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• Dr. a. Penck, professor of geography at 

 Berlin, has been elected a corresponding mem- 

 ber of the Paris Academy of Sciences. 



The Eoyal Society of Edinburgh has 

 awarded the Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize 

 for the quadrennial period 1908-12 to Pro- 

 fessor J. Norman Collie, F.E.S., for his con- 

 tributions to chemistry, including his work 

 on neon and other rare gases. 



Dr. W. Killing has for the second time 

 been awarded the Lobachevski prize of the 

 Physico-mathematical Society of Kasan. 



Sir Archibald Geikie has been elected a 

 trustee of the British Museum in succession 

 to the late Lord Avebury. He was already 

 an ex-officio trustee, as president of the Eoyal 

 Society, but is now elected as a trustee for life. 



The senate of the University of London has 

 conferred the title of emeritus professor of 

 chemistry on Sir William Eamsay, who has 

 occupied the chair of general and inorganic 

 chenaistry at University College since 1887. 



On July 23 an expedition for the study of 

 marine biology, under the auspices of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, set sail 

 from San Francisco for Thursday Island, 

 Torres Straits, Queensland, Australia. The 

 party consists of Dr. Alfred G. Mayer, director, 

 and Professor Hubert Lyman Clark, D. H. 

 Tennent, E. Newton Harvey, Prank M. Potts, 

 of Cambridge University, and Mr. John Mills, 

 engineer. 



A CABLEGRAM from Peru to the Harvard 

 Medical School indicates that the special expe- 

 dition led by Dr. Eichard P. Strong has made 

 an exceedingly important discovery in estab- 

 lishing the difference between oroya fever and 

 verruca Peruviana, a common and serious in- 

 fectious disease. The party will return to this 

 country in the fall. Their researches, besides 

 those in Peru, have included investigations of 

 the medical conditions in Guayaquil and the 

 pest-ridden republic of Ecuador. Before their 

 return they will study also the diseases in the 

 countries of Central America and the regions 

 of the Gulf of Mexico. Dr. Strong sailed from 

 New York on April 30. In his party are Dr. 



E. E. Tyzzer, of the Harvard Medical School, 

 and C. T. Brues, of the Bussey Institute. 



Dr. Mawson has been informed by a wireless 

 telegram that Sir Eobert Lucas-Tooth has 

 ■given a donation of £1,000 to the fund that 

 Captain J. K. Davis is raising for the Aus- 

 tralasian Antarctic Expedition. Captain 

 Davis leaves England on July 18 for Australia. 

 On his arrival there the Aurora will be refitted 

 and will proceed to Commonwealth Bay to 

 bring back Dr. Mawson and his six com- 

 panions at present in the Antarctic. 



The National Geographic Society has made 

 a grant to Professor Lawrence Martin to en- 

 able him to make detailed studies in Septem- 

 ber at Grand Pacific and Muir Glaciers. He 

 will (a) measure the recession of several ice 

 tongues in Glacier Bay, (b) look for advances 

 of glaciers, (c) study the exhumed forests in 

 relation to former glacial oscillations, and (d) 

 make soundings in Canada's new harbor and 

 other uncharted waters recently vacated by the 

 glaciers, to see the effects of ice sculpture 

 below sea-level. 



Francis Church Lincoln, professor of min- 

 ing engineering in the University of Illinois, 

 has resigned to accept the position of resident 

 engineer for the Bolivian Development Com- 

 pany, La Paz, Bolivia. 



Dr. Francis Gotch, professor of physiology 

 since 1895 at Oxford University, has died at 

 the age of 60 years. 



Dr. Eduard Pechuel-Loesehe, formerly pro- 

 fessor in the University of Erlangen, known 

 for his contributions to geography and for his 

 explorations, has died at the age of seventy- 

 two years. 



Dr. Max Dittrich, associate professor of 

 chemistry at Heidelberg, has died at the age 

 of forty-eight years. 



Dr. Max Kassowitz, professor of diseases of 

 children in the University of Vienna, has died 

 at the age of seventy-one years. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for editorial clerk, 

 for men only, on August 6 and 7, 1913, to fill 

 a vacancy in this position in the Geological 



