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ana University for the year 1915 and is ac- 

 cordingly relieved from all teacMng. He plans 

 to devote all but three or four months in com- 

 pleting his studies of the distribution of the 

 fishes of western Ecuador and western Co- 

 lombia and its bearing of this on the east and 

 west slope fauna of Panama. He intends to 

 spend the winter months in correlating the 

 freshwater fa/una of the lesser Antilles to that 

 of South America. 



We learn from the Geographical Journal 

 that the Amnauer Hansen^ a small boat of 

 about 50 tons, only some Y5 feet long, started 

 from Plymouth at the beginning of June for 

 a two months' scientific cruise in the Atlantic. 

 The scientific work will be under the direction 

 of Professor Helland-Hansen, director of the 

 Marine Biological Station at Bergen, and 

 Professor Fridtjof Nansen and his son ac- 

 company the party. The expenses of the 

 cruise have been partly defrayed by the Nan- 

 sen fund, and the program includes observa- 

 tions of ocean temperatures, currents, salini- 

 ties, light penetration and so forth. The ves- 

 sel is constructed on the same principle as a 

 Norwegian lifeboat, and is worked partly by 

 motor and partly by sail. 



Dr. W. S. Bruce, of Edinburgh, has left the 

 Tyne on an expedition in the waters of Spitz- 

 bergen. It is his intention to proceed to 

 Tromso, where the expedition will be finally 

 fitted out. A number of motor-boats will be 

 used by the party. The expedition, which will 

 last several months, wUl be occupied with a 

 series of extensive soundings in the neighbor- 

 hood of Spitzbergen and with the effort to 

 chart a number of islands not at present on 

 the maps of mariners. 



Professor Ellsworth Huntington, of Tale 

 University, lectured before the students in 

 geography and geology in the Columbia Uni- 

 versity Summer Session on July 20, on " Cli- 

 matic Changes and their Geographic Effects." 

 The scientific society Antonio Alzate, 

 Mexico City, celebrated on July 6 the tercen- 

 tenary of the discovery of logarithms by John 

 Napier, when a commemorative address was 

 made by Senor Don Joaquin de Mendizabel y 

 Tamborrel. 



Mrs. Poynting has presented the scientific 

 library of the late Professor J. H. Poynting 

 to the physics department of the University of 

 Birmingham. 



Daniel A. Carrion, a medical student in 

 Lima, Peru, inoculated himself in 1885 with 

 blood from a verruga tumor in an effort to 

 throw light on the nature of the disease, and 

 he died from it in less than two months. The 

 sixth Pan-American Congress held at Lima 

 last year started a fund for a monument to 

 this young martyr to science, and subscrip- 

 tions are now being received. The fund is in 

 charge of the dean of the medical faculty, 

 Professor E. Odriozola, Lima, Peru. 



Dr. Nicholas Lequaree, formerly professor 

 of the history of geography at Liittieh, has 

 died at the age of eighty-one years. 



De. Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Dugnet, vice- 

 president of the Paris Academy of Medicine, 

 died on July 4, at the age of seventy-seven 

 years. 



Miss L. E. Lawrence and Miss M. W. 

 Lawrence have presented £4,000 to the Royal 

 Society to devote the interest to the further- 

 ance of research into the cause and cure of 

 disease in man and animals. The donors de- 

 sire to associate the gift with the memory of 

 their father. Sir W. Lawrence, F.R.S., and 

 their brother, Sir Trevor Lawrence. 



The Ernst Haeckel foundation for monism 

 has transferred to the University of Jena 

 $Y5,000, for the Phyletische Archiv, a publica- 

 tion of the Phyletische Museum established 

 by Professor Haeckel. 



The Smithsonian Institution gave in the 

 auditorium of the U. S. National Museum on 

 July 16 an exhibition of motion pictures 

 taken below the sea at the Bahama Islands, 

 by the Submarine Eilm Corporation. 



At the second Congress for Eadioactivity 

 and Electronics held in Brussels in the year 

 1910, the following committee was appointed 

 to make arrangements for the third congress : 

 M. Curie, Paris, E. Eutherford, Manchester, 

 I. E. Verschaffelt, Uccle (Belgium), E. v. 

 Aubel, Gent, A. Righi, Bologna, W. Wien, 

 Wiirzburg, F. Exner, Vienna, B. B. Boltwood, 



