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igan, has been awarded a grant of $250 by 

 Carnegie Institution. 



Mr. Albert P. Morsk, curator of the Zo- 

 ological Museum of Wellesley College, has 

 been appointed a research assistant in the 

 Carnegie Institution. Mr. Morse will under- 

 take a systematic and biological study of the 

 North American Acrididw with especial refer- 

 ence to geographical distribution, dispersal 

 and variation; and will probably spend July 

 and August in field work in the southeastern 

 states. 



The New York Times states that the ad- 

 ministrative board appointed to organize and 

 conduct the international congresses to be 

 held in connection with the "World's Fair in 

 St. Louis in 1904, met on March 11 at the 

 eastern offices of the exhibition. There were 

 present President Butler, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, chairman; President Harper, Univer- 

 sity of Chicago; President Jesse, University 

 of Missouri; Dr. Herbert Putnam, Librarian 

 of Congress, and Frederick W. HoUs, member 

 of The Hague Tribunal. The board met to 

 consider the report of the committee on the 

 Congress of Arts and Science, which had been 

 in session the two preceding days. The mem- 

 bers of the committee met with the board. 

 They are: Professor Simon Newcomb, Wash- 

 ington; Professor Hugo Miinsterberg, Har- 

 vard University, and Professor Albion W. 

 Small, University of Chicago. Mr. Howard 

 J. Eogers, director of congresses, was also 

 present. There is to be a ' Congress of Arts 

 and Science,' with 128 sections. The board 

 adjourned to meet in St. Loiiis on April 29. 



The Swedish government has appropriated 

 $20,000 for the publication of the scientific 

 results of Dr. Sven Hedin's journey through 

 central Asia. The work will comprise an 

 atlas of two large volumes, while a third 

 volume will contain Dr. Hedin's report on the 

 geography of the country. Further volumes 

 will be devoted to the meteorological obser- 

 vations, the astronomical observations, the 

 geological, botanical and zoological collections, 

 and the Chinese manuscripts and inscriptions. 

 The work will be published in the English 

 language. 



Dr. William T. Harris, U. S. Commis- 

 sioner of Education, will deliver an address 

 on April 25 at the School of Pedagogy, New 

 York University, on ' Education in the United 

 States.' The meeting has been arranged as a 

 memorial to Dean Edward E. Shaw, and a 

 portrait of Dr. Shaw will be presented by the 

 students to the university. 



Professor Henry Barker Hill, director of 

 the Chemical Laboratory of Harvard College, 

 died on April 6 in his fifty-fourth year. 



Eear-Admiral George E. Belknap, retired, 

 who in addition to eminent services in the 

 navy was in charge of important hydrographic 

 work and was at one time superintendent of 

 the Naval Observatory, died on April 7, at the 

 age of seventy-one years. ■ 



Dr. Laborde, an eminent French physician 

 and a member, of the Academy of Medicine, 

 died on April 7. 



The death is announced of Professor J. G. 

 Wiborgh, of the Stockholm School of Mines, 

 at the age of sixty-four. He was the leading 

 authority on the metallurgy of iron in Sweden 

 and the author of numerous works on the 

 subject. 



The daily papers state that the headquarters 

 of the Carnegie Institution, Washington, are 

 about to be removed from the private house 

 at the corner of K and Fifteenth Streets, to a 

 suite of offices in the Bond Building, at the 

 corner of New York Avenue and Fourteenth 

 Street. 



A conference to consider the founding of 

 a national seismic association will be held at 

 Strasburg at the end of July. 



Four thousand Spanish physicians and fif- 

 teen hundred foreigners have already regis- 

 tered for the International Congress of Med- 

 icine to be held at Madrid at the end of the 

 present month. 



We learn from Nature that the officials of 

 the Sanitary Deparment of the Egyptian Gov- 

 ernment, into whose hands the expenditure of 

 the recent gift of 40,000L entrusted to Lord 

 Cromer and his successors in office by Sir 

 Ernest Cassel for the relief of ophthalmia and 

 eye diseases has virtually passed, have decided 



