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will also be a sea-going launch. Major 

 Daniels, who has had much tropical experi- 

 ence, will devote himself mainly to ethnology 

 and experimental psychology. Dr. C. G. 

 Seligmann, until recently the superintendent 

 of the clinical laboratory, St. Thomas's Hos- 

 pital, is the representative of the Cancer Com- 

 mission on the expedition, of which he is in 

 general medical charge. With Dr. W. Mersh 

 Strong, he will pay attention to pathological 

 questions of a more general character. Dr. 

 Strong will be responsible for the geographical 

 and geological observations. The photographic 

 work, which will include the use of the latest 

 form of cinematograph for recording native 

 dances and ceremonies, wiU be undertaken by 

 Mr. A. H. Dunning. 



Reuter's agency is informed that Com- 

 mander Irizar, the Argentine naval officer 

 who will command the relief expedition which 

 is being sent out by the Argentine govern- 

 ment in search of Dr. Otto Nordenskjold's 

 south polar expedition, will leave for Buenos 

 Ayres in a few weeks. The relief vessel — the 

 Uruguay — is an Argentine gunboat sheathed 

 with wood, and has been selected as being 

 specially adapted for the work in hand. She 

 will be strengthened so as to withstand ice 

 pressure. The complete plans of the relief 

 expedition are not yet fully known. The 

 ship will be in charge of Argentine officers 

 and crew, and will be provisioned for two 

 years. It is not, however, probable that she 

 will winter in the Antarctic. Commander 

 Irizar is leaving for Norway in a few days to 

 buy furs and other stores. He was formerly 

 in command of the Argentine warship Patria, 

 in which ship Sub-Lieutenant Several, the 

 Argentine officer now with Dr. Nordenskjold, 

 was serving. 



The London Times states that the Museum 

 of Zoology, of Cambridge University, has re- 

 cently received a collection of books and speci- 

 mens, bequeathed by the late T. E. Buckley, 

 B.A., of Trinity College. In 1873 Mr. Buck- 

 ley was given a grant from the Worts Fund, 

 as the result of which he visited South Africa, 

 returning with a valuable series of mammalian 

 skeletons, which are now in the museum. In 



later years he continued to take a special in- 

 terest in the same part of the world, and he 

 accumulated a considerable collection of books 

 and memoirs relating to African exploration, 

 and in particular of those concerned with 

 zoology. These books have now been be- 

 queathed to the museum, and they constitute 

 a most valuable and interesting collection of 

 some 440 volumes, besides various unbound 

 pamphlets. The remainder of Mr. Buckley's 

 bequest consists of a collection of nearly 400 

 birds and numerous birds' eggs. These have 

 not yet been thoroughly examined, but they 

 appear to be in admirable condition, and they 

 form a valuable addition to the museum. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Illinois College, Jacksonville, receives 

 nearly the entire estate, valued at $75,000, of 

 the late Dr. Hiram K. Jones. 



The late Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston, of 

 Washington, has bequeathed $60,000 to the 

 Johns Hopkins University for the establish- 

 ment of three scholarships. She has also be- 

 queathed $300,000 for the establishment of an 

 episcopal school at Washington for the main- 

 tenance, education and training of choir boys. 



Mrs. J.«e L. Sta^'ford, having now dele- 

 gated to the board of trustees of Leland Stan- 

 ford Junior University the powers she for- 

 merly retained, has been elected president of 

 the board. 



The department of physics and electrical 

 engineering at Lehigh University has been 

 reorganized with Professor Wm. S. Franklin 

 in charge of physics and Professor Wm. Esty 

 in charge of electrical engineering. Professor 

 Franklin is a graduate of the University of 

 Kansas. He has pursued graduate study in 

 physics at the University of Kansas, at the 

 L^nivorsity of Berlin, at Harvard University 

 and at Cornell University. He was five years 

 in charge of physics and electrical engineering 

 at Iowa State College and he has been for six 

 years in charge of physics and electrical en- 

 gineering at Lehigh University. Professor 

 Esty is a graduate of Amherst College and of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



