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of the Imperial Moscow Society of Xatural- 

 ists, honorary members of the University of 

 Moscow and members of the Kaiserliche 

 Leopoldiniseh-Carolinische Deutsche Aka- 

 demie, Halle. The last-named academy was 

 the first of foreign academies to honor Charles 

 Darwin by making him a member in the year 

 1857. He was also a member of the Harlem, 

 Philadelphia, Frankfort, Moscow and Halle 

 Societies. 



On the occasion of the opening of the new 

 surgical block of the Glasgow Koyal Infirm- 

 ary on June 23, a medallion portrait in bronze 

 of Lord Lister was presented by the past and 

 present members of the staff. The medallion 

 is fixed on the wall opposite the entrance hall 

 of the new block. The inscription on the 

 framework records that Lord Lister was one 

 of the surgeons of the Royal Infirmary from 

 1861 till 1869, and that in that institution he 

 organized the antiseptic system of surgical 

 treatment. 



At the meeting of the Physiological Society 

 held at Oxford on June 26 Professor Gotch, 

 who presided on the occasion, after a sympa- 

 thetic speech, presented to Dr. Pavy, in com- 

 memoration of the eightieth anniversary of his 

 birth, a silver bowl bearing the following 

 inscription : " Frederick William Pavy, M.D., 

 F.E.S., May 29th, 1909. From the Physiolog- 

 ical Society, in token of affection and admira- 

 tion." 



A PAINTING by Mr. W. S. Kendall of Dr. 

 T. M. Prudden, professor of patholog-y in 

 Columbia University from 1882 to 1909, now 

 emeritus professor, has been presented to the 

 university by colleagues, students and other 

 friends. 



Dr. J. Mark Baldwin, professor of philos- 

 ophy and psychology in the Johns Hopkins 

 University, has resigned. Professor Baldwin 

 has been attending the Darwin centenai-y at 

 Cambridge, as the representative of the Johns 

 Hopkins University and the Mexican Depart- 

 ment of Public Instruction, and expects to 

 remain abroad for some time. 



Mr. F. H. Seares has resigned the posi- 

 tion of professor of astronomy and director of 



the Laws Observatory of the University of 

 Missouri. On August 1 he will become super- 

 intendent of the computing division of the 

 Mount Wilson Solar Observatoi-y of the Car- 

 negie Institution. 



Dr. Alonzo S. McDaniel, who took the 

 Ph.D. degree with physical chemistry as his 

 major subject at Wisconsin last June, has 

 been appointed chemist at the Bureau of 

 Standards, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Mazyck p. Eavesel, director of the 

 State Hygienic Laboratory, Madison, will be 

 placed at the head of the Wisconsin Pasteur 

 Institute recently established in connection 

 with the state laboratory. 



Mr. Sinclair White, senior surgeon to the 

 Royal Infirmary at Sheffield, has been elected 

 president of the British Medical Association, 

 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of 

 Mr. Simeon Snell. 



Professor Albert Ladenburg, director of 

 the chemical laboratories at Breslau and 

 known for his work in organic chemistry, is 

 about to retire from active service. 



Dr. Paul Ascherson, professor at Berlin, 

 and eminent for his work on the geographical 

 distribution of plants, has celebrated his 

 seventy-first birthday. 



Dr. Eeid Hunt has gone abroad to attend, 

 as representative of the Public Health Ser- 

 vice, the International Congress on Alcohol- 

 ism, Loudon, July 18, and the International 

 Medical Congress, Budapest, August 28. 



Dr. Spencer Trotter, professor of biology 

 at Swarthmore College, has been granted 

 leave of absence for the coming year. Dr. 

 Trotter will study in the museums in Germany 

 and France, and in the marine laboratories 

 on the Mediterranean. Mr. Samuel Copeland 

 Palmer, who has spent two years in the grad- 

 uate school of Harvard University, will be 

 acting professor of biology. 



Dr. John A. Miller, professor of mathe- 

 matics and astronomy at Swarthmore College, 

 is spending the summer at the Lick Observa- 

 tory, measuring the photographs of the solar 

 corona at that place. The new photographic 

 telescope of nine inches aperture, the first . 



