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himself to the work of revising his book on 

 " Masonry Construction." The executive 

 duties of the department of civil engineering 

 will, during his absence, be assumed by Pro- 

 fessor J. P. Brooks. 



Mr. E. p. Taylor, oi the Colorado Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, has become ento- 

 mologist of the Missouri State Fruit Experi- 

 ment Station at Mountain Grove, Mo. 



Mr. H. J. Franklin, who takes his doctor's 

 degree at Am herst in June, has accepted a 

 position with the Minnesota state entomologist 

 at St. Anthony Park, Minn. The U. S. 

 National Museum has recently issued a report 

 " On a Collection of Physanopterous Insects 

 from Barbadoes and St. Vincent Islands " 

 prepared by him. He is also engaged in a 

 work on " Bumble Bees of America " under 

 the same auspices. 



The Croonian lecture before the Royal So- 

 ciety was delivered on May 14 by Professor 

 G. Retzius, of Stockholm, on " The Structure 

 of the Central Nervous System of the Higher 

 and Lower Animals." 



Dr. R. S. "Woodward, president of the Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington, addressed 

 the Phi Beta Kappa of New York on May 18, 

 the subject being " The Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington and its Work." 



Dr. Raymond Pearl, biologist of the Maine 

 Experiment Station, lectured before the Port- 

 land Society of Natural History on the eve- 

 ning of April 21. The subject of the lecture 

 was " The Improvement of Plants and Ani- 

 mals by Breeding." 



Dr. H. F. Osborn, president of the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History, sailed on 

 May 9 to visit the museums of Paris, Madrid, 

 Brussels and Lyons, lecturing at the last 

 university. 



Professor N. M. Fenneman, of the depart- 

 ment of geology of the University of Cincin- 

 nati, will sail for Naples on May 23. He will 

 there join Professor Davis for the study of 

 physiographic problems in northern Italy and 

 France, and will attend the meeting of the 

 Ninth International Geographical Congress. 



Mr. Chester A. Reeds has been engaged by 

 the University of Cincinnati to classify and 



rearrange the fossil collection and to supple- 

 ment it by acquisitions from the vicinity of 

 Cincinnati. Mr. Reeds has been acting pro- 

 fessor of geology in the University of Okla- 

 homa this year. 



Professor Morris B. Crawford, Foss pro- 

 fessor of physics at Wesleyan University, will 

 sail for Europe on July 4 to spend the sum- 

 mer in England, France and Switzerland. 



Mr. Martin J. Iorns, horticulturist at the 

 Experiment Station, Mayaguez, P. R., has 

 gone to Cuba and Florida to investigate the 

 citrus and pineapple industries. 



Mr. L. W. Hawley, expert on wood distilla- 

 tion for the Forest Service, has left Washing- 

 ton for Oregon, Washington, Montana and 

 Idaho, to investigate the possibilities of a 

 future turpentine industry in the northwestern 

 portion of the United States. 



Professor August Martin, of Berlin, is 

 visiting this country and will attend the ses- 

 sions of the American Medical Association 

 and the American Gynecological Society. 



The American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory will send out three parties in search of 

 fossil vertebrates this summer as follows : 

 (1) To the Upper Cretaceous of Montana, Mr. 

 Barnum Brown in charge. (2) To tha 

 Miocene of northwestern Nebraska, Dr. W. D. 

 Matthew in charge. (3) To the Permian of 

 Texas, Dr. E. C. Case in charge. 



A CABLEGRAM to the New York Herald states 

 that the members of the South Sea expedition 

 organized by the newly established Hamburg 

 Scientific Institute for ethnographical ex- 

 ploration in the Polynesian Islands took leave 

 on May 15 at a special meeting of the in- 

 stitute. The expedition will start from Hong 

 Kong on the Hamburg- American line steam- 

 ship Peiho, specially chartered for that pur- 

 pose for two years. Its leader. Professor 

 Fuelleborn, is well known as an explorer of 

 East Africa, and is assistant at the Hamburg 

 Institute for Tropical Diseases. 



Professor Gilbert M. Gowell, who re- 

 cently severed his connection with the Univer- 

 sity of Maine after twenty-five years' service, 

 during which his work had been largely con- 

 cerned with experiments on poultry, killed 



