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specimens also from the lower Mohawk, in- 

 cluding pipes and earthy vessels. 



Other acquisitions in archeology and ethnol- 

 ogy are under present consideration by the 

 Museum, the plan being to illustrate as fully 

 as practicable the aboriginal history of New 

 York, the culture of the Iroquois and the peo- 

 ples who preceded them. 



The Museum has also acquired the very un- 

 usual collection of minerals from Orange 

 county, N. T., made by the late Silas A. 

 Young from localities which are, for the most 

 part, no longer productive ; and also the last of 

 the great collections of paleozoic fossils 

 brought together by the Gebhard family 

 through three generations from the classic 

 Schoharie valley, a region which might appro- 

 priately be called the cradle of American 

 stratigraphy. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Hughes medal has been awarded by 

 the Royal Society to Dr. Alexander Graham 

 Bell. 



Dr. Aubrey Strahan has been appointed 

 director of the British Geological Survey and 

 Museum in succession to Dr. J. J. H. Teall, 

 who will retire on January 5. 



Provost Edgar F. Smith, of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, has been elected a member of 

 the board of trustees of the Carnegie Founda- 

 tion for the Advancement of Teaching to suc- 

 ceed Dr. Ira Eemsen, recently president of the 

 Johns Hopkins University. 



Recently a movement was set on foot for 

 the presentation to the Royal Society of a por- 

 trait of Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, to be 

 painted by Mr. J. Seymour Lucas, R.A. 

 Professor Raphael Meldola, 6 Brunswick- 

 square, W.C., and Professor E. B. Poulton, 

 Wykeham House, Oxford, had undertaken to 

 receive subscriptions. The proposal will not 

 be abandoned in consequence of Dr. Wallace's 

 death, though it will be necessary to have a 

 posthumous portrait painted from a photo- 



The following is a list of those who have 

 been recommended by the council of the Royal 

 Society for election into the council at the 

 anniversary meeting on December 1: Presi- 

 dent — Sir William Grookes; Treasurer — Sir 

 Alfred Kempe; Secretaries — Sir John Brad- 

 ford and Professor Arthur Schuster; Foreign 

 Secretary — Dukinfield Henry Scott; Other 

 members of the council — The Right Hon. 

 Arthur James Balfour, Professor William 

 Maddock Bayliss, Frank Watson Dyson, Henry 

 J. H. Fenton, Professor William Gowland, 

 Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Sir Joseph Lar- 

 mor. Professor Charles H. Lees, Professor 

 Ernest William MacBride, Professor Grafton 

 Elliot Smith, Professor James Lorrain Smith, 

 Sir John Thornycroft, Professor William 

 Whitehead Watts, Alfred North Whitehead, 

 Charles T. R. Wilson and Arthur Smith 

 Woodward. 



Dr. Filippi is to lead an Italian expedition 

 to the Himalayas next summer. The explorer 

 intends to spend the present autumn in Chin- 

 ese Turkestan, carry on observations into 

 Russian Turkestan, winter in Scardo in Bal- 

 tistan, and early next spring travel to Leh by 

 the inner Indus valley. From Leh the expedi- 

 tion will travel to the Karakoram to survey 

 and map the unknown portion of the range 

 between the Karakoram Pass and the Siachen 

 glacier. The Government of India has sub- 

 scribed £1,000 to the funds, and Major Woods 

 of the Trigonometrical Survey will accompany 

 the expedition. 



Mr. F. T. Brooks, of Emmanuel College, 

 Cambridge, is leaving England for the Fed- 

 erated Malay States in order to report to the 

 government on fungoid diseases and whether 

 anything can be done to arrest them. Mr. 

 Brooks has received one year's leave of ab- 

 sence from the university. 



Professor Josephine Tilden, of the depart- 

 ment of botany, University of Minnesota, has 

 returned from Australia and New Zealand, 

 where she spent the past year in botanical re- 

 search in the field and in collecting material 

 in algology. 



