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Dr. Melvil Deavey has resigned the di- 

 rectorship of the New York State Library 

 and of the Home Education Department. It 

 is expected that a statement may be made 

 later in regard to the causes of Dr. Dewey's 

 resignation and the future of the library 

 school which he has conducted. 



Dr. Henry M. Whelpley, of the medical 

 department of Washington University, St. 

 Louis, has been elected president of the Amer- 

 ican Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties. 



Professor S. W. Williston, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, lectured on * Ancient Sea 

 Reptiles ' at Stanford University on Septem- 

 ber 19. 



Professor G. H. P. ISTuttall, P.R.S., of 

 Cambridge University, will deliver the open- 

 ing address of the forthcoming winter session 

 of the London School of Tropical Medicine 

 on October 11. 



The fourteenth annual meeting of the Asso- 

 ciation of Military Surgeons of the United 

 States opens in Detroit on September 26. 

 Among the foreign representatives are Dr. S. 

 Suzuki, surgeon-general of Japan and chief 

 surgeon of the fleets of Admiral Togo; Drs. 

 Ho Kan Yen, of the Chinese Navy; Ying 

 Yung Tsui, of the Chinese Army, and Wang- 

 Hang-Chung, of the South China Army; and 

 representatives from the British, Mexican, 

 Canadian, Guatemalan and other foreign 

 services. 



Dr. Pridjof Nansen, who has taken a prom- 

 inent part in the movement to separate Nor- 

 way from Sweden, is at present in London on 

 a special mission concerned with the status of 

 Norway. 



Professor A. G. Crampton, head of the de- 

 partment of physics at the College of the City 

 of New York, has returned from Spain, where 

 he observed the eclipse of the sun. 



The expedition which Messrs. Teisserenc 

 de Port and Rotch sent to the tropics for the 

 exploration of the upper air (see Science, 

 Vol. XXIL, p. 58), has returned to Prance 

 on the steam-yacht Otaria, after a cruise of 

 two months, during which latitude 9° N. was 



reached. The scientific staff, Messrs Maurice, 

 of Trappes, and Clayton, of Blue Hill Ob- 

 servatory, measured the trajectories of thir- 

 teen balloons, ascended two volcanic peaks 

 and obtained further observations of tempera- 

 ture, humidity and wind from twenty kite- 

 flights. There are besides similar data from 

 six kite-flights executed by Mr. Clayton be- 

 tween Boston and Gibraltar. The observa- 

 tions showed the existence of a southerly anti- 

 trade in the tropics, above twelve thousand 

 feet, and of an easterly upper-current in the 

 equatorial region. 



Three expeditions have been sent out by 

 the University of Kansas in the last two years 

 for the collection of vertebrate fossils. In 

 1904 a party in charge of Mr. H. T. Martiii, 

 assistant curator of vertebrate fossils, spent 

 the year in Patagonia collecting from the 

 Santa Cruz formation. During the summer 

 of the same year another party in charge of 

 Professor C. E. McClung, curator of the col- 

 lections, worked the Cretaceous of western 

 Kansas. A third expedition, having as its 

 personnel Professor C. E. McClung, Mr. H. T. 

 Martin, Mr. W. J. Baumgartner and Mr. R. 

 G. Hoskins, has just returned from a trip to 

 the John Day formations of central Oregon. 

 The result of these collecting trips has been 

 to add materially to the number of vertebrate 

 specimens in the museum. 



Dr. F. H. Snow, curator of the entomolog- 

 ical collections of the University of Kansas, 

 who for the last thirty years has made annual 

 collecting trips to various parts of the United 

 States, has conducted two expeditions into 

 Texas and Arizona and returned with some 

 thirty thousand specimens, many of which are 

 new to science. 



Professor Charles N. Gould, of the de- 

 partment of geology of the University of 

 .Oklahoma, has been granted a year's leave of 

 absence. He expects to spend the year at the 

 University of Nebraska and at the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, taking advanced work along 

 certain lines. During his absence the work 

 at the University of Oklahoma will be in 

 charge of Professor E. G. Woodruff. 



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