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versity are being taken by Mrs. Frederic E. 

 Clements. 



Dr. E. p. Felt, state entomologist of New 

 York, has received a two-months' leave of 

 absence for study in European museums. 



Pbofessok Gustav Eetzius gave on Xovem- 

 ber 5 the annual Huxley lecture before the 

 Eoyal Anthro]xilogieal Institute. His subject 

 ■was " The Xorth European Eace." 



Ox Mondays and Thursdays, from five to 

 six P.M., in the Harvard Medical School, Pro- 

 fessor TT. T. Porter will give a physiological 

 demonstration with an informal lecture. 



Commemoration exercises were held at the 

 Massachusetts General Hospital, on October 

 16, in honor of the anniversary of the first 

 use of ether by Dr. WiUiam T. C. Morton. 

 Dr. Charles W. Eliot delivered the address. 



Dr. TTillum Terry Harris, for many years 

 TJ. S. Commissioner of Education and eminent 

 for his contributions to education and philos- 

 ophy, died on Xovember 5, at the age of 

 seventy-four years. 



The death is announced of Dr. C. Gottsche, 

 director of the Hamburg Geological Institute. 



A TABLET in memory of Boss Gilmore Mar- 

 vin, the Cornell graduate and instructor who 

 was drowned while on the Peary exi)edition 

 to the north pole, will be placed in Sage Chapel 

 by the students of Cornell University. 



Is view of the rapid rate at which accom- 

 modations are being taken up for the trans- 

 atlantic passage for the spring of 1910, it 

 seems advisable to call the attention of those 

 intending to participate in any of the scientific 

 congresses of next summer to engage their 

 passage as soon as possible. In the middle of 

 October every place on the North German 

 Lloyd boats running to the Mediterranean next 

 June was already engaged, except some at a 

 high price. Some of the other lines are nearly 

 as fully engaged. 



Sir Eay Laxkester writes to Nature that 

 he has heard from the representatives of the 

 late Professor Anton Dohm to the effect that 

 the Zoological Station at Naples remains the 

 property of the heirs of its founder. Neither 

 the German government nor any German so- 



ciety has acquired any rights in its future 

 disposition. Dr. Eeinhardt Dohrn, who has 

 for two years been the acting director of the 

 station, is now director, and has inherited 

 from his father (by agreement with his broth- 

 ers) the actual property and the leases granted 

 by the Naples municipality as to the site. 



The British Medical Association will hold 

 its annual meeting next year in London under 

 the presidency of Dr. H. T. Butlin, president 

 of the Eoyal College of Surgeons. The asso- 

 ciation has held its annual meeting in London 

 on three occasions. The first was in 1862, 

 when Dr. George Burrows was president; the 

 second in 1873, when Sir William Ferguson 

 was president; the third in 1895, when Sir J. 

 EusseU Eeynolds was president. 



The Central Association of Science and 

 Mathematics Teachers will hold its annual 

 session at the University of Chicago on No- 

 vember 26 and 27. 



A branch of the hygienic laboratory of the 

 department of health of New York state has 

 been established at Ithaca, under the super- 

 vision of Professor H. N. Ogden. 



AccoRDDCG to a dispatch from Vienna the 

 Austrian government will put upon the 

 market a portion of the 154 grains of radium 

 chloride, the product of the St. Joachimthal 

 (Bohemia) plant, for 18 months. The Vienna 

 hospitals and scientific institutions are to be 

 supplied first, free of cost, the remainder to be 

 offered for sale at §75,000 a gram. 



The British Medical Journal says: The 

 Pasteur Institute, Paris, will shortly come 

 into possession of a capital sum estimated at 

 30,000,000 francs, the product of the estate of 

 the late M. Osiris, which is now being real- 

 ized. The circumstances under which M. 

 Osiris determined to dispose of his great for- 

 tune in this way are, if rumor speaks true, 

 most striking and dramatic. In 1903 M. 

 Osiris founded a triennial prize of £4,000, to 

 be given to " the person who had rendered the 

 greatest service to the human race during the 

 three preceding years." The prize was 

 awarded to Dr. Eoux, director of the Pasteur 

 Institute, for the discovery of the anti- 

 diphtheria serum. Instead of devoting the 



