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ical College, has been appointed director of the 

 Department of Public Health and Charities 

 of Philadelphia. 



On Charter Day, November 10, Rutgers Col- 

 lege conferred the honorary degree of doctor 

 of science upon Professor John E. Hill, head 

 of the department of civil engineering at 

 Brown University; 



Dr. Fried jop Nan sen will shortly go to Lon- 

 don as minister from Norway. 



The Ingersoll lecture at Harvard Univer- 

 sity will be given by Professor Wilhelm 

 Ostwald, of the University of Leipzig, on De- 

 cember 12. The subject is ' Lidividuality and 

 Immortality.' 



President Eemsen, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, gave the chief address at the in- 

 auguration of Dr. Charles Lee Smith, of 

 Mercer L^niversity, Macon, Ga. 



The various expeditions sent out by the 

 Carnegie Museum to the fossil fields of the 

 west have returned. The party under Mr. 

 O. A. Peterson has collected a large amount 

 of material from the Miocene deposits of 

 Nebraska. In Montana Mr. Earle Douglass 

 and Mr. Percy E. Raymond were very success- 

 ful, the former in collecting vertebrates, the 

 latter in collecting invertebrates, and in study- 

 ing the relations which the Ordovician of the 

 west bears to that of the eastern portions of 

 the United States. The explorations conducted 

 by Mr. W. H. Utterback led to the discovery 

 and collection of the greater portion of a skele- 

 ton of Brontosaurus and of the remains of 

 some smaller dinosaurs. 



Mr. R. S. Williams, who has been exploring 

 in the Philippine Islands on behalf of the 

 New York Botanical Garden for about two 

 years, has returned with large collections of 

 herbarium and museum specimens and seeds. 



Dr. Wm. Bullock Clark, professor of geol- 

 ogy at the Johns Hopkins University, deliv- 

 ered a public lecture on November 13 before 

 the Woman's College of Baltimore on ' Fossils 

 and Geological Llistory.' He will deliver a 

 second lecture on December 11 on ' The Min- 

 eral Resources of Maryland.' 



Leave. of absence for this year by the Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina has been granted to 



Dr. James Edward Mills, associate professor 

 of chemistry, and to Mr. Marvin Hendrix 

 Stacy, instructor in mathematics. Dr. Mills 

 goes to Germany to study chemistry, Mr. 

 Stacy will study mathematics at Cornell Uni- 

 versity. 



Professor H. S. Blichpeldt, of the depart- 

 ment of mathematics of Stanford University, 

 who is on sabbatical leave this year and who 

 has been studying in Paris, has gone to Berlin 

 to continue his work. 



Professor William A. Kellerman, of the 

 Ohio State University, will start on his second 

 annual trip to Guatemala about the middle of 

 December, where he will continue his studies 

 of the mycologic flora. Minor commissions of 

 specialists will be executed gratuitously, so 

 far as time and opportunity may permit, and 

 requests should be sent to Dr. Kellerman at 

 once. 



The following movements among the staff 

 of the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry have 

 been reported to The Botanical Gazette: Dr. 

 W. O. Richtmann has returned from a trip 

 to California, undertaken in the interests of 

 camphor and poppy investigations; Mr. W. F. 

 Wight has just returned from Europe, where 

 he spent four months in studying type speci- 

 mens of plants in various herbaria; Mr. F. H. 

 Hillman recently visited the Pacific coast in 

 order to study the species of dodder which are 

 so troublesome in alfalfa and clover fields; 

 Mr. G. Fred Klugh spent several months in 

 Idaho and Nevada studying the relation of 

 poisonous plants to the sheep trouble known 

 as ' bighead ' ; Mr. S. C. Hood, who has been 

 in charge of the Vermont station for drug- 

 plant investigations, at Burlington, has re- 

 turned to Washington for the winter; Pro- 

 fessor H. Pittier is about to start on an ex- 

 ploring trip of four or five months' duration 

 in western Columbia, with a special view to 

 a study of the cottons of that region; Mr. T. 

 B. Young has returned to Washington after 

 a season's work at Ebenezer, S. C, where he 

 has been in charge of the drug-plant farm, in 

 cooperation with Mr. J. W. King; Mr. Edgar 

 Brown recently returned from an inspection 

 of the more important seed laboratories of 



