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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVII. No. 440. 



Dr. Baeton Warren Evermann, for several 

 years ichthyologist of the II. S. Fish Com- 

 mission, and assistant in charge, Division of 

 Fisheries, since November, 1902, has been 

 promoted to the position of assistant in charge. 

 Division of Scientific Inquiry of the U. S. 

 Fish Commission. On June 13 he sails on the 

 Albatross from Seattle for Alaska, where, as 

 assistant head of the special Alaska Salmon 

 Commission, he -will spend the summer ma- 

 king an investigation of the salmon fisheries 

 of that coast. 



The Earl of Onslow has been appointed 

 president of the Board of Agriculture for 

 Great Britain. 



The subject of the Eomanes lecture, which 

 is to be delivered by Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., 

 at Oxford, on June 12, will be ' Modern Views 

 on Matter.' 



Professor George E. Beyer, of the depart- 

 ment of biology and natural history at Tulane 

 University, has gone to Vera Cruz, Mexico, 

 to continue his studies on yellow fever. 



Mr. J. A. Shafer, custodian of the botanical 

 collections at the Carnegie Museum, who went 

 to Cuba with Dr. ~N. L. Britten some months 

 ago, has returned. He remained on the is- 

 land after Dr. Britten's departure for the 

 north in order to prosecute further researches. 

 As the result of the joint labors of Dr. Brit- 

 ton and Mr. Shafer the herbaria at Bronx 

 Park and Pittsburgh have each received over 

 one thousand species of the plants of Cuba 

 in fresh condition. 



The Berlin Geographical Society celebrated 

 on May 4 its seventy-fifth anniversary. In 

 honor of the seventieth birthday of Professor 

 von Eichthofen the sum of 26,000 Marks has 

 been subscribed as a fund for research. The 

 society has awarded its Nachtigall medal to 

 Dr. Gerhard Scholt, of Hamburg. 



Lieut. C. J. Shackelton, who was one of 

 the officers of the British Antarctic Expedi- 

 tion, is at present in the United States on his 

 way from New Zealand to England. 



Syracuse University has appointed Pro- 

 fessor H. Monmouth Smith delegate to the 



Congress of Applied Chemistry at' Berlin and 

 granted him leave of absence till fall. Dr. 

 H. G. Cooper of the same university has also 

 been granted leave of absence that he may 

 work for a year as research associate in 

 physical chemistry at the Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology. Mr. Charles S. Bryan, 

 Jr., Ph.B., Syracuse, has been appointed re- 

 search assistant to Professor A. A. JSToyes of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



M. A. Lebeuf, lecturer in astronomy in the 

 University of Montpelier, has been appointed 

 director of the Observatory at Bescangon. 



It is stated in Nature that steps have been 

 taken to secure and erect a memorial of the 

 late Sir George Stokes in Westminster Abbey. 

 At a meeting of a joint committee of the 

 University of Cambridge and the Royal So- 

 ciety, held on March 12, the Duke of Devon- 

 shire being in the chair, it was resolved that 

 the authority of the Dean and Chapter of 

 Westminster be requested to place a medallion 

 relief portrait of Sir George Stokes in the 

 Abbey of the same general character as the 

 memorials of Darwin and other scientific men 

 already there. A letter has since been re- 

 ceived from the Dean of Westminster express- 

 ing his general assent to the proposal and his 

 willingness to take detailed plans into consid- 

 eration. Mr. Hamo Thornycroft, E.A., has 

 undertaken to prepare a medallion, the ma- 

 terial to be bronze, and the head to be in high 

 relief. It is estimated that the cost of placing 

 this memorial in Westminster Abbey will be 

 about £400. The treasurers of the fund are 

 the vice-chancellor of the University of Cam- 

 bridge and the treasurer of the Eoyal Society, 

 to whom subscriptions may be sent. 



Dr. Thomas Jay Hudson, for some years 

 principal examiner in the U. S. Patent Of&ce 

 and the author of a number of books of a 

 psychological character, has died at Detroit. 



Mr. Henry J. Woodman, a natural history 

 collector, has died at Mount Vernon, N. T. 



The death is announced of Dr. Max West- 

 ermayer, professor of botany at Freiburg, 

 Switzerland, and of Dr. H. Schurtz, assistant 

 in ethnography in the museimi at Breman. 



