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Word has reached the American Museum of 

 ISTatural History that both the Crocker Land 

 expedition and the relief party sent to its aid 

 will spend the winter ice-bound in the Arctic. 

 Letters received from Donald B. MacMillan, 

 leader of the Crocker Land expedition, by way 

 of Copenhagen, said that the men of his party 

 were in good health and were preparing to 

 spend the winter in the Arctic regions, and to 

 continue explorations in the spring. Dr. Ed- 

 mund O. Hovey, who is leading the relief 

 party on the steamer George B. duett, re- 

 ports his ship frozen in at ISTorth Star Bay, 120 

 miles north of Etah, the base of the MacMillan 

 expedition. 



Tpie third regular meeting of the session of 

 the ISTew York Section of the American Chem- 

 ical Society was held in Eumford Hall, on the 

 evening of December 10, in conjunction with 

 the ISTew York Section of the Society of Chem- 

 ical Industry and the American Electrochem- 

 ical Society. This meeting was the second of 

 the series dealing with the subject of " Univer- 

 sity and Industry." The speakers announced 

 were Richard C. Maclaurin, president, Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology; Henry P.Tal- 

 bot, professor of inorganic chemistry, Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology; "William H. 

 "Walker, professor of chemical engineering, 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 

 Arthur D. Little, member of corporation, 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. These 

 papers were followed by an address on " The 

 N"aval Consulting Board of the United 

 States," by Dr. L. H. Baekeland and Dr. "W. E. 

 Whitney, members of the board. 



Professor W. S. Eranklin recently gave 

 two addresses before the Physical Science Club 

 of Oberlin College. His subjects were : " Bill's 

 School and Mine " and " Some Phenomena of 

 Fluid Motion — The Curved Plight of a Base- 

 ball." 



Professor G. A. Mitchell, director of the 

 Leander McCormick Observatory, University 

 of Virginia, lectured at the Brooklyn Institute 

 of Arts and Sciences, on N"ovember 20, on 

 " The Exact Distances of the Stars." On 

 November 22 he lectured in Harrisburg before 

 the Natural History Society on " The Sun." 



Dr. John Pogue Stewart, professor of ex- 

 perimental pomology in the Pennsylvania 

 State College, addressed the Illinois State 

 Horticultural Society at the University of 

 Hlinois, on December 15 and 17. The subjects 

 presented were " Methods of Influencing Yield 

 and Commercial Quality in Apples " and 

 " Latest Developments in Sulphur Sprays." 



A BRONZE statue of Captain E. F. Scott, 

 R.N., subscribed for by officers of the British 

 navy, has been erected in Waterloo Place, 

 London. The statue, which shows the explorer 

 in polar dress, is the work of Lady Scott. Mr. 

 A. J. Balfour, first lord of the admiralty, un- 

 veiled the statue on November 5. 



Carl Axel Egbert Lundin, maker of many 

 of the largest telescopic lenses in the world, 

 died at his home in Cambridge on Novem- 

 ber 28. 



Professor Edouard Prillieux, member of the 

 French Academy of Sciences, known for his 

 work in botany and especially phytopathology, 

 died on October 8, at the age of eighty-six 

 years. 



Professor Hans Gross, a distinguished 

 Austrian criminologist, has died at the age of 

 sixty-eight years. 



Section M (Agriculture) of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science will 

 hold two sessions, in Townsend Hall, Univer- 

 sity of Ohio, on Tuesday, December 28. The 

 morning session, at 10 o'clock, will be devoted 

 to the vice-presidential address of Professor 

 L. H. Bailey, on " The Forthcoming Situation 

 in Agricultural Work." At the afternoon ses- 

 sion at 2 o'clock, a symposium will be pre- 

 sented on " The Eelation of Science to Meat 

 Production." The subject will be introduced 

 by President W. O. Thompson, of Ohio State 

 University, and will be developed by the fol- 

 lowing speakers : 



President H. J. Waters, Kansas State Agricul- 

 tural College, on "Food in Eelation to Growth and 

 Meat Production." 



Professor L. D. Hall, Office of Markets, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, on "Economic Aspects 

 of Meat Production and Marketing." 



Professor Herbert W. Mumford, University of 



