Apeil 13, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



599 



Professor J. B. Woodworth, of Harvard 

 University, will conduct a geological excursion 

 to Torktown, Va., during the April recess. 

 The principal object of the expedition is to 

 secure a collection of Miocene fossils. 



A Eeuter telegram states that M. Mylius 

 Erichsen's Danish expedition to the northeast 

 coast of Greenland will leave Copenhagen at 

 the end of June, and will proceed via, the 

 Fseroe Islands and east Iceland to the east 

 Greenland pack-ice, through which the ex- 

 plorer expects to be able to penetrate into east 

 Greenland between 57° and 77° northern lat. 

 In addition to the Danish members, the explor- 

 ing party will probably include Dr. A. 

 Wegener, from Germany, as physicist and 

 meteorologist, and Dr. Baron Firchs, from 

 Russia, as geologist. 



The sum of $23,000 has been subscribed for 

 the Pinsen memorial. The committee reports 

 that $9,500 will be used for a special memorial, 

 and the balance will be devoted to enlarging 

 the Finsen Light Institute. 



Dr. -Nathanial Southgate Shaler, pro- 

 fessor of geology at Harvard University and 

 dean of the Lawrence Scientific School, died 

 on April 10, aged sixty-five years. 



We regret to record the death, at the age 

 of seventy-one years, of Dr. Weston Flint, 

 formerly librarian of the Public Library, 

 Washington, D. C, and secretary of the An- 

 thropological Society of Washington. 



Professor Lionel S. Beale, F.E.S., emer- 

 itus professor of medicine at King's College, 

 London, well known for his publications on 

 the microscope, died on March 28, at the age 

 of seventy-eight years. 



Professor Adolf Emmerling, docent for 

 agricultural chemistry at Kiel, died on March 

 17, at the age of sixty-four years. 



There will be on April 4 and 5 a civil 

 service examination to fill vacancies in the 

 positions of assistant geologist and geologic 

 aid in the Geological Survey, at salaries 

 ranging from $1,000 to $1,600 per annum. 



The advisory board of anatomists of the 

 Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, will hold its 

 annual meeting on April 16 to 18. 



According to a despatch received at the 

 office of the department of terrestrial mag- 

 netism of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington, the Yacht Galilee engaged in the mag- 

 netic survey of the Pacific Ocean arrived 

 safely at Fanning Island on March 31, having 

 accomplished the trip of 3,500 miles from San 

 Diego in 29 days, besides executing success- 

 fully magnetic work along the entire cruise. 



Governor Higgins, of New York, has recom- 

 mended the creation of a commission to make 

 arrangements for the celebration of the three- 

 hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the 

 Hudson River .and the centenary of the use of 

 steam in navigation on the river. 



Lord Eayleigh presided at the annual meet- 

 ing of the general board of the ISTational 

 Physical Laboratory on March 16. According 

 to the abstract in the London Times the report 

 of the executive committee showed progress in 

 all directions. Some 14 scientific papers of 

 importance have been published ofiicially, 

 while members of the staff have contributed 

 nine others to various journals. The second 

 volume of ' Collected Papers ' is in course of 

 preparation. The scheme of work for 1906 

 includes a research into the resistance of 

 materials of construction to impact, the con- 

 tinuation of the wind pressure and steam 

 researches, the completion of the work with 

 the Ampere balance, and some experiments of 

 great interest on the effect of the continued 

 application of high pressure to insulators. In 

 the metallurgical division a research into the 

 properties of aluminium bronze promises in- 

 teresting results. The report announced the 

 intention of the government, communicated to 

 the Royal Society in December last, to grant 

 a smn of £5,000 for buildings during the year 

 and the increase of the annual grant by £500. 

 It referred also to the very successful meeting 

 in the House of Commons last August, under 

 the chairmanship of Mr. Haldane, which led 

 up to a petition, signed by 150 members of the 

 house, asking that the grants should be in- 

 creased, and the chairman was able to an- 



