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Wednesday, August 24 — Arrive at Las Vegas at 

 6:15 A.M., at Albuquerque at 11:15 a.m., at Flag- 

 staff at 9:14 P.M. Visit the Lowell Observatory. 



Thursday, August 25 — Leave Flagstaff at 11:05 

 A.M. Arrive at Grand Canyon at 4:45 p.m. The 

 party ■will remain at Grand Canyon until Satur- 

 day evening. During the stay various excursions 

 may be made; that to Grand View is especially 

 recommended. Accommodations at Hotel EI 

 Tovar. Rates, including room and meals, $4.00 a 

 day and upward. 



Saturday, August 27 — Leave Grand Canyon at 

 7:30 P.M. 



Sunday, August 28 — ^Arrive at Pasadena at 2:00 

 P.M. Accommodations at Hotel Maryland. Kates, 

 room with bath and meals, $5.00; without bath, 

 $4.00. 



Monday, August 29 — 10:00 a.m. Drive about 

 Pasadena and environs. 4:00 P.M. Garden party 

 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hale. 



Tuesday, August 30 — Leave for summit of 

 Mount Wilson at 9:00 a.m. Arrive about 4:00 

 P.M. Accommodations at Mount Wilson Hotel. 

 Bates, American plan, $3.00 a day. 



The sessions of the Solar Union will be held 

 at Mount Wilson on Wednesday, Thursday, 

 Friday and Saturday, August 31-Septemher 3. 

 They will be devoted to the reports of the 

 various committees of the union and to the 

 discussion of questions concerning the further- 

 ance of solar and related investigations. The 

 instrumental equipment of the Mount Wilson 

 Solar Observatory will be in regular operation 

 and open to inspection by those present. The 

 return to Pasadena will be made on Sunday 

 afternoon, September 4, and the following day 

 will be devoted to an inspection of the Pasa- 

 dena offices, the shops and the physical labora- 

 tory of the Solar Observatory. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Professor Adolf von Baeyer, the eminent 

 organic chemist of Munich, has celebrated the 

 fiftieth anniversary of his university teaching. 

 Dr. Julius Hahn, professor of cosmical 

 physics at Vienna, retires from active service 

 at the close of the present semester. 



At its last commencement De Pauw Uni- 

 versity conferred the degree of doctor of laws 



on Dr. D. T. MacDougal, director of the Des- 

 ert Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution. 



Sir Henry Morris has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Eoyal Society of Medicine. 



At the recent meeting of the Museums As- 

 sociation held at York, Mr. H. M. Platnauer 

 was elected president. 



Miss Caroline Hazard has resigned the 

 presidency of Wellesley College, which she has 

 held for the past eleven years. 



The Cameron Prize of about £80, awarded 

 every five years by the Edinburgh University 

 for the most important addition to practical 

 therapeutics during that period, has been 

 awarded by the senate to Dr. C. G. Beer, pro- 

 fessor of surgery at Berlin. 



The Balbi-Valier prize of $600 has been 

 awarded by the Venice Academy to Professor 

 P. Sanfelice, of Messina, for his research on 

 cancer. 



Mr. Alfred H. Brooks is continuing the 

 supervision of Alaskan surveys and investiga- 

 tions. He is about to start for Alaska, where 

 he will join the Martin party in the Mata- 

 nuska coal field. Later he will visit the Knopf 

 party in the Juneau district and wiU then go 

 to Fairbanks and finally, in the fall, to Nome. 



Lieutenant Filchner, who has bought the 

 Norwegian sailing vessel Bjorn, hopes to start 

 next April for the Antarctic where he will 

 carry on explorations west of Coat's Land. 



Mr. W. S. Griesa, proprietor of the Mount 

 Hope Nurseries, Lawrence, Kansas, has es- 

 tablished, in memory of his father, the late 

 A. C. Griesa, a research fellowship in ento- 

 mology at the University of Kansas. Mr. H. 

 W. Lohrenz, a graduate research student of 

 entomology in the University of Kansas, has 

 been appointed to this fellowship and began 

 his work on the fifteenth of June. 



On Sunday, October 2, 1910, the unveiling 

 of the statue of Johann Gregor Mendel will 

 take place at Gregor-Mendel-Platze in Alt- 

 briinn and at the close of the dedication a 

 banquet will be given in the Deutsches Haus. 

 Invitations have been issued by Dr. Stephan 

 Freiherr v. Haupt-Buchenrode, chairman of 



