SCIENCE 



[N. S, Vol. XLII. No. 1089 



University, after a long trip in British East 

 Africa for the same purpose. 



R. I. Smith, formerly professor of entomol- 

 ogy in the IJniversity of Porto Rico, College 

 of Agriculture, Mayaguez, has been placed in. 

 charge of the Boston office for the foreign cot- 

 ton quarantine, against the pink boll worm of 

 Egypt and other coimtries. 



Dr. Samuel W. Steatton, director of the 

 United States Bureau of Standards, gave an 

 illustrated lecture before the engineering stu- 

 dents of the Ohio State University on !N"ovem- 

 ber 5, on " The Work of the Bureau of 

 Standards." 



Dr. William S. Franklin, recently professor 

 of physics in Lehigh University, lectured be- 

 fore the students of Sibley College, Cornell 

 University, on ITovember 3, on " Some Me- 

 chanical Analogies in Electricity and Mag- 

 netism," with experiments. On liTovember 5, 

 at a meeting of the local section of the Amer- 

 ican Institute of Electrical Engineers, he gave 

 a talk " On Electric Waves," with demonstra- 

 tions and experiments. 



Peofessor Maeston Taylor Bogeet, of 

 Columbia University, on October 25, addressed 

 the staff and students of the school of chemis- 

 try of the University of Pittsburgh and of the 

 Mellon Institute upon " Reminiscences of 

 Famous European Chemists and Chemical 

 Laboratories." 



The Swiney lectures on geology in connec- 

 tion with the British Museimi (N'atural His- 

 tory) will be delivered by Dr. J. D. Falconer, 

 beginning N'ovember 13. There wiU be twelve 

 lectures on " Ice and the Ice Age." 



The lectures before the Royal College of 

 Physicians of London this autumn are as fol- 

 lows: The Bradshaw Lectm:e, by Dr. Mitchell 

 Clarke, on November 2, the subject being nerv- 

 ous affections of the sixth and seventh decades 

 of life ; the FitzPatrick Lectures on November 

 4 and 9, by Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, on medicine, 

 magic and religion; and the Goulstonian Lec- 

 tures, by Dr. Gordon Holmes, on November 

 16, 18 and 23, on acute spinal lesions, with 

 special reference to those of warfare. 



Brigadier-general George M. Sternberg, 

 retired, surgeon-general of the army, from 

 1893 to 1902, distinguished for his investiga- 

 tions of yellow fever and other diseases, died 

 at his home in Washington, on November 3, 

 at the age of seventy-seven years. 



Wirt Tassin, formerly chief chemist and 

 assistant curator of the division of mineralogy, 

 U. S. National Museum, since 1908 a consult- 

 ing metallurgist at Chester, Pa., known for his 

 contribution to mineralogy and metallurgy, 

 died on November 2, at the age of forty-six 

 years. 



Dr. William Noyes, for fifteen years super- 

 intendent of the Boston Insane Hospital, 

 known for his work on neurology and psy- 

 chiatry, died on October 20, at his home in 

 Jamaica Plain, aged fifty-eight years. 



Felix Leconte, professor in physical and 

 mathematical sciences at the University of 

 Ghent, died in London on October 11, aged 

 fifty years. 



As a result of the explorations of the Sibe- 

 rian expedition of the Museum of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, the university will 

 shortly be the possessor of a valuable collec- 

 tion of ethnological specimens from the primi- 

 tive Tungus tribes in the arctic regions of 

 Siberia, and the scientific world enriched by 

 writings and data on a branch of the Mongo- 

 lian race of which hitherto virtually nothing 

 has been known. More than 700 miles were 

 traveled by the explorers through a country al- 

 most without food and sometimes with a tera- 

 perature as low as 80 degrees below zero. The 

 University Museum's Amazon Expedition has 

 forwarded an account of its discovery of the 

 original habitat of the Mondurucus Indians, 

 a little-known tribe of savages who behead 

 their enemies and then boil the heads. Dr. 

 William C. Farabee, who is in charge of the 

 expedition, spent a long time among the Mun- 

 durucus, studying their language, their man- 

 ners and customs and making a vocabulary and 

 writing down much of their folk-lore, as a re- 

 sult of which he expects to settle absolutely 

 the long vexed question of the relation of this 

 tribe to the Tupi. He also visited villages of 



