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Mr. Charles J. Bka.nd has been appointed 

 to an assistant curatorship in the Department 

 of Botany of the Field Columbian Museum. 



Dr. Nicolas Leon, areheologist and eth- 

 nologist of the National Museum of Mexico, 

 has returned to the City of Mexico after a 

 visit to the state of Coahiiila, where impor- 

 tant excavations are being conducted. 



The daily papers state that Dr. Nathan A. 

 Cobb, pathologist of the department of agri- 

 culture of New South Wales, has declined the 

 position of chief of the Philippine Agricul- 

 tural Bureau, giving as his reason his inten- 

 tion of shortly returning to the United States. 



We learn from the Botanical Gazette that 

 Homer H. Foster, professor of botany in the 

 University of Washington, has resigned in 

 order to take up commercial work in connec- 

 tion with a hardwood lumber firm in Chicago. 



Nature states that Mr. A. S. le Souef has 

 been appointed director of the Zoological Gar- 

 den at Sydney in succession to the late Mr. 

 Catlett. Mr. Dudley le Souef, his elder 

 brother, has been director of the Zoological 

 and Acclimatization Society at Melbourne for 

 several years, and a younger brother is director 

 <if the newly established garden at Perth, in 

 Western Australia. 



The Commission of Inquiry into the edu- 

 cational systems of the United States in their 

 bearing upon commerce and industry, pro- 

 jected last year by Mr. Alfred Mosely, C.M.G., 

 but postponed owing to the unsettlement over 

 the education bill, will start from Southamp- 

 ton on October 3, Mr. Mosely himself preced- 

 ing it by two or three weeks to make arrange- 

 ments for its reception. The commission 

 consists of about thirty members including 

 Professor W. E. Ayrton, Professor Magnus 

 Maclean and Dr. W. H. Gaskell. 



Dr. Gust.w Steixmanx, professor of geology 

 at Freiburg, accompanied by Baron Bistram 

 and Dr. Hoek, have started on an expedition 

 to the Bolivian Andes. 



It is stated in Xatitre that for the study of 

 bird migration, Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, assistant 

 keeper in the Natural History Department of 

 the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, 

 has obtained permission from the Elder Breth- 



ren of Trinity House to spend a month upon 

 the Kentish Knock Lightship, situated off the 

 mouth of the Thames, and about twenty-one 

 miles from the nearest point of land. The 

 position of the vessel affords exceptional op- 

 portunities for observing the east and west 

 autumnal movements of birds across the south- 

 ern waters of the North Sea. 



Dr. Martin Kjellogu, president of the Uni- 

 versity of California from 1890 to 1899 and 

 previously professor of Latin, has died at the 

 age of seventy-five years. 



Dr. Frederick Law Olmsted, the eminent 

 landscape architect, has died at the age of 

 eighty-one years. 



The death is announced of M. Meunier 

 Chalmers, the French geologist and paleontolo- 

 gist, professor at the Sorbonne. 



News has recently been received of the 

 death, in Paraguay, of Signor Guido Bog- 

 giana, a young Italian explorer and man of 

 science. He was murdered by the Chamacoco 

 Indians, and his notes and photographs were 

 destroyed. 



There will be a civil service examination 

 on October 21 and 22 to fill fourteen va- 

 cancies in the position of civil engineer in the 

 Philippine service with salaries ranging from 

 $1,400 to $1,800 a year. 



The French Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science held its annual meeting at 

 Angers last month under the presidency of M. 

 Emil Levasseur, the eminent economist. 



The International Geodetic Association met 

 from August 4 to 14 under the presidency of 

 General Bassot, of the Institute of France. 



M. Rous has given the Osiris prize of 

 $20,000, and M. Metchnikoff a prize of $1,000 

 that he has recently received, to the Pasteur 

 Institute, to be used for their experiments. 



PiETRO Cartoni has given $200,000 to found 

 a sanatorium for tuberculous patients at 

 Rome, in memory of his two sons, who died 

 of tuberculosis. 



A national sanitary congress is to be held 

 at Milan in 1905, on the occasion of the ex- 

 hibition which we have already mentioned. 

 The work of the congress will be divided 



