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versity of Liverpool, with Mr. J. F. Cameron, 

 lecturer of Caius College, Cambridge, was 

 climbing a difficult couloir, near Bethesda, in 

 north Wales, on September 20, when he dis- 

 lodged a mass of rock, and, falling with it, was 

 instantly killed. Mr. Hudson was twenty-eight 

 years of age, and was the son of Professor W. 

 H. H. Hudson, of King's College, London. 



There will be a civil service examination on 

 November 10 to fill the position of assistant to 

 the agrostologist in the Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry at a salary of $1,400. On November 

 16 examinations will be held for the position 

 of technical assistants in chemistry, pharma- 

 cology and zoology in the public health and 

 marine hospital service, with salaries of not 

 less than $1,000. 



King Edward has been pleased, upon the 

 recommendation of the secretary for Scotland, 

 to confer the title ' Royal ' upon the Edin- 

 burgh Museum of Science and Art, and to 

 approve its designation being altered to ' The 

 Eoyal Scottish Museum.' 



Fourteen large houses in Bloomsbury, Lon- 

 don, have been demolished for the British 

 Museum extension. 



The private herbarium of Dr. John K. 

 Small, consisting of 21,900 sheets, fully repre- 

 senting his collections in the southern United 

 States, has, we learn from the Botanical 

 Gazette, heen acquired by the Field Columbian 

 Museum. 



The autumn intercollegiate geological ex- 

 cursion for professors, teachers and advanced 

 students will be held at Worcester, October 22. 

 The party will meet on the evening of October 

 21, at 8 o'clock, in the rooms of the Worcester 

 Natural History Society, 12 State street, 

 when explanation of the work of the next day 

 will be given. The party will start at 8 :30 

 A.M., October 22, from the Bay State House, 

 on a special trolley car; and, after visiting 

 localities in the eastern and northern parts 

 of the city, will return to the hotel for dinner 

 — price, Y5 cents. In the afternoon the party 

 will go on the trolley car to the southeastern 

 part of the city, visiting interesting localities 

 there. The works — ' The Physical Geography 

 of Southern New England,' by Wm. M. Davis ; 



' Physical Geography of Worcester,' by J. H. 

 Perry ; ' Geology of Worcester,' by J. H. Perry 

 and B. K. Emerson — ^will make known the 

 points of geological interest in the region. 

 Those proposing to take part in the excursion 

 will please inform Mr. J. H. Perry, 76 High- 

 land street, Worcester, Mass., on or before 

 October 18. 



The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 

 proposes to despatch a second yellow fever ex- 

 pedition to the Amazon in view of the neces- 

 sity of investigating still further this malady. 

 The late Dr. Walter Myers was selected by the 

 school, together with Dr. Herbert Dvirham, to 

 undertake an expedition to Para to investigate 

 the disease, only a few years ago. Both mem- 

 bers of the expedition were attacked by the 

 malady and Dr. Myers died. The expedition 

 wil' probably start at the end of the year. 



We learn from Nature that extensions made 

 to Millport Marine Biological Station, in- 

 cluding a new laboratory, research rooms, a 

 tank-room and a library, the gifts of Mr. 

 James Coats, Jr., of Paisley, were opened on 

 September 27, by Sir John Primrose, lord 

 provost of Glasgow. 



We learn from Popular Astronomy that in 

 a circular accompanying the last issue of the 

 Astronomische Rundschau, the sale of the in- 

 struments and library of Manora Observatory 

 is announced. The telescope is spoken of as 

 one of great excellence. Application should 

 be made to Manora-Sternwarte ' Lussenpic- 

 colo ' (Istri). 



According to the Experiment Station Rec- 

 ord, it is proposed to hold an International 

 Congress of Agricultural Mechanics at the 

 Universal Exposition of Liege in 1905, under 

 the patronage of the Belgian Government. 

 The organization has, however, not yet been 

 perfected nor the program completed. A. 

 Lonay, director of the provincial school of ag- 

 ricultural mechanics at Mons, is in charge of 

 the preliminary arrangements. Among the 

 topics which have been suggested for the pro- 

 gram are instruction in agricultural mechan- 

 ics, testing stations for agricultural machin- 

 ery, exhibition and tests of machinery, 

 application of electricity, the traction auto- 



