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size portrait painted of Dr. Henry M. Hurd, 

 superintendent. It will be hung in the ad- 

 ministration building. 



The fishery steamer Albatross will soon pro- 

 ceed on an extended cruise to the western 

 Pacific for the purpose of conducting scien- 

 tific and fishery investigations in the interest 

 of the Bureau of Fisheries. The principal 

 work will be done in the Japan seas. Dr. 

 David Starr Jordan will be in immediate 

 charge. 



Professor Hele-Shaw has returned to Eng- 

 land from South Africa, where for the past 

 two years he has been engaged in organizing 

 technical education. 



The State Bacteriological Laboratory, au- 

 thorized by the Connecticut General Assembly, 

 has been opened at Wesleyan University under 

 the direction of Mr. James A. Newlands. 



Dr. Walter Remsen Brinckerhoff, assist- 

 ant pathologist at the Harvard Medical 

 School, has been appointed pathologist in 

 charge of the new hospital and laboratory for 

 the study of leprosy on the island of Molokai, 

 Hawaii. 



De. James H. Hyslop, of New York City, 

 has been offered the secretaryship of the 

 American branch of the Society for Psychical 

 Research, vacant by the death of Dr. Richard 

 Plodgson. 



Professor W. D. Taylor, professor of rail- 

 way engineering in the University of Wiscon- 

 sin, has resigned to become chief engineer of 

 the Chicago and Alton Railroad. 



Dr. Otto Nordenskjold spoke in the geolog- 

 ical lecture room of Harvard University, on 

 January 12, on the scientific results of the 

 Swedish Antarctic expedition, 1901-1904, of 

 which he was the leader, making special refer- 

 ence to the fossils of late Mesozoic and Terti- 

 ary formations from which large collections 

 were secured. On the evening of January 13, 

 Dr. Nordenskjold was the guest of the Har- 

 vard Travelers Club at a house meeting in 

 Boston, where he gave a general narrative of 

 his Antarctic voyage. 



On February 21 there will be a civil service 

 examination for the positions of plant pathol- 



ogist and entomologist in the Experiment Sta- 

 tion at Porto Rico, and also for the posi- 

 tion of statistical expert in the Geological 

 Survey. The salaries of these positions are 

 $1,200. 



In accordance with the recommendations of 

 Professor John B. Smith, a bill has been intro- 

 duced into the Hew Jersey legislature appro- 

 priating $70,000 a year for five years for the 

 extermination of raosquitoes. 



The Carnegie Museum has acquired by pur- 

 chase the valuable and extensive collection of 

 shells made by Dr. Victor Sterki, of New 

 Philadelphia, Ohio. The collection contains 

 a great many types and cotypes. 



The department of ethnology of the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History has received 

 as a gift from George S. Bowdoin, Esq., a 

 member of the board of trustees, a valuable 

 collection illustrating the culture of some of 

 the tribes of Central Africa. The collection 

 includes implements of warfare, idols, fetiches 

 and masks, clothing, baskets and musical in- 

 struments, household utensils of bamboo, pot- 

 tery and brass, bracelets, necklaces and house- 

 hold adornments of beads, shells and brass. 

 A large gold bead weighing three ounces and 

 seven carved ivory tusks from Ashantee are 

 worthy of particular mention. 



The cornerstone of the High Altitude Labo- 

 ratory, proposed by Professor Angelo Mosso, 

 has been laid on the col d'OUen, 3,000 meters 

 above the level of the sea. The Italian, Bel- 

 gian, German and Austrian governments have 

 contributed towards the cost of erection. It 

 is expected that the building will be completed 

 in 1907, and will be open to men of science of 

 all nations in 1908. 



We learn from the London Times that the 

 Institute of Archeology of the University of 

 Liverpool has despatched an expedition to make 

 explorations and excavations in the vicinity of 

 Esna, in Upper Egypt. The funds have been 

 privately subscribed by Liverpool citizens. 

 The excavations will be under the charge of 

 the university reader in Egyptian archeology, 

 Mr. J. Garstang, assisted by Mr. E. Harold 

 Jones. A third member of the staff of the 



