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Among the lecturers before the Technology 

 Club of the Massachusetts Institute are Dr. Ira 

 Remsen, president of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity (Dec. 12) ; Professor George E. Hale, 

 director of the Yerkes Observatory (Jan. 3) I 

 Professor Arthur A. Noyse (Feb. 18) ; Mr. 

 William Barclay Parsons, chief engineer of 

 the New York subway (Feb. 26) ; Mr. F. H. 

 Newell, chief hydrographer, United States Geo- 

 logical Survey (Mar. 3). 



Three additional lectures on archeology have 

 been arranged for December at the University 

 of Pennsylvania. The first one will be on 

 'The Archeology of Michigan,' by Mr. Harlan 

 I. Smith, of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York. The second by Stewart 

 Culin on ' Archeological Notes on the John 

 Wanamaker Expedition of 1901.' The last lec- 

 ture before the holidays will be on ' The Cliff 

 Dwellers and their Relations,' by Dr. J. Walter 

 Fewkes, of the United States Bureau of Eth- 

 nology, Washington, D. C. 



It is announced that Boothia Felix has been 

 chosen as the headquarters for Professor Amund- 

 sen's three-year magnetic pole expedition. 

 Boothia Felix is a peninsula, and is the most 

 northern part of the mainland of North Amer- 

 ica, having east, Boothia Gulf; north, Bellot 

 Strait, and west, Franklin Channel. The mag- 

 netic pole is in this peninsula, the northern 

 point of which is in about latitude 72 degrees 

 north. 



An assistant is wanted for the respiration 

 calorimeter experiments and other nutrition in- 

 vestigations in the chemical laboratory of Wes- 

 leyan University and for work in the collating 

 of results of foreign inquiry and preparing re- 

 ports for publication. A chemist or physiolo- 

 gist, or better, a physiological chemist, of uni- 

 versity training, preferably a Ph.D. or M.D., is 

 desired. Scholarly spirit, ability for independ- 

 ent research, familiarity with German, French 

 and other chemical and physiological literature, 

 or, at least, the capability of becoming familiar 

 with such literature are important. A man 

 capable of becoming a university professor or 

 director of a scientific establishment is desired. 

 The salary at the outset will be from $1,000 to 

 $1,500, according to the qualifications, with the 



chance of increase to that of an associate pro- 

 fessorship or professorship. There may also be 

 a second position for a man of similar abilities 

 and academic training but with less experience 

 and correspondingly smaller salary, very prob- 

 ably the equivalent of a fellowship, with oppor- 

 tunities for study and advancement. The work 

 is connected with the inquiries regarding the 

 food and nutrition of man which is being car- 

 ried on under the auspices of the U. S. Govern- 

 ment in universities, colleges and experiment 

 stations in all parts of the country and has its 

 headquarters at Wesleyan University. The 

 association with a number of trained specialists, 

 the atmosphere of research, unusual library 

 facilities and opportunity for experimental in- 

 quiry, study and advancement make the posi- 

 tions very desirable for young and ambitious 

 men. Applications for either of the above posi- 

 tions may be made to Professor W. O. Atwater, 

 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. 



The United States Geological Survey has in 

 press a work entitled ' Bibliography and Cata- 

 logue of the Fossil Vertebrates of North Am- 

 erica,' by O. P. Hay. It contains a list of about 

 4,100 papers which bear on the fossil verte- 

 brates of North America and a systematic list 

 of all the species that have been described. 

 Furthermore, there goes with each species cita- 

 tions of all the works in which it has been de- 

 scribed and discussed. An estimate shows that 

 there arealtogether about 40,000 citations. The 

 book forms bulletin No. 179 of the Survey, and 

 will be issued probably early in the coming 

 year. 



Henry S. Carhart, professor of physics in 

 the University of Michigan, and Horatio N. 

 Chute, instructor in physics in the Ann Arbor 

 high school, are writing a new work on physics, 

 which will be completed in about two months. 

 The work will be called ' High School Physics.' 



The London Times states that Dr. Charles 

 Balfour Stewart has proceeded to Sierra Leone 

 under the auspices of the Liverpool School of 

 Tropical Medicine to study the methods suc- 

 cessfully utilized by Dr. Logan Taylor in deal- 

 ing with malaria. Dr. Balfour Stewart has had 

 considerable experience in India, and the 

 knowledge he there acquired proved very ser- 



