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elected president of the club for the ensuing 

 year. 



At the annual meeting of the Iron and 

 Steel Institute held in London, May 11, a 

 Carnegie research scholarship of $500 was 

 awarded to Henry Cook Boynton, instructor 

 in metallurgy and metallography in Harvard 

 University. 



Mr. C. D. Howard, associate chemist of the 

 West Virginia Agricultural Station, has been 

 appointed chemist to the New Hampshire 

 Board of Health, Concord, N. H. 



Dr. August Hoch, at present assistant 

 physician and pathologist at McLean Hospital, 

 Waverly, Mass., will assume the position of 

 first assistant physician at Bloomingdale 

 Asylum, White Plains, N. Y., where he will 

 continue his researches in psycho-pathology. 



Dr. W. B. Scott, professor of geology and 

 paleontology at Princeton University, gave 

 the oration at a joint meeting of Phi Beta 

 Kappa and SigTaa Xi societies at the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, on June 14. 



Dr. a. S. Wheeler, associate professor of 

 organic chemistry in the University of North 

 Carolina, will give a course of lectures on or- 

 ganic chemistry at the Harvard University 

 summer school. 



In commemoration of Audubon's one hun- 

 dred and twenty-fifth birthday, the American 

 Museum of Natural History has placed on 

 exhibition a collection of Audubon relics. 

 Among the objects is the portfolio in which 

 Audubon carried specimen plates while secur- 

 ing subscribers to his great work in this coun- 

 try and abroad, together with sketches and 

 finished plates. 



A SECOND International Congress devoted to 

 the Kontgen rays will be held in Amsterdam 

 in 1908. 



The British Medical Journal states that the 

 Laryngological Society of Vienna is about to 

 take steps to organize a festal celebration to 

 be held in 1908 in honor of the jubilee of 

 medical, as distinguished from physiological 

 laryngoscopy. It was in 1858 that Professor 

 Turck showed the far-reaching applications in 

 the domain of medical practice of Manuel 

 Garcia's great discovery. It is hoped that all 



the leading representatives of laryngology 

 throughout the world will be present on the 

 occasion. 



The Scottish Geographical Magazine states 

 that an expedition has recently started with 

 the object of thoroughly investigating the 

 oceanography and biology of the region be- 

 tween India and Madagascar. The vessel 

 employed is H.M.S. Skylark, under the com- 

 mand of Captain Boyd Somerville, who is 

 accompanied by two civilian men of science, 

 Mr. Stanley Gardiner and Mr. Forster Cooper, 

 both of whom have already been engaged in 

 scientific work in the area under investigation. 

 The Skylark is to go first to the Chagos Archi- 

 pelago, then to Mauritius, which it is expected 

 will be reached about August 1. The voyage 

 will then be continued I'ia the Cargados reef 

 to the Seychelles, whence the return will be 

 made to Colombo, the starting-point. Messrs. 

 Gardiner and Cooper are to be left at the 

 Seychelles, where they hope to spend some 

 months in scientific work, returning home in 

 January, 1906. 



It is stated in Nature that at the forty- 

 second general meeting of the Institution of 

 Mining Engineers, held in London on June 2 

 and 3, several interesting papers were read. 

 ]\rr. T. Y. Greener dealt with the firing of 

 boilers by waste heat from coke ovens. Mr. 

 M. R. Kirby described the compound winding 

 engine at Lumpsey iron mine. Its steam 

 consumption is only 38 pounds to 40 pounds 

 per indicated horse-power hour. Mr. F. Hird 

 gave the results of tests of the electric wind- 

 ing engine at Friedrichshall, and Mr. E. Loze 

 described electric winding engines installed 

 at French collieries. Mining education in 

 the L'nited States was discussed by Professor 

 H. Eckfeldt, and in New Zealand by Professor 

 J. Park. Coal mining in India was dealt 

 with by Mr. T. Adamson. Mr. J. Jeffries 

 described the occurrence of underground fires 

 at the Greta colliery. New South Wales. Mr. 

 W. C. Blackett and Mr. E. G. Ware described 

 a striking innovation in mining practise, the 

 use of electrically driven mechanical convey- 

 ors for filling at the coal-face. Two years' 

 experience has shown a saving of 48 per cent, 

 over the ordinary pick and shovel method. 



