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ican Institute of Mining Engineers, which 

 will hold its next meeting in New York City 

 during April. 



The sum of about $16,000 has been sub- 

 scribed toward purchasing the homestead of 

 Mr. Alexander Graham Bell at Bradford, 

 Ontario. 



Captain Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, 

 who recently sailed through the Northwest 

 Passage in the Gjoa, has lectured before sev- 

 eral Paris scientific societies and has been 

 made commander of the Legion of Honor. 

 Captain Amundsen expects to visit the United 

 States in the autumn. 



Mr. Prank M. Chapman, curator of orni- 

 thology of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, is engaged in making a collection for 

 the museum of southern birds, especially of 

 white herons in various stages of development. 



A GRANT of $500 has been made from the 

 Hodgkins fund of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, to Professor R. von Lendenfeld, of the 

 Eoyal Zoological Institute at Prague, for an 

 investigation of the organs of flight of Lepi- 

 doptera, Hymenoptera and Diptera. In this 

 investigation the wings of the insects will be 

 considered in their relation to mechanical 

 flight, as well as from a purely morphological 

 point of view. 



The Carnegie Institution has renewed its 

 grant of $1,000 to Professor Haskins, of Har- 

 vard University, for the exploration of docu- 

 mentary materials for Anglo-Norman history. 



Mr. J. A. Fleming, of the department of 

 terrestrial magnetism of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion of Washington, is at present engaged in 

 making magnetic observations in Central 

 America. 



Dr. Bradley M. Davis has resigned from 

 the botanical department of the Marine Biol- 

 ogical Laboratory and Dr. George T. Moore 

 will be in charge next summer. Dr. Moore 

 may be addressed at West Chester, Pa., until 

 June 1, and after this date at Woods Hole, 

 Mass. 



President Eliot spoke before the Canadian 

 Club of Montreal, on February 22, on 'Ad- 

 vantages of Variety in Experiments on Eree 



Government.' On the same day he spoke at 

 the annual dinner of the American University 

 Men's Association in Montreal. On February 

 23 he spoke before the Canadian Club of Ot- 

 tawa on ' The Way of Escape from Competi- 

 tive Armaments.' 



At Brown University lectures have been 

 given by Professor Josiah Eoyce, of Harvard 

 University, on ' Provincialism,' and by Pro- 

 fessor E. 0. Sanford, of Clark University, on 

 ' The Eole of the Different Senses in Mental 

 Life.' 



Professor E. F. Nichols, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, lectured on March 12, before the Mid- 

 dletown Scientific Association, his subject be- 

 ing ' The Pressure due to Eadiation.' 



The Society for Ethical Culture has ar- 

 ranged for a course of free lectures on ' The 

 Mental Life of Animals' to be delivered at 

 the Ethical Culture building. Sixty-third 

 Street and Central Park West, on the follow- 

 ing dates : March 6 — ' The Behavior of the 

 Lower Animals,' Professor H. S. Jennings, 

 Johns Hopkins University; March 13 — ' Some 

 Eemarkable Instincts of Ants,' Professor W. 

 M. Wheeler, American Museimi of Natural 

 History; March 20— ' The Behavior of the 

 Higher Animals,' Professor E. L. Thorndike, 

 Teachers College, Columbia University. The 

 lecture begins at 8 :1S p.m. 



In view of the death of Professor Charles 

 Edward Garman, of Amherst College, Pro- 

 fessor Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, of Colum- 

 bia University, will give a series of lectures 

 before the department of pliilosophy during 

 the spring term. 



Professor John Krom Eees, since 1881 

 professor of geodesy and astronomy and di- 

 rector of the Observatory of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, died on March 9, in his fifty-sixth 

 year. Professor Eees had been ill for several 

 years and had recently been made professor 

 emeritus. 



Professor Henry Davis Todd, U. S. N. (re- 

 tired), died at Annapolis, on March 8, at the 

 age of sixty-nine years. Professor Todd 

 served through the civil war with distinction 

 and became head of the Deparment of Physics 



