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States National Museum, in recognition of 

 his distinguished contributions to the litera- 

 ture of hymenopterology. 



The alumni of the College of the City of 

 New York gave a dinner on June 15 to Pro- 

 fessor Alfred G. Compton, acting-president of 

 the college and professor of mathematics. 

 Professor Compton was a member of the first 

 graduating class in 1853, and has for fifty 

 years served the college as instructor and 

 professor. 



The Observatory Syndicate of Cambridge 

 University recommends that a pension of £200 

 per annum be granted to Mr. Andrew Gra- 

 ham, M.A., on his retirement from the posi- 

 tion of chief assistant at the observatory, 

 which office he has held for a period of thirty- 

 nine years. Mr. Graham began his work in 

 astronomy at Mr. Cooper's observatory in 

 Markree, county Sligo, in 1842. 



Me. George Whitehouse, engineer-in-chief 

 of the Uganda Railway, has been knighted. 



The Harveian Lectures of the Harveian So- 

 ciety of London, will be delivered by Dr. D. 

 B. Lees, next November, his subject being the 

 treatment of some acute visceral inflamma- 

 tions. 



Professor H. L. Fairchild, secretary of the 

 Geological Society, sails for Europe on June 

 27. He will attend the International Geo- 

 logical Congress in Vienna, the last of Au- 

 gust, and join the excursion through the 

 Austrian Alps. The time previous to the 

 congress he will spend in geological study in 

 Italy and Switzerland. 



Dr. F. H. Herrick, professor of zoology at 

 Western Reserve University, will spend next 

 year abroad. 



Dr. Howard S. Anders, instructor in phys- 

 ical diagnosis of chest diseases at the Medico- 

 Chirurgical College, Philadelphia, has been re- 

 elected president of the Pennsylvania Society 

 for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, which 

 meets in the Academy of Natural Science in 

 Philadelphia. 



Dr. Elihu Thomson has been appointed 

 president of the committee of organization of 

 the International Congress of Electricity, 



which meets at, St. Louis in the week begin- 

 ning September 12, 1904. The other members 

 of the committee are: vice-presidents. Pro- 

 fessor H. S. Carhart, C. E. Scott, Professor 

 W. E. Goldsborough, Dr. W. S. Stratton; gen- 

 eral secretary. Dr. A. E. Kennelly; treasurer, 

 W. D. Weaver; advisory committee, B. J. 

 Arnold, B. A. Behrend, C. S. Bradley, J. J. 

 Carty, A. H. Cowles, Professor F. B. Crocker, 

 Dr. L. Duncan, H. L. Doherty, Professor R. 



A. Eessenden, W. J. Hammer, C. Hering, L. 



B. Stillwell, C. P. Mathews, R. D. Mershon,^ 

 K. B. Miller, Dr. W. J. Morton, Dr. E. L.' 

 Nichols, Professor R. B. Owens, Dr. F. A. C. 

 Perrine, Professor M. I. Pupin, Professor J. 

 W. Richards, Professor H. J. Ryan, William 

 Stanley, Professor C. P. Steinraetz and A. J. 

 Wurts. 



On June 15 Professor G. Jesup, from 1877 

 to 1899 professor of botany in Dartmouth 

 College, died in Hanover, N. H. 



We regret also to announce the deaths of 

 Mr. xllfred Haviland, known for his work on 

 the geographical distribution of disease in 

 Great Britain, at the age of seventy-eight 

 years; of M. Eugen Demarcay, the French 

 chemist, at the age of fifty-one years; of Dr. 

 Stanislao Vecchi, professor of geometry at 

 the University of Parma; of Dr. Dirk Huiz- 

 inga, professor of physiology at the Univer- 

 sity of Groningen, and C. L. J. X. de la 

 Vallee Poussin, professor of mineralogy and 

 geology at the University of Lowen. 



Reuter's Agency has received the following 

 particulars of the operations of the Danish 

 literary expedition, which consists of M. 

 Mylius-Erichsen, the author; Count Herald 

 Moltke, the painter; Dr. Bertelsen, and a 

 student, M. Knud Ramassen. Last summer 

 they made a voyage in boats along the west 

 coast of Greenland from the colony of God- 

 thaab to the colony of Jacobshavn, where the 

 expedition wintered. In February the expedi- 

 tion, started on sledges drawn by dogs for 

 Upernivik (lat. 73 deg. north), the most 

 northerly Danish settlement in West Green- 

 land, which was reached in March. By March 

 24 the preparations for leaving Upernivik 

 were complete, and some members of the ex- 



