August 7, 1914] 



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complete, but the Endurance, -witli the Wed- 

 dell Sea party, has now sailed. 



A BILL to extend the thanks of congress to 

 the engineering members of the Isthmian 

 Canal Commission has been reported to the 

 House with a favorable recommendation by 

 the Military Affairs Committee. The men 

 who would receive this honor are Colonel 

 George W. Goethals, General William C. 

 Gorgas, Colonel H. F. Hodges, Lieutenant 

 Colonel William L. Sibert and Civil Engi- 

 neer H. H. Eousseau. The bill authorizes 

 the president to advance Colonel Goethals 

 and General Gorgas to the rank of Major 

 General, the former of the line and the 

 latter of the medical department. It is pro- 

 vided also that the president may, upon the 

 retirement of Colonel Hodges, Lieutenant 

 Colonel Sibert and Civil Engineer Eousseau, 

 advance each of these officers one grade on the 

 retired list. 



Sir Clements Markham has unveiled at 

 Cheltenham a statue of Dr. Edward Adrian 

 Wilson, who was born in that tovra, and per- 

 ished with Captain Scott on the great ice 

 barrier in March, 1912. The statue was de- 

 signed by Lady Scott. 



Professor Francis Humphreys Storeer, 

 from 1865 to 1870 professor of chemistry in 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 and, from 1870 to his retirement as emeritus 

 professor in 1907, professor of agricultural 

 chemistry at Harvard University, has died at 

 the age of eighty-two years. 



The Eev. Horace Carter Hovey, fellow of 

 the Geological Society of America and of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, known especially for his publications 

 on caverns and subterreanean fauna and flora, 

 died at his home at Newburyport, Mass., on 

 August 27, in his eighty-second year. 



Dr. Frederic Lawrence Kortright, B.S. 

 (Cornell, '90), Sc.D. (Cornell, '95), instructor 

 in chemistry at Cornell University from 1892 

 to 1899, and subsequently assistant professor 

 and professor at the University of West Vir- 

 ginia, author of contributions on the rare 



earths, citric acid, silica and other chemical 

 subjects, died on July 13, at the age of forty- 

 seven years. 



Professor Franklin William Hooper, di- 

 rector of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences, the author of contributions on algae 

 and glacial geology, died on August 1 at the 

 age of sixty-three years. 



The Eev. Osmond Fisher, at one time tutor 

 of Jesus College, Cambridge, known for his 

 important contributions to geology, died on 

 July 12, at the age of ninety-six years. 



The death is announced, in his sixty-sixth 

 year, of Sir Christopher Nixon, ex-president of 

 the Eoyal College of Physicians of Ireland, 

 and Vice-Chancellor of the National Univer- 

 sity of Ireland. 



Professor Paul Eeclus, the distinguished 

 Paris surgeon, died on July 29, in his sixty- 

 eighth year. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for plant physiologist, 

 experienced in plant metabolism, for men only, 

 to fill a vacancy in the Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try, Department of Agriculture, at a salary of 

 $3,000 a year. A Ph.D. or D.Sc. degree from a 

 college or university of recognized standing, 

 and at least five years' experience in plant 

 physiology since receiving the bachelor's de- 

 gree, are prerequisites for consideration for 

 this position. Applicants must have reached 

 their twenty-fifth but not their forty-fifth 

 birthday on the date of examination. 



The Eoyal Agricultural Society of England 

 is offering a medal for a monograph or essay, 

 which has not been previously published, 

 giving evidence of original research in any 

 agricultural subject or any of the cognate 

 agricultural sciences applicable to British 

 farming. 



The German Paleontological Society is to 

 hold its annual meeting this year in London 

 at the British Museum of Natural History on 

 September 2 to 5. On September 5 and 6 the 

 members will visit Oxford, and on September 



