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"Explorations of \''ercndrye and his sons in connection with the 
history and geog-raphy of northern Minnesota." 
Prof. Alexander N. Winchell of Butte, Mont., has been 
appointed to take charge of the state of Montana's exhibit at 
the Lewis & Clarke Eixposition. He left Butte May 5th to go 
to Portland and direct the installation of the exhibit. 
The Geological Department of Colby college, Water- 
ville, Maine, has been abolished by the trustees of the college, 
the reason assigned for the action being a financial one. Prof. 
W. S. Bayley, who has been in charge of the department dur- 
ing the last sixteen years, will therefore sever his connection 
with the institution at the close of the present college year. 
(Science.) 
The Spring Meeting of the National Academy of Sci- 
ences was held in the Lecture Hall of the National Museum 
April i8th, 19th, and 20th. The programme was unusually 
brief, comprising only the following numbers : 
L The Mechanical Equivalent of Light, by Edward L. 
Nichols. 
n. The Efifects of Alcohol upon the Circulation, by H. C. 
Wood and Dan'l. M. Hoyt. 
HL The Expedition of the V. S. Fish Commission 
Steamer "Albatross," in the Eastern Pacific, by Alexander 
Agpssiz. 
IV. Resequent Valleys, by Wm. M. Davis. 
V. The Geographical Cycle in an Arid Climate, by Wm. 
M. Davis. 
VL A Catalogue of Spectroscopic Binary Stars, by W. W. 
Campbell. 
VH. Discovery of the Sixth and Seventh Satellites of Jup- 
iter and their Preliminary Orbits, by C. D. Perrine. 
Vlll. The Axis of Symmetry of the Ovarian Egg of the 
Oyster, by W. K. Brooks.' 
New members were elected as follows : J. C. Branner, Le- 
land Stanford University, California ; W. H. Holmes, Director 
Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington. D. C ; W. H. 
Howell, Dean of Medical Faculty, Johns Hopkins Universitv, 
Baltimore, Md. ; Arthur A. Noyes, Professor of Organic 
Lhemistry. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. 
Mass. ; Michael I. Pupin, Professor of Physics, Columbia Uni- 
versity, New York City. 
Intercollegiate Summer Field Course in the Geology 
of the Appalachian Region. July-August, 1905. A geological 
field course of five weeks' duration. July 3rd to August 5th, 
1905, will be given under the direction of several instructors, 
ais detailed below, in selected localities of the Appalachian re- 
gion, showing the undisturbed Mesozoic and Cenozoic strata 
and the littoral features of the Coastal Plain in Maryland, the 
