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made a reconuoissance of a portion of the area 

 of a proposed Appalachian forest reserve de- 

 signed for the protection of forests and the 

 preservation of the water resources and soils of 

 the Appalachian region. He was accompanied 

 by Messrs. GifFord Pinchot, chief of the newly 

 created Bureau of Forestry ; F. H. Newell, 

 chief of the Hydrographic Division of the U. S, 

 Geological Survey ; W J McGee, of the Bu- 

 reau of American Ethnology, and J. A. Holmes, 

 state geologist of North Carolina, 



Professor O. P. Phillips, of the Southern 

 California University, is in the Pueblo region, 

 under the auspices of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, for the purpose of obtaining motion- 

 pictures illustrating the industries, ceremonies 

 and domestic customs of the Pueblo peoples. 



Dr. Franz Boas, of Columbia University, 

 received on July 1 an houorary appointment 

 as philologist in the Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology ; and under an arrangement completed 

 just before his departure for Euroi^e, Messrs H. 

 H. St. Clair and W. A. Jones have taken the 

 field and commenced the collection of several 

 Indian languages. 



As we have alreadj'^ stated Dr. Paul C. Freer, 

 professor of chemistry in the University of 

 Michigan, has received a year's leave of ab- 

 sence to go to the Philippines. We are now 

 informed that he will there organize the labora- 

 tories recently established by the civil govern- 

 ment. 



Dr. W. W. Ford, of McGill University, will 

 undertake researches on some subject connected 

 with preventable diseases under the auspices of 

 the trustees of the Rockefeller Institution for 

 Medical Research. He will spend the next six 

 mouths at the Pasteur Institute at Paris, re- 

 turning to McGill University, when the new 

 laboratories are completed, to work under Pro- 

 fessor Adami. 



Sir Robert Ball, i)rofessor of astronomy at 

 Cambridge University, will lecture in the United 

 States during the autumn, under the auspice 

 of Major Pond. 



Sir Henry Roscoe, the eminent chemist, has 

 been reelected vice-chancellor of the University 

 of London. 



Sir a. R. Binnie has resigned the position 

 of chief engineer to the London County Council. 

 Under his direction many important public 

 works, such as the Black well Tunnel, were 

 carried out. 



Professor A. Jacobi, New York City, has 

 sent a notice, calling attention to the fund be- 

 ing collected in honor of Rudolf Virchow's 

 eightieth birthday, to which we have already 

 referred. The fund is to be added to that col- 

 lected ten 3'ears ago, its income being used for 

 furthering biological, anthropological and med- 

 ical research. Professor Virchow will celebrate 

 his birthday on October 13, and contributions 

 should be in Professor Jacobi' s hands not later 

 than the first of September. 



Dr. Robert Mayer, eminent for his an- 

 nouncement of the law of the conservation of 

 energy, was born at Heilbron in 1814 and 

 practised medicine in that city until his death 

 in 1878. The Berlin branch of the German As- 

 sociation of Engineers has recentlj'' placed a 

 memorial tablet on the house in which he lived. 



A BUST of Dr. Armauer Hansen, the dis- 

 coverer of the bacillus of leprosy, will be un- 

 veiled with appropriate rites in the Lunge- 

 gaards-Hospital at Bergen on August 10. 



Dr. William H. Harkness, known for his 

 contributions to entomology and botany, died 

 in San Francisco on May 10. 



Willis H. Barris, D.D., corresponding 

 secretary and curator of the Davenport Acad- 

 emy of Sciences died last month in his eightieth 

 year. Dr. Barris was professor in a theological 

 school of the Protestant Episcopal church and 

 was at the same time much interested in science, 

 having published in the Proceedings of the 

 Davenport Academy of Sciences' numerous 

 papers on geology and paleontology. He was 

 a trustee of the Academy from the time of its 

 foundation, and was elected president in 1876, 

 and for many years acted as curator and cor- 

 resiDonding secretary. 



Professor Johannes Lamp, one of the 

 [Scientific members of the expedition which is 

 demarcating the boundarj- between German 

 East Africa and the Congo State in the neigh- 

 borhood of Lake Kivu, died on June 21 of sun- 



