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ber 24, Mrs. Bullock Workman and Dr. Hunter 

 Workman -will give an account of their most 

 recent explorations in the eastern Karakoram. 

 An interesting and perplexing subject will be 

 dealt with at the meeting of December 8 by 

 Professor J. W. Gregory, who will endeavor to 

 answer the question, " Is the Earth Drying 

 Up ? " At the first meeting in January, 1914, 

 on the 12th, it is probable that Mr. Griffith 

 Taylor will give a paper on the Federal district 

 and capital, Canberra, of the Commonwealth 

 of Australia. Mr. Griffith Taylor was one of 

 the geologists on Captain Scott's expedition, 

 and made a special survey of the Federal dis- 

 trict on behalf of the Australian government. 

 It is also expected that either at one of the 

 evening meetings or at an afternoon meeting 

 Mr. Taylor will deal with the geographical 

 aspects of two sub-expeditions in the Antarctic. 

 At an early meeting in the New Year it is 

 hoped that Dr. Hamilton Eice will give an 

 account of his interesting journeys in the 

 Upper Amazon basin, about which some infor- 

 mation was published in a recent number of 

 The Times. Other subjects which may be 

 dealt with at subsequent meetings will be 

 " An Expedition to Dutch New Guinea," by 

 A. E. R. Wollaston ; " Famous Maps in the 

 British Museum," by J. A. J. de Villiers; 

 " The Anglo-German Boundary Survey in 

 West Africa," by Captain W. P. Nugent, E.A. ; 

 " The Gulf Stream," by Commander Campbell 

 Hepworth, C.B. ; " Journey through Arabia," 

 by Captain G. E. Leachman ; " The Bed Sea 

 and the Jordan," by Sir William Willcocks; 

 " Fresh Discoveries in the Eket District of 

 Southern Nigeria," by Mr. P. A. Talbot ; " The 

 Atlantic Ocean," by Professor Edward Hull, 

 F.E.S., and "The Panama Canal," by Dr. 

 Vaughan Cornish. The afternoon meetings 

 are held in the map room of the society at 6 

 P.M., and are devoted mainly to the discus- 

 sion of questions of a more scientific character 

 than the subjects which occupy the evening 

 meetings. The first of these will take place on 

 November 20, when it is expected that Captain 

 H. G. Lyons, F.E.S., will deal with the sub- 

 ject of " Belief in Cartography." At subse- 

 quent meetings Dr. A. Strahan, F.E.S., wiU 



give his final report on the river investigation, 

 which has been carried on under the society 

 for some years past. Other subjects will be 

 "Eecent Geodetic Work," by Captain E. O. 

 Henrici, E.E.; "The Eainfall of the World," 

 by Professor A. J. Herbertson ; " Some Central 

 Asian Problems," by Mr. Douglas Carruthers; 

 " Eesults of a Eecent Journey in Turkestan 

 and Siberia," by Dr. Mackintosh Bell; "Ee- 

 searches in the Natron Lake Eegion, East 

 Africa," by Mr. John Parkinson, and " The 

 Agricultural Geography of New Zealand," by 

 Mr. F. N. Eoxby. There will be two Christ- 

 mas lectures to young people early in January, 

 one on " Glaciers," by Mr. Alan G. Ogilvie, 

 and the other on " Earthquakes and Up- 

 heavals," by Mr. Cams- Wilson. The anniver- 

 sary meeting and dinner will take place on 

 May 25. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The autumn meeting of the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences will be held at the Johns 

 Hopkins University, Baltimore, on November 

 18 and 19. 



Peopessor Felix Klein, of Gottingen, has 

 been presented by his former pupils with a 

 portrait of himself, painted by Max Lieber- 

 mann. It will be placed in the mathematical 

 institute of the university as soon as the build- 

 ing is completed. 



Mr. Eoosevelt is on his way to South Amer- 

 ica in response to invitations from Argentina, 

 Brazil and Chile, to deliver addresses on sub- 

 jects of international social interest. After 

 the delivery of the addresses, Mr. Eoosevelt 

 will head a scientific expedition into the trop- 

 ical interior of South America. This expedi- 

 tion is organized by the American Museum of 

 Natural History, and two naturalists of that 

 museum, Mr. George K. Cherry and Mr. Leo 

 Miller, will accompany Mr. Eoosevelt, while 

 the Arctic explorer Mr. Anthony Fiala will 

 have charge of the equipment and route. 



Sir David Bruce will leave England on 

 November 1 for the purpose of concluding his 

 sleeping sickness investigations in Central 

 Africa. He will be accompanied by Lady 



