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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLII. No. 1090 



nesota section of the American Chemical So- 

 siety. 



Dr. Claek Wissler and Dr. Eobert H. 

 Lowie, of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, have been appointed delegates from 

 the New York Academy of Sciences to the 

 Nineteenth International Congress of Ameri- 

 canists which meets in Washington at the end 

 of December. 



It is stated in Nature that in addition to 

 the awards announced in April for papers 

 read at the meetings, the council of the In- 

 stitution of Civil Engineers has made the fol- 

 lowing awards for papers published in the 

 Proceedings during the session 1914^15: A 

 Telford gold medal to Mr. James Forgie 

 (New York) ; Telford premiums to Messrs. J. 

 K. Mason (Dunedin, N. Z.), Harold Berridge 

 (Aden), C. E. White (London), C. S. Church- 

 ill (Eoanoke, Va.), and the Trevithick pre- 

 mium to Mr. A. Poulson (Lemvig, Denmark). 

 The Indian premium for 1915 has been 

 awarded to Mr. C. W. Anderson (Midnapore, 

 India). The ninety-seventh session of the In- 

 stitution was opened on November 2, when 

 Mr. Alexander Eoss, president, delivered an 

 address and presented the awards. 



Mr. Frank C. Baker, until recently acting 

 director of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, 

 now zoological investigator for the New York 

 State College of Forestry at Syracuse Uni- 

 versity, gave a popular illustrated lecture in 

 the lecture course of the Syracuse Chapter of 

 Sigma Xi on November 8 on " Hunting Birds 

 with a Camera." 



Egbert Allyn Budington, professor of 

 zoology in Oberlin College, lectured recentl.y 

 on " Some of the Eesults of Biological Study," 

 at Goucher College, where the department of 

 biology has recently moved into new and en- 

 larged laboratories. 



The general meeting of the Eontgen So- 

 ciety, London, was held on October 4, at the 

 Institution of Electrical Engineers, when the 

 president, Mr. J. H. Gardiner, delivered an 

 address and new apparatus was exhibited. 



Dk. Charles F. Chandler, professor emeri- 

 tus of Columbia University, has given for the 



department of arts and sciences of the Uni- 

 versity three lectures on " The Art of Photog- 

 raphy." 



The twenty-third summer meeting of the 

 American Mathematical Society will be held 

 at Harvard University early in September, 

 1916. At the eighth colloquium of the so- 

 ciety, held in connection with this meeting, 

 courses of lectures will be delivered as fol- 

 lows : By Professor G. C. Evans : " Topics 

 from the Theory and Applications of Func- 

 tionals, including Integral Equations." By 

 Professor Oswald Veblen : " Analysis Situs." 



Edward Lee Greene, associate in botany at 

 the Smithsonian Institution since 1904, re- 

 cently elected head of the botanical depart- 

 ment of Notre Dame University at South 

 Bend, Ind., died in Washington on November 

 10, aged seventy-two years. From 1885 to 

 1895 Dr. Greene was professor of botany in the 

 University of California, and from 1895 to 

 1904 in the Catholic University of America. 



Sir A^roREw Noble, F.E.S., distinguished 

 for his scientific work on artillery and explo- 

 sives, died on October 22, at eighty-four years 

 of age. 



Professor Vivl4n B. Lewis, until last year 

 professor of chemistry in the Eoyal Naval 

 College, died on October 23, aged sixty-three 

 years. 



Dr. E. Assheton, F.E.S., university lecturer 

 in animal embryology at the University of 

 Cambridge, died on October 23, aged fifty-one 

 years. 



Dr. Ernst Werner Marla von Olfers, 

 known for his work in sanitation, has died at 

 Konigsberg in his seventy-fifth year. 



The sequence of events so often observed in 

 the history of gold-mining camps has been re- 

 peated in the Willow Creek district, Alaska. 

 The earliest prospectors, in 1897, were pri- 

 marily interested in the search for placer gold 

 and having found it were too busily engaged 

 in mining to trace the stream gold to the veins 

 from which it originally came. It was nearly 

 ten years later that the first of the valuable 

 quartz veins that now yield most of the gold 

 mined in the district was discovered. Since, 



