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the lead and zinc deposits of the Mississippi 

 valley, and during the coming summer will 

 make special investigations concerning the 

 deposits in southern and northwestern Illinois. 



General A. W. Greeley, chief of the U. S. 

 Signal Service Office, has returned to the 

 United States after attending the Inter- 

 national Telegraphers' Conference in London. 



Professor F. E. Lloyd, of Teachers College, 

 Columbia University, left June 13, by the 

 Steamer Oaribee for the island of Dominica, 

 where, in the company of Mrs. Lloyd, he will 

 spend the summer in the study of the flora. 

 The expedition is being conducted under the 

 auspices of the New York Botanical Garden. 

 The systematic collections will become a part 

 of the garden herbarium. Professor Lloyd 

 has received a grant of $200 from the 

 Esther ITerrman research fund of the Scien- 

 tific Alliance of New York, to aid him in the 

 collection of tropical Eubiaceae to be used in 

 the furtherance of his researches in the em- 

 bryology of that order. 



Professor and Mrs. Egbert H. Richards, 

 of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 left Boston on June 14 to make a tour of in- 

 spection of the principal centers of the me- 

 chanical preparation of low grade ores on the 

 Pacific coast. 



Professor John C. Merriam, of the Uni- 

 versity of California, has returned to Berkeley 

 from the fossil beds in Idaho. 



Mr. George G. MaoCuedy, curator of the 

 anthropological collections of the Peabody Mu- 

 seum, of Yale University, has sailed for 

 Europe, where he will make purchases for the 

 museum. 



Messrs. A. F. Blakeslee and J. E. John- 

 ston, of the Graduate School of B[arvard Uni- 

 versity, will spend the summer vacation on 

 Trinidad island for the purpose of collecting 

 botanical specimens for the university. 



Silas P. Beebe, M.S., who has been engaged 

 in research work in the laboratory of physio- 

 logical chemistry in the Sheffield Scientific 

 School of Yale University, has been appointed 

 physiological chemist in connection with the 

 Huntington Fund for Cancer Research in the 

 Loomis Laboratory, New York. 



Dr. John Gifford, of the New York State 

 College of Forestry, has tendered his resigna- 

 tion as assistant professor of forestry. He will 

 leave in a few days to investigate the reser- 

 vation in Porto Eico for the Bureau of For- 

 estry. 



Mr. Albert Kingsbury, professor of ap- 

 plied mechanics, at the Worcester Polytechnic 

 Institute, has resigned in order to accept a 

 position as mechanical engineer with the West- 

 inghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Pittsburgh. 



Leo F. Eettger, Ph.D., instructor in bac- 

 teriology in the Sheffield Scientific School of 

 Yale University, sailed for Europe on June 

 10. He will spend some time at Strasburg 

 studying bacteriology and bacteriological 

 chemistry. 



The Geological Society, London, has made 

 the first award of the proceeds of the fund 

 founded by the late Mr. Daniel Pidgeon, 

 F.G.S., to Dr. Ernest Willington Skeates, of 

 the Royal College of Science. 



A COMMITTEE of eminent chemists has been 

 formed to erect a monument at Heidelberg in 

 memory of Eobert Bunsen. It is intended 

 that the contribution shall be international 

 and may be sent to the treasurer, Herr A. 

 Rodrian, Heidelberg. 



A PORTRAIT of Dr. David Little, formerly 

 lecturer of ophthalmology in Owens College, 

 Manchester, was unveiled on May 27. 



Dr. a. a. Common, F.R.S., president of the 

 Royal Astronomical Society in 1895, well- 

 known for his important researches in astron- 

 onay, especially in connection with reflecting 

 telescopes, died on June 2, at the age of sixty- 

 two years. 



The famous paleontological collection of 

 the Baron de Bayet, of Brussels, Belgium, 

 has been purchased by Mr. Andrew Carnegie 

 and presented by him to the Carnegie Mu- 

 seum at Pittsburgh. It is a vast collection, 

 exceedingly rich in reptilia, fishes, inverte- 

 brates and plants from almost all the classic 

 localities in Europe. There is a splendid 

 series of Rhamphorhynchus, Teleosaurus, Ich- 

 thyosaurus, Pterodactylus, Mosasaurus and 



