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the Lick Observatory; Treasurer, C. L. Doo- 

 little, University of Pennsylvania; Council- 

 lors, Frank Schlesinger, Allegheny Observa- 

 tory, and W. J. Humphreys, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Officers of the Harvey Society for the 

 coming year have been elected as follows: 

 President, Dr. Simon Flesner; Vice-presi- 

 dent, Dr. John Howland; Treasurer, Dr. E. 

 K. Dunham; Secretary, Dr. Haven Emerson; 

 Council, Dr. Graham Lusk, Dr. S. J. Meltzer 

 and Dr. James Ewing. 



Dr. Ernst Stahl, professor of botany at 

 Jena, has been elected a corresponding mem- 

 ber of the Vienna Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. W. J. Holland, Professor Herbert Os- 

 born and Dr. Henry Skinner represented the 

 Entomological Society of America at the first 

 International Congress of Entomology, held 

 this month at Brussels. 



Professor William E. Shepherd, of Co- 

 lumbia University, has been chosen as repre- 

 sentative of American universities at the 

 Scientific Congress now being held at Buenos 

 Ayres. 



Professor A. G. Webster has sailed for 

 Europe, where he will represent Clark Univer- 

 sity as delegate to the centennial celebration 

 of the University of Berlin. 



Professor Frederic S. Lee, of Columbia 

 University, will be a guest of the British As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science at 

 its Sheffield meeting. Later he will take part 

 in the proceedings of the International Physio- 

 logical Congress in Vienna. 



Professor Francis E. Lloyd is spending 

 the month of August at the Desert Botanical 

 Laboratory, Tucson, Ariz., continuing his 

 studies of transpiration and stomatal move- 

 ment in ocotillo, Fouquieria splendens. 



In view of the removal of the work of the 

 British Meteorological office to the new build- 

 ing in Exhibition-road, South Kensington, 

 which is being arranged to take place in the 

 autumn, Mr. R. G. K. Lempfert, M.A., super- 

 intendent of statistics, has been appointed to 

 be superintendent of the forecast division, and 

 Mr. E. Gold, M.A., feUow of St. John's Col- 



lege, Cambridge, Schuster reader in dynam- 

 ical meteorology, has been appointed superin- 

 tendent of the statistics and library division. 



Sir Eubert Boycb and his expedition of 

 students from the London School of Tropical 

 Medicine, who have been out to Sierra Leone 

 and Sekondi on behalf of the government, 

 directing the measures necessary for the sup- 

 pression of the outbreak of yellow fever, are 

 expected to return to Liverpool at the end of 

 the month. 



Lieutenant Sohiraze has left Tokyo with a 

 party of twenty-five Japanese in a small 

 schooner for the Antarctic regions. It is said 

 that he proposes to try to reach the South 

 Pole in advance of Captain Scott. 



The Duke of Mecklenburg has undertaken 

 a second journey across Africa. He will 

 enter West Africa by the Congo-Ubangi route 

 to Lake Chad, and hopes to make his way to 

 the Bahr-el-Ghazal through southern Wadai 

 and other borderlands of the Sudan. 



Dr. Johs. Schmidt, well known for his bio- 

 logical work in north Atlantic waters, lately 

 started in the Thor on a cruise for oceano- 

 graphical work under the auspices of the Dan- 

 ish government. 



According to a cablegram from Copen- 

 hagen to the Boston Transcript Captain El- 

 mar Mikkelsen, with his expedition which 

 sailed June 20, 1909, on the Danish Arctic 

 ship Alabama to search for the bodies of the 

 Erichsen Greenland expedition, was wrecked 

 during the winter on the coast of East Green- 

 land. Captain Mikkelsen and the entire party 

 were saved and succeeded in effecting a land- 

 ing on Shannon Island, off the coast of King 

 William Land. From this point they were re- 

 cently rescued. The expedition for which 

 Captain Mikkelsen was searching when the 

 Alabama was wrecked was that of Mylius 

 Erichsen, who perished in November, 1907, 

 while trying to return from the north coast of 

 Greenland by way of the inland ice. He was 

 accompanied by Lieutenants Haven and 

 Broenlund. Lieutenant Broenlund's body 

 was found in a crevice near a depot of the ex- 

 pedition and was buried there, but the other 

 bodies were not found, owing to the heavy 

 snowfall. 



