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seems to represent a southward extension of 

 the Andean axis. At the same time, it seems 

 to me that a more critical analysis of the 

 flora by a student qualified to compare it with 

 the living and fossil floras of Australia, New 

 Zealand and with more northern Tertiary 

 floras, would bring out a good many signifi- 

 cant features that remain hidden in Dusen's 

 work. 



Regarding the age of the Seymour Island 

 Tertiary, Dusen, relying on comparisons with 

 the fossil floras from the Straits of Magellan 

 and Chili and on the affinities of the associ- 

 ated MoUusca, as communicated by Wilckens, 

 concludes that it is late Oligocene or early 

 Miocene. I would be much more inclined to 

 consider its age as somewhat older and cor- 

 responding roughly to that of the Arctic Ter- 

 tiary floras, which in turn are contemporane- 

 ous or slightly younger than those in lower 

 latitudes that are marked by that northward 

 extension of tropical climates which com- 

 mences in the early Eocene and culminates in 

 this country in the Vicksburg and Apalachi- 

 cola groups. Edward W. Berry 



Johns Hopkins University, 

 Baltimore 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Sir William Osler has accepted an invita- 

 tion to deliver the principal address at the 

 opening of the James Buchanan Brady Uro- 

 logical Clinic of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. 



The annual Huxley Memorial Lecture of 

 the Eoyal Anthropological Institute will be 

 delivered on November 14, by Professor W. J. 

 Sollas, F.R.S., who will take as his subject 

 " Paviland Cave." 



The council of the Eoyal Meteorological 

 Society has awarded the Symons gold medal 

 to Mr. W. H. Dines, F.E.S. The medal will 

 be presented at the annual meeting of the 

 society on January 21. 



The Baly medal of the Eoyal College of 

 Physicians of London has been presented to 

 Dr. John Scott Haldane, F.E.S., reader in 

 physiology in the University of Oxford. The 

 medal was founded by Dr. Frederic Daniel 

 Dyster in 1866 in memory of William Harvey, 



and is awarded every alternate year. The last 

 five recipients have been Professor J. N. 

 Langley, F.E.S. (1903), Professor Pawlow, 

 of St. Petersburg (1905), Professor E. H. 

 Starling, F.E.S. (1907), Professor Emil 

 Fischer, of Berlin (1909), and Professor W. D. 

 Halliburton, F.E.S. (1911). 



On the recommendation of the committee 

 on the award of the Hodgkins prize of $1,500 

 for the best treatise " On the Eelation of 

 Atmospheric Air to Tuberculosis," which was 

 offered by the Smithsonian Institution in con- 

 nection with the International Congress on 

 Tuberculosis held in Washington in 1908, the 

 institution announces that the prize has been 

 equally divided between Dr. Guy Hinsdale, 

 of Hot Springs, Virginia, for his paper on 

 " Tuberculosis in Eelation to Atmospheric 

 Air," and Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, of New 

 York City, for his treatise on the " Eelation 

 of Atmospheric Air to Tuberculosis." The 

 members of the committee on award were: 

 Dr. William H. Welch, John Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, Baltimore, Md., chairman; Dr. Hermann 

 M. Biggs, New York City; Professor W. M. 

 Davis, Cambridge, Mass. ; Dr. 6. Dock, Wash- 

 ington University Medical School, St. Louis, 

 Mo. ; Dr. Simon Flexner, Eockefeller Institute 

 for Medical Research, New York City; Dr. 

 John S. Fulton, Baltimore, Md., and Brig. 

 Gen. George M. Sternberg, U. S. A. (retired), 

 Washington, D. C. 



Professor E. Burton-Opitz, of the College 

 of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Univer- 

 sity, has been elected president of Alpha 

 Omega Alpha, the honorary medical society, 

 which now has chapters in the seventeen most 

 representative medical colleges. 



Mr. H. N. Baker, assistant superintendent 

 of the National Zoological Park at Washing- 

 ton, has resigned to become superintendent of 

 the Boston Zoological Garden. 



Dr. Egbert Matheson, formerly provincial 

 entomologist of the Province of Nova Scotia, 

 has recently resigned to accept the position of 

 investigator in entomology in Cornell Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



