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army council has approved of Captain P. J. 

 Marett, E.A.M.C, who has already published 

 papers on the subject, undertaking this re- 

 search in addition to his military duties at 

 Malta. Captain Marett will have the title of 

 Beit Memorial Research Fellow. 



Mme. Curie has been organizing a radium 

 laboratory in Warsaw, but will return to her 

 laboratory at the Sorbonne in the autumn. 



Drs. William H. Welch and LeweUys F. 

 Barker, of the Johns Hopkins University, have 

 sailed for Europe. 



Dr. John A. Ferrell has been appointed 

 general manager of the hookworm work of the 

 Rockefeller Foundation, with headquarters in 

 Washington. 



The steamship Eric, taking the McMillan 

 Crocker Land expedition into the arctic re- 

 gions, reached Battle Harbor on August 3. 

 She takes on board supplies and outfit landed 

 from the disabled Diana, and expected to leave 

 for the north on August 4. 



Mr. Vilhjalmar Stefansson cables to the 

 New York Times that the Karluh and the 

 Mary Sachs sailed from Port Clarence, 

 Alaska, about midnight on July 23. " The 

 Alaska will follow in four days and may over- 

 take us near Herschell Island about the middle 

 of August." There are fifteen scientific men 

 and twenty-two others on the three vessels. 

 The outfit is complete for two years, and may 

 be made to last longer. No fear need be felt 

 for the Karluh if she is not heard from for 

 two years. The Alaska and the Mary Sachs 

 should be heard from twice yearly, in October 

 by whalers through Bering Straits, and in 

 January by mounted police through Dawson. 



Dk. K. Th. Preuss, of the Berlin Anthro- 

 pological Museum, will undertake in Septem- 

 ber explorations in Colombia. 



Dr. R. S. Bassler, of the National Museum, 

 Washington, spent two days recently at the 

 Oberlin Geologic Survey Camp at Rich Creek, 

 Va., reviewing with them parts of the early 

 and middle Paleozoic sections exposed in the 

 vicinity. In the evening of July 25 he gave 

 a lecture before the camp students on " Some 



Recent Developments in the Theory of Ap- 

 palachian Stratigraphy." 



It was stated in a recent issue of Science 

 that the Hon. James Wilson, lately Secretary 

 of Agriculture, has been given the degree of 

 doctor of science from the University of Edin- 

 burgh. The degree given was doctor of laws, 

 the Scottish universities not conferring the 

 degrees of doctors of science, letters or philos- 

 ophy causa honoris, but only in course. 



Professor M. A. Rosanoff, of Clark Uni- 

 versity, has been invited to speak before the 

 Versammlung deutscher Naturforscher at the 

 University of Vienna, on the mechanism of 

 esterification and esterhydrolysis. The con- 

 ference will last from September 21 to 26, 

 Dr. Rosanoff expects to sail on August 26 and 

 to be back early in October. In course of 

 the past academic year Dr. Rosanoff lectured 

 on parts of the same subject before the New 

 York and Northeastern Sections of the Amer- 

 ican Chemical Society, the research staff of 

 the General Electric Company at Schenectady, 

 the industrial research department of the Uni- 

 versity of Pittsburgh and the chemical depart- 

 ment of Wesleyan University. 



The city authorities of Berlin propose to 

 appropriate $250,000 for the erection of the 

 Rudolf Virehow House for the Berlin Medical 

 Society. 



Professor John Milne, distinguished for 

 his work in seismology, died at his home in 

 the Isle of Wight, on July 31, aged sixty-three 

 years. i 



Professor Charles Simeon Dennison, since 

 1885 professor of descriptive geometry and 

 drawing in the University of Michigan, has 

 died at the age of fifty-four years. 



A miscellany in honor of the sixtieth birth- 

 day of Dr. William Ridgeway, professor of 

 archeology in Cambridge University, is in 

 course of preparation and will be issued in 

 October. The volume will contain some con- 

 gratulatory verses by A. D. Godley, public 

 orator in the University of Oxford, Greek 

 verses by Professor John Harrower, a photo- 

 gravure portrait of Professor Ridgeway, and a 

 series of articles on classics and ancient arche- 



