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surveyor-general of India, and Dr. R. T. 

 Glazebrook, F.E.S., become Companions of the 

 Bath (C.B.). Mr. J. H. Marshall, director- 

 general of archeology in India, Mr. 0. Michie 

 Smith, director of the Kodaikanal and Mad- 

 ras Observatories, and Dr. M. Aurel Stein, 

 superintendent of the Archeological Survey, 

 are appointed Commanders of the Indian 

 Empire (C.I.E.). The order of C.M.G. has 

 been conferred on Dr. A. D. P. Hodges, prin- 

 cipal medical officer of the Uganda Protector- 

 ate, in recognition of his services in the sup- 

 pression of sleeping sickness, and on Professor 

 T. W. Edgeworth David, F.R.S., of the Uni- 

 versity of Sydney. Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, of 

 the British Museum (Natural History), has 

 been appointed a Companion of the Imperial 

 Service Order. 



English journals state that a memorial to 

 Lieutenant Boyd Alexander, who was mur- 

 dered in the French Sudan in April, and his 

 brother, Captain Claud Alexander, formerly 

 of the Scots Guards, who also lost his life in 

 Central Africa while engaged in scientific ex- 

 ploration, has just been completed at Wilsley 

 House, Cranbrook, the residence of Colonel 

 Alexander, their father. A sheet of water on 

 the estate has been laid out as an exact repro- 

 duction in miniature of Lake Chad from plans 

 by Lieiitenant Boyd Alexander. On the is- 

 lands and banks of the lake are reproductions 

 of thatched native huts, and there is preserved 

 on the adjacent lawn one of the boats in which 

 the Alexander-Gosling Expedition made its 

 way down the river To to the Nile. 



Mr. C. Greville Willums, F.R.S., known 

 for his contributions to organic chemistry, 

 and formerly connected with the University 

 of Edinburgh, has died at the age of eighty- 

 one years. 



Mr. S. a. Stewart, until recently curator 

 of the Belfast Natural History and Philosoph- 

 ical Society, known for his contributions to 

 botany and geology, died on June- 15, at the 

 age of eighty-four years. 



Dr. Emil Zucker E^ndl, professor of anat- 

 omy at Vienna, died on May 28, at the age of 

 eighty-six years. 



Among positions to be filled by New York 

 state civil service examinations on July 23, 

 are those of statistician at salaries from 

 $1,200 to $2,400, and of supervisor of agricul- 

 tural education at a salary of $2,500. 



The Boston University School of Medicine, 

 a homeopathic institution, has received a gift 

 of $200,000 from Mrs. Robert Dawson Evans, 

 of Boston, for an Institute of Clinical Re- 

 search and Preventive Medicine in memory 

 of her late husband. 



Mrs. Russell Sage has given $15,000 to 

 the National Association of Audubon Socie- 

 ties, to be expended for bird protection, espe- 

 cially in the southern states. 



For several reasons it has been decided to 

 hold no summer meeting of Section E of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science early in July. (1) These sujnmer 

 meetings have been attended so largely by edu- 

 cators in the eastern states that it seemed un- 

 wise to hold a summer meeting at the time of 

 the meeting of the National Education Asso- 

 ciation, the week beginning July 4. (2) Mr. 

 R. "W. Brock, director of the Canadian Survey 

 has decided that it will be impossible to hold a 

 meeting in Canada this summer as was sug- 

 gested at the Boston meeting. (3) Many geol- 

 ogists will attend the International Geological 

 Congress in August and September. Those 

 who might be able to attend a meeting the lat- 

 ter part of August or the first of September 

 are requested to communicate with the secre- 

 tary of the section, Dr. F. P. Gulliver, 30 

 Huntington Lane, Norwich, Conn. 



The secretary of the eastern branch of the 

 American Society of Zoologists has received 

 communications from Dr. Weber, general sec- 

 retary for the scientific department of the In- 

 ternational Hygiene Exhibition, to be held at 

 Dresden in 1911, inviting members to send 

 exhibits to the scientific section and also urg- 

 ing them to visit the exhibition. A limited 

 number of blank forms of application for 

 space and some printed information relating 

 to the exhibition is in the hands of the secre- 

 tary of the Eastern Branch of the Zoologists, 

 Herbert W. Rand, Harvard University. 



