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expedition in South America to climb Mt. 

 Sorata and to make geological observations. 

 Dr. Douglas II. Campbell, professor of 

 botany in Stanford University, is on a vaca- 

 tion trip to New Zealand and Australia. 



Mr. Albert P. Morse, curator of the Zoo- 

 logical Museum of Wellesley College, is 

 spending the summer studying the geograph- 

 ical distribution of locusts in the south. 



Dr. Cleveland Abbe, Jr., has recently re- 

 turned to Washington, after spending two 

 years with Professors Julius Hann and 

 Albert Penck in the study of the climatology 

 and glacial phenomena of Europe. He has 

 accepted temporarily a short engagement in 

 the U. S. Weather Bureau, working on the 

 climatology of Guam, for publication in a 

 forthcoming report by Mr. A. E. Safford. 



A^ature, quoting from the Victoria Natural- 

 ist, reports the retirement of Sir James Hec- 

 tor, K.C.M.G., from the directorship of the 

 Geological Survey of New Zealand and of 

 the Colonial Observatory. 



Commander Don Jull\n Irizar, Naval At- 

 tache to the Argentine Legation in London, 

 has been appointed to command the vessel 

 Uruguay, which will be sent by the Argentine 

 Government in October to the Antarctic re- 

 gions in search of Dr. Otto Nordenskj old's 

 South Polar expedition, which was joined at 

 Buenos Ayres in 1901 by an officer of the 

 Argentine Navy. 



Nature states that Professor Steinmann, of 

 Freiburg, and two of his fellow geologists of 

 the same university, have arranged an ex- 

 pedition to the Central Andes of Bolivia. 

 The party will start in August for Buenos 

 Ayres, whence the route to be taken is via 

 Jujuy, Tarija, Sucre, to Cochabamba. After 

 a prolonged stay in the mountains the ex- 

 plorers will probably work their way to 

 Antofagasta via La Paz. 



Dr. Ira Eemsen, president of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, gave the commencement 

 address at the Armour Institute of Tech- 

 nology. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that at the meeting of the Zoological Society 



of London on June 16 Mr. F. E. Beddard, 

 F.K.S., exhibited on behalf of the memorial 

 committee a bust of the late president of the 

 society. Sir William Henry Flower, K.C.B., 

 who before he became director of the Natural 

 History Museum was curator of the museum 

 of the Royal College of Surgeons. The bust 

 has been executed by Mr. Thomas Brock, 

 E.A., and will be placed in the Natural His- 

 tory Museum. 



A meeting was held at London on June 29 

 to consider the erection of a memorial to Sir 

 Henry Bessemer, to which we have already 

 called attention. It is said that the king is 

 interested in the plan and that Mr. Andrew 

 Carnegie will make a substantial subscription. 

 One of the addresses was made by Professor 

 H. M. Howe, of Columbia University. 



Mr. George Shattuck Morrison, one of the 

 most eminent of civil engineers, died in New 

 York on July 1, at the age of sixty years. 

 He was born at New Bedford, Mass., and 

 graduated from Harvard in 1863. Mr. Mor- 

 rison was especially known for the large num- 

 ber of bridges he constructed, including some 

 fifteen across the Mississippi and Missouri 

 Rivers. He was a member of the Isthmian 

 Canal Commission. 



Miss Lillie Sullivan, chief illustrator in 

 entomology in the department of agriculture, 

 died on Jime 26. 



The deaths are also announced of Carl 

 Gussenbauer, professor of pathology and rec- 

 tor of the University of Vienna; of Dr. Josef 

 de Smeth, formerly professor of psychiatry in 

 the University of Brussels, at the age of 

 seventy-seven years, and of Professor Luigi 

 Cremona, director of the Engineering School 

 of the University of Rome. 



The park commissioners of Chicago have 

 approved the transfer of the Field Columbian 

 iruseum from Jackson Park to Grant Park, 

 which is on the lake front in the center of 

 the city. It is understood that Mr. Marshall 

 Field has agreed to give $5,000,000 for the 

 construction and endowment of the museum. 

 There will be a civil service examination 

 on August 1, for the position of consulting 



