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pology, of the Association will also meet at Chi- 

 cago during convocation week. 



Dr. L. O. Howabd, chief of the Division of 

 Entomology of the U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture and permanent secretary of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 will give the annual lecture at the Chicago 

 meeting of the American Society of Naturalists. 



The American Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences has given Professor E. W. Wood, of the 

 Johns Hopkins University, an appropriation of 

 $350 from the Rumford fund to aid in the 

 continuation of his researches on the anomalous 

 dispersion of sodium vapor. An account of the 

 results obtained thus far will appear shortly in 

 the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. 



Professor Ferdinand Freiherr von Eicht- 

 HOFEN, who holds the chair of geography at 

 Berlin, has received from the German Em- 

 peror the gold medal for science for his ser- 

 vices in supplying the German expedition to 

 China with valuable maps. 



Dr. Sets Low has resigned the presidency 

 of the American Geographical Society, New 

 Yoi'k. He was elected to this office a year ago 

 to succeed the late Judge Charles P. Daly. 



The regents of the State University of Iowa 

 have granted Professor C. C. Nutting, the head 

 of the department of zoology, leave of ab.?ence 

 for three months, in order to enable him 

 to join the United States Fish Commission 

 steamer Albatross on its cruise to the waters of 

 the Hawaiian Islands. Professor Nutting will 

 have charge of the work on marine inverte- 

 brates. 



Mr. Stewart Culin made a trip during the 

 summer, on behalf of the Hon. John Wana- 

 maker, in the interests of the Archeological 

 Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 visiting Louisiana, New Mexico, Arizona and 

 California. He secured some 6,000 archeolog- 

 ical and ethnological specimens, chiefly from 

 the southwest. 



Mr. Yeiji Nakajima, chief engineer of the 

 city of Tokyo, and professor in the Imperial 

 University, with Mr. Eintaro Naoki, and Mr. 

 Shikajiro Hattori, engineers of Tokyo, are at 

 present in the United States studying engineer- 



ing works, especially those concerned with 

 water supply. 



Captain William Crozier has been ap- 

 pointed chief of ordnance in the army with the 

 rank of brigadier-general. Captain Crozier 

 was formerly instructor in mathematics at 

 West Point, and was appointed recently pro- 

 fessor of natural and experimental philosophy 

 to succeed General Michie, but declined the 

 position. 



Assistant- Surgeon John F. Anderson, of 

 the United States Marine-hospital Service, has 

 been detailed by President Eoosevelt to go to 

 Liverpool to investigate the recent outbreak 

 there of the bubonic plague. 



Captain E. L. Munson, assistant-surgeon 

 U. S. A., has recently been appointed assistant 

 professor of military hygiene in the Army 

 Medical School in Washington, D. C. 



Mr. Ira A. Collins, recently a teacher at 

 Eidgewood, N. .T., has gone to the Philippine 

 Islands for three years to teach for the United 

 States Government. He will endeavor to intro- 

 duce visual instruction in the schools, using 

 lantern slides in teaching the history and 

 geography of the United States to the natives. 

 Mr. Collins, being also able to make plaster 

 life masks and photographs, hopes to send some 

 such anthropometric data to the museums of 

 this country. 



Dr. Walter Hough has recently returned 

 from a five months' exploring trip in north- 

 eastern Arizona, bringing a large collection of 

 archeological and ethnological material for the 

 National Museum. Fifty-four or more sites 

 were examined, and in 18 of these excavations 

 were made, comprising the ruins lying east of 

 Holbrook, Arizona, in the Petrified Forest Ee- 

 serve ; ruins on the north border of the 

 Apache Eeserve, and ruins in the Jedido 

 Valley, Hopi Eeserve. 



During the past summer, Mr. Frank M. 

 Chapman, the associate ^curator of the depart- 

 ments of mammalogy and ornithology, of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York City, made an extended trip in the west- 

 ern British possessions. In Manitoba he secured 

 material for groups of cormorants, Wilson's 

 phalarope and the yellow-headed blackbird. 



