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ating lines of variation which were most in- 

 structive, and which found a place in some of 

 the most important museums. He had been 

 long a widower, and, as age diminished his 

 energies, he retired to Oakland, where for the 

 last few years he made his home with an only 

 daughter. His kindly ways and generosity to 

 others will keep his memory green among 

 those who knew him. He left what is doubt- 

 less the best and most complete collection of 

 Pacific coast shells, up to the time of his re- 

 tirement, that is to be found anywhere except 

 in the National Museum. It is particularly 

 rich in series showing variation, and in the 

 land shells; also including much valuable 

 exotic material received in exchange. It is to 

 be hoped that this collection may be preserved 

 intact in one of the public institutions of the 

 Pacific coast, as at present a collection of 

 shells worthy of the state of his adoption does 

 not exist in any university or museum west of 

 the Eockies. 



Wm. H. Dall 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



On account of the international crisis, the 

 meeting of the American Chemical Society, 

 which was to have been held in Montreal in 

 September, has been indefinitely postponed. 



Dr. Max Rubner has been appointed di- 

 rector of the Kaiser Wilhelm Laboratory for 

 Physiology to be erected in Berlin. 



Dr. Karl Eunge, professor of applied mathe- 

 matics at Gottingen and several years since 

 visiting professor to Columbia University, has 

 been elected Prorektor of the University of 

 Gottingen. 



Dr. Wilhelm Waldeyer, professor of anat- 

 omy at Berlin, celebrated the fiftieth anniver- 

 sary of his doctorate on July 20. 



Dr. Alexis Carroll, of the Eockefeller In- 

 stitute for Medical Eesearch, is reported to 

 have gone to the front as a French army 

 surgeon. ^ 



Lord Welby has been elected president of 

 the Eoyal Statistical Society. 



Dr. Severance Burrage, professor of sani- 

 tary science in Purdue University, has been 



elected president of the Indiana Academy of 

 Sciences. 



Dr. Mazyck p. Eavenel, who recently re- 

 signed the chair of bacteriology in the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin to accept a similar chair in 

 the University of Missouri, has been appointed 

 a member of the advisory board of the hygienic 

 laboratory of the United States Public Health 

 Service, Washington. 



Major Thomas L. Ehodes has been trans- 

 ferred to the Panama Canal service, and has 

 been appointed superintendent of the Colon 

 Hospital. 



Dk. Oscar Eiddle, of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion, delivered the annual address before the 

 American Academy of Medicine at its At- 

 lantic City meeting on the evening of June 

 19. His subject was " The Determination of 

 Sex and Its Experimental Control." 



"Panama and the Canal" was the subject 

 cf an illustrated lecture at the University of 

 Chicago on August lY, by Mr. Frank A. 

 Gause, superintendent of the schools of the 

 Canal Zone. 



Professor H. L- Fairchild delivered a lec- 

 ture on " Ancient Sea Margins in the Hudson 

 and Connecticut Valleys" before the students 

 of geography and geology at the Columbia 

 University summer session on August 12. 



The name " Eio Theodoro " has been given 

 by the Brazilian government, at the suggestion 

 of Dr. Miiller, Brazilian secretary of state for 

 foreign afiairs, to the river recently explored 

 by Mr. Eoosevelt's expedition, and heretofore 

 known as the Eio da Duvida. 



We learn from Economic Geology that the 

 Division of Mines of the Bureau of Science, 

 Philippine government, has recently suffered 

 the loss of Mr. Paul E. Fanning, metallurgist, 

 who is now metallurgist for a zinc company, 

 and Mr. Frank T. Eddingfield, mining engi- 

 neer, who has reurned to Washington. Mr. 

 Wallace E. Pratt, geologist, has returned from 

 six weeks' reconnaissance work in the Cara- 

 moan Peninsula, southeastern Luzon, where 

 there exists a very interesting area of schistose 

 rocks. He also made an examination of an 

 iron deposit on a small island in the mouth of 



