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Cambridge Philosoph. Soc. (honorary members) : Prof. J. Bor- 

 det, Madame Curie, F. Czapek, Jacques Loeb. 



Miscellaneous. Royal Bohemian Acad. of Sciences : Prof, E. G. 

 Cojiklin, Princeton Univ., " foreign member." — Paris Acad. of Sci- 

 ences, Sect. of Med. and Surg. : Prof. Charles Richet, Univ. of Paris 

 to succeed Dr. J. Lucas-Ciiampionniere. — Royal Soc. of London: 

 Prof. D. N. Paton and Dr. Siegfried Ruhemann have been recom- 

 mended by the Council for election to membership. — Soc. of In- 

 tern. Med. and Pediatrics, Vienna: Dr. Samuel Amberg, Otho S. A. 

 Sprague Memor. Inst. (Chicago), " corresponding member," 

 — Sigma Xi, Univ. of Penn, chapter: Dr. Evelyn Witmer, U. S. 

 Food Research Lab. (Phila.), "graduate member." 



Lectures. Ostwald lectures. In continuance of the series 

 referred to on page 334, Dr. Wolfgang Ostwald delivered lectures 

 on colloid chemistry during the months of Feb. and Mar., at the 

 Coli, of the City of N, Y. ; McGill Univ, ; Univ, of Chicago, Kansas, 

 Nebraska, Ohio-State, Pittsburgh, and Syracuse; and before ehem. 

 societies in Baltimore, Indianapolis, and Washington. 



Just before his return to Germany, Dr. Ostwald was the guest of 

 N. Y, chemists at a dinner at the Chemists' Club (Mar. 19). In 

 ref erring to Dr. Ostwald's after-dinner address, The Percolator 

 (Bull, of the Chem, Club) said, in the issue dated Apr, 18: "Prof. 

 Ostwald concluded by demonstrating that a great name is no ex- 

 tinguisher of good fellowship, and that is the right thing for men 

 of his sort to come to America. His observations were delightful 

 and it was generally admitted that no matter how many crowd 

 about the round table, there will always be room for him." 



Harvey lectures, N. Y. Acad. of Med. Feb. 14. : Recent work 

 on the physiolog. pathology of glycosuria, /. /, R. Macleod. — Mar. 

 14: The significance of the thymus glands in Graves' disease, W. S. 

 Halsted. 



Phi Lambda Upsilon lecture, Havemeyer Hall, Columbia 

 Univ. May 8 : Sources and manufacture of perfumes, Dr. 'Alois von 

 Isakovics. 



Charles F. Chandler lecture, on indust. ehem., Havemeyer 

 Hall, Columbia Univ., May 29: Some aspects of indust, ehem., Dr. 

 L. H. Baekeland. (See Science, xl, p. 179.) 



