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Resolved, That we, the alumni of Adalbert Col- 

 lege of Western Eeseive University, express our 

 deep appreciation of his scholarly attainments, the 

 benefits we have derived from his instruction and 

 our affectionate regard for him as a man, our hope 

 that he may be spared for many years to enjoy 

 the fruits of his life's work, and that the secretary 

 of this alumni association be instructed to place 

 in Professor Smith's hands a copy of this resolu- 

 tion. 



Dr. M. W. Twitchell, formerly professor 

 of geology at the University of South Caro- 

 lina and now assistant state geologist of New 

 Jersey, has returned from two months' leave of 

 absence, during which he served as acting pro- 

 fessor of geology at the University of Colo- 

 rado, while Professor R. D. George was en- 

 gaged upon other duties as state geologist of 

 Colorado. 



Professor H. A. Gleason, assistant pro- 

 fessor of botany. University of Michigan, will 

 leave in September for a year's travel, dur- 

 ing which he will visit Australia, the Philip- 

 pines, Java and Ceylon. 



Professor H. E. Gregory, of Tale Univer- 

 sity, has been studying the geology and water 

 resources of the Navajo Reservation, in parts 

 of New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, under the 

 auspices of the U. S. Geological Survey. 



It is proposed to commemorate in 1914 the 

 seventh centenary of Roger Bacon's birth by 

 erecting a statue in his honor in the Natural 

 History Museum at Oxford, and by raising a 

 fund for the publication of his works. 



Dr. Horace Jayne, formerly professor of 

 vertebrate morphology in the University of 

 Pennsylvania, dean of the college and of the 

 faculty of philosophy, and director of the Wis- 

 tar Institute, died on July 8, aged fifty-four 

 years. 



Dr. Philip Lutley Sclater, from 1859 to 

 1902 secretary to the Zoological Society of 

 London, distinguished for his work on the 

 systematic zoology of birds and mammals and 

 on geographic distribution, died on June 27, 

 aged eighty-four years. 



New York state civil service examinations 

 will be held on July 26, as follows: In the 

 State Department of Highways — for division 

 engineer at a salary of $4,000 a year; for 

 superintendents of construction and main- 

 tenance at salaries of from $2,500 to $3,000; 

 for chiefs of construction and maintenance at 

 salaries of $4,000 a year. In the office of the 

 state architect — for heating engineer at a sal- 

 ary of $1,500 to $2,500 a year; for sanitary 

 engineer at a salary of $2,000 to $2,500, and 

 for electrical draftsman at a salary of $1,500 

 to $1,800. Examinations will also be held for 

 the position of bridge designer at a salary of 

 $1,500 to $2,100 and of junior bridge drafts- 

 man at a salary of $900 to $1,200. Application 

 . blanks can be obtained from the office of the 

 commission at Albany until July 16. 



Mrs. a. H. Clarke, of Earl's Court, has 

 given to the University of London the collec- 

 tion of continental and exotic macrolepidop- 

 tera made by her late husband, who was one 

 of the senior fellows of the Entomological 

 Society. The section of exotic butterflies con- 

 sists of nearly 6,000 specimens from all parts 

 of the world, and is particularly valuable as a 

 reference collection, not merely from the num- 

 ber and careful selection of the forms repre- 

 sented (some being of great rarity), but from 

 the perfect condition and beauty of the speci- 

 mens themselves. The whole donation com- 

 prises over 12,000 specimens all carefully set, 

 arranged and labeled; and to it Mrs. Clarke 

 has added her husband's working library of 

 entomological literature. After the work of 

 arranging and cataloguing has been con- 

 cluded, the collections will be available for 

 reference by entomologists generally upon 

 application to the professor of zoology at the 

 university. 



The Board of Agriculture of Ceylon has 

 appointed a committee in London to arouse 

 public interest in the establishment of an Im- 

 perial Central College of Tropical Agriculture 

 in the far east. At the annual meeting of the 

 Ceylon Association, held on June 12 in the 

 Chamber of Commerce, London, it was unan- 

 imously resolved that the association approved 



