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Mambulse Bay, Ambos Camarines. Warren D. 

 Smith, chief of the division, has returned from 

 two months' field work in northern Luzon in 

 the territory of the Kalingas and Ifugaos. He 

 secured a collection of fossil plants and also 

 marine tertiary fossils. Mount Amuyo, the 

 second highest peak in Luzon, was ascended 

 and its elevation determined by hypsometer. 

 The extension of the Benguet and Maneayan- 

 Suyoc mineral belt was traced and new areas 

 indicated for prospecting. 



The Eoyal Society of Arts has received 

 from Mr. E. Le Neve Foster £100 to found a 

 prize in memory of his father, the late Mr. 

 Peter Le Neve Foster. 



A MOVEMENT for the foundation of a Scott- 

 ish Oceanographical Institute in Edinburgh, 

 to be a memorial to the late Sir John Murray, 

 has been inaugurated, a committee having been 

 formed for the purpose of considering how 

 such an institution may best be organized, with 

 power to issue an appeal for funds. The mem- 

 bers of the committee include Lord Stair, 

 president of the Eoyal Scottish Geographical 

 Society; Professor James Geikie, president of 

 the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh; J. T. Buch- 

 anan, of the Challenger Expedition; Dr. W. S. 

 Bruce and others. 



Dr. Albert Smith Bickmore, superinten- 

 dent of the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory from 1869 to 1904 and subsequently in 

 charge of the department of public instruction 

 until his retirement as professor emeritus in 

 1904, died on August 13, at the age of seventy- 

 five years. 



The death is announced of M. Femand 

 Foureau, the explorer of the Sahara and 

 governor of the colony of Martinique, at the 

 age of sixty-four years. 



Dr. Josef Hannack, a distinguished Aus- 

 trian engineer, has died at the age of fifty- 

 nine years. 



Professor Hermann Klein, of Cologne, 

 known for his contributions to astronomy and 

 meteorology, has died at the age of seventy 

 years. 



The TJ. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for specialist in indus- 



trial education to fill a vacancy in this posi- 

 tion in the Bureau of Education, at a salary 

 of $3,500 a year. The duties of this position 

 will be performed at Washington, D. C, and 

 elsewhere, and will include the study of voca- 

 tional education, the collection and compila- 

 tion of information relating thereto, and the 

 giving of advice to education officers through- 

 out the United States for the establishment of 

 courses of study in vocational education. 



Dr. Hrdlicka, secretary of the Nineteenth 

 International Congress of Americanists, writes 

 that unless unfavorable conditions due to the 

 war in Europe make a change in date impera- 

 tive, the congress will be held at Washington 

 as announced, October 5 to 10. 



The eighth meeting of the Italian Society 

 for the Advancement of Science will be held 

 at Bari on October 8-13, 1914, under the 

 presidency of Professor CamUlo Golgi. 



The International Pharmaceutical Federa- 

 tion planned to meet at Berne on August 7 

 and 8 under the presidency of Professor L. 

 van Itallie. 



The Swiss Naturforschende Gesellschaft 

 offers prizes for the solution of the following 

 problems : For June 1, 1915 : " To Investigate 

 Eadioactivity and Electricity of the Atmo- 

 sphere in the Alps, the Jura and Intermediate 

 Eegions." For June 1, 1916: "The Phenom- 

 enon of Twilight according to Former and 

 New Observations in Switzerland." 



According to the Scientific American the 

 South American expedition of the University 

 of Pennsylvania Museum has completed a year 

 of highly successful exploration in the region 

 lying along the boundary between BrazU and 

 the Guianas. Besides important geographical 

 discoveries, the expedition has obtained ethno- 

 logical information relative to twelve different 

 tribes, half of which were hitherto entirely un- 

 knovni, including vocabularies and other 

 linguistic studies, anthropometric measure- 

 ments, collections of myths and legends, and 

 about 600 photographs. The next work of the 

 expedition wiU probably be in the territory 

 drained by the upper Eio Negro and the 

 upper Orinoco. 



