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SCIENCE 



[N. 8. Vol. XXXrV. No. 862 



Me. Sidney L. Galpin, of the department 

 of geology at Cornell University, is director 

 of a party of Oberlin students doing summer 

 ■work in geology in western Virginia. 



Dr. Frank M. Surface, of the Kentucky 

 Experiment Station, sailed for Europe on 

 June 30 to spend six months in study and 

 travel. 



An expedition to Newfoundland in the in- 

 terest of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard Uni- 

 versity, under the direction of Professor Fer- 

 nald, left Boston on June 30. Professor Fer- 

 nald is accompanied by Professor Karl M. 

 Wiegand, of Wellesley College, and Messrs. 

 Edwin B. Bartram and Bayard Long, of the 

 Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia, with 

 Mr. Henry T. Darlington, a graduate student, 

 as general assistant. Headquarters will be at 

 Grand Falls on the Exploits Eiver, and the 

 explorations will be chiefly on the northeast 

 coast of the island, thus supplementing the 

 former explorations of Professors Fernald 

 and Wiegand on the northwest coast. 



A BRONZE statue of Dr. Traill Green has 

 been erected at Easton, Pennsylvania, where 

 he was a practising physician until his death 

 in 189Y at the age of eighty-four years. He 

 had also been professor of chemistry at 

 Lafayette College and dean of the scientific 

 department. 



Funds are being collected for the purpose 

 of erecting a monument to honor the memory 

 of the late Professor Cesare Lombroso, at his 

 native place, Verona, Italy. 



Professor Julian William Baird, dean of 

 the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and 

 professor of chemistry, died on June 26, in 

 his fifty-third year. 



- Sir Eupert Boyce, Holt professor of 

 pathology in the University of Liverpool, 

 known for his important contributions to our 

 knowledge of nervous and tropical diseases, 

 died on June 16, aged forty-nine years. 



Dr. K. Polstorff, associate professor of 

 pharmacological chemistry at Gottingen, has 

 died at the age of sixty-six years. 



Dr. Charles G. Weld has bequeathed to 

 the Boston Museum of Fine Arts his collec- 



tion of Japanese paintings and lacquer work 

 which has been in the custody of the museum 

 as a loan collection and to the Peabody 

 Museum at Salem all the property now in the 

 custody of that institution, including the col- 

 lection from the South Seas, and the sum of 

 $25,000. 



The death is announced of Dr. Heinrich 

 Stilling, professor of pathological anatomy at 

 Lausanne. 



M. Pedro Christoffeesen, a Norwegian, of 

 Buenos Aires, has offered to pay the expenses 

 for the provisions and other outfit of the 

 Fram, Captain Amundsen's ship, both during 

 the ship's stay at Buenos Aires and during 

 the oceanographic expedition to the Antarctic 

 seas now being conducted by Captain Amund- 

 sen. He will also bear the expenses of outfit 

 when the Fram returns in August next in 

 order to fetch Captain Amundsen and his 

 companions in the coming spring. 



Me. George Egbert White, of Boston, has 

 subscribed the sum necessary to rebuild and 

 considerably enlarge the laboratories con- 

 nected with the Gray Herbarium. The new 

 structure will be a two-storied thoroughly 

 fireproof wing, sixty feet long and thirty 

 broad, extending from the central portion of 

 the building toward the conservatories. The 

 lower story will contain two laboratories for 

 work in systematic and geographic botany, 

 while a portion of the upper will be equipped 

 for the herbarium of the New England Botan- 

 ical Club. Mr. White's gift includes $21,500 

 for construction and $10,000 for equipment. 

 The cases and, so far as possible, the other 

 furnishings will be of steel. Through an 

 anonymous gift of $25,000, announced some 

 weeks ago, the herbarium will also be provided 

 with a library wing, to extend from the main 

 building toward Garden Street and to cover a 

 portion of the site formerly occupied by the 

 Gray residence, recently removed. Plans for 

 these two extensions, prepared by Mr. W. L. 

 Mowll, have been approved by the corporation 

 and construction will begin as soon as prac- 

 ticable. Mr. Casimir de Candolle, of Geneva, 

 has given to the Gray Herbarium a cast of a 



