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nvial prize of 5,000 francs for the best work in 

 the province of medical research to Dr, A. van 

 Gehuchten, professor of systematic anatomy in 

 the University of Lowen, for his researches on 

 the human brain and spinal cord. 



Dr. William Hunter has been appointed 

 assistant director of the Pathological Institute 

 of the London Hospital. 



As we have already announced Dr, David 

 Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University, 

 Dr, Barton W. Evermann, ichthyologist of 

 the U. S. Fish Commission, and Dr. W. H, 

 Ashmead, of the U. S. National Museum, who 

 spent the summer in the Hawaiian Islands in- 

 vestigating on behalf of the U. S. Government 

 the fishes and other aquatic resources of the 

 Islands, returned to the United States early in 

 August, The other members of the party will 

 return in September, except Messrs. L. E, 

 Goldsborough and George Sindo, who will go 

 to Pago Pago in the Samoan Islands to make a 

 collection of the fishes found there. The in- 

 vestigations proved very successful. The fish- 

 ery methods, laws and statistics were carefully 

 studied and large and important collections of 

 the fishes were made. Upwards of 300 species 

 were obtained, among which are many species 

 new to science. Drs. Jordan and Evermann 

 will soon submit a preliminary report to the 

 Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. The final 

 report will not be made until more deep-sea 

 work has been done about the islands. 



Mr. John Hyde, statistician of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, has returned from Europe 

 where he went to arrange with the agricultural 

 bureaus of the leading countries for an inter- 

 change of crop reports by cable. His negotia- 

 tions were successful and the plan will be in 

 working order next year. He also investigated 

 European methods of crop reporting, but found 

 that they were less advanced than our own, 



Mr. Percy Wilson, attached to Professor 

 Todd's Eclipse Expedition to the East Indies, 

 returned to the New York Botanical Garden 

 on August 18, bringing a large collection of 

 vegetable products for permanent exhibition 

 from Singkep, Eiouw, Malacca, Siam, Batavia, 

 and the botanical gardens of Buitenzorg and 



Singapore. Mr. Wilson has been absent with 

 the expedition since March 2. 



Reuter's Agency states that a cablegram 

 has been received by the Liverpool School of 

 Tropical Medicine from Sierra Leone announc- 

 ing that Major Ronald Ross is returning to Eng- 

 land by the steamship Phillippeville, which was 

 due to leave Sierra Leone on August 18. He 

 is returning temporarily for the purpose of ar- 

 ranging for the despatch of an expedition, 

 similar to that now under his charge, to the 

 Gambia and the Gold Coast. In Major Ross's 

 absence the work of the expedition in Sierra 

 Leone is proceeding under the charge of the 

 other medical men. During his present visit 

 to the West Coast, Major Ross has been to the 

 Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and 

 Lagos. 



M. A. TouRNOUER has undertaken an expe- 

 dition to Patagonia, under the auspices of the 

 French minister of public instruction, with the 

 purpose of continuing his researches on the 

 tertiary mammals of South America, 



A MEETING in memory of the late Professor 

 Joseph Le Conte was held by the faculty and 

 students of the University of California on 

 August 21. The exercises were opened by 

 President Wheeler, and speeches were made on 

 behalf of the alumni by Dr. William E, Ritter, 

 professor of zoology, and on behalf of the stu- 

 dents by Ralph T. Fisher, former president of 

 the Associated Students of the University of 

 California, The College of Social Science was 

 represented by Professor Irving Stringham, and 

 Professor J, M. Stillman, of Stanford Univer- 

 sity, spoke as a former pupil of Professor 

 Le Conte's. The closing address was by the 

 Hon. Horace Davis, former president of the 

 University of California, whose concluding 

 words were : 



The power of such a life is hard to estimate. For 

 thirty years his name has been a tower of strength to 

 the University, not simply for his scientific fame and 

 intellectual attainments, but even more for his moral 

 strength and beauty. His life has been woven into 

 thousands of young expanding lives in this western 

 commonwealth, and his cheerful hopes have lighted 

 up their homes. The power of such a life cannot be 

 estimated. You have felt it. I have felt it, and the 

 VForld is better that he has lived. 



