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Building operations will begin early in 1915 

 and the dome should be ready for the telescope 

 in the fall of that year. Word has been re- 

 ceived that the Y2-inch disc for the mirror has 

 been successfully cast and annealed at St. 

 Gobain, and work on its grinding and polish- 

 ing will shortly be commenced. The design of 

 the mounting, which has many new features, 

 and will undoubtedly be better and more con- 

 venient in operation than any hitherto made, 

 is practically completed and construction work 

 on the heavy steel castings required has been 

 begun. It is hoped, therefore, that the tele- 

 scope will be mounted and ready for operation 

 by the end of nest year. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



A REPLICA of the bust of Louis Pasteur by 

 Dubois has been presented to -the American 

 Museum of Natural History for installation in 

 the hall of public health, through the generos- 

 ity of Dr. Eoux, director of the Pasteur Insti- 

 tute in Paris and M. Vallery-Eadot, son-in-law 

 of M. Pasteur. 



Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of 

 Harvard University, has been elected a corre- 

 sponding fellow of the British Academy. 



The Canadian government has appointed 

 Mr. James White to be assistant chairman of 

 the Commission of Conservation, and Dr. C. 

 Gordon Hewitt, dominion entomologist, to be 

 Canadian representative on the permanent 

 committee of the " International Conference 

 for the Global Protection of Nature." 



Mr. James Barnes, of the Barnes-Kearton 

 expedition, which crossed Central Africa under 

 the auspices of the American Museum, has re- 

 turned to New York, bringing with him a se- 

 ries of motion-picture films. Mr. Barnes will 

 give an exhibition of these films to the mem- 

 bers of the museum in the fall. 



The Eoyal Institute of Public Health, in 

 pursuance of the terms of a trust which enables 

 it to award annually a gold medal to a public 

 health medical official, at home or abroad, in 

 recognition of conspicuous services rendered to 

 the cause of preventive medicine within the 



British empire, has conferred the medal for 

 1914 upon Mr. James Niven, medical officer of 

 health for Manchester. 



We learn from Nature that the honorary 

 freedom of Newcastle-on-Tyne was conferred 

 on Hon. Sir C. A. Parsons on July 10 in recog- 

 nition of his achievements in science, particu- 

 larly as the inventor of the steam turbine. It 

 had been decided to confer a similar honor on 

 Sir Joseph W. Swan, but he has since died. 

 The symbols of the freedom — a scroll and 

 casket — have, however, been presented to a rep- 

 resentative of his family. 



Sir John Tweedy, formerly president of the 

 Eoyal College of Surgeons of England, has 

 been elected president of the Medical Defence 

 Union, in the room of Dr. Edgar Barnes. 



V. I. Sapro (Cornell, '09), formerly of the 

 U. S. Bureau of Entomology and the Oregon 

 Agricultural College, has been appointed ento- 

 mologist with the Kentucky Tobacco Product 

 Company, of Louisville, Kentucky. 



The following list of members of the Im- 

 perial Transantarctic Expedition is given in 

 Nature: Weddell Sea Party — Sir Ernest H. 

 Shackleton, leader of the expedition; Mr. 

 Prank Wild, second in command; Mr. G. 

 Marston, Mr. T. Crean, Captain Orde Lees, 

 Lieutenant P. Dobbs, Lieutenant Courtney 

 Broeklehurst, Mr. J. Wordie, geologist; Mr» 

 E. W. James, physicist and magnetician; Mr. 

 L. H. Hussey, assistant magnetician and 

 meteorologist; Mr. P. Hurley, photographer 

 and kinematographer ; Mr. V. Studd, geolo- 

 gist; Lieutenant P. A. Worsley, in navigating 

 command of the Endurance on the voyage 

 from London to Buenos Aires and the Wed- 

 dell Sea, and afterwards to take part in the 

 surveying and exploring of the coast; Mr.. 

 Jeffreys, Mr. Hudson and Mr. A. Cheetham. 

 Boss Sea Party — Lieutenant Aeneas Mackin- 

 tosh, leader and meteorologist; Mr. E. Joyce, 

 zoologist; Mr. H. Ninnis; Mr. H. Wild, and 

 Dr. Macklin, surgeon. There only remain two 

 vacancies, and these are to be filled by another 

 doctor and a biologist. The arrangements for 

 the Eoss Sea ship Aurora are not yet quite 



