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especially known by his investigations in 

 Lepidoptera, in the production of varieties 

 by the influence of heat, cold and moisture, 

 was elected to fill the vacancy caused by 

 Saussure's death. Professor Antonio Berlese, 

 director of the Entomological Station of 

 Florence, and especially knoven for his im- 

 portant studies on Coccidse, his classical re- 

 searches upon the internal phenomena of the 

 metamorphoses of insects and his large memoir 

 on the Acari, Myriapoda and scorpions of 

 Italy, was elected to fill the vacancy caused 

 by Brauer's death. Dr. L. 0. Howard, chief 

 of the Bureau of Entomology of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture at Washington, 

 fills the place caused by the death of Packard; 

 the reasons given for his election being his 

 work in entomology as applied to agriculture 

 and medicine and his systematic work upon 

 the Chalcididfe and other parasitic Hymen- 

 optera, especially in their relation to the 

 enemies of agriculture. 



Dr. S. T. Tamura, B.Sc, M.A. (Iowa), 

 Ph.D. (Columbia), a native of Japan, has been 

 appointed mathematician in the department 

 of terrestrial magnetism of the Carnegie In- 

 stitution, with which he has been connected 

 as assistant for the past two years. 



A teTjEORAM to the London papers states that 

 Sir David Gill has made a public announce- 

 ment that he intends to retire from the posi- 

 tion of director of the Cape of Good Hope 

 Observatory. 



It is said that Dr. Koch has been placed at 

 the head of an expedition to eastern Africa to 

 investigate the sleeping sickness, for which 

 the German government has appropriated 

 $30,000. 



We learn that the eminent paleontologist. 

 Professor W. Amalitzky, of Warsaw, whose 

 death at the hands of revolutionaries was re- 

 cently reported, is still alive and safe in his 

 own house. A grim light, however, is cast on 

 the situation in Poland by the fact that it 

 took more than a month for the Eussian 

 embassy in London to obtain this information. 

 Dr. E. Burton-Opitz, adjunct professor of 

 physiology at Columbia University, who has 

 for some years been the American editor of 



the Biochemische Centralhlatt, has also be- 

 come American editor of the Bio-physikalische 

 eniralhlatt and of the Hygienische Ceniral- 

 hlait, published by Borntrager Brothers, of 

 Berlin. American scientific men are re- 

 quested to send to Dr. -Opitz, at the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons, 437 West 49th St., 

 New York, abstracts of their papers and re- 

 prints of publications bearing on the subjects 

 included in the scope of these journals. 



Dr. Maynard M. Metoalf, who recently 

 accepted the chair of zoology at Oberlin Col- 

 lege, will spend the year 1906-7 in Germany, 

 and will "enter on his work at Oberlin in Sep- 

 tember, 1907. In the meanwhile his address 

 will continue to be The Woman's College, 

 Baltimore, Md. 



Dr. Otto Nordenskjold gave an illustrated 

 lecture before the Geographical Society of 

 Philadelphia on January 4. He took as his 

 subject, ' Two Tears amongst the Ice of the 

 South Pole.' 



Professor Eoland Thaxter, of Harvard 

 University, has a year's leave of absence, dur- 

 ing which he will make botanical collections 

 in South America. 



Dr. Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer, has 

 arrived at Teheran. 



A memorial medal in honor of Andr6e has 

 been made by Londberg, the Swedish engraver. 

 The artist represents Andree's balloon rising 

 from the ice. The explorer is looking anx- 

 iously toward the north. A group of young 

 men are applauding, while an old man looks 

 toward the horizon doubtfully. Below is the 

 date, July 11, 1897. On the obverse appears 

 the profile of Andree. 



Dr. Otto A. Moses, the geologist and chem- 

 ist and at one time state geologist of South 

 Carolina, died on January 3 at the age of 

 sixty years. Dr. Moses founded the Hebrew 

 Technical Institute of New York City. 



Charles Jasper Joly, F.E.S., ■ astronomer 

 royal of Ireland, and professor of astronomy, 

 at Dublin University, also known for his con- 

 tributions to quaternions, has died at the age 

 of forty-two years. 



The death is announced of Mr. Frederick 

 William Burbidge, M.A., curator of the 



