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mained there a year, and then went to Johns Hopkins for graduate 
studies. After receiving the degree of Ph.D from the latter institu- 
tion, he returned to Williams, as assistant in biology, in 1892, and 
two years later was made assistant professor. During recent years 
he has carried almost the entire instruction at Williams, and during 
the summer has acted as assistant director of the Marine Biological 
Laboratory at Woods Holl. His published papers are upon the vari- 
ations of the spinal nerves in different varieties of pigeons, the anat- 
omy and histology of pteropods, and upon the plankton food supply 
of fishes. 
Among recent exploring expeditions we notice the following : An 
English Antarctic expedition, under the patronage of Sir George 
Newnes, with Borchgrevinck as leader ; Louis Bernacchi, of the Mel- 
bourne Observatory, as meteorologist ; Nicolai Hansen and Hugh B. 
Evans as zoologists and collectors. The government of New South 
Wales has sent out a deep-sea expedition under the charge of Edgar 
R. Waite, of the Australian Museum. Its explorations will be con- 
fined to the adjacent regions. The Dutch government has assisted 
in a natural history exploration of the East Indian Archipelago, 
under the charge of Max C. W. Weber, the professor of zoology in 
the University of Amsterdam. Frau Weber accompanies him as 
botanist, while Dr. Jan Versluijs, of Amsterdam, and Herr H. F. 
Nierstrasz, of Utrecht, will assist upon the zoological side. Prof. 
P. Knuth, of Kiel, goes round the world on a scientific trip. He 
expects to spend some time in Buitenzorg, Java. Prof. K. Goebel, 
of Munich, takes a botanical trip to Australia and New Zealand. 
The association of Deutscher Naturforscher und Aertze ‘will meet 
next September in Munich. Over two thousand members were pres- 
ent at the meeting at Düsseldorf in 1898. > 
In recent years, as in times past, the University of Oxford has 
ranked far behind the other large English universities in scientific 
lines. At Cambridge investigators have been numerous, and they 
have had abundant facilities for their work, while at Oxford the 
students were few and the accommodations meager. Oxford loses 
still further in the recent appointment of her prominent zoologist, 
Prof. E. Ray Lankester, who goes to London as director of the Nat- 
ural History Museum at South Kensington. 
Charles William Andrews, of the geological section of the British 
Museum, has returned to London after a fifteen months’ trip to Christ- 
mas Island. 
