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is delivering the Silliman lectures at Yale. 

 There were twenty guests, including President 

 Hadley, Yale; Professors Bowditch and 

 Porter, Harvard; Dr. Graham Lusk, New 

 York; Dr. Frederic S. Lee, Columbia; Pro- 

 fessor Eeichert, Pennsylvania; Dr. Francis 

 Bacon, New Haven; Professor Dunham, New 

 York; Dr. W. H. Carmalt, New Haven; Pro- 

 fessor L. B. Mendel, Yale; Dr. Otto G. Eam- 

 say, Yale; Professor Abbott, Pennsylvania; 

 Dr. J. P. C. Foster, New Haven; Professor 

 Yandell Henderson, Yale; Dean Herbert E. 

 Smith, of the Yale Medical School; Mr. 

 Horace Fletcher, Venice, and Dr. Sherrington. 



Captain Berniee, who is going out in charge 

 of the Canadian Arctic expedition, was among 

 the passengers by the steamship Kaiser Wil- 

 helm II. which arrived at Plymouth on April 

 18. He was accompanied by 24 of his crew, 

 and went on in the ship to Bremen, whence 

 they will navigate the German ship Gauss j 

 which has been purchased by the Canadian 

 government. 



Dr. John M. Macfarlane, professor of bot- 

 any at the University of Pennsylvania, has 

 been granted a four months' leave of absence 

 to make botanical investigations in England, 

 Italy and Switzerland. 



Assistant Professor Herbert N. McCoy, 

 of the Department of Chemistry of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, has gone abroad to visit 

 German laboratories. 



Professor G. J. Peiece, of Stanford Uni- 

 versity, intends to spend June and July with 

 Professor Pfeffer in the laboratory of plant 

 physiology at Leipzig. He will attend the 

 meeting of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science at Cambridge and 

 will spend October and November at the Ma- 

 rine Biological Station at Naples, where he 

 will occupy one of the tables maintained by 

 the Carnegie Institution. 



Professor Gilbert D. Harris, of the de- 

 partment of geology of Cornell University, 

 spent the winter months in Louisiana as geolo- 

 gist of the state survey, exploring and map- 

 ping the oil regions. 



Professor W. J. Kennedy, chief of the de- 

 partment of animal husbandry at the Iowa 



State College of Agriculture, has been com- 

 missioned by the Department of Agriculture 

 to spend a year in Europe studying the live 

 stock industry in various countries. 



M. Hamy, professor of anthropology at the 

 Paris Museum of Natural History, has been 

 given leave of absence for the year 1904. His 

 courses will be given by M. Verneau. 



Mr. a. G. Euthven, of the Zoological De- 

 partment of the University of Michigan, is 

 making a special study of the North Amer- 

 ican species of garter snakes (Eutmnia), and 

 wishes to receive specimens in large numbers 

 from all parts of North America. Collections 

 of these snakes will be determined for dupli- 

 cates. Directions for the collection, preserva- 

 tion and shipment may be secured upon appli- 

 cation to the above address. 



Mr. L. B. Elliott, who completed his 

 studies at the University of Iowa in 1892 

 under the personal direction of Professors 

 Calvin and MacBride, and who has since that 

 time been connected with the Bausch & Lomb 

 Optical Company, Eochester, N. Y., and edi- 

 tor of the Journal of Applied Microscopy and 

 Lahoraiory Methods since its beginning in 

 1898 until its recent discontinuance, has sev- 

 ered his connection with that company to 

 accept a position with the T. B. Dunn Com- 

 pany, of Eochester, N. Y. Mr. Elliott will 

 continue his private work in laboratory pho- 

 togTaphy and biology as heretofore. His ad- 

 dress is 17 Birr Street, Eochester, N. Y. 



Mr. Charles F. Townsend, director of the 

 New York Aquarium, gave the tenth lecture 

 in the course before the College of the City 

 of New York on April 29, his subject being 

 ' The Depths of the Sea.' 



At the annual graduation ceremonial of the 

 University of Glasgow, on April 18, a medal- 

 lion bearing a bas-relief of John Young, pro- 

 fessor of natural history and keeper of the 

 Hunterian Museum from 1856 to 1892, was 

 presented to the university. 



President Schurman, of Cornell LTniver- 

 sity, will give an address in memory of Her- 

 bert Spencer, on Sunday, May 7. 



The Institute of France has appropriated 

 10,000 francs from the income of the fund left 



