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be awarded by the first four recipients to one 

 whom they deem the most worthy. 



Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, who has been in Porto 

 Eico since last November, has sent a large 

 number of valuable specimens to Washington. 



Messrs. William K. Wright and W. K. 

 Palmer, of the Lick Observatory, left San 

 Francisco on February 28 for Santiago, Chili, 

 where astronomical observations will be made 

 in accordance with the plan we have already 

 announced. The expenses, it will be remem- 

 bered, are defrayed by Mr. D. 0. Mills. 



Lieut. Boyd Alexander has returned from 

 an expedition to the Island of Fernando Po in 

 continuation of his survey of the birds of 

 western Africa and the adjacent islands. His 

 collection represents sixty-eight species, of 

 which no fewer than thirty-two are new to 

 science. 



Mr. Stewart Culin, recently curator of 

 the Museum of Science and Art of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, has become curator 

 of ethnology to the Museum of the Brooklyn 

 Institute of Arts and Sciences. 



Dr. a. S. Geijnbaum, F.E.C.P., has accepted 

 the post of director of cancer- research at the 

 invitation of the committee appointed to ad- 

 minister the fund initiated for that purpose 

 by a gift of £10,000 from Mr. Sutton Timmis 

 of Liverpool. The work will be carried on at 

 the University College and Royal Infirmary 

 in Liverpool. 



Dr. W. H. C. Redeile has been appointed 

 director of the Zoological Station at Helger, 

 Holland, in place of Dr. P. C. C. Hoek, who 

 has become general secretary of the Interna- 

 tional Bureau of Oceanography at Copen- 

 hagen. 



Dr. Eduard Zeller, emeritus professor of 

 philosophy at Berlin, has recently celebrated 

 his eighty-ninth birthday. 



Dr. J. Bishop Tingle, professor of chem- 

 istry at Illinois College, Jacksonville, 111., has 

 received a grant of $500 from the Carnegie 

 Institution to enable him to continue .his in- 

 vestigations of derivatives of camphor and 

 allied compounds. 



The Academy of Sciences at Berlin has 

 made appropriations of 2,000 Marks to Pro- 

 fessor Landolt and of 1,500 Marks to Dr. 

 Marckwald, both of Berlin, for work in chem- 

 istry; of 1,000 Marks to Dr. Danneberg, of 

 Aachen, for work in mineralogy, and of 800 

 Marks to Professor Kobert, of Rostock, for 

 work in pharmacology. 



Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau of 

 Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture 

 gave a lecture before the American Philosoph- 

 ical Society in Philadelphia, on February 6, 

 on ' The Composition and Adulteration of 

 Foods ' ; before the Society of Medical Juris- 

 prudence at New York, on February 9, on 

 ' The Adulteration of Drugs and Laws Rela- 

 ting Thereto ' ; before the National Canners' 

 Association at Washington, on February 12, 

 on ' Chemical Problems relating to the Can- 

 ning Industry ' ; and before the National Geo- 

 graphic Society at Washington, on February 

 18, on ' The United States : its Soils and their 

 Products.' 



Mrs. Rowland has given to the Johns Hop- 

 kins University the library of the late Pro- 

 fessor Rowland relating to spectroscopy, and 

 a former student has given a fund of over 

 $5,000 to purchase books on this subject. 

 With these gifts, there will be established a 

 ' Henry A. Rowland memorial library ' to con- 

 tain publications in the field of radiation and 

 spectroscopy. To make the collection com- 

 plete, and to maintain its usefulness, the co- 

 operation of observatories, laboratories and 

 investigators is necessary. It is requested 

 that sets of ofiicial publications, books, re- 

 prints of papers on spectroscopy or allied 

 subjects, and photographs of spectra and of 

 apparatus will be contributed to the library, 

 both now and in the future. They may be 

 addressed to the care of Professor Joseph S. 

 Ames, director of the Physical Laboratory,. 

 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. 



Professor Czerny, son-in-law of the late 

 Professor Kussmaul, has had the house at 

 Kandern, where Kussmaul lived in his early 

 years, marked with a tablet with the following 

 inscription : ' Adolf Kussmaul, later Professor 



