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Association last year, will bo translated into 

 Japanese by Yoshio Mikanii. 



Dr. N. L. Britton, of the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden, accompanied by Mrs. Britton and 

 Dr. Marshall A. Howe, of the garden, and Dr. 

 C. F. Millspaugh, of the Field Columbian 

 Museum, are at present conducting botanical 

 explorations in the Bahamas. They expect 

 to return at the end of the month. 



Dr. L. a. B.\ler left for Eurojje on Febru- 

 ary 1, to be gone five weeks on business con- 

 nected with the department of terrestrial mag- 

 netism of the Carnegie Institution. 



Assist.\nt Professor Harry G. Wells, of 

 the department of pathology and bacteriology, 

 of the University of Chicago, is spending a 

 year in Europe in the study of physiological 

 and pathological chemistry. He is at present 

 in Berlin. 



Miss Clara E. Cujimings, professor of bot- 

 any at Wellesley College, sailed on February 

 1, for Jamaica, where she will spend several 

 months in the study of the flora — particularly 

 the lichens. Part of the time will be spent at 

 the laboratory at Cinchona maintained by the 

 New York Botanical Garden. 



During holiday week Professors Gould and 

 Woodruff, of the Department of Geology, 

 University of Oklahoma, conducted a fossil 

 collecting party into the Arbuckle Mountains 

 of Indian Territory. The party secured about 

 2,000 specimens, among which are a large 

 number of rare Camerocrinus. Most of these 

 will be for exchange. 



Mr. Chas. T. Brues, now with the Bureau 

 of Entomology of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, has been appointed curator of 

 invertebrate zoology in the Milwaukee Public 

 Museum. Mr. Brues's address will change 

 from Washington to Milwaukee on March 1. 



Dr. Emanuel Kusv, Bitter von Dubrav, 

 has been appointed head of the sanitary de- 

 partment of the Austrian Ministry of the 

 Interior. 



Mk. R. H. Lock has })cpn ap|)ointed assist- 

 ant curator of the herbarium at Cambridge 

 University, succeeding Mr. Yapp, who was 

 some time ago elected professor of botany at 

 Aberystwyth. 



Mr. Bailey Willis, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, delivered two lectures at the Johns 

 Hopkins University on January 18 and 19 on 

 the results of his recent work in China under 

 the auspices of the Carnegie Institution. Pro- 

 fessor Wm. M. Davis, of Harvard University, 

 will give in February a course of sixteen lec- 

 tures on geographic subjects to the students 

 of the geological department. 



TiiK following members of the assay com- 

 mission, named by the President and Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury for 1905, will meet in 

 Philadelphia on February 8 to test the re- 

 served coins of the various mints for the year 

 1904: Hon. Ellis H. Roberts, treasurer of the 

 United States; Hon. W. B. Ridgely, comp- 

 troller of currency; Hon. J. H. Southard, 

 M.C. ; Hon. J. B. McPherson, judge. Eastern 

 District of Pennsylvania ; Dr. Herbert Torrey, 

 U. S. Assay Office, New York; Milo M. Pot- 

 ter, Los Angeles, California; O. W. Thomp- 

 son, Vermillion, South Dakota; Benjamin S. 

 Hanchett, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Hon. 

 Warren Truitt, Moscow, Idaho; Charles S. 

 Winslow, Chicago; W. A. Blair, Winston- 

 Salem, N. C; Col. E. R. Sharp, Columbus, 

 O. ; L. A. Fisher, Bureau of Standards, Wash- 

 ington; Dr. John A. Mathews, Syracuse, N. 

 Y.; Dr. Francis H. Smith, University of Vir- 

 ginia; Dr. Leonard P. Kinnicut, Worcester 

 Polytechnic Institute; Dr. Edgar F. Smith, 

 University of Pennsylvania; John Birkinbine, 

 Philadelphia; Edward F. Stotesbury, Phila- 

 delphia; and W. H. Anderson, Grand Rapids. 



Nature states that Sir James Dewar has 

 presented the proceeds of the Gunning prize, 

 amounting to one hundred guineas, recently 

 awarded to him by the Royal Society of Edin- 

 burgh, as a contribution to the fund for the 

 encouragement of research, now being founded 

 in the University of Edinburgh in memory 

 of the late Professor Tait. 



Mr. William Sellers, well known as a me- 

 chanical engineer and manufacturer of ma- 

 chine tools, has died at Philadelphia, at the 

 age of eighty-one years. Mr. Sellers was a 

 member of the National Academy of Sciences 

 and of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. 



