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Professor H. H. Schauinsland, director of the 

 museum at Bremen. 



Dr. D. T. MacDougal, of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, started on March 9 for 

 Mellen, Arizona, and plans to make an ex- 

 amination of the deserts contiguous to that 

 stream and the Gulf of California, and to 

 obtain living material for the New York Bot- 

 anical Garden. ITr. E. A. Goldman, of the 

 Biological Survey of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, will accompany the expedition for the 

 purpose of extending the field surveys of the 

 department, and of obtaining material for the 

 study of the fauna of the region. 



Professor T. A. Jaggar, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, will lead a geological expedition to 

 Iceland during the summer. On or about 

 May 25 the party will leave Boston for Liver- 

 pool. On June 10 it will leave Leith, Scot- 

 land, by steamer and will make a circuit of 

 the island, stopping at places of interest on 

 the coast, and finally landing at Reykjavik, 

 whence a trip will be made northward over 

 the island on foot or horseback. The party 

 will return by steamer to Reykjavik and then 

 to Leith after an absence of about forty days. 



Mr. J. Maxwell Miller, Rhinehart scholar 

 of the Peabody Institute, has modeled a bust 

 in plaster of President Ira Remsen and pre- 

 sented it to the Johns Hopkins University. 



A BUST of Dr. William Osier, to be executed 

 in marble by Mr. Hans Schuler, has been pre- 

 sented to the Johns Hopkins University. It 

 is said that Dr. Osier will leave for England 

 on about May 17. 



Dr. Victor Hensen, professor of histology 

 and embryology at Kiel, celebrated his seven- 

 tieth birthday on February 10. 



Mr. W. H. Maw has been elected president 

 of the British Astronomical Association. 



The Isaac Newton studentship of £250 for 

 encouragement of study and research in as- 

 tronomy has been conferred upon Mr. F. J. M. 

 Stratton, B.A., scholar of Gonville and Caius 

 College, Cambridge University. 



The Prix Lacaze, of the value of 10,000 

 francs, awarded every four years by the Paris 

 Faculte de Mcdecine to the author of the best 



work concerning tuberculosis, has been given 

 to Dr. Andre Jousset. 



Dr. Alexander Macfarlane will give at 

 Lehigh LTnivei-sity a course of lectures on Brit- 

 ish mathematicians of the nineteenth century 

 as follows : 



April 7, 11:30 a.m.— ' Sir George Biddel Airy 

 (1801-1892).' 



April 8, 11:30 a.m.— 'John Couch Adams 

 (1819-1892).' 



April 11, 5:00 P.M.— ' Sir John Frederick Will- 

 iam Herschel (1792-1871).' 



April 13, 5:00 p.m.— 'Isaac Todlmnter (1820- 

 1884}.' 



April 14, 11:30 a.m.— 'Duncan Farquharson 

 Gregory (1813-1844),' 'George Green (1793- 

 1S41).' 



April 17, 5:00 P.M.— 'George Salmon (1819-).' 

 Conclusion. 



The secretary of wai*, the Hon. Wm. H. 

 Taft, has accepted the invitation of the 

 National Geographic Society at Washington 

 to address the society on the Philippines. The 

 address will be given during the first week of 

 May and is the last of ten addresses on the 

 far east which the National Geographic So- 

 ciety arranged for 1905. The other addresses 

 ar£ : ' China,' by Hon. John W. Foster, ex- 

 Secretaiy of State ; ' Japan,' by Baron Kentaro 

 Kaneko, of the House of Peers of Japan; 

 ' Russia,' by Hon. Charles Emory Smith, 

 formerly minister to Russia and ex-Post- 

 master General ; ' Manchuria,' by Col. W. S. 

 Schuyler, who has recently returned after 

 eight months with the Russian armies in 

 Manchuria ; ' The Evolution of the Russian 

 Government,' by Dr. Edwin A. Grosvenor, of 

 Amherst College ; ' Recent Observations on the 

 Russo-Japanese War, in Japan and Man- 

 churia,' by Dr. Louis Livingston Seaman; 

 ' The Japanese Side of the War,' by WiUiam 

 E. Curtis ; ' The Panama Canal,' by Rear Ad- 

 miral Colby M. Chester, U. S. N., superin- 

 tendent of the U. S. Naval Observatory ; ' The 

 Commercial Prize of the Orient and its Rela- 

 tion to the Commerce of the United States,' 

 by Hon. O. P. Austin, chief of the Bureau of 

 Statistics. These addresses are published in 

 the journal of the society. The National Oeo- 

 grapJiic Magazine. 



