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Gribble (York), J. E. Lister (Sheffield), J. M. 

 Kennedy (London), H. Middleton (Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne), J. D. Morgan (Handsworth). 



Me. Samuel Henshaw, A.M., of Cambridge, 

 Mass., has been appointed curator of the Mu- 

 seum of Comparative Zoology, at Harvard 

 University. He is the third curator in succes- 

 sion of that museum. Professor Louis 

 Agassiz, the founder, was curator, then di- 

 rector from 1859 until his death; in 1873 he 

 was succeeded by his son. Dr. Alexander 

 Agassiz, who resigned in 1898. Since that 

 date Dr. W. McM. Woodworth has been assist- 

 ant in charge, then keeper. Mr. Henshaw was 

 connected with the Boston Society of Natural 

 History as assistant from 18Y6 to 1892, and as 

 secretary and librarian, 1892-1899. He suc- 

 ceeded the late Professor H. A. Hazen as as- 

 sistant in entomology in the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology, in 1892 and was appointed 

 librarian in 1899. These two positions he 

 has since held. 



The president of the British Institution of 

 Civil Engineers, Sir William White, and more 

 than one hundred members of the institution, 

 have arrived on the Cunard steamship, Etruria, 

 on a visit to the United States and Canada. 

 The invitation to the institution to pay this 

 visit, the first of the kind made since its 

 foundation in 1818, was given by the Ameri- 

 can and Canadian Societies of Civil Engi- 

 neers. It is proposed to take part also in the 

 International Engineering Congress organized 

 in connection with the St. Louis Exhibition, 

 to be held in October. 



Dn. AND Mrs. N. L. Britton sailed for 

 Nassau, New Providence, on August 19, for 

 the purpose of continuing the exploration of 

 the Bahamas. 



Me. Malcolm Playfair Anderson, of Stan- 

 ford University, left for Japan early in July 

 to carry on biological work under the auspices 

 of the Zoological Society of London. He will 

 make collections of mammals and birds and 

 other specimens of the island fauna and flora, 

 and a general rough survey of the natural 

 history features. 



Dr. Ernst A. Bessey, of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, who has been 



abroad for somewhat more than two years, 

 will return about the first of October. While 

 abroad he traveled in Eussia, the Caucasus, 

 Turkestan and Algeria, for the Department of 

 Agriculture. He spent some time in study in 

 the Universities of Halle and Munich, finish- 

 ing his work for the doctorate in Halle last 

 spring. 



During the past summer Professor C. N. 

 Gould, of the University of Oklahoma, as- 

 sisted by E. G. Woodruff, conducted investiga- 

 tions on the subject of water supply in the 

 Panhandle of Texas for the United States 

 Geological Survey. Professor Gould last year 

 made a reconnaissance along 'the Cimarron 

 and South Canadian Rivers in Oklahoma, 

 Texas, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico, and 

 on the completion of the field studies sub- 

 mitted a report on the geology and water re- 

 sources of Oklahoma. A similar report on the 

 water resources of the Panhandle will be siib- 

 mitted during the coming winter. 



Dr. W. a. Murrill has been appointed as- 

 sistant curator, at the New York Botanical 

 Garden, in the place of Professor F. S. Earle, 

 who resigned to become director of the Ex- 

 periment Station of Cuba. 



Mr. E. M. Arango has been appointed a con- 

 sulting engineer on the staff of Chief Engineer 

 Wallace in the Panama Canal construction. 



Dr. Alexander C. Abbott, chief of the 

 Bureau of Health, and professor of hygiene 

 in the University of Pennsylvania, delivered 

 the inaugural address at McGill University, on 

 September 12. 



Dr. J. Deniker, librarian of the Paris Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, will deliver the 

 Pifth Huxley Memorial Lecture of the An- 

 thropological Institute of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, on October 7. He will take as his 

 subject ' The Eaces of Europe.' 



Dr. C. L. Herriok^ editor of the Journal of 

 Comparative Neurology and Psychology, died 

 at Socorro, New Mexico, on September 15. 

 Stricken with pulmonary tuberculosis early 

 in 1894, he left his professorship in Denison 

 University and succeeded for more than ten 

 years in holding his disease in check in the 

 climate of the far south-west. This period of 



