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of absence for the coming academic year. He 

 will spend some time in study with Professor 

 Ed. Suess at Vienna and with Freiherr Ferdi- 

 nand von Riehthofen in Berlin, in addition 

 to carrying out some geological work in the 

 field. 



During the summer of 1905, members of 

 the geologic, topographic and hydrographic 

 corps of the United States Geological Survey 

 will be at work in forty -four states and five 

 territories. Air. C. W. Hayes will have gen- 

 eral supervision of field and office work of the 

 division of geology and paleontology, but the 

 investigations in paleontology and stratig- 

 raphy will be specially supervised by Mr. T. 

 W. Stanton, those in petrology by Mr. Whit- 

 man Cross, those of metalliferous ore deposits 

 by Mr. S. F. Emmons, those in physiographic 

 and glacial geology by Mr. G. K. Gilbert, 

 those of pre-Cambrian and metamorphic rocks 

 by Mr. C. E. Van Hise. The field and office 

 work of the eastern topographic branch will 

 be supervised by Mr. H. M. Wilson, the work 

 of the western topographic branch by Mr. E. 

 M. Douglas. Topographic mapping will be 

 tmder field and office inspection of Mr. J. H. 

 Eenshawe. The supervision of field and office 

 work of the division of triangulation and 

 computing will be in charge of Mr. S. S. Gan- 

 nett. Mr. F. H. Xewell will have general 

 supervision over the work of the hydrographic 

 branch, but the investigations in hydro-eco- 

 nomics will be specially supervised by Mr. 

 M. O. Leighton, those in hydrology in the 

 eastern states by Mr. M. L. Fuller and in the 

 western states by Mr. X. H. Darton. The 

 work of measuring streams will be directed 

 by Mr. N. C. Grover. 



Mr. Le Roy Abrams, A.B., A.M. (Stanford), 

 who has held a fellowship in botany in Colum- 

 bia University during the present year, has 

 been appointed assistant curator in the divi- 

 sion of plants of the United States National 

 Museum. 



WiLLUiNr F. KiBKPATRiCK has been appointed 

 assistant botanist in the Xorth Carolina Col- 

 lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 



Dr. J. Paul Goode, of the University of 

 Chicago, gave an address on ' Forest Conser- 



vation,' before the Federation of Women's 

 Clubs of Kentucky, at Cynthiana, on June 9. 

 At the close of the address a State Forestry 

 Association was organized, with Hon. Robert 

 Worth Bingham, of Louisville, president, Mr. 

 W. M. Reid, of Louisville, secretary, and Col. 

 M. H. Crump, of Bowling Green, treasurer. 



The annual meeting of the Society of Chem- 

 ical Industry will open on July 10, at Uni- 

 versity College, London, when the president. 

 Dr. Wm. H. Xichols, will deliver an address. 



The faculty and students of the medical 

 and dental departments of the George Wash- 

 ington University have erected, in the main 

 hall of the department of medicine, a bronze 

 tablet to the memory of their late dean and 

 professor of chemistry and toxicology, Dr. 

 Emil Alexander de Schweinitz. 



A MoxuJiEXT in honor of Professor Tamier 

 was unveiled in Paris, on June 1, and handed 

 over to the city by Professor Brouardel. The 

 British iledical Journal states that the monu- 

 ment — which is a high relief by the well-known 

 sculptor, Denys-Pusch — represents Tamier, in 

 the blouse and apron he wore in hospital, 

 standing at the bedside of a mother who holds 

 her infant in her arms, whilst at the head of 

 the bed is indicated an incubator. An elegant 

 portico by the architect Sc-ellier, of Gison, 

 serves as a frame to the marble, and this decor- 

 ates the rounded end of the Clinique Tarnier, 

 which faces the Boulevard Montpamasse at 

 the junction of the Rue d'Assas and the 

 Avenue de I'Observatoire. Above the sculp- 

 ture are the words ' Tamier, 182S-1S97,' while 

 below is the inscription, ' To the Master, who 

 devoted his life to the mothers and infants : 

 his colleagues, his pupils, his friends, his ad- 

 mirers.' 



The deaths are announced of Dr. Franz 

 Pless, emeritus professor of chemistry at Lem- 

 berg, at the age of eighty-six years, and of Dr. 

 A. A. Stuckenberg, professor of geology at 

 Kasan. 



There will be a Xew York state civil ser- 

 vice examination, on July 19, to fill the posi- 

 tion of chief of the Bureau of Statistics and 

 Information of the Department of Agriculture, 

 with a salary of $1,500; and of assistant in 



