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chief towns of Kelautan and Trengganu, pro- 

 ceeded by steamer to Penang, whence Mr. 

 Evans paid a visit to Pulau and Bidan, Messrs. 

 Yapp and Laidlaw ascending Gunong Inas. 

 Mr. Skeat proceeded to Kedah to study the 

 aboriginal Jangle-tribes of the interior. 



It is understood that the expedition has been 

 eminently successful, and has brought back 

 very extensive zoological, botanical, and ethno- 

 logical collections. The results obtained should 

 be of value for purposes of comparison with the 

 results of the recent successful Cambridge 

 Anthropological Expedition of Dr. Haddon 

 to the Torres- Straits, Sarawak, and New 

 Guinea. 



The party was under the leadership of Mr. 

 Skeat, of Christ's College, Cambridge, and com- 

 prised Messrs. Evans and Annandale, of Ox- 

 ford, and Messrs. Yapp, Laidlaw, and Gwynne- 

 Vaughan, of Cambridge. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Me. O. H. Tittmann will succeed to the 

 superintendency of the United States Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, filling the vacancy caused by 

 Dr. H. S. Pritchett's election to the presidency 

 of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



LoED Rayleigh has been appointed by the 

 British Government chairman of a committee 

 which is to investigate gunpowders and designs 

 of guns with which they may be used to the 

 best advantage. 



Dr. Ed. Suess, professor of geology in the 

 University of Vienna, has been elected a foreign 

 associate of the Paris Academy of Sciences in 

 the place vacant by the death of Sir Edward 

 Frankland, and Sir John Burdon-Sanderson a 

 correspondent in the place of the late Sir James 

 Paget. 



Dk. S. L. Toenquist, of Lund, has been 

 elected a foreign member, and Professor F. 

 Sacco, of Turin, a foreign correspondent, of 

 the Geological Society of London. 



The Paris Academy of Medicine has elected 

 Professor Rontgen, of Munich, a foreign asso- 

 ciate. 



Peofessoe W. C. Beoggee, of the University 

 of Christiania, at the invitation of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, delivered in Chicago his lec- 



tures on the ' Principles of a Genetic Classifi- 

 cation of Igneous Rocks,' recently delivered at 

 the Johns Hopkins University. The lectures 

 were attended by geologists from Illinois, 

 Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. 



Me. Cecil B. Ceampton, assistant in the 

 museum at Owen's College, Manchester, has 

 been appointed an assistant geologist on the 

 Geological Survey of Scotland. 



Columbia University will confer its LL.D. 

 on President Arthur T. Hadley, of Yale Uni- 

 versity, on Lord Pauncefote, the ambassador 

 of Great Britain, and on Mr. Thomas B. Reed, 

 late speaker of the House of Representatives. 



Peofessoe Jacob E. Reighard, professor of 

 zoology in the University of Michigan, will de- 

 liver the address at the dedication of the new 

 museum building of Alma College, Alma, 

 Mich., on June 27th. 



Dr. Walter J. Swingle, agricultural ex- 

 plorer for the United States Department of Ag- 

 riculture is in Algeria. He is about to forward 

 date palms to Arizona, in order that they may 

 be tested there. 



The prizes offered by the National Geograph- 

 ical Society for the best essays on Norse dis- 

 coveries in America have been awarded to 

 Mr. Charles B. Dalton, of New York City, and 

 Mr. K. F. Murray, of Norfolk, Va. 



General W. A. Geeely, Chief Signal Ser- 

 vice Officer, has given directions for the estab- 

 lishment of stations for wireless telegraphy in 

 the harbor of San Francisco, in Porto Rico and 

 the Philippines. 



The death is announced at the age of 87 

 years of M. Ravaisson Mollien, formerly pro- 

 fessor of' philosophy at Rennes, inspector gen- 

 eral in the Department of Higher Education 

 and curator in the Department of Antiquities at 

 the Louvre. He was the author of many works 

 on philosophy and {esthetics. The death is also 

 announced of M. Hippolyte Stupuy, at the age 

 of seventy years. He was curator of the artis- 

 tic collections of the City of Paris and the 

 author of works on philosophy and of a biogra- 

 phy of the mathematician, Sophie Germain. 



A DONOE, who wishes not to have his name 

 mentioned, has presented to the American Mu- 



