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Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Balti- 

 more. 



Dr. C. O. Townsend, formerly in charge of 

 sugar beet investigations for the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture but more recently in 

 commercial sugar beet vcork at Garden City, 

 Kansas, has returned to Washington and is 

 again in charge of sugar beet investigation 

 for the Federal Department of Agriculture. 



Mr. HaelAjST I. Smith, archeologist of the 

 Geological Survey, Canada, is exploring in 

 the shell-heaps of Merigomisli, Nova Scotia. 

 Mr. W. B. Nickerson is continuing explora- 

 tions in the mounds, earthworks and village 

 sites of southwestern Manitoba, and Mr. W. J. 

 Wintemberg is exploring a section of country 

 between Prescott and Peterborough, Ontario, 

 for a site of 3. culture diiferent from that of 

 the Eoebuck site which he excavated in 1912. 



Mr. F. M. Anderson, curator, and Mr. 

 Bruce Martin, assistant curator of the de- 

 partment of invertebrate paleontology of the 

 California Academy of Sciences, with two as- 

 sistants, have recently left for South Amer- 

 . ica where they are engaged in making oil in- 

 vestigations for an oil company. Their field 

 of investigation is in the United States of 

 Colombia at Lorica which is midway between 

 the Magdalena and Atrato rivers. They have 

 already made extensive collections of inverte- 

 brate fossils in the tertiary strata of that re- 

 gion and they expect to make still larger col- 

 lections incidental to their work during the 

 next year. These collections will come to the 

 California Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. C. W. Hayes, who resigned the ofiice of 

 chief geologist in the United States Geolog- 

 ' ieal Survey in 1911 to take a position as vice- 

 president and general manager of the Mexican 

 Eagle Oil Company, with headquarters at 

 Tampico, has left Mexico for England. He 

 retains his connection with the company as first 

 vice-president, but will no longer act as gen- 

 eral manager. He will be occupied chiefly as 

 geological adviser to S. Pearson & Son, Ltd., 

 of which Lord Cowdray is the head, in connec- 

 tion with the operations of that firm in vari- 

 ous parts of the world. 



Mr. Ole Olsen has offered to place at the 

 disposal of Mr. Knud Easmussen funds suffi- 

 cient for the fitting out of a north polar 

 pedition. Mr. Easmussen has already traveled 

 much in Greenland and has made studies of 

 the Eskimo. The proposed expedition would 

 take provisions for two years and would in- 

 clude a scientific staff. A base camp would be 

 set up at Cape York, Greenland, and the ex- 

 pedition would probably start in 1915. 



The new session of the medical faculty of 

 the University of Manchester will be opened 

 on October 8 by an address by Professor E. S. 

 Eeynolds on the industrial diseases of Greater 

 Manchester. 



Professor Arthur Carleton Trowbridge, 

 of the State University of Iowa, gave an illus- 

 trated lecture at the University of Chicago on 

 August 13 on " Some Mountains of the United 

 States and Their Lihabitants," and Henry 

 Oldys, formerly of the United States Biolog- 

 ical Survey, lectured on August 20 and 21 on 

 "Bird Protection and Bird Music" and 

 " Birds at the National Capital." 



A statue of Captain Cook, by Sir Thomas 

 Brock, E.A., has been erected by public sub- 

 scription in London, on the Mall side of the 

 Admiralty Arch, at the end of the Proces- 

 sional Eoad, and was unveiled on July Y by 

 Prince Arthur of Connaught. 



Dr. Edouard Eeyer, professor of geology at 

 Vienna, has died at the age of fifty-sis years. 

 It is reported that in future the distribu- 

 tion of the Nobel prize will take place on 

 June 1 instead of in December, as hitherto. 

 The next distribution has been fixed for June 

 1, 1915. 



Announcement is made that the Interna- 

 tional Ophthalmological Congress, which was 

 to have been held at St. Petersburg in August, 

 has been postponed, and the same course will 

 doubtless be taken for all the international 

 congresses which had planned to meet in 

 Europe this year. 



It is stated in Nature that the whole of the 

 new buildings of the University of Birming- 

 ham at Edgbaston have been taken over by 

 the war office, and now form the first southern 



