June 12, 1903.J 



SCIENCE. 



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The College of Physicians of Philadelpliia 

 will remove from its present building on 

 Thirteenth and Locust Sts., and will erect a 

 hew building on Twenty-second St. 



The corner stone of the new observatory at 

 Amherst College will be laid at noon on June 

 23, in connection with the commencement 

 exercises. 



The steamship Gauss of the German Ant- 

 arctic Expedition, under the command of Pro- 

 fessor von Drygalski, has arrived at ISTatal on 

 the way to Cape Town. 



The forty-first Annual Convocation of the 

 University of the State of New York will be 

 held in the Senate Chamber, Albany, June 29 

 and 30. 



It is stated in Nature that the annual con- 

 gress of the Southeastern Union of Scientific 

 Societies will be held at Dover, June 11-13. 

 On Thursday evening, June 11, the president- 

 elect. Sir Henry H. Howorth, F.R.S., will de- 

 liver the annual address. The following 

 papers will be read on June 12 : ' Atmospheric 

 Moisture as a Pactor in Distribution,' by Mr. 

 A. 0. WaUter; 'Experiences of Leprosy in 

 India,' by Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson, P.R.S. ; 

 ' The Diminution and Disappearance of South- 

 eastern Flora and Fauna within the Memory 

 of Present Observers,' by Captain McDakin 

 and Mr. Sydney Webb ; ' The Seedlings of 

 Geophilous Plants,' by Miss Ethel Sargant; 

 ' The White Chalk of Dover,' by Dr. Arthur 

 Eowe ; ' A Late Keltic Cemetery at Harlyn 

 Bay,' by Eev. R. Ashington Bullen. On June 

 13 Mr. A. T. Walmisley will lecture on 'In- 

 ternational Communication.' 



The Lake Laboratory of the University of 

 Montana will open on July 13 and will con- 

 tinue for five weeks, after which opportunity 

 will be given for research work. Professor 

 M. J. Elrod is director of the station and has 

 charge of the work in botany and entomology. 

 Mr. Morris Picker has charge of zoology and 

 photography and Mr. P. M. Silloway of 

 ornithology and nature study. The field labo- 

 ratory is located on the bank of Swan River 

 at its outlet into Flathead Lake. This loca- 

 tion afiiords a harbor for boats and a camping 



site for the tents of those attending. The 

 adjacent region contains forests, ponds, lakes, 

 swamps, cultivated fields, mountains, rivers 

 and ravines. It is rich in animal and vegetable 

 life. The lake ofEers opportunities for col- 

 lecting, and presents some beautiful scenery. 

 East of the lake the Mission range comes ab- 

 ruptly to the water's edge. The range slopes 

 from the Swan River on the north to the high 

 peaks, ten thousand feet, at the southern end, 

 and its scenery is wild, rugged and grand, 

 truly Alpine in character. West of the lake 

 are the Cabinets. Near the station Swan 

 Lake, Rost Lake, Echo Lake, and other waters, 

 are easily accessible. Daphnia Pond, a few 

 minutes' walk from the station, is rich in pond 

 life, while Estey's Pond, about as far again, 

 is fully as productive. The Swan range is 

 easily accessible from the station, and Alpine 

 summits are annually visited. The station is 

 not difficult of access. The stage and boat 

 rides are easy, with charming scenery con- 

 stantly in view. The building is a convenient 

 out-door laboratory, with tables for a dozen 

 students. The station work has entirely out- 

 grown the building. Many of the lectures are 

 given out of doors in the yard, and the fine 

 summer weather permits of much laboratory 

 work out of doors. 



Lord Avebury read a paper at the meeting 

 of the Geological Society, London, on May 27, 

 on the formation of mountains. According 

 to the report in the London Times he said 

 that experiments had been made long ago by 

 Sir J. Hall, and afterwards by Daubree, Rus- 

 kin, Cadell and others, by arranging layers 

 of cloth, clay, cement, etc., and studying the 

 folds and fractures which resulted when they 

 were compressed. In all these experiments, 

 however, the pressure was in one direction 

 only, whereas it was obvious that if mountains 

 were due, at any rate in part, to the contrac- 

 tion of the earth, in nattire the contraction 

 and consequent pressure took place from all 

 sides. Lord Avebury said that he, therefore, 

 provided himself with a square case com- 

 pressible on all four sides at once. In the 

 central space he arranged layers of sand, cloth, 

 etc., and compressed them, thus throwing them 

 into folds. He then took in each experiment 



