November 10, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



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The eightieth birthday of Dr. F. A. March, 

 professor of English and comparative philol- 

 ogy at Lafayette College, was celebrated on 

 October 25, v^hen Professor W. B. Owen made 

 an address of congratulation. The trustees of 

 the college have offered to retire Professor 

 March with full salary, but he prefers to con- 

 tinue his usual duties. 



Dr. Arthur Stahler, assistant in the chem- 

 ical laboratory of the University of Berlin, 

 has been sent by the minister of education to 

 Harvard University to pursue studies in in- 

 organic chemistry under Professor T. W. 

 Richards. 



Mr. Henry S. Drinker, recently installed as 

 president of Lehigh University, was given the 

 degree of Doctor of Laws by Lafayette College 

 on October 25. 



Dr. Edward Martin, director of the Depart- 

 ment of Public Health and Charities of the 

 city of Philadelphia, has resigned this position. 



Dr. Wilhelm Wunstorf has been appointed 

 district geologist in the Berlin Geological 

 Bureau. 



Major Lachlan Forbes has been appointed 

 secretary of the Royal Scottish Geographical 

 Society in succession to Major Lindsay Eorbes. 



The special board for biology and geology 

 has nominated Mr. F, A. Potts, B.A., of Trin- 

 ity Hall, Cambridge University, to use the 

 university table at Naples for six months. 



Dr. Theodor Preuss, of the Berlin Museum 

 of Ethnology, has been sent on a scientific 

 mission to Mexico. 



Mr. Einar Mikkelsen, a Dane, proposes to 

 make an expedition to the Arctic regions, the 

 objective being that part of the Polar Ocean 

 which lies immediately to the west of the Parry 

 Archipelago, north of Canada. 



Mr. S. p. Jones, formerly assistant state 

 geologist of Georgia, has been pursuing special 

 studies in petrography for the past six months, 

 first at the University of Wisconsin and dur- 

 ing the summer at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 

 working on material loaned him by the geolog- 

 ical department of Harvard University. 



Mr. Louis M. Prindle, of the U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey, has returned from the Alaskan 



field, where during the past summer he has 

 been making a geologic reconnaissance be- 

 tween the International Boundary and Fair- 

 banlvs. 



Dr. Chas. H. Shaw, professor of botany at 

 the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadel- 

 phia, has returned recently from a second ex- 

 pedition to the Selkirk Mountains, in British 

 Columbia. The region of the big bend of the 

 Columbia River, a large tract of country be- 

 tween the 51st and 52d degrees of N. Lat. and 

 embracing the Selkirks has hitherto been 

 almost unknown botanically and very imper- 

 fectly so geographically. Dr. Shaw's expedi- 

 tion, under the auspices of the Medico- 

 Chirurgical College and including a number 

 of students of botany and zoology mainly 

 from the vicinity of Philadelphia, this year, as 

 last, visited the big-bend region and collected 

 some 25,000 sheets of specimens representing 

 its flora, besides gathering data by photographs 

 and weather readings bearing on the ecological 

 features of this little-known mountain range. 



At a meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society 

 of Great Britain on November 7 Sir George 

 Watt delivered a lecture on shellac, and Mr. J. 

 C. Umney, F.C.S., contributed a paper on the 

 chemistry and analysis of shellac. 



A series of addresses on educational prob- 

 lems will be given under the auspices of the 

 Department of Education of the City of New 

 York, in Cooper Union on Wednesday even- 

 ings from Noveraber 8 to December 27. 

 Among those who will lecture are Dr. Andrew 

 S. Draper, New York state commissioner of 

 education ; Dr. W. H. Maxwell, superintendent 

 of schools; Professor L. H. Bailey, director of 

 the Cornell College of Agriculture; President 

 Carroll D. Wright, of Clark College; Dr. L. 

 H. Guliek, director of physical training in 

 the city schools; Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip, the 

 banker, and Dr. James H. Canfield, librarian 

 of Columbia University. 



Under the auspices of the Ethical Society 

 of St. Louis, W J McGee, director of the St. 

 Louis Public Museum, is giving a course of 

 weekly lectures on anthropology to a class of 

 twenty-five or thirty. The course presents a 

 systematic outline of human development. 



