July 31, 1003.] 



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Rhode Island. President \V. H. P. Fauncc, D.D., 

 Brown University. 



In the following states appointments will be 

 made by the chartered colleges and universi- 

 ties in rotation: 



California, L'niversity of California, Leland 

 Stanford Cniversity, smaller colleges every 

 seventh year. 



Maine (the order of rotation yet to be fixed). 



Vermont, University of Vermont, Middlebury 

 Ciillege. 



Washington (the order of rotation yet to be 

 fixed). _^ 



SCIEXTIFIC NOTES ASD SEWS. 

 Dr. Theobald Smith, professor of compara- 

 tive pathology at Harvard University, has gone 

 abroad, with a special view to studying the 

 preparation of vaccine virus, which will here- 

 after be made at the Bussey Institute, of 

 which Dr. Smith is director, under the au- 

 spices of the state of Massachusetts. 



Professor Fr-vsos H. Herrick, of Western 

 Reserve University, has been granted leave of 

 absence for the ensuing year. From August 

 1, 1903, he will be engaged in scientific study 

 in Europe, and may be addressed at Elmhurst, 

 Bushey Grove, Watford, Herts, England. Dr. 

 C. W. Prentiss, of Harvard and recently of 

 the University of Strasburg, Germany, and 

 Mr. Carl B. Tames, formerly an assistant in 

 the biological laboratory, have been made in- 

 structors in biology in Western Reserve Uni- 

 versity, and will have charge of Professor 

 Herrick's work. 



Dr. C.vrlson has been appointed a research 

 assistant by the Carnegie Institution for the 

 coming year and will carry on his work in 

 connection with the Physiological Laboratory 

 of Stanford University and with its Seaside 

 Laboratory on Monterey Bay. The subject of 

 his investigations is ' The Mechanism of In- 

 hibition of the Heart in Invertebrates.' 



Mr. Ch.vrles J. Brand, who for the past 

 year has been assistant in plant economics at 

 the Field Columbian Museum of Chicago, has 

 been promoted to the position of assistant 

 curator. Department of Botany, in that in- 

 stitution. Mr. Brand is a graduate of the 

 University of Minnesota and secured his 



botanical training under Professor Conway 

 MacMillan. 



Dr. M. p. Ravexel, of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, has returned from • Europe, 

 where he has been making a special study of 

 tuberculosis. 



The daily papers report that Dr. H. C. 

 Parker, of Columbia University, and Dr. C. 

 E. Fay, of Tufts College, now engaged in 

 explorations in the northern Rocky Moun- 

 tains, have ascended Mt. Hungabee, the height 

 of which was found to be 11,500 feet, and Mt. 

 Goodsir, the height of which was found to be 

 nearly 12,000 feet. 



Db. G. C. Martin has sailed from Seattle 

 for the Kayak Island to investigate the oil 

 fields for the Geological Survey. 



Mr. Charles W. Wright has left Washing- 

 ton to make, for the Geological Survey, an 

 examination of the placer gold region known 

 as the Porcupine district. This district lies 

 close to the international boundary, a little 

 south of west of Skagway and about twenty 

 miles from tide water at Ljmn Canal. 



Mr. G. Marconi is expected to arrive in 

 America about the middle of August. 



Professor H. M. Saville is spending the 

 month of July in Mexico on behalf of the 

 American Museum of Natural History. A 

 part of the time will be devoted to the ruins 

 of Mitla in order to complete his observations 

 and obtain additional photographs for the 

 report on the explorations recently carried on 

 there by the Loubat expedition, and to make 

 further studies of Zapotecan antiquities. 

 While he is in the City of Mexico arrange- 

 ments will be made for an exchange of arche- 

 ological specimens between the Museo Na- 

 cional and the American Museum. 



Frank M. Chapman, associate curator of 

 mammalogy and ornithology, American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, is in California 

 collecting material for making a group on 

 the Cadwalader fund. He has an artist with 

 him, who will make a study of the region in 

 which the birds are found. One of the pro- 

 posed groups will represent the bird-life of the 

 irrigated portions of the San Joaquin valley. 



