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desirable specimens were brought back for 

 the conservatories. Valuable assistance was 

 rendered by Mr. John Shafer, curator of the 

 herbarium of the Carnegie Museum, Pitts- 

 burgh. In addition to the great amount of 

 material secured which will be of great value 

 in the continuation of investigations upon the 

 flora of the West Indies Dr. Britton was so 

 fortunate as to secure a number of rare botan- 

 ical books not previously in the library of the 

 garden. Mr. Percy Wilson, museum aid, 

 returned from Honduras, March 18, bringing 

 a large collection of living and prepared speci- 

 mens of plants from the region near Puerto 

 Sierra and Puerto Cortez. 



Dr. James B. Oveeton, professor of biology 

 at Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois, on 

 a grant from the Carnegie Institute as re- 

 search assistant, will spend the next collegiate 

 year in study and investigation at the Univer- 

 sity of Bonn, at the special request of Pro- 

 fessor Eduard Strasburger, the director of the 

 Botanical Institute. 



E. M. Strong, Ph.D. (Harvard, 1901), 

 instructor in biology at Haverford College, 

 1902-3, has been appointed to a Carnegie re- 

 search assistantship with Professor C. O. 

 Whitman at the University of Chicago. 



Me. a, D. Selby, botanist to the Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station at Wooster, Ohio, 

 who has been in residence at the New York 

 Botanical Garden since December, has been 

 granted a research scholarship of the Garden. 



Dr. Thomas M. Balliet, who for fifteen 

 years has been the superintendent of public 

 schools in Springfield, Mass., has recently 

 been honored with a banquet by some one 

 hundred and fifty of the leading men of that 

 city. After many appreciative speeches the 

 afiair closed with the presentation to Dr. Bal- 

 liet of a handsome set of the works of the 

 late Dr. John Fiske. 



Lieutenant Koltschok has been sent, by 

 the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, to 

 search for Baron Toll, who, last June, left 

 the major part of his polar expedition, and 

 with a few companions proceeded to Bennett 

 Land. 



A committee has been formed in Paris with 

 M. H. Moissan as chairman to strike a medal 

 in honor of the late M. P. P. Deherain, form- 

 erly professor of plant physiology in the Uni- 

 versity of Paris. Subscriptions should be 

 sent to M. Pierre Masson, 120 boulevard St. 

 Germain, Paris. Those subscribing 25 francs 

 will receive a copy of the medal. 



Dr. Julius Victoe Carus, associate pro- 

 fessor of comparative zoology at Leipzig, died 

 on March 10, at the age of seventy-nine years. 



Dr. Franz Studnicka, professor of mathe- 

 matics at Prague, died on February 21 at the 

 age of sixty-seven years. 



During the past winter geological work has 

 been carried on by the Louisiana State Geo- 

 logical Survey along the following lines: (1) 

 the stratigraphy of the oil- and water-bearing 

 beds has been studied by Professor G. D. 

 Harris and E. F. Lines (C. U., '04) ; (2) the 

 clay and lignite deposits have been investi- 

 gated by C. E. Smith, A.M. (C. U., '03) ; the 

 subject of terrestrial magnetism has been in 

 charge of Edwin Smith, detailed from the 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey. Through coop- 

 eration with the U. S. Geological Survey, an 

 area 1,000 miles square is now being mapped 

 topographically about Baton Eouge. Pro- 

 fessor Harris has been engaged for the coming 

 summer by the Hydrographic Division of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey to prepare, by office 

 and field work, a monograph on the under- 

 ground waters of southern Louisiana. Mr. 

 Lines will be employed by the state to con- 

 tinue the collection of data in the field, look- 

 ing toward the construction of large topo- 

 graphic models of the state for the St. Louis 

 Exposition. Mr. Smith will soon be in the 

 field again on economic work already begun; 

 and later will divide his time between teach- 

 ing at the State University and survey work. 

 Mr. Joviano Pacheco (0. U.), formerly assist: 

 ant on the State Survey, is now draftsman 

 for the Southern Pacific Railroad. He will 

 shortly be transferred to the Louisiana Survey 

 force to aid in the construction of models for 

 the St. Louis Exposition. 



The Civil Service Commission announces 

 that the examination scheduled for April 21 



