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facturers, held on March 24, the following 

 resolution was unanimously adopted: 



The Board of Government desires to express its 

 profound sorrow at the death of the secretary of 

 the association, Dr. Charles J. H. Woodbury. 



This association, and the cotton industry in gen- 

 eral, owes to Dr. Woodbury a debt which is un- 

 measurable. Devoting himself in early life to the 

 problems of mill construction and fire protection, 

 he has, during all his official connection with the 

 association, of upwards of twenty-five years, been 

 the leader in all movements tending to improve 

 the processes and methods of textile mills. Under 

 the guidance of his trained, scientific mind, 

 the Transactions of the association have recorded 

 in the fullest degree the development of the cot- 

 ton industry in its technical, historical and social 

 aspects; and they stand as a worthy monument to 

 his memory. 



Theodore Pergande, the oldest scientific as- 

 sistant in point of continued service in the 

 Bureau of Entomology of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, died on March 23, in 

 Washington, at the age of seventy-six. He 

 was born in Germany ; came to America at the 

 outbreak of the Civil War; served through the 

 war in the northern army, and later became 

 assistant to the late C. V. Kiley when the lat- 

 ter was state entomologist of Missouri, coming 

 with him to the Department of Agriculture at 

 Washington in June, 1878. He was a keen 

 observer of the structure and habits of in- 

 sects, and was especially noted for his work on 

 the Aphididse. 



Professor Harry B. Nkon, who held the 

 chair of mathematics at Gettysburg College, 

 died on March 30. 



Leon Labbe, a leading Paris surgeon, mem- 

 ber of the French Institute, has died at the age 

 of eighty-four years. 



Professor Bela Alexander, director of the 

 radiologic institute at Budapest, died at the 

 age of fifty-seven years on February 10. 



Dr. Allan M. Cleghorn, formerly assistant 

 in physiology in the Harvard Medical School, 

 subsequently naturalist for the Algonquin 

 Park in Ontario, and recently captain in the 

 Eoyal Army Medical Corps, has died in Eng- 



land after a brief illness, at the age of forty- 

 four years. 



ISTew York State civil service examinations 

 will be held on May 6, as follows: Physiolog- 

 ical chemist, State Department of Health. 

 Salary, $1,800 to $2,500. Applicants should 

 have a thorough knowledge of the principles of 

 organic and physiological chemistry. They 

 must have had at least three years' practical 

 experience in physiological or biological chem- 

 istry. Chemist, Public Service Commission, 

 First District. $1,800 to $2,100. Men only. 

 It is essential that candidates shall have had 

 experience in the analysis of asphalt, coal tar, 

 pitches and mixed paints; experience in the 

 analysis of steel, cast iron, cement, dry pig- 

 ments, water, etc., will be helpful. 



According to a cablegram from London to 

 the daily papers arrangements for the fitting 

 out of a relief ship to go in search of Lieuten- 

 ant Shackleton's Antarctic expedition were 

 being made, though the fate of Shackleton 

 and other members of his party was in doubt. 

 The New Zealand authorities were urged by 

 cable again to attempt wireless communica- 

 tion with the ship Aurora, which first reported 

 the Shackleton party in peril. The Aurora's 

 wireless message was badly garbled in trans- 

 mission. Lady Shackleton as well as his ex- 

 plorer friends profess confidence that Lieu- 

 tenant Shackleton and his men will return 

 alive. They believe Shackleton by this time 

 either has abandoned his attempt to cross the 

 Polar seas from the South American side and 

 is returning to Buenos Ayres, or that he is al- 

 ready safely over the South Pole and vsdll soon 

 join Captain Mcintosh and his men at Cape 

 Crozier. Antarctic fowls will supply the party 

 with food if their rations run short. Polar ex- 

 perts declare. Only brief despatches, telling 

 of the disaster to the New Zealand party of the 

 Shackleton expedition, have reached London. 

 According to these despatches, the Aurora 

 broke adrift from her moorings last May dur- 

 ing a violent blizzard. Captain Mcintosh 

 with eight men was ashore at that time estab- 

 lishing a food depot and engaged in scientific 

 explorations. The Aurora drifted northward 



