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ates being: Lister, Suess, Hooker, the Prince 

 of Monaco, Eayleigh, von Baeyer, van der 

 Waals, Dedekind, Hittorf, Eamsay and Lan- 

 kester. 



Edward W. Berry, associate in paleobot- 

 any at the Johns Hopkins University, has re- 

 cently been appointed a geologist on the tJ. S. 

 Geological Survey and will spend the fall in 

 paleobotanical collecting in the south. Spe- 

 cial attention will be devoted to the Tertiary 

 with a view to securing data for correlation. 

 The area covered will extend from Florida to 

 Arkansas. 



Dr. Pedro A. de Figaniere, late house- 

 surgeon at the Tuberculosis Hospital, District 

 of Columbia, and Dr. Norman D. Morgan, of 

 San Francisco, have been appointed to posi- 

 tions in the Fur-Seal Service, U. S. Bureau of 

 Fisheries, as resident physicians at the Pribi- 

 lof Islands, the former on St. George and the 

 latter on St. Paul. They sailed from San 

 Francisco, August 6, on the Homer for the 

 Pribilofs. 



Mrj Harry John Christoffers, class of 

 1910, University of Wisconsin, has been ap- 

 pointed to a position as scientific assistant in 

 the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries at Washington. 



Dh. J. E. W. Wallin, of the New Jersey 

 Training School, has accepted the position of 

 director of the newly-established laboratory of 

 clinical psychology in the New Jersey village 

 for epileptics at Skillman. 



Mr. R. S. Mackintosh, formerly professor 

 of horticulture in the Alabama Polytechnic 

 Institute and state horticulturist of Alabama, 

 is now with the department of horticulture of 

 the Pennsylvania State College in charge of 

 peach investigations. Preliminary surveys 

 are to be made of the several peach growing 

 sections to determine what special lines of 

 e.xperimental work shall be undertaken. 



Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, in charge 

 of the scientific work of the U. S. Bureau of 

 Fisheries, has returned to Washington from a 

 tour of inspection of the biological and fish- 

 cultural stations of the Bureau at Fairport, 

 Iowa, Homer, Minn., and La Crosse, Wis. He 

 also gave an address at Terre Haute, Ind., at 



the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary 

 of the presidency of Dr. William Wood Par- 

 sons, of the Indiana State Normal School. 



Mr. H. B. Maufe, of the Geological Survey 

 of Great Britain, has been appointed director 

 of the Geological Survey of Southern Rho- 

 desia, lately instituted by the Chartered Com- 

 pany. 



During the past spring Professor Ellsworth 

 Huntington, of Tale University, has been co- 

 operating with the Desert Botanical Labora- 

 tory of the Carnegie Institution in a study of 

 American deserts as compared with those of 

 Asia. 



Foreign journals state that M. Louis Gentil, 

 professor of geology at the Sorbonne, who ac- 

 companied the expedition which recently ex- 

 plored the Atlas region under the auspices of 

 the Comite du Maroc, has been entrusted by 

 the French minister of public instruction with 

 a mission to the Muluya Valley, where he will 

 complete his scientific researches in the Al- 

 gero-Moroccan frontier district. 



We learn from the Ohservaiory that the 

 English astronomers who will attend the 

 meeting of the International Union for Co- 

 operation in Solar Research on Mt. Wilson at 

 the end of the present month, are as follows : 

 Professor Schuster, member of the executive 

 committee; Professor Newall, chairman of 

 committee on sun-spot spectra and member of 

 committee on the determination of the solar 

 rotation by means of displacements of lines; 

 Professor Turner, director of computing 

 bureau, member of eclipse committee; Pro- 

 fessor Fowler, secretary of committee on sun- 

 spot spectra; Rev. A. L. Cortie, member of 

 committee on sun-spot spectra; Professor 

 Dyson and Major E. H. Hills, members of 

 eclipse committee. 



At the University of Illinois, Professor G. 

 A. Miller gave five lectures on the history of 

 the development of mathematics before the 

 students of the summer session. 



News has just been received that Dr. 

 Charles Hugh Shaw, assistant professor of 

 botany in the University of Pennsylvania, was 



