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Mr. Malcolm Morris was expected to de- 

 liver the Harveian lecture before the Harveian 

 Society of London on March 9, the subject 

 being some modern therapeutic methods in 

 dermatology, with exhibition of cases treated 

 by the X and Finsen rays. 



Dr. David Murray, professor of mathe- 

 matics and astronomy at Rutgers College from 

 1863 to 1873 and subsequently adviser to the 

 imperial minister of education at Japan and 

 secretary of the board of regents of the Uni- 

 versity of the State of New York, died on 

 March 2, aged seventy-five years. 



Dr. August Borxtrager, associate professor 

 of chemistry at Heidelberg, has died at the 

 age of eighty-five years. 



Harvard University and New York Uni- 

 versity again unite with the Bermuda Natural 

 History Society in inviting zoologists and 

 botanists to spend six weeks in the temporary 

 biological station located, as during the past 

 two years, at the Flatts, Bermuda. It is ex- 

 pected that the date of sailing from New York 

 will be July 1. Those who desire to take ad- 

 vantage of the opportunities olfered by the 

 station should send applications as early as 

 possible, and not later than May 1, either to 

 Professor E. L. Mark, 109 Irving Street, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., or to Professor C. L. Bristol, 

 New York University, University Heights, 

 New York City. 



The Albatross, of the Bureau of Fisheries, 

 has returned to California after four months 

 of deep sea explorations of the South Pacific, 

 under the direction of Mr. Alexander Agassiz. 



The forestry department of the University 

 of Michigan, through the kindness of Dean C. 

 Worcester, secretary of the interior, Philip- 

 pine Islands, who was a graduate of the uni- 

 versity in 1889, has received a collection of 

 herbarium specimens of the forest flora of the 

 islands, which will form study material and 

 assist in preparing some of the students of 

 the forestry department for the Philippine 

 Service. 



An expedition from Indiana University, in 

 charge of John A. Miller, professor of me- 

 chanics and astronomy, and W. A. Cogshall, 



assistant professor of astronomy, will go to 

 Spain to observe the total solar eclipse that 

 occurs on August 30. At some point in north- 

 eastern Spain, on a favorable site chosen by 

 Professor A. F. Kuersteiner, of the depart- 

 ment of romance languages, who is now in 

 Spain, they will install their instruments. 

 This temporary observatory will include a 

 horizontal photographic telescope about sev- 

 enty-five feet long, having an aperture of 

 eight inches. Into this telescope the sun's 

 rays will be reflected by a mirror moving at 

 such a rate that it will reflect rays in a con- 

 stant direction. This telescope, with one ex- 

 ception, will have greater photographic effi- 

 ciency than any telescope that has hitherto 

 been used to photograph the sun during a total 

 solar eclipse, and is designed to secure photo- 

 graphs of the corona on a very large scale. 



Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, has ar- 

 ranged a course of nine lectures upon science 

 and travel, on Saturday afternoons in March 

 and April, at three o'clock, as follows : 



March 4. — ' The Explanation of Indian Cere- 

 monies,' Dr. G. A. Uorsey, curator, department of 

 anthropology, Field Columbian Museum. 



]\Iarch 11. — 'Giant Reptiles of North America,' 

 Mr. E. S. Riggs, assistant curator, division of 

 paleontology, Field Columbian Museum. 



;March 18. — ' Extinct Mammals of North 

 America,' Mr. E. S. Riggs, assistant curator, 

 division of paleontology, Field Columbian Mu- 

 seum. 



March 25. — ' Aims and Methods of Bird Study,' 

 Dr. N. Dearborn, assistant curator, department of 

 ornithology. Field Columbian Museum. 



April 1. — •' Hawaiian Cruise of the Albatross,' 

 Professor C. C. Nutting, professor of zoology. 

 University of Iowa. 



April 8. — ' The Fertilization of Flowers by In- 

 sects,' Dr. F. H. Snow, professor of systematic 

 entomology. University of Kansas. 



April 13. — ' Geographic Factors Involved in the 

 Rise of Chicago,' Dr. J. Paul Goode, assistant 

 professor of geography, University of Chicago. 



April 22. — ' How Rivers and Lakes became 

 Stocked with Fishes,' Dr. S. E. Meek, assistant 

 curator, department of zoology. Field Columbian 

 Museum. 



April 29.— 'The Basketry of California,' Dr. 

 J. W. Hudson^ assistant in the department of 

 anthropology, Field Columbian Museum. 



