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orders to establish a coaling station. I myself 

 shall traverse the Cheliuskin Peninsula with 

 Koltschak. Matthiessen has been appointed 

 commander of the Sarja. All are well." 



Professor Ernst Haeckel has consented 

 to give a course of lectures on paleontology in 

 London. 



Dr. Tracy F. Hazen, recently fellow in 

 botany at Columbia University, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Fairbanks Museum of 

 Natural Science at St. Johnsbury, Vt. 



Mr. E. G. Hastings, who has held the posi- 

 tion of assistant bacteriologist at the University 

 of Wisconsin Experiment Station, has been 

 granted leave of absence for a year's study in 

 Europe. His position will be filled in the 

 interim by Mr. John F. Nicholson. 



A statue of Chevreul was unveiled on July 

 11 in the Paris Museum of Natural History. 



Dr. James Marvin died at his home at 

 Lawrence, Kansas, July 10 last, aged 81 years. 

 Dr. Marvin was educated at Alfred Academy 

 (now Alfred University) and Allegheny College, 

 in both of which institutions he was subse- 

 quently a teacher. For a number of years he 

 was superintendent of schools at Warren, Ohio, 

 from which place he went to Allegheny College 

 as professor of mathematics and astronomy. 

 In 1874 he was called to the chancellorship of 

 the University of Kansas, doing much during 

 his ten years' service to build up that institu- 

 tion. Later he became the first principal of 

 Haskell Institute, one of the leading govern- 

 ment schools for Indians, and laid the founda- 

 tions for what has since become a great school. 

 His public service closed with a six years' term 

 as pastor of a Methodist church at Lawrence. 

 For several years he had been an invalid, slowly 

 declining under the action of paralysis. 



The death of H. W. Harkness, which we an- 

 nounced last week, will be a serious loss to 

 science in San Francisco. Born eighty years 

 ago in Massachusetts, he went to California in 

 1849, and, having amassed a considerable for- 

 tune by the practise of medicine, retired in 

 1869 and devoted himself chiefly to scientific 

 interests. He was from 1887-1896 president 

 of the California Academy of Sciences. He 

 was the author of numerous contributions to 



botany, chiefly on the cryptogams. He pre- 

 sented his collections, containing 10,000 speci- 

 mens, to the Academy of Sciences. 



Miss Eva M. Reed, indexer in the library 

 of the Missouri Botanical Garden at St. Louis, 

 was instantly killed by a train while walk- 

 ing on the tracks near Louisiana, Missouri, 

 on July 7. The body was interred at St. 

 Louis. Miss Reed had been connected with 

 the Botanical Garden for about seven years, 

 going to that institution from the University 

 of Wisconsin. She was deeply interested in 

 botanical pursuits, giving attention to the 

 mosses, as well as to the winter characters of 

 trees, a subject on which she had written for 

 publication. Not long ago she began working 

 on plant ecology, under the direction of the 

 botanical department of the University of Chi- 

 cago, and it was in the prosecution of investi- 

 gation in the field that she met her death. 



Sir Cuthbert Edgar Pebe:, who main 

 tained at Rowsdon an astronomical and meteor- 

 ological observatory, died on July 5, at the 

 age of forty-six years. He went to Queens- 

 land on the last transit-of- Venus expedition, 

 and made numerous contributions to astronomy 

 and meteorology. He was an active supporter 

 of scientific work, being a member of the 

 council of the Royal Geographical Society and 

 of the Royal Meteorological Society and honor- 

 ary secretary of the Anthropological Society. 



The death is announced of Miss Eleanor A. 

 Ormerod, known for her contributions to eco- 

 nomic entomology, on which subject she had 

 published a number of works. She was re- 

 cently given theLL.D. degree by the University 

 of Edinburgh, where she had been examiner in 

 agricultural entomology. 



The death is also announced of Dr. Gino 

 Ciaccio, professor of comparative anatomy at the 

 University of Bologna, and of James Hamblin 

 Smith, of Gonville and Caius College, Cam- 

 bridge, a famous coach of the University and 

 the author of several works on elementary 

 mathematics. 



The New York City Municipal Civil Service 

 Commission will hold on July 31 an examina- 

 tion for the position of assistant bacteriologist 

 with a salary of $1,200. 



