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The Argentine government has decided to 

 continue the Scotia Bay Meteorological Sta- 

 tion for still another year, and has appointed 

 Mr. Angus Rankin, late of the Ben ISTevis 

 Observatory, to take charge. Mr. Rankin left 

 Edinburgh for the south on October 11, and 

 was accompanied by two other former mem- 

 bers of the Ben Nevis staff, Mr. R. H. Mac- 

 Dougall and Mr. William Bee. 



We learn from the University of New 

 Mexico Weekly that President W. G. Tight, 

 after about two weeks in the hospital, is re- 

 covering from the accident due to an explosion 

 in his laboratory. 



Dr. John B. Sjiith, professor of entomol- 

 ogy at Rutgers College, has sailed for Europe, 

 having been granted three months' leave of 

 absence. 



Professoe W. R. Oendoeff, of Cornell 

 University, has left for a stay of several 

 months in Europe. He will attend the World's 

 Congress of Chemists at Rome in April. 



Professor W. Z. Ripley, of the department 

 of economics of Harvard University, has been 

 given leave of absence for the second half- 

 year. 



Dr. Lewellys F. Barker, professor of 

 medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, 

 makes one of the principal addresses at the 

 celebration of its thirtieth anniversary, on 

 February 22. 



A STATED meeting of the Geographic Society 

 of Chicago was held in the rooms of the 

 Municipal Museum, in the Public Library 

 Building, on February 9. An address was 

 given by Professor C. K. Leith, of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, on ' The Iron Ore Re- 

 sources of the Lake Superior Region.' The 

 lecture was illustrated. 



Professor S. A. Mitchell, of Columbia 

 University, lectured before the New York 

 Academy of Sciences on February 19 on ' The 

 Total Eclipse of the Sun of August, 1905.' 

 The lecture was illustrated by stereopticon 

 views from photographs taken during the 

 eclipse. 



Dr. H. S. Jennings, of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, has finished a course of five 



lectures before the Woman's College of Balti- 

 more on ' The Behavior of Micro-organisms.' 



Courses of lectures bearing on anthropology 

 will be given this term at Oxford by Professor 

 Tylor on 'Primitive Man,' by Mr. McDougall 

 (Wilde reader) on ' Social Psychology,' by 

 Mr. Bell on 'The Neolithic Age,' by Mr. 

 Myres on ' Prehistoric Greece,' by Professor 

 Vinogradoff on ' Early Legal Institutions,' 

 and by Mr. Marett on 'The Social Institu- 

 tions of Savages.' Informal instruction will 

 also be given by Dr. Evans, of the Ashmolean 

 Museum; by Mr. Balfour, of the Pitt Rivers 

 Museum ; by the professor of classical archeol- 

 ogy and others. 



The original date of the Sixth International 

 Congress of Applied Chemistry has been 

 changed from April 16, as stated in the issue 

 of Science for January 26, to April 26, 1906. 



At the Washington meeting of the Inter- 

 national Geographical Congress in 1904, the 

 invitation extended by the Swiss government 

 and the Geneva Geographical Society to meet 

 in 1908 in Geneva, was accepted. Steps are 

 already being taken in Switzerland to set on 

 foot the necessary preparations, and a circular 

 has been issued by the Geneva Geographical 

 Society announcing that the meeting will be 

 held between July 27 and AugTist 6, 1908. An 

 organizing committee will shortly be formed, 

 and it is hoped that a provisional program 

 may be issued in the course of the year. 



According to a despatch to the daily papers 

 from Washington, the Carnegie Institution 

 has purchased a tract of six acres in the north- 

 west section of Washington, near Rock Creek 

 Park, where it will erect a permanent home. 

 The site is near the building of the United 

 States Bureau of Standards, and is in a com- 

 manding position, overlooking the entire city. 

 The purchase price was $3,500 an acre, and 

 a building costing $100,000 will be erected at 

 once. 



Professor Flahault, director of the Bo- 

 tanical Institute of the University of Mont- 

 pelier, has established by his own gift a moun- 

 tain botanical garden on the slopes of 

 I'Aigoual, at an altitude of thirteen hundred 

 meters. 



