Septembeb 3, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



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Humphreys, Frank Schlesinger, W. S. Eichel- 

 berger, E. B. Frost. 



Dk. C. M. Gariel, professor of medical 

 physics at Paris, has been elected president of 

 the French Association for the Advancement 

 of Science for the meeting to be held next 

 year at Toulouse. 



Among those who were given doctorates of 

 philosophy at the recent Leipzig celebration 

 are Sir Archibald Geikie, the geologist, and 

 Dr. James Ward, professor of philosophy at 

 Cambridge. 



Dk. Hakvey Gushing, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, gave the WiUiam Banks memorial 

 lecture at the University of Liverpool on 

 August 4. He treated the pathology and sur- 

 gery of intracranial tumor. 



The German Association of Men of Science 

 and Physicians has awarded the income ($750) 

 of the Trenkle Foundation to Dr. F. Harms, 

 of Wiirzburg, for his work on the electro- 

 magnetic theory. 



Mr. Edw. M. Ehrhorn, at present deputy 

 horticultural commissioner of California, has 

 accepted the appointment of superintendent 

 of entomology of the Hawaiian Board of Agri- 

 culture beginning on October 1. Mr. Jacob 

 Kotinsky resumes the post of assistant ento- 

 mologist with the board. 



Dr. Arnold Euger, of Heidelberg, proposes 

 to edit a year book of philosophy, and will be 

 glad to receive copies of papers bearing on 

 philosophy, psychology, logic, ethics and es- 

 thetics, which should be sent care of Weiss- 

 'chen Universitats Buchhandlung, Heidelberg. 

 Mr. Charles Louis Pollard, curator-in- 

 chief of the Museum of the Staten Island 

 Association of Arts and Sciences, and Mr. 

 George P. Engelhardt, assistant curator in 

 the Children's Museum of the Brooklyn Insti- 

 tute of Arts and Sciences, have returned from 

 a field trip in North Carolina. They explored 

 Eoanoke Island and Smith's Island and also 

 paid a brief visit to the mountains in the 

 vicinity of Blowing Rock and Linville Falls. 

 A large collection of insects and some reptiles 

 and batrachians were obtained. 



On August 17, Mr. Carl E. Akeley, formerly 

 of the Field Museum of Natural History, and 



Mrs. Akeley sailed en route for British East 

 Africa. This is the third trip in the interest 

 of science, the two former ones being for the 

 Field Museum and the present one for the 

 American Museum of Natural History. The 

 expedition will require two years and besides 

 obtaining a group of elephants to be mounted 

 amid a reproduction of their natural habitat 

 in the American Museum, much time will be 

 spent in making a very complete photographic 

 record of the people, fauna and flora. A mov- 

 ing picture camera is being taken and pic- 

 tures of army ants on the march and other 

 movements of animals will be attempted. Mr. 

 Akeley has just completed the new elephant 

 group at the Field Museum and was the 

 creator of the well-known deer group also in 

 the Chicago institution. 



Under the presidency of the United States 

 ambassador. Professor Osier will deliver the 

 inaugural address of the winter session of the 

 London School of Tropical Medicine on Oc- 

 tober 26. 



Dr. Earl Lothrop has been elected presi- 

 dent, and Dr. Harry R. Trick, secretary, of 

 the Buffalo Academy of Medicine. 



The Wesley M. Carpenter lecture for 1909 

 before the New York Academy of Medicine 

 will be delivered on October 21 by Dr. H. T. 

 Ricketts, professor of pathology in the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, on " Some Aspects of 

 Rocky Mountain Spotted (Tick) Fever, as 

 shown by Recent Investigations." The anni- 

 versary address, on November 18, will be 

 made by Dr. Louis Livingston Seaman, late 

 major and surgeon, U. S. Engineer Corps, on 

 " Personal Observations on the Sleeping Sick- 

 ness in Central Africa." 



Dr. William Brodie, biologist of the Pro- 

 vincial Museum of Toronto, who had made 

 valuable entomological and other biological 

 collections, died on August 6, at the age of 

 seventy-eight years. 



Professor Emil Hansen, the eminent physi- 

 ological botanist, known especially for his 

 work on microorganisms and alcoholic fer- 

 ments, died on August 27, at the age of sixty- 

 seven years. 



