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Sigma Xi as successor to Professor William 

 H. Burr. 



Dr. F. E. Clements, professor of botany in 

 the University of Minnesota, has been elected 

 president of the Chapter of Sigma Xi in that 

 university. 



Mr. W. C. Cox, of the U. S. Forest Service, 

 has been appointed to the newly created post 

 of state forester of Minnesota. 



At a meeting of the Royal Dublin Society 

 held on April 25, the Boyle medal of the so- 

 ciety was presented to Professor John Joly, 

 F.E.S., whose researches deal with physics, 

 geology, mineralogy, botany and biological 

 theory. 



Professor A. C. Seward, F.R.S., has been 

 elected president of a newly established Cam- 

 bridge University Eugenics Society. 



The council of the Institution of Civil 

 Engineers has made the following awards for 

 papers read and discussed during the session 

 1910-11: Telford gold medals to Mr. W. J. 

 Wilgus (New York) and Mr. J. Walker 

 Smith (Edinburgh) ; a George Stephenson 

 gold medal to Mr. Philip Dawson (London) ; 

 Telford premiums to Messrs. G. W. Hum- 

 phreys (London), H. K. G. Bamber (Green- 

 hithe), A. E. Carey (London), William Daw- 

 son (Crewe) and C. S. E. Palmer (London) ; 

 and the Trevithick premium to Mr. A. T. 

 Blackall (Reading). 



JosiAH RoYCE, professor of the history of 

 philosophy at Harvard, will be the university 

 delegate at the celebration of the five hun- 

 dredth anniversary of the University of St. 

 Andrews. 



The American Philosophical Society has 

 made the following appointments of delegates 

 to represent it: At the jubilee of Professor 

 Giovanni Copellini, to be held at Bologna on 

 June 12 next. Professor Dott. Guglielmo 

 Mengairni, of Rome. At the tenth Interna- 

 tional Congress of Geography to be held at 

 Rome from October 15 to 22, 1911, Mr. Henry 

 G. Bryant. At the thirtieth Congres National 

 des Societes Frangaises de Geographic to be 

 held at Eoubaix, France, from July 29 to Au- 

 gust 5, 1911, Mr. Julius F. Sachse. 



Mr. C. W. Beebe, curator of ornithology of 

 the N. Y. Zoological Society, and Mrs. Beebe 

 have returned from an extended expedition 

 for the study and collection of pheasants in 

 eastern countries. 



It is stated in Nature that Professor Hans 

 Meyer will undertake in May his fourth jour- 

 ney in East Africa. Starting from Bukoba, 

 on the west shore of Lake Victoria, he pro- 

 poses to march to Lake Kiva and the Kirunga 

 group of volcanoes, in order to study the rela- 

 tions of the volcanic phenomena to the tec- 

 tonic structure of the western rift system at 

 this point. From Kiva the expedition will 

 travel by Lake Tanganyika and, if time per- 

 mits, also to Lake Nyassa. Besides geological 

 studies, the botany, zoology and ethnology of 

 the region traversed wiU also be investigated. 



On the evening of April 28 Professor Ed- 

 ward L. Nichols, of Cornell University, deliv- 

 ered the annual address before the Iowa Acad- 

 emy of Science on the subject, "The Ends of 

 the Spectrum." Professor Nichols visited the 

 State University of Iowa on April 29, April 

 30 and May 1. He delivered lectures in the 

 department of physics on recent work in 

 luminescence, and one open to the public on 

 " Daylight." 



Dr. John M. Clarke, state geologist and 

 director of science in the New York State 

 Education Department, gave an illustrated 

 lecture before the departments of geology and 

 biology of Colgate University on the evening 

 of May 3. His subject was " The Magdalen 

 Islands and the Bird Rocks." 



On April 13, Professor Heinrich Ries, pro- 

 fessor of economic geology, Cornell Univer- 

 sity, lectured at the University of Alabama 

 on the economic geology of the Canadian 

 northwest. 



Me. F. E. Matthes, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, is delivering a course of twelve illus- 

 trated lectures with accompanying laboratory 

 work before the students of the University of 

 Michigan, the subject of the lectures being, 

 " Topographic Mapping." On May 3, by in- 

 vitation of the Michigan Chapter of Sigma 

 Xi, Mr. Matthes told in a popular lecture 



