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[N. S. Vol. XXXIII. No. 859 



Dr. Joseph H. White, of the TJ. S. Public 

 Health and Marine Hospital Service, was 

 elected president of the American Society of 

 Tropical Medicine at its recent New Orleans 

 meeting. 



The trustees of the Jefferson Medical Col- 

 lege, Philadelphia, on the recommendation 

 of the faculty, have elected Dr. "Warren B. 

 Davis as the Corinna Borden Keen research 

 fellow of the college. This election carries 

 with it an award of $1,000 for the purpose 

 of a year's research work in Europe upon any 

 subject approved by the faculty. 



A GRANT of two hundred dollars has been 

 made from the C. M. "Warren Fund of the 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences to 

 Dr. S. F. Acree, Johns Hopkins University, 

 for the study of the physical and chemical 

 properties of pure ethyl alcohol. A grant, 

 amounting in all to one hundred and fifty 

 dollars, has also been made to Dr. J. E. Gil- 

 pin, Johns Hopkins University, in aid of his 

 work on the study of the nature and source 

 of petroleum, which involves results on the 

 fractionation of petroleum by means of se- 

 lective absorption by porous materials, such 

 as fuller's earth. 



CuKATOR Bashford Dean, of the depart- 

 ment of ichthyology and herpetology in the 

 American Museum of Natural History, has 

 been appointed the official representative of 

 the museum at the twenty-second annual con- 

 ference of the Museums Association, which 

 will be held in Brighton, England, from July 

 10 to July 15, under the presidency of Mr. H. 

 M. Platnauer, B.Sc, and at the one hundredth 

 anniversary of the founding of the Universi- 

 tas Eegia Fredericiana at Christiania, which 

 is to take place on September 5 and 6. 



Professor Albert Johannsen, of the de- 

 partment of geology of the University of 

 Chicago, will sail from Montreal on the 

 seventeenth of this month to inspect the 

 petrological laboratories of the principal 

 European Universities. 



Dh. C. H. Shattuck, head of the depart- 

 ment of forestry at the University of Idaho, 

 will during the coming summer conduct a 



forestal and floral survey of the Kaniksu 

 National Forest. This survey will be similar 

 to that conducted by him last summer on the 

 Clearwater National Forest. The party will 

 consist of twelve men with headquarters at 

 Coolin, Idaho. 



Sir John Murray lectured before the Cali- 

 fornia chapter of Sigma Xi on May 11 on 

 " The Floor of the Ocean," using illustrations 

 from the recent cruise of the Norwegian 

 steamer Michael Sars in the Atlantic. 



The annual public address before the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan chapter of the society of 

 the Sigma Xi, was delivered, June 2, by Pro- 

 fessor J. Playfair McMurrich, of the Univer- 

 sity of Toronto, the subject of the address 

 being " Sir Francis Galton, his Life and 

 "Work." Professor F. 6. Novy was elected 

 president of the chapter. 



An address on " The Evolution of Human 

 Teeth and their Racial Differences," was de- 

 livered by Dr. A. Hrdlicka, of the Smithson- 

 ian Institution, on June 1, at Toronto, under 

 the auspices of the Ontario Dental Society, 

 and on June 2Y before the Alumni of the 

 dental department of the University of 

 Buffalo. On May 25 a similar address was 

 given by Dr. Hrdlicka before the Maryland 

 State Dental Association, at Baltimore. 



Mr. a. D. Darbishire has been appointed to 

 the newly instituted lectureship in genetics, 

 at the University of Edinburgh, and will de- 

 liver a course of six lectures on heredity dur- 

 ing the summer session. 



The statue to Captain Cook, the plans for 

 which have been noted in Science, will be 

 placed on the Mall side of the Admiralty 

 arch, on the right hand going towards Char- 

 ing Cross. The execution of the statue has 

 been entrusted to Sir Thomas Brock^ 



The executive committee on the Chiene 

 portrait fund has resolved to hand to the 

 University of Edinburgh the balance of the 

 fund, about $1,500, for the foundation of a 

 bronze medal, to be called the " Chiene Medal 

 in Surgery." 



Dr. Edward Burnett Vorhees, professor 

 of agriculture at Rutgers College and direc- 



