June 11, 1897.] 



SCIENCE. 



917 



Dear Hamilton, Bermuda, for the erection of a 

 permanent biological station. Professor Bristol 

 is accompanied bj' Dr. Tarletou H. Bean, direc- 

 tor of the New York Aquarium, who will make 

 collections for the Aquarium; by Walter Rankin, 

 of Princeton University ; by Mr W. H. Everett, 

 instructor, and by several students of New York 

 University. 



Dr. J. E. HtTMPHEEY, lecturer in botany in 

 Johns Hopkins University, has left Baltimore 

 for Jamaica with a party of students which will 

 probably be joined later by Professor W. K. 

 Brooks. A house for a marine biological 

 laboratory has been secured at Port Antonio, 

 on the north side of the Island. In other years 

 the laboratory has been located at Port Hender- 

 son, on the south side, but it is thought that a 

 change may offer new materials and oppor- 

 tunities. 



News from Adelaide indicates that Charles F. 

 Wells and J. W. Jones were killed by natives 

 while exploring central Australia. The expe- 

 dition of five persons, led by Mr. A. L. Wells, 

 was fitted out by Mr. Alfred L. Calvert and 

 crossed the inland desert of Australia, starting 

 from Cue, West Australia, in June of last year. 



An expedition fitted out by the Canadian 

 government left Halifax on June 2d to investi- 

 gate the practicability of the Hudson Bay route 

 to Europe, especially for the shipment of grain 

 from the Northwest. 



The New York Evening Post has printed an 

 account of the discoveries of Dr. Sven Hedin, a 

 Norwegian, who for the past three years has 

 been exploring the least known regions of 

 Persia, Russian Turkestan and the Pamirs. 

 Among other interesting discoveries he is said 

 to have found ruins of a city buried in the sands, 

 containing valuable manuscripts. 



It is reported that Captain Sverdrup will go 

 with the Fram to Smith's Sound next year, 

 spend the winter there, and then attempt a 

 sledge journey northward. 



Lieutenant Peary will be accompanied this 

 summer by a party under the direction of Mr. 

 Russell W. Porter, who will make explorations 

 in Baffin Land. A party from Colby University 

 will also go north with Lieutenant Peary. 



The New York Aquarium was visited by no 

 less than 21,456 persons on Sunday, June 6th. 



It is proposed to enlarge the Missouri Botan- 

 ical Garden, so that the land belonging to the 

 Shaw estate, over eighty acres in extent, will be 

 gradually added to it. It is planned to drain 

 and grade twenty-one acres during the present 

 season. 



The will of Mrs. Sarah Withers, of Blooming- 

 ton, Ind., bequeaths 840,000 to found a library in 

 Nicholasville, Ky. , where she was born. Some 

 years ago she established the Withers library in 

 Bloomington. 



Mr. F. J. Walz has been sent by the United 

 States Weather Bureau to take charge of the 

 Maryland State Weather Service, which is con- 

 ducted at the Johns Hopkins University, by the 

 cooperation of the government, the University, 

 the State and the Maryland Agricultural Col- 

 lege. 



The last meeting for the present season of the 

 American Mathematical Society was held at 

 Columbia University on May 29th. Papers 

 were presented by Professor F. Morley, of Hav- 

 erford College ; Dr. Emory McClintock, of New 

 York, and Dr. E. O. Lovett, of Johns Hopkins 

 University. The regular meeting of the Society 

 will be held hereafter in New York on the last 

 Saturday in October, December, February and 

 April, each meeting to consist of a morning and 

 afternoon session, which will allow as much 

 time as the present monthly meetings. The 

 Chicago Section will hold meetings in December 

 and April of each year. The Society holds its 

 summer meeting at Toronto on August 16th 

 and 17th. 



The American JMedical Association held its 

 semi-centennial celebration at Philadelphia on 

 June 2d, 3d and 4th. The address by the 

 President, Dr. Nicholas Senn, reviewed the 

 work of the Association, its past, its present 

 and its future. Dr. Austin Flint, of New 

 York, gave the address in medicine, and Dr. W. 

 W. Keene, of Philadelphia, the address in 

 surgery. The Association was also addressed 

 by the President of the United States, the Gov- 

 ernor of Pennsylvania and the Mayor of Phila- 

 delphia. It was reported that only about 

 $4,000 had been subscribed to the monument to 



