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on his way to Patagonia where he will continue 

 the paleontological studies that have been 

 carried forward by several Princeton expedi- 

 tions. 



Professor Osborn, accompanied by Pro- 

 fessor Eberhard Fraas, of Stuttgart, has recently 

 made a tour of the chief typical Jurassic expos- 

 ures of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, es- 

 pecially the beds of Caiion City, Green Eiver, 

 Como and the Black Hills. This is preliminary 

 to a careful survey of these beds, which will be 

 made for the monograph upon the Sauropoda. 

 Valuable geological studies of the Jurassic have 

 recently been published by Knight, Logan and 

 especially by Loomis. Professor Fraas is very 

 familiar with the Jurassic of Europe, having 

 personally studied all the Jurassic exposures, 

 and as a result of this trip he will undertake a 

 careful correlation of the American and Euro- 

 pean Jurassic horizons which will be published 

 by the American Museum. Messrs. Wieland 

 and Loomis are also independently studying 

 the Jurassic sections in the Black Hills region. 



President David Starr Jordan has re- 

 turned from the expedition to the Hawaiian 

 Islands, sent by the U. S. Fish Commission. 



Dr. Theodore Gill, of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, has just returned from a European 

 trip during which he enjoyed opportunities of 

 examining ichthyological and other collections 

 in various museums, and thus of materially ad- 

 vancing his comparative studies. 



Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, superintendent 

 of awards at the Pan-American Exposition, has 

 announced as jurors in the department of elec- 

 trical exhibits : Carl Hering, chairman ; F. B. 

 Crocker, A. V. Abbott, D. C. Jackson, W. S. 

 Franklin, W. S. Barstow, W. E. Goldsborough, 

 A. E. Kennelly, Henry S. Carhart and William 

 L. Puffer. 



Chief Officer Hans Russer, of the Balti- 

 more and Hamburg liner Batayia, has been 

 appointed captain of the German Antarctic 

 expedition. 



Sir Norman Lockyer, having reached the 

 age of sixty-five years, will at the end of 

 the present year give up his duties as professor 

 of astronomical physics in the Eoyal College of 

 Science, London. 



Judge Addison G. Brown, of the United 

 States District Court for the Southern District of 

 New York, having served twenty years and hav- 

 ing reached the age of 72 years, has resigned. 

 Judge Brown is known among scientific men as 

 a botanist. He was long president of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club, and cooperated with 

 Professor JST. L. Britton in the publication of 

 the illustrated ' Flora of the Northern United 

 States and Canada.' 



Members of the Indiana Forest Board, estab- 

 lished at the recent session of the Legislature, 

 have been appointed by Governor Durbin as 

 follows : Professor William H. Freeman, of 

 Wabash, secretary of the board ; Professor 

 Stanley S. Coulter, Purdue University, Lafay- 

 ette ; Finlay P. Carson, Michigan City, repre- 

 ing the Indiana Eetail Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation ; John Cochrane, Indianapolis, repre- 

 senting practical woodwoi'kers; Albert Lieber, 

 Indianapolis, representing the Indiana Forestry 

 Association. 



The Executive Committee of the National 

 Physical Laboratory of Great Britain have 

 made the following appointments : Superintend- 

 ent of the Engineering Department : T. E. Stan- 

 ton, D.Sc, Victoria; Assistants in the Physics 

 Department: J. A. Harker, D.Sc, Victoria; A. 

 Campbell, B.A., Cambridge; H. C. H. Carpen- 

 ter, M.A., Oxon., Ph.D., Leipzig; Junior As- 

 sista7its : B. F. E. Keeling, B. A., Cambridge ; 

 F. E. Smith, Royal College of Science. It is 

 expected that one or two more junior assis- 

 tants will be appointed shortly. The London 

 Times states that the alterations to Bushey- 

 house and the new buildings for the engi- 

 neering laboratory are well advanced, and it 

 is hoped to begin work early^in October. Or 

 the staff. Dr. Stanton, after serving an appren- 

 ticeship with an engineering firm in the Mid- 

 lands, has had a distinguished career at Man- 

 chester and Liverpool, and is now professor of 

 engineering at University College, Bristol. His 

 paper on 'Surface Condensors,' published in 

 the Philosophical Transactions, is well known 

 to engineers. Dr. Harker and Mr. Campbell 

 have both done work of real value in thermom- 

 etry and electric measurements ; while Dr. 

 Carpenter, who will have charge of the chem- 



