July 26, 1901.] 



SCIENCE. 



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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



At the meeting of the Senate of Loudon Uni- 

 versity on July 11, Professor A. W. Riicker, 

 professor of physics in the Royal College of 

 Science and secretary of the Royal Society, 

 was elected principal of the University, 



At the first congi'egation of the University of 

 Birmingham, on July 6, the degree of Master 

 of Science was presented to the following offi- 

 cers of the University : Dr. Oliver Lodge, prin- 

 cipal ; Robert S. Heath, vice-principal and 

 professor of mathematics ; Bertram C. A. Win- 

 die, dean of the faculty of medicine and pro- 

 fessor of anatomy ; John H. Poynting, dean of 

 the faculty of science and professor of i)hysics ; 

 Thomas Bridge (zoology), Charles Lapworth 

 (geology), William Hillhouse (botany), Percy 

 F. Frankland (chemistry), Frederick W. Bur- 

 stall (engineering), Adrian J. Brown (brewing), 

 Bostock Hill (public health), Gilbert Barling 

 (surgery), Bennett May (surgery), Alfred H. 

 Carter (medicine), Robert Saundby (medicine), 

 Edward Malins (midwifery). Priestly Smith 

 (ophthalmology), Arthur Foxwell (therapeu- 

 tics), Robert F. C. Leith (pathology), James T. 

 J. Morrison (forensic medicine), Edmond W. W. 

 Cai'lier (physiology), John W. Taylor (gynae- 

 cology). 



Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, Mr. E. 

 Henry Stevens, of the House Committee on 

 Agriculture, and Professor Milton T. Whitney, 

 chief of the division of soils of the Department 

 of Agriculture, made last week a trip through 

 Connecticut and western Massachusetts, seek- 

 ing facts and information relative to the grow- 

 ing of tobacco under cloth in those sections. 



Under the auspices of the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden, Professor Lucien M. Underwood, 

 of Columbia University, has visited Porto Rico, 

 and Dr. M. A. Howe, assistant curator of the 

 museum, has explored the coasts of Nova 

 Scotia, Newfoundland and New Brunswick. 



Surgeon Kinyoun, recently of San Fran- 

 cisco, and now in charge of the Marine Hospital 

 at Detroit, has been detailed to visit Japan and 

 China to inspect the work of the marine hos- 

 pital service with special reference to the 

 plague. 



Dr. Feshenko, of the University of St. 



Petersburg, has been sent by the Imperial Geo- 

 graphical Society to the Pamir, and is at 

 present at Tashkent making geological, botan- 

 ical and zoological researches. 



Dr. E. J. Lederle, chief chemist of the 

 Health Department of New York City, sailed 

 on July 18 for Europe, where he will inspect 

 the municipal laboratories of Europe, including 

 Paris, Brussels, Cologne, Berlin, London, Glas- 

 gow, Edinburgh and Dublin. 



Messrs. Darton, Hatcher and Fraas have 

 completed the special study of the Titauotherium 

 Beds in South Dakota for the U. S. Geological 

 Survey. The work was gi*eatly impeded by ex- 

 ceptionally rainy w^eather. Mr. Darton will 

 report upon the resu^lts which will subsequently 

 be used in the monograph on ' The Titano- 

 theres ' by Professor Osborn. 



Professor Lester F. Ward, of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, has recently made a two 

 months' trip in the Triassic of Arizona, study- 

 ing the geology and collecting fossil plants. A 

 small but valuable collection of fossil vertebrates 

 was made at the same time for the U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum. 



Professor Stewart Culin, curator of the 

 Pennsylvania University Museum, has returned 

 to Philadelphia, after a visit to Cviba in search 

 of traces and relics of the aboriginal Indian 

 tribes. 



The American astronomers who went to 

 Sumatra to observe the eclipse of the sun in 

 May arrived at San Francisco on the Indiana 

 on July 16. The members of the party in- 

 clude Professor E. E. Barnard, Professor A. N. 

 Skinner, Commander U. S. N.; Professor W. S. 

 Eichelberger, U. S. N. ; F. B. Littell and H. D. 

 Curtis. 



Reuter's Agency telegraphs from St.Peters- 

 burg that Baron Toll, the leader of the Russian 

 Arctic expedition, has sent to the Academy of 

 Sciences the following despatch from Yeniseisk, 

 dated April 16 : "Safely arrived in the Gulf of 

 Taimyr, where I am wintering. We have 

 erected a station for meteorological observations 

 in the neighborhood of Archer Harbor. Mat- 

 thiessen has exiilored the Nordenskidld Is- 

 lands, traveling in sledges. Kolomeizefif has 

 been sent to the mouth of the Yenisei with 



