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and San Francisco, arriving in New York 

 early in May. 



Professor Emile Goldi, director of the 

 Museum Goldi, at Belem, Para, Brazil, has 

 resigned after thirteen years of service and 

 twenty-five years of residence in tropical 

 Brazil. He has been appointed honorary di- 

 rector of the museum and will hereafter be 

 connected with the University of Bern, where 

 he will work up the scientific material of the 

 natural history and ethnography of the Ama- 

 zon region. Dr. Jacques Huber, chief of the 

 section of botany, has been appointed director 

 of the museum. 



Dr. Edward S. Morse has been elected a 

 foreign member of the Astronomical Society 

 of France. 



Sir James Dewak, Jacksonian professor of 

 experimental philosophy at Cambridge Uni- 

 versity and Fullerian professor of chemistry 

 at the Eoyal Institution, London, has been 

 elected a corresponding member of the Acad- 

 emy of Sciences at Copenhagen. 



The Eoyal medals of the Eoyal Geograph- 

 ical Society have been awarded to Dr. Fran- 

 cisco Moreno, for more than twenty years 

 work in South American exploration, and Cap- 

 tain Eoald Amiindsen, the Norwegian ex- 

 plorer, for his voyage through the Northwest 

 Passage, and observations in the neighborhood 

 of the North Magnetic Pole. 



The grand prize of the Milan Exhibition 

 of 1906 has been awarded to the Wellcome 

 Chemical Research Laboratories for their ex- 

 hibit illustrating researches conducted in the 

 laboratories. Gold medals were awarded to 

 Dr. F. B. Power, director, and to Mr. F. Tutin 

 and a silver medal to Mr. P. E. F. Perredes. 



Professor W. Kijkenthal, director of the 

 zoological laboratory at Breslau, and Dr. H. 

 Hartmeyer, of the Berlin Zoological Museum, 

 have been sent by the Berlin Academy of Sci- 

 ences to make collections and studies in the 

 West Indies. 



Commander Peaky has been given three 

 years leave of absence by the Navy Depart- 

 ment, and it is said that a fund of $200,000 



has been provided to enable him to continue 

 his researches in the Arctic regions. 



Dr. William Osler, regius professor of 

 medicine of Oxford University, will deliver 

 the principal address at the celebration of the 

 fiftieth anniversary of the Pathological So- 

 ciety of Philadelphia, which will occur on 

 May 10. 



During March Professor T. C. Chamber- 

 lin, of the University of Chicago, delivered 

 three lectures on geological subjects at the 

 University of Wisconsin. 



Dr. Friedjof Nansen will read a paper en- 

 titled ' Polar Problems ' at the meeting of the 

 Eoyal Geographical Society on April 29. On 

 May 13 Lieutenant Boyd Alexander will de- 

 scribe ' An Expedition from the Niger to the 

 Nile.' 



On the thirteenth of May Augustana Col- 

 lege, Eock Island, 111., wiU celebrate the bi- 

 centenary of the birth of Linne. Professor 

 Bessey, of the University of Nebraska, is to 

 deliver the address, which will be on ' The 

 Place of Linne in the Scientific World.' 

 This date (old style) has been selected in 

 order not to conflict with the exercises of 

 commencement week, which come at the anni- 

 versary, new style (May 23). 



A JOINT session of the Departments of 

 Mathematics and Physics was held at Clark 

 University, on April 15, in commemoration of 

 the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of 

 Leonhard Euler. Addresses were made by 

 Professor W. E. Story on Euler's life and 

 work, and by Professor A. G. Webster on his 

 achievements in connection with physics and 

 astronomy. 



A MONUMENT in honor of Eugene Eisler, 

 director of the National Institute of Agricul- 

 ture at Paris from 1879 to 1900, was unveiled 

 in the garden of the institute, on March 24, 

 by M. Ruau, minister of agriculture. 



The Eev. Dr. James Addison Quarles, D.D., 

 LL.D., for twenty-one years professor of moral 

 philosophy at Washington and Lee University, 

 died on April 13, at the age of seventy years. 



Professor Arthur Baessler, known for his 

 work on the archeology of Peru and for his 



