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number illustrating artificial selection ; a series 

 of the highly specialized varieties of Japanese 

 gold fishes together with a number of the long- 

 tailed fowls of Tosa, whose tail feathers some- 

 times reach the extraordinary length of fifteen 

 feet. For the Columbia collection, he obtained 

 during a visit in southern Negros, P. I., a 

 series of dissections of Nautilus, prepared from 

 fresh material. Dr. Dean, while in Japan, was 

 the guest of the Imperial University of Tokyo, 

 and spent most of his time at the zoological 

 laboratory at Misaki. 



Professor F. W. Putnam has recently re- 

 turned from his trip through New Mexico and 

 California. During part of the time he was 

 engaged, in company with Professor J. C. Mer- 

 riam, of the University of California, in a geo- 

 logical and archeological study of the gravels 

 and other recent formations of California. For 

 this purpose several caves in Calaveras and 

 Tuolumne counties were explored, and human 

 and other bones were found. Many old mining 

 shafts and tunnels were also examined. On his 

 way east Professor Putnam accepted an invita- 

 tion to address the committee of the St. Louis 

 World's Fair of 1903 in relation to the proposed 

 ethnographical exhibit of the native peoples of 

 the world. 



Mr. J. E. Spurr, who, as we have already 

 noted, has been employed for geological surveys 

 by the Sultan of Turkey, has begun his work 

 in Macedonia and Albania. 



Dr. C. H. Herty, of the University of 

 Georgia, has during the summer been engaged 

 in an investigation of the turpentine industry 

 in southern Greorgia, His results will appear 

 in the bulletin of the Bureau of Foi-estry, for 

 which he has acted as scientific assistant. 



Mr. William L. Cherry has returned to 

 Chicago from a trip of several years' duration in 

 Central Africa. He has brought with him to 

 America a large ethnological collection. 



Dr. Roland B. Dixon has returned to Har- 

 vard University from an extended trip in 

 Russia. Mr. W. C. Farabee, a graduate stu- 

 dent at Harvard University, has been engaged 

 during the summer in exploring a pueblo ruin 

 in New Mexico, and A. M. Tozzer, a second- 

 year graduate, has made a study of myths and 



language of the Navajo Indians. William 

 Jones, a student and fellow of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, has returned from Oklahoma, where he 

 has been conducting linguistic researches con- 

 jointly for the American Museum of Natural 

 History and the Bureau of American Ethnology. 

 Henry Minor Huxley has returned from his 

 anthropological expedition in Syria. 



The Philippine Forestry Bureau has made a 

 veritable raid on the professionally educated 

 foresters in this country. The New York State 

 College of Forestry has lost two of its senior 

 students, Messrs. Clark and Klemme, who were 

 sufficiently advanced in their studies to pass 

 the Civil Service examination, and also Mr. 

 Hagger, its forest manager from the College 

 Forest, and its first graduate, who leaves a po- 

 sition with the New York State Forest, Fish 

 and Game Commission. Captain Geo. P. Ahem, ' 

 the chief of the Forestry Bureau, also secured 

 the services of two other foresters, Messrs. 

 Griffith and Hareford, and of Mr, S. N. Neely, 

 a civil engineer, formerly employed by the 

 United States Forestry Division in timber and 

 physics work, to conduct a wood-testing labora- 

 tory. The crop of foresters promises to grow 

 more rapidly in the future, the New York 

 State College of Forestry having, this year, 

 inscribed 38 students, and the students in 

 the Yale Forest School, showing an increase 

 of 22. 



The sixtieth birthday of Professor Hermann 

 Nothnagel, the eminent pathologist of the Uni- 

 versity of Vienna, has been celebrated with 

 appropriate ceremonies by his former students. 



A testimonial banquet, in honor of Dr. N. 

 S. D.avis, was given at Chicago on October 5. 

 There were about 350 physicians in attendance 

 and addresses were made by a number of well- 

 known medical men and by Dr. Davis, who 

 was presented with a cup. Dr. Davis, who 

 was born January 19, 1817, took an important 

 part in the reform of medical education in the 

 United States. The American Medical Asso- 

 ciation was established at his initiative, and he 

 was the first editor of its journal. 



Dr. Samuel J. Jones, professor of ophthal- 

 mology and otology at the Northwestern Uni- 

 versity Medical School, died October 4, aged 



