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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVII. No. 429. 



Charles D. Walcott, Department of the In- 

 terior; Brigadier-General William Crozier, 

 War Department; Rear- Admiral Francis T. 

 Bowles, Navy Department; Gifford Pinehot, 

 Department of Agriculture; James R. Gar- 

 field, Department of Commerce and Labor. 



The Carnegie Institution, on the recom- 

 mendation of the advisory committee on geo- 

 physics, has appropriated $6,000 to be ex- 

 pended under the direction of Dr. T. C. Cham- 

 berlin, of the University of Chicago, in re- 

 search relative to fundamental problems in 

 geology. The investigation will consist of a 

 joint mathematical, astronomical, physical, 

 chemical and geological inquiry into certain 

 phases of the earth problems that lie in the 

 common domain of these sciences. Dr. F. 

 R. Moulton, of the department of astronomy 

 of the University of Chicago; Professor C. 

 S. Slichter, of the department of mathematics 

 of the University of Wisconsin; Professor L. 

 M. Hoskins, of the engineering department 

 of Leland Stanford University; Professor 

 Julius Stieglitz, of the department of chem- 

 istry, and Mr. Lunn, of the department of 

 mathematics of the University of Chicago, 

 will participate in the inquiry. 



The French Academy of Moral and Polit- 

 ical Sciences has elected Professor E. Caird, 

 master of Balliol College, Oxford, a corre- 

 sponding member of the philosophic section. 



M. BiGOURDAN, astronomer at the Paris Ob- 

 servatory, has been appointed a member of 

 the Bureau of Longitude in the room of the 

 late M. Faye. 



President Roosevelt has appointed a 

 board of visitors to the Naval Academy for 

 the coming year as follows : Dr. Henry S. 

 Pritchett, Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 

 ogy; Professor H. C. Ellis, of Texas; Mr. 

 Lewis Nixon, of New York; Rear- Admiral 

 George Brown, U.S.N., retired, of Indiana; 

 Captain A. T. Mahan, U.S.N., retired, of New 

 York; Lieutenant R. M. Thompson, U.S.N., 

 retired, of New Jersey; and Mr. John R. 

 Procter, of Kentucky, civil service commis- 

 sioner. 



The Carnegie Institiition has made an ap- 

 propriation to Dr. J. E. Duerden to assist him 



in his investigations on the morphology of 

 recent and fossil corals. The studies were 

 commenced while Dr. Duerden was curator of 

 the miiseum, Jamaica, B. W. I., and have been 

 continued at the Johns Hopkins University 

 and the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, New York. The principal results thus 

 far are contained in a series of four papers 

 published in the Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History, and in a Memoir of the Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences just issued. 



Dr. Alexander Graham Bell entertained 

 the board of managers of the National Geo- 

 graphic Society, of which he is president, at 

 dinner on the evening of March 14. It is 

 reported that Mr. Ziegler has invited the 

 National Geographic Society to send a repre- 

 sentative without cost to the society on the 

 Arctic expedition that he is planning. 



Professor William Beebe, of the mathe- 

 matical department of Yale University, is at 

 present in Italy. 



Professor Barula, the zoologist of the 

 Baron Toll expedition, who left the expedi- 

 tion's yacht Saria in May with three others to 

 engage in scientific research in New Siberia, 

 has arrived at Irkutsk, eastern Siberia. 



Professor R. H. Thurston, director of 

 Sibley College, Cornell University, gave a lec- 

 ture before the New York Electrical Society 

 on March 18, the subject being ' The Steam- 

 turbine to date.' 



Congress has passed a bill appropriating 

 $125 per month during her lifetime as a pen^ 

 sion to Mrs. Emily Lawrence Reed, widow 

 of the late Major Walter Reed, U.S.A., whose 

 important investigations on yellow fever at 

 Havana are well known. 



The death is announced of M. Alexis Rous- 

 set, the explorer, at Cape Lopez, in the Gulf 

 of Guinea. He was returning from an ex- 

 pedition in the Shari region, where he had 

 discovered and mapped a shorter route through 

 the Tafa region, between Lake Chad and the 

 Congo basin. 



Stanford Unh^ersity has secured the library 

 of the late Mr. Konrad, chief hydraulic en- 

 gineer of the Netherlands. 



