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and will include stilts, avocets, cinnamon teal, 

 coots, all breeding or with young, Forster's and 

 black terns, pintail and redhead ducks, great 

 blue heron and yellowheaded and California 

 redwinged blackbirds. The background will 

 show a great stretch of green irrigated coun- 

 try with the mountains of the Coast Eange 

 in the distance. 



The Amsterdam Academy of Sciences has 

 awarded its Buis-Ballot medal, given once in 

 ten years, to Professor Eichard Assmann and 

 Dr. Arthur Berson, of the Aeronautic Insti- 

 tute at Tegel, near Berlin. 



The Brussels Academic de Medecine has 

 awarded to Dr. G. Joannovics, assistant at 

 the Vienna Institute for General and Experi- 

 mental Pathology, the prize of $200 offered for 

 the best work based on new experimental re- 

 searches. His subject was ' The Pathogen- 

 esis of Icterus.' 



Captain Hertz has been appointed director 

 of the Marine Observatory at Hamburg. 



Mr. Luther Steiringer, known for the part 

 he has taken in the development of electric 

 lighting, died on July 18 at the age of fifty- 

 eight years. 



Professor Henry Griswald Jesup, from 

 1876 to 1898 professor of natural history at 

 Dartmouth College, and author of contribu- 

 tions to local botany, died on the 15th inst. at 

 the age of seventy-seven years. 



Dr. Augustine Gattinger, author of an ex- 

 tensive flora of Tennessee, at one time assist- 

 ant commissioner of agriculture, died at 

 Nashville, Tenn., on July 18, at the age of 

 seventy-eight years. 



We learn from the Forestry Quarterly that 

 Theodor Karlowitsch Arnold, councillor of the 

 Public Lands Office of Russia and known 

 as the father of Russian Forestry, died re- 

 cently at an advanced age. His work for 

 forestry dates from the forties of the last 

 century and he was directly or through his 

 pupils the teacher of all Russian foresters. 



Sir Joshua G. Pitch, one of the best known 

 students of education in England, died on 

 July 14, aged seventy-nine years. 



Baron de Bush, an English chemist, en- 

 gaged especially in the distillation of essential 

 oils, was killed by falling from a railway 

 train on July 24 at the age of forty-three 

 years. 



The Civil Service Commission announces 

 an examination on August 26, 1903, to secure 

 an eligible list from which to make certifica- 

 tion to fill a vacancy in the position of ento- 

 mological draftsman in the Division of Ento- 

 mology, Department of Agriculture, at $1,000 

 per annum. 



The Desert Laboratory, being erected by 

 an appropriation from the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion at Tucson, Arizona, is expected to be 

 ready for occupancy on September 1, when 

 Dr. W. A. Cannon, now assistant in the labo- 

 ratory of the New York Botanical Garden, 

 will become resident investigator. 



According to a press dispatch, the Royal 

 Commission which was appointed to examine 

 into the question of London street traffic has 

 decided to send a sub-committee to the United 

 States in the autumn to study American sys- 

 tems of transportation. 



The Eleventh National Irrigation Congress 

 will be held at Ogden, Utah, from September 

 15 to 18. The program will include: Prac- 

 tical irrigation and forestry lessons; reports 

 of experts; application of provisions of the 

 reclamation act; state progress under the 

 national act; views on settlement of legal 

 complications, and the theme of colonization. 



A Eeuter telegram from Aden states that 

 the expedition under Mr. W. N. Macmillan, 

 which was proceeding to the Blue Nile, has 

 been abandoned. The boats of the expedition 

 were swamped, but there were no casualties. 

 The members of the party are returning to 

 Jibuti by way of Harar. 



Word has been received at the Geological 

 Survey of the safe arrival on the Yukon of 

 the survey parties under Mr. L. M. Prindle 

 and Mr. T. G. Gerdine, respectively. These 

 parties sailed from Seattle in the latter part 

 of May, equipped with twenty horses. Reach- 

 ing Skagway about June 1, they found that 

 the lakes of the Upper Lewes River were still 

 frozen, which necessitated a delay of some 



