September 17, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



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At the recent meeting of the Association of 

 Edison Illuminating Companies, of New York 

 City, a dinner was given to Mr. Thomas A. 

 Edison. Among those who spoke were Mr. 

 W. W. Freeman, the retiring president of the 

 association, Mr. Thomas E. Murray, the in- 

 coming president, and Dr. Charles P. Stein- 

 metz. 



A LLTNCHEON complimentary to Dr. Henry 

 B. Ward, dean of the medical department of 

 the University of Nebraska, was given by his 

 colleagues at Omaha, on September 3, and, at 

 the same time, the presentation of a gold 

 watch was made to him. Dr. Ward, it will be 

 remembered, has accepted the chair of zoology 

 in the University of Illinois. 



Dr. Moritz Cantor, professor of mathe- 

 matics at Heidelberg, has celebrated his 

 eightieth birthday. 



Dr. Oscar Lenz, professor of geography at 

 Prague, has retired from active service. 



Professor Albrecht Pence, who lectured 

 last winter at Columbia University, has re- 

 turned to Berlin after visiting the Sandwich 

 Islands and Japan. 



Professor Morgan Brooks, of the electrical 

 engineering department of the University of 

 Illinois, has a year's leave of absence and will 

 take a trip round the world, first spending 

 about three months in Europe. 



The following members of the Bureau of 

 Longitudes will represent France at the Inter- 

 national Geodetical Congress which is to be 

 held in London on the twenty-first inst. : Gen- 

 eral Bassot, president of the society, M. Henri 

 Poincare, M. Hanusse, director of hydrog- 

 raphy in the French Ministry of Marine, M. 

 Charles Lallemand, director-general of the 

 French Ordinance Survey Department, and 

 Colonel Bourgeois, chief of the surveying sec- 

 tion of the geographical department of the 

 War Office. 



A. H. Sutherland, Ph.D. (Chicago), has 

 been appointed and has taken up his duties as 

 assistant in psychology at the Government 

 Hospital for the Insane, Washington. 



It is stated in Economic Geology that at the 

 request of the Canadian Geological Survey for 



the loan of a topographer, the United States 

 Geological Survey has granted R. H. Chap- 

 man leave of absence for one year and he is 

 at present engaged in topographic work for 

 the Canadian government. 



Miss Julia McCord, who has been assistant 

 librarian of the LTnited States Geological Sur- 

 vey for a number of years, has been made 

 librarian. 



Dr. Paul Langhans has become editor of 

 Petermann's Mitteilungen, to succeed Dr. 

 Supan, who has been called to the chair of 

 geography at Breslau. 



Dr. Henry C. Chapman, professor emeritus 

 in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 

 and known for his work in physiology, anat- 

 omy and medical jurisprudence, died at his 

 summer home in Bar Harbor, on September 

 7, aged sixty-four years. 



Dr. Eadcliffe Crocker, of London, known 

 for his contributions to dermatology, has died 

 at the age of sixty-four years. 



Dr. Karl Habermann, professor in the 

 Mining Academy at Leoben, died on Au- 

 gust 20. 



The death is also announced of Dr. Valen- 

 tino Cerrutti, professor of mathematics at the 

 University of Eome. 



The autumn meeting of the American 

 Physical Society will this year be held at 

 Princeton University, on Saturday, October 

 23. This date has been chosen on account of 

 the opening of the new Palmer Physical Lab- 

 oratory, which will take place on the evening 

 of October 22. 



The National Museum of Wales, of whicli 

 Dr. W. E. Hoyle is director, at Cardiff, wiU 

 have a new building to be erected at a cost of 

 £250,000. It wiU include the following exhi- 

 bition galleries: history and antiquities; geol- 

 ogy and mineralogy; Welsh natural history; 

 zoology and botany; industries; art; chil- 

 dren's room; aquarium. 



The next International Congress of Mining, 

 Metallurgy, Applied Mechanics and Practical 

 Geology, will be held at Diisseldorf during the 

 last week of June, 1910. 



