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of the University of Minnesota and now pro- 

 fessor of economics in that university. Amos 

 N. Currier, for forty years professor of Latin 

 and Greek in the TJniversity of Iowa and now 

 dean of the college of liberal arts at that in- 

 stitution. 



It is announced that the LoweU Observatory 

 expedition to the Andes for the purpose of 

 observing the apposition of Mars and the 

 eclipse of the sun in July next vnll be in 

 charge of Professor D. P. Todd, head of the 

 astronomical department of Amherst College. 

 He will be accompanied by Mrs. Todd, A. G. 

 Ulse, mechanician, and E. C. Slipher, of the 

 Lowell Observatory, an expert photographer. 

 The party will sail on May 11 for Colon. 



Professor T. A. Jaggar, Jr., of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, has gone to 

 Alaska, where he will study the seismic and 

 volcanic conditions. 



Dr. George B. Gordon, of the Free Museum 

 of Science and Art of the TJniversity of Penn- 

 sylvania, wiU this summer make an expedition 

 to Alaska to make ethnological studies and 

 collections. 



Dr. Charles S. Prosser, professor of geol- 

 ogy in Ohio State University, has a leave of 

 absence during the present year, and has spent 

 considerable time in comparing Ohio material 

 with type or authentic specimens in Cornell 

 and Columbia University museums, in the 

 American Museum of Natural History and in 

 the New York State Museum. 



The University of Upsala will commem- 

 orate the bicentenary of the birth of Linnasus 

 on May 23 and 24, and on May 25 the exer- 

 cises will be continued at the Royal Academy 

 of Sciences, Stockholm. 



The botanical seminar of the University of 

 Nebraska will celebrate the two hundredth 

 anniversary of the birth of Linne (Linnaeus) 

 on the twenty-third of May, instead of the 

 earlier date annoimced some time ago. The 

 program includes an address by Dr. Eoscoe 

 Pound, a paper on 'Prelinnean Botany' by 

 Dr. Clements, one by Dr. Bessey on the ' Posi- 

 tion of Linne in Botany,' and one by Dr. Ward 

 on ' Linne as a Zoologist and Physician.' Pol- 

 lowing the program there will be a convocation 



of the seminar at which the usual refresh- 

 ments will be served. 



New York University will unveil bronze 

 tablets in honor of eleven Americans in the 

 Hall of Fame on May 30, including memorials 

 of Louis Agassiz and Maria Mitchell. 

 ~ In memory of Pierre Curie a medallion is 

 about to be placed in his laboratory in the 

 Municipal School of Physics and Chemistry. 

 Dr. Carl Ludwig Eominger, the veteran 

 paleontologist, and for fourteen years the 

 state geologist of Michigan, died at his home 

 at Ann Arbor, Michigan, on April 22, at the 

 age of 86 years. 



Dr. Pranz Kjellman, professor of botany 

 at Upsala University since 1883, has died at 

 the age of sixty-one years. 



Dr. Albert von Mosetig-Moorhop, professor 

 of surgery in the University of Vienna, was 

 drowned on April 26. 



The collection of photographs and auto- 

 graph letters of the members of the National 

 Academy of Sciences since its organization, 

 made by Dr. Marcus Benjamin, has been pur- 

 chased by an anonymous donor and presented 

 to the academy. 



The tenth Congress of Polish Men of Sci- 

 ence and Physicians will be held this year at 

 Lemberg some time between June 16 and July 

 24. There will be a scientific and medico- 

 hygienic exposition in connection with the 

 congress. 



The seventh International Congress of 

 Physiologists will be held this year at Heidel- 

 berg, August 13-16, under the presidency of 

 Professor A. Kossel. The previous congresses 

 were held at Basle, in 1889; Liege, in 1892; 

 Berne, in 1895; Cambridge, in 1898; Turin, 

 in 1901, and Brussels, in 1904. 



The New York Botanical Garden has ar- 

 ranged its course of spring lectures, to be 

 delivered in the lecture hall of the musevim 

 building of the garden, Bronx Park, on Satur- 

 day afternoons, at four o'clock, as follows: 



April 27— 'The Life Story of a Tree,' by Dr. 

 C. Stuart Gager. 



May 4 — 'The Flowers of Trees and Shrubs 

 Growing Wild near New York City,' by Dr. N. 

 L. Britten. 



