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nature study, died on Janiiary 28, at the age 

 of fifty-two years. 



Dr. George B. MoElroy, for many years 

 professor of mathematics at Adrien College, 

 died on January 29, at the age of eighty-six 

 years. 



The death is announced of Mr. Frederick 

 Stearns, a business man of Detroit, who made 

 archeological collections, which he presented 

 to the University of Michigan, the Detroit 

 Museum of Art and other institutions. 



Miss Agnes Mary Clerke, known for her 

 writings on astronomy, died in London, on 

 January 20, aged sixty-four years. 



Professor Adam F. W. Paulsen, director of 

 the Danish Meteorological Institute, died in 

 Copenhagen on January 11, at the age of 

 seventy-four years. 



The deaths are also announced of Dr. 

 Michael Konowalow, professor of chemistry 

 and director of the Polytechnic Institute at 

 KieS, and Dr. Ennon Jiirgens, professor of 

 mathematics at the Technical School at 

 Aachen. 



The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 

 sent Professor Ronald Eoss, C.B., last year to 

 Greece to study the question of the prevalence 

 of malaria there. As the result of that visit 

 the school has made a strong effort to raise 

 funds in England for combating malaria in 

 Greece and has despatched to Sir Francis 

 Elliot, British minister at Athens, £200, being 

 the amount of the first donations collected. 



At a meeting held at Brussels on January 

 29 at the residence of Minister of State Beer- 

 naert, it was resolved to organize a new Bel- 

 gian Antarctic expedition. 



The Peabody Museum of Yale University 

 has received the geological and archeological 

 collection of the Ingham Institute, which came 

 into the possession of the University by the 

 bequest of William Lampson. 



Arrangements have been made to establish 

 at Chemnitz a training school for aeronauts 

 and constructors of air ships. A similar 

 school has been in operation in Paris for a 

 year past. A one year's course is contem- 

 plated for the present, the school to be opened 



in May, 1907. This course, at the outset, is 

 limited to the construction and use of balloons. 

 It will be enlarged so as to include aeroplanes, 

 as soon as practical working types have been 

 developed. 



Eeference was made in the issue of Science 

 for January 25 to the establishment during 

 convocation week of the ' American Entomo- 

 logical Society,' whereas it should have been 

 the ' Entomological Society of America.' The 

 American Entomological Society was organ- 

 ized February 22, 1859, as ' The Entomological 

 Society of Philadelphia,' was incorporated 

 under this title, under the laws of Pennsyl- 

 vania, April 11, 1862, and changed its name to 

 The American Entomological Society, Febru- 

 ary 23, 1867. Since 1876 it has been located 

 in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia. The thirty-second volume of its 

 Transactions is now being published; the 

 present president is Philip P. Calvert, Ph.D. 



The London Times states that the fourth 

 annual meeting of the Association of Econ- 

 omic Biologists opened at Cambridge on Jan- 

 uary 9, in the pathological department of the 

 university. The objects of the association are 

 to discuss new discoveries, to exchange experi- 

 ences, and carefully to consider the best 

 methods of work; to give opportunity to indi- 

 vidual workers of announcing proposed in- 

 vestigations, so as to bring out suggestions and 

 prevent unnecessary duplication of work; tO' 

 suggest, when possible, certain lines of in- 

 vestigation upon subjects of general interest; 

 and generally to promote and advance the 

 science of economic biology in its agricultural, 

 horticultural, medical and commercial as- 

 pects. The work of the association includes' 

 the various problems connected with economic 

 botany, such as the fungoid diseases of plants 

 and animals; those connected with economic 

 zoology, such as the many problems in con- 

 nection with insects and other animals in- 

 jurious to crops, live stock, animal parasites, 

 etc., the scientific cultivation of plants and 

 breeding of animals, and the questions affect- 

 ing the various natural history products that 

 enter into commerce. The attendance in- 

 cluded Professor F. V. Theobald, the outgoing 



