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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXII. No. 555. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The official party of the British Asociation, 

 including Professor G. H. Darwin, the presi- 

 dent, and the other officers, left Southampton 

 by the mail steamer 8axon on July 29 for Cape 

 Town, where they were expected to arrive on 

 the fifteenth inst. The party included Pro- 

 fessor Ernest W. Brown, of Haverf ord College ; 

 Professor Henry S. Carhart, of the University 

 of Michigan; Professor W. M. Davis, of Har- 

 vard University, and Professor William B. 

 Scott, of Princeton University. 



Major Ronald Ross, professor of tropical 

 medicine, and Dr. Rupert W. Boyce, professor 

 of pathology and dean of the School of Trop- 

 ical Medicine, Liverpool, sailed on August 12 

 on the Campania for New York, en route to 

 New Orleans, where they will study the epi- 

 demic of yellow fever. 



The Ohservatory gives the following infor- 

 mation in regard to eclipse expeditions : The 

 astronomer royal and Mr. Dyson, with Pro- 

 fessor Sampson, have started for Sfax. Pro- 

 fessor Turner and Mr. Bellamy have left for 

 Egypt. Sir Norman and Dr. Lockyer with 

 their party intended to have anchored the gun- 

 b6at which is put at their disposal in the har- 

 bor of Philippeville, in Algeria, but for certain 

 reasons the French object. Several French 

 observing-parties are arranged: MM. Deslan- 

 dres and Rayet will be at Burgos; M. Andre, 

 of the Lyons Observatory, at Tortosa; M. 

 Trepied, of Algiers, with MM. Stephan and 

 Borelly, of Marseilles, are going to Guelma, 

 where there will be some observers from Paris ; 

 M. Bigourdan, of the Paris Observatory, pro- 

 poses to make actinometric observations at 

 Sfax, and there will also be a French expedi- 

 tion to Cistierna, in Leon. The Peninsular 

 and Oriental Company is arranging to send a 

 vessel by way of Gibraltar to Palma, where she 

 will wait during the eclipse, and thence to 

 Marseilles. 



Dr. Stewart Paton," formerly of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, who recently occupied the 

 Smithsonian table at the Naples Zoological 

 Station for a term of three weeks, has received 

 an appointment to that Station for six months 

 from November 1, 1905. Dr. Harold Heath, 



associate professor of zoology in the Leland 

 Stanford Junior University, has been awarded 

 the Smithsonian table at the station for three 

 months from January 15, 1906. 



An expedition to Florida for the purpose of 

 securing series of the embryos of the alligator 

 has recently been conducted for the Smith- 

 sonian Institution by Professor Albert M. 

 Reese, of Syracuse University. Professor 

 Reese reports almost complete success, he 

 having already obtained a fine series of nearly 

 three hundred embryos, covering all but the 

 very earliest stages of development. 



During the month of July Messrs. M. L. 

 Fuller and F. G. Clapp, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, made a reconnaissance trip through 

 Newfoundland and along the coast of Labrador 

 to a point north of Hopedale for the purpose 

 of comiparing the glacial features with those of 

 northeastern United States. Several interest- 

 ing points relating to possible Pre- Wisconsin 

 deposits, to the origin of the high terraces and 

 to the recentness of the last glaciation were 

 brought out. The intention was to go further 

 north, but this was impossible because of the 

 presence of unusually heavy pack ice along the 

 shore from which the vessel was obliged to 

 withdraw after penetrating it for a distance 

 of some ten miles. 



Dr. Ernst Ebermayer, professor of agricul- 

 ture in the University of Munich, celebrated 

 on July 3 the fiftieth anniversary of his doctor- 

 ate. 



Mr. a. B. Skinner has been appointed di- 

 rector of the South Kensington Museum, suc- 

 ceeding Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, the new 

 director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 

 New York City. 



Mr. W. a. Davie, assistant lecturer in agri- 

 cultural chemistry, Aberdeen University, has 

 been appointed a deputy-inspector in the Agri- 

 culture and Lands Department under the Sou- 

 dan Government. 



Mr. J. R. McCoLL, associate professor of 

 steam engineering at Purdue University, has 

 accepted a position in the engineering depart- 

 ment of the American Blower Co., at Detroit. 



