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En route to Samoa, Dr. Lincke stopped at 

 Washington, November 17-21, and compared a 

 set of portable magnetic instruments with the 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey standards at 

 Cheltenham, Maryland, he having previously 

 compared the same set v^ith the Potsdam mag- 

 netic observatory standards. Upon his arrival 

 at Apia, he v^ill compare this set with the 

 observatory instruments used there and thus 

 secure the necessary data for correlating the 

 various observatory standards. Arrangements 

 are thus being perfected for effective coopera- 

 tion between the magnetic observatories of the 

 German government and those of this country. 



A MONUMENT TO J. W. POWELL. 



During the recent excursion of the Eighth 

 International Geographic Congress to the 

 Grand Canyon of the Colorado in Arizona, a 

 meeting was held in memory of Major J. W. 

 Powell, in which his exploration of the canyon, 

 his western surveys and his work as director 

 of the United States Geological Survey and 

 as organizer of the Bureau of Ethnology were 

 briefly described. At the close of the meet- 

 ing the following vote was passed: — 



The members of the Eighth International 

 Geographic Congress who visited the Grand 

 Canyon of the Colorado River on Septem- 

 ber 26 and 27, 1904, express the hope that 

 a suitable monument may be erected on the 

 edge of the plateau overlooking the Grand 

 Canyon to commemorate the labors of John 

 Wesley Powell as explorer, geologist and 

 ethnologist ; and they request that committee, 

 consisting of Messrs. Davis (temporary chair- 

 man), Bryant, Day, Gilbert, Hill, Libbey, 

 McGee, Salisbury and Walcott, with power to 

 add to their number, take steps to carry the 

 above suggestion into effect. 



The record of the vote was signed by fifty- 

 four members of the congress excursion. A 

 meeting of the committee will be held in 

 Philadelphia, on Friday, December 30, for 

 the purpose of organizing and taking such 

 action as may seem appropriate. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Dr. R. S. Woodward, professor of mechanics 

 and mathematical physics and dean of the 



faculty of pure science, Columbia University, 

 was elected president of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion at the meeting of the trustees held at 

 Washington, on December 13. 



At the meeting of the trustees of Princeton 

 University on December 8 the resignation of 

 Professor Charles A. Young from the chair 

 of astronomy was accepted to take effect at 

 the close of the present academic year, when 

 he will become professor emeritus. Professor 

 Young has held the chair of astronomy at 

 Princeton since 1877. He celebrated his 

 seventieth birthday on December 15. 



The council of the Edinburgh Royal 'So- 

 ciety at its recent meeting, decided to award 

 to Professor Sir J. Dewar, E.R.S., the Gun- 

 ning Victoria jubilee prize for 1900-1904, for 

 his researches on the liquefaction of gases ex- 

 tending over the last quarter of a century, 

 and on the chemical and physical properties of 

 substances at low temperatures. 



M. Dastre, professor of medicine at Paris, 

 has been elected a member of the Paris Acad- 

 emy of Sciences. 



Dr. J. Mackintosh Bell, instructor in geol- 

 ogy at Harvard University, a nephew of Dr. 

 Robert Bell, F.R.S., acting director of the 

 Geological Survey of Canada, has been ap- 

 pointed government geologist of New Zealand 

 to succeed Sir James Hector. 



The next autumn meeting of the Iron and 

 Steel Institute of Great Britain will be held 

 at Sheffield under the presidency of Mr. R. A. 

 Hadfield. 



Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, of the University 

 of Michigan, addressed the Philadelphia Pa- 

 thological Society on December 8, at the Col- 

 lege of Physicians, on the ' Rela+ion of Food 

 Adulteration to the Public Health.' A recep- 

 tion was tendered to Dr. Vaughan after the 

 meeting. 



Dr. E. O. Hovey, of the American Museum 

 of Natural History, lectured at the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology on December 

 8, under the auspices of the Society of Arts, 

 on 'Mont Pele: the Eruptions of 1902 and 

 the Growth and Destruction- of the Great 

 Spine, or Obelisk.' 



