October 4, 1901.] 



SCIENCE. 



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lier, for the publication of his botanical re- 

 searches in Africa ; M. Turquan, for the publi- 

 cation of his work on statistics ; Abbe Breuil, 

 for paleontological researches in I'Aisne ; M. 

 Cartailhac, for prehistoric researches in Sardinia; 

 M. Chantre, towards the publication of his 

 work on quaternary man in the Valley of the 

 Upper Rhone ; the Paris School of Anthropol- 

 ogy, for researches on the antiquity of man ; 

 MM. Fournier and Repelin, towards the publi- 

 cation of their explorations in Provenge ; M. 

 Gentil, for excavations in Algeria ; and M. 

 Riviere, for researches in the caves of Mouthe. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Professor Wolcott Gibbs has been ap- 

 pointed one of the five official representatives 

 of Harvard University at the bi-centennial exer- 

 cises of Yale University. 



Dr. Carroll D. Wright, U. S. Commis- 

 sioner of Labor, has been elected a member of 

 the Paris Institute of Sociology. 



William James, professor of philosophy, 

 George Lincoln Goodale, professor of natural 

 history and director of the Botanical Garden, 

 and Maxime Bocher, assistant professor of 

 mathematics, have returned to their work at 

 Harvard after a year's leave of absence spent 

 abroad. We regret to learn that the health of 

 Dr. B. O. Peirce, professor of mathematics and 

 natural philosophy, is such that it has been 

 necessary to extend his leave of absence. 



Mr. Frank B. Littell, of the U. S. Naval 

 Observatory, has been appointed a professor of 

 mathematics in the navy. 



Professor H. W. Conn, of Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed lecturer on agri- 

 cultural bacteriology at the Connecticut Agri- 

 cultural College, and has been put in charge of 

 dairy experimentation at the Storrs Experiment 

 Station. The experimental work is to be done 

 partly at Storrs and partly in the biological 

 laboratory at Wesleyan University. 



Dr. David T. Day, chief of the department 

 of mines and metallurgy in the St. Louis Ex- 

 position, has added these experts to the depart- 

 ment : Professor J. A. Holmes, state geologist 

 of North Carolina; George F. Kunz, gem ex- 

 pert, with Tiffany & Co., New York City ; John 



Birkinbine, president of the Franklin Insti- 

 tute, Philadelphia ; E. W. Parker, editor of 

 the Engineering and Mining Journal, New York 

 City ; Jefferson Middleton, geological survey, 

 Washington, D. C, clay expert; and Charles 

 C. Yale, Mint Bureau, San Francisco. 



We learn from Nature that owing to losses in 

 the staff by death and retirement, the following 

 appointments have been made on the Geological 

 Survey of the United Kingdom : Dr. J. S. 

 Flett has been selected to assist in the petro- 

 graphical work of the Survey, Mr. J. Allen 

 Howe and Mr. H. H. Thomas have been ap- 

 pointed geologists on the English staff, Mr. H. 

 B. Muff on the Scottish staff and Mr. W. B. 

 Wright on the Irish staff. 



Professor W. H. Holmes, of the U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum, has gone to Indian Territory to 

 make collections of Indian remains. 



Mr. Cloud Rutter, scientific assistant of 

 the U. S. Fish Commission, is on the Pacific 

 Coast for the purpose of gathering salmon sta- 

 tistics, with headquarters on the Sacramento 

 River near Rio Vista, 



Mr. S. W. Loper, curator of the museum of 

 Wesleyan University, spent the greater part of 

 the summer in the study of the Cambrian for- 

 mation of Cape Breton Island for the United 

 States Geological Survey. Mr. Loper made a 

 large collection of fossils. 



It is reported that Mr. H. DeWindt and Mr. 

 George Harding will make a third attempt to 

 accomplish an overland journey via Bering 

 Straits between Europe and America. 



The steamship Windward has arrived at 

 Newfoundland bringing' Mr. Robert Stein, of 

 Washington, and Mr. Samuel Warmbath, of 

 Boston. The Windward will return next sum 

 mer for Lieutenant Peary. 



A TELEGRAPH from Alice Springs on July 19 

 states that Professor Baldwin Spencer's expedi- 

 tion had finished its work at Barrow Creek, 

 where six weeks had been spent among the 

 Kaitish and Ummatjera tribes. The next main 

 camp was to be formed at Tennaut's Creek, about 

 150 miles further north. 



A GRANITE monument in memory of James 

 Bowman Lindsay, an investigator and an in- 



