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[N. S. Vol. XIX. No. 492. 



Dr. J. B. Johnston, professor of zoology at 

 West Virginia University, has been granted 

 leave of absence for the year 1904r-05. He 

 will spend July and August at the Bermuda 

 Biological Station, from September 1 to 

 March 1 at the Naples Zoological Station, and 

 the remainder of the time in Germany. At 

 Naples he will occupy the Smithsonian table. 



President Andrew D. White is expected to 

 return to America in time for the commence- 

 ment exercises of Cornell IJniversity. 



Mr. Austin H. Clark, of Boston, who is 

 now on a collecting trip among the less-known 

 islands of the British West Indies, has been 

 elected a fellow of the Eoyal Geographical 

 Society of London. 



The Carnegie Institution has made a grant 

 to Mr. A. F. Blakesley, of Harvard University, 

 to enable him to spend next year abroad con- 

 tinuing his investigations in mycology. He 

 will leave after the close of the Harvard Sum- 

 mer School. 



It is announced that Mr. Marconi will re- 

 turn to Cape Breton early in June to conduct 

 the trans-Atlantic wireless service. 



The following provisional program of even- 

 ing lectures at the Marine Biological Labo- 

 ratory, Woods Hole, Mass., has been arranged. 

 Other lectures will be announced later. 



July 2. Mr. Lynds Jones. ' The Migrations of 

 Birds.' 



July 5. Professor Jacob Reighard. 'The 

 Breeding Habits and Secondary Sexual Charac- 

 ters of some Brook Pishes.' 



July 7. Professor A. D. Mead. ' The House- 

 boat as a Biological Laboratory.' 



July 11. Professor E. P. Lyon. 'Physiolog- 

 ical Rhythms in Cleavage.' 



July 15. Professor A. P. Mathews. 'The 

 Physical Basis of some Vital Phenomena,' 



July 20. Professor C. O. Whitman. 'The 

 Evolution of Color Pattern.' 



July 29. Dr. R. M. Yerkes. ' Automatism and 

 Intelligence in Frogs.' 



August 1. Dr. R. M. Strong. 'The Colors 

 of Birds.' 



August 3. Dr. Theo. N. Gill. ' The History of 

 the Ichthyology of Massachusetts.' 



Dr. G. S. Huntington, professor of anat- 

 omy in the College of Physicians and Sur- 



geons, Columbia University, will give the 

 Shattuck lecture before the Massachusetts 

 Medical Society, on June 7. 



According to the program, lectures were to 

 be given before the Eoyal Institution as fol- 

 lows: On May 24 Mr. H. F. Newall began a 

 course of two lectures on the Solar Corona; 

 on May 26, Mr. N. G. Wells delivered the 

 first of two lectures on Literature and the 

 State; on May 28, Sir Martin Conway began 

 a course of two lectures on Spitzbergen in the 

 seventeenth century. The Friday evening 

 discourse on May 27 was delivered by the 

 Prince of Monaco on the Progress of Oceanog- 

 raphy; and on June 3 Professor Svante 

 Arrhenius lectured on the Development of the 

 Theory of Electrolytic Dissociation. 



Dr. George Oliver, a fellow of the Eoyal 

 College of Physicians, London, has presented 

 to the college the sum of $10,000 in trust for 

 the endowment of a lectureship or prize to 

 be called the Oliver-Sharpey Lectureship or 

 Prize, in memory of the late William Sharpey, 

 F.E.S., professor of physiology in University 

 College, London. 



Professor William Henry Pettee, pro- 

 fessor of mineralogy, economic geology and 

 mining at the University of Michigan since 

 1875, died suddenly at Ann Arbor on May 26. 

 He was born in 1838, graduated from Har- 

 vard in 1861 and studied subsequently for 

 three years in the Eoyal Saxon Academy of 

 Mines. He was assistant in chemistry and 

 instructor in mineralogy at Harvard Univer- 

 sity for four years and went to the University 

 of Michigan in 1871 as assistant professor. 

 He was a fellow and, in 1887, general secre- 

 tary of the American Association; a member 

 and, in 1880, vice-president of the American 

 Institute of Electrical Engineers, and a mem- 

 ber of the Geological and Philosophical So- 

 cieties. 



The death is announced of Wilhelm von 

 Siemens, a member of the eminent family 

 which has contributed so much to the ad- 

 vancement of electrical science and himself 

 an able inventor. 



There will be a civil service examination, 

 on June 22, to fill a vacancy in the position 



