psychiatry at 

 Freiburg, at the age of fifty-nine years, and 

 of Dr. L. Beushausen, docent of paleontology 

 at the Berlin School of Mines, at the age of 

 forty-one years. 



The French Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science will hold its annual meeting 

 at Grenoble beginning on August 4, 1904, un- 

 der the presidency of M. 0. A. Laisant. 



The following have been elected as an or- 

 ganization committee of the American Biblio- 

 graphical Society : Chairman — Worthington 

 0. Ford, Library of Congress, Washington, 

 D. C. Secretary-treasurer — George W. Cole, 

 New York City; Wilberforce Eames, Lenox 

 Library; A. G. S. Josephson, John Crerar Li- 

 brary; Azariah S. Root, Oberlin College 

 Library. 



On April 19, there will be an examination 

 for the position of scientific assistant, quali- 



fied in library science in the Bureau of Chem- 

 istry, at a salary of $840. There will also be 

 held on April 19 an examination for compu- 

 tors and for aid and deck officers in the Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey. On April 19 and 20, 

 there will be an examination for the position 

 of librarian in the TJ. S. Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey, at a salary of $1,800. Further in- 

 formation in regard to these examinations 

 can be obtained from the Civil Service Com- 

 mission, Washington, D. C. 



Bills have been introduced into the Senate 

 and the House of Representatives incorpora- 

 ting the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



Active preparations are being made at the 

 New York Zoological Garden in Bronx Park 

 for taking the animals out of winter quarters. 

 Work is also being pushed with all possible 

 speed on several new houses in the garden, 

 the most important of which are the bird 

 house, to cost $115,000; the small mammal 

 house, to cost $38,000, and the ostrich house, 

 to cost about the same sum. 



Tavo physicians of the Hamburg Institute 

 for Tropical Diseases — Drs. Otto and Neu- 

 mann — have gone to South America for the 

 purpose of studying yellow fever. They are 

 supplied with considerable means furnished 

 by shippers and merchants of Hamburg. In 

 addition to scientific studies they are to col- 

 lect information with reference to the new 

 preventive measures now used in South 

 America against yellow fever, and to devise 

 means to prevent the heavy damages which 

 the German merchant marine has suffered in. 

 the several years of yellow-fever epidemics. 



Mr. Henry Gannett, geographer of the 

 United States Geological Survey, has re- 

 cently received numerous letters of inquiry 

 regarding the proper spelling of the place 

 names in Korea and Manchuria that have be- 

 come prominent. Mr. Gannett suggests that 

 the matter would be much simplified if it were 

 generally known that a system of translitera- 

 tion of such names has been adopted by most 

 European nations, by Canada and by this 

 country. This plan is published in the Sec- 

 ond Report of the United States Board on 

 Geographic Names. The rules adopted by. 



