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tains of the Isthmus of Darien in eastern 

 Panama, bringing with them for the American 

 Museum of Natural History a collection of 

 1,100 birds and 250 mammals, many of which 

 •are new to the museum's collections and some 

 'undoubtedly new to science. 



Dr. F. W. Pennell, associate curator of the 

 New York Botanical Garden, is engaged in 

 collecting in the Eocky Mountain region of 

 Colorado, the Wahsatch Mountains of Utah 

 and the Yellowstone National Park. The ob- 

 ject of the trip is to study and collect plants of 

 vScrophulariaeeae. Pentstemon and Castilleja 

 ;are the principal genera to be found in this 

 ■region. He also asks the cooperation of col- 

 lectors throughout the country in respect to 

 ^liis family, as many critical problems can only 

 be solved after the accumulation of ample 

 material. 



Dr. C. K. Schneider, of Vienna, who has 

 recently been engaged in botanical exploration 

 in western China, has been visiting the botan- 

 ical institutions of the United States. Dr. 

 Schneider is an authority on woody plants. 



The schooner George B. Cluett, chartered 

 by the Crocker Land relief expedition to go in 

 quest of Donald B. MacMillan and the mem- 

 bers of his party in Greenland, expected to 

 sail from North Sydney, Nova Scotia, on July 

 10. Dr. Edmund Otis Hovey, of the Ameri- 

 can Musuem of Natural History, chairman of 

 the Crocker Land Exploration Committee, is 

 in charge. 



On July 1, Professor C. J. Keyser, of Co- 

 lumbia University, delivered an address on 

 " The Human Worth of Eigorous Thinking,'' 

 before the mathematics section of the Cali- 

 fornia High School Teachers' Association, at 

 the University of California. On the evening 

 of July 12 he presented a paper on science and 

 religion before the Chit-Chat Club of San 

 Francisco at a meeting held at the University 

 Club of San Francisco. 



Sir William Eamsat gave the address on 

 July 1 at the annual meeting of the British 

 Science Guild on "The National Organiza- 

 tion of Science." 



The annual general meeting of the Eugenics 

 Education Society was held on July 1, when 

 the presidential address was delivered by Major 

 Leonard Darwin on the subject, " Eugenics 

 during and after the War." 



Dr. S. Alexander, professor of philosophy 

 in the University of Manchester, has been ap- 

 pointed to the post of Gifford lecturer at the 

 University of Glasgow for the period of 1916- 

 1918. 



Through the generosity of an anonymous 

 donor, a lectureship has been established at the 

 Mount Sinai Hospital named after the late 

 Dr. Edward G. Janeway, who was for many 

 years associated with the medical staff. The 

 foundation has been created for the purpose 

 of inviting important investigators to present 

 the results of their work to the staff of the 

 hospital. 



The centenary of the birth of David Waldie, 

 who suggested a trial of chloroform as an an- 

 esthetic to Sir James Simpson, has been com- 

 memorated by a bronze tablet, placed on the 

 house in Linlithgow where he lived for some 

 time. It has on it a portrait of Waldie, with 

 an inscription in which he is described as a 

 pioneer in anesthetic research. 



In Science for July 9 the death was recorded 

 of Professor Pieter Zeeman, of the University 

 of Leiden. Unfortunately he was confused 

 in this and other journals with Professor 

 Pieter Zeeman, of the University of Amster- 

 dam, the well-known discoverer of the magnetic 

 resolution of spectral lines. Physicists wiU 

 regret the loss of the distinguished professor of 

 theoretical and geometrical mechanics in the 

 University of Leiden, but will be glad to know 

 that work of such fundamental importance as 

 that done in the Amsterdam laboratory on the 

 spectrum is not to be interrupted by the un- 

 timely death of its author. 



Professor Frederick Prime, who held the 

 chair of natural history in Girard College, 

 Philadelphia, and had previously been pro- 

 fessor of geology and metallurgy in Lafayette 

 College, one of the secretaries of the American 

 Philosophical Society, has died at the age of 

 seventy years. 



