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a number of the lecturers are paid on a level 

 with adjunct professors in America; and that 

 the year's expenditure was £50,298, of which 

 sum £13,750 was granted by the government 

 of the state. But for all that, the University 

 of Sydney is not as accessible, not as demo- 

 cratic, not as national as a seat of higher 

 education should be in the youngest of the 

 world's great countries. 



Percival E. Cole 

 Teachees College, 

 Columbia Univebsity 



T. NISHIKAWA, 1.874-1909 

 We regret to record the death of Dr. 

 Tokichi Nishikawa, of Tokyo, one of the most 

 promising of the younger generation of Jap- 

 anese zoologists. He had been for a number 

 of years an associate of Dr. Kishinouye in 

 the Imperial Fisheries Bureau in Tokyo, 

 and he was later a special investigator of 

 pearls. In his studies of the latter he trav- 

 eled extensively and was at one time com- 

 missioned by the Japanese government to 

 report upon the great pearl fisheries of the 

 South Seas. He is distinguished as the dis- 

 coverer of a process by which the pearl oyster 

 may be caused to secrete spherical pearls. 

 Before this only hemispherical pearls had been 

 produced, in spite of centuries of experimenta- 

 tion, especially in the orient. Dr. ISTishikawa 

 devoted nearly ten years to his studies on 

 producing pearls, and achieved success only 

 in the days of his final illness. In his memory, 

 and in token of the importance of his dis- 

 covery, a number of his living pearl oysters 

 were brought to the IJniversity of Tokyo on 

 the occasion of the commencement exercises : 

 they were opened in the presence of the em- 

 peror, and Professor lijima demonstrated that 

 their mantles had secreted spherical pearls. 



The publications of Dr. Nishikawa include 

 important contributions to our knowledge of 

 Japanese fishes, structural, systematic, embry- 

 ological. Especially to be recalled is his pio- 

 neer paper on the development of the remark- 

 able frilled shark, Chlamydoselachus angui- 

 neus. 



Bashfoed Dean 



THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ZOOLOGISTS 



The annual meeting of the Eastern Branch 

 of the American Society of Zoologists will be 

 held at Boston, Massachusetts, on December 

 28, 29 and 30, 1909. 



Members of the society are urged to send 

 the titles of their papers to the secretary not 

 later than December 1, so that a preliminary 

 program may be issued about December 10. 

 It will be necessary to place the papers re- 

 ceived after that date at the end of the list. 



Nominations for membership, accompanied 

 by full statements of the qualifications of the 

 candidates, must be in the hands of the secre- 

 tary before December 1, in order that the list 

 may be submitted to the executive committee 

 of each branch before the meeting. 



LoRANDE Loss Woodruff, 



Secreiarp 



Yale Univebsity 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 At the recent meeting of the Board of 

 Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the- 

 Advancement of Teaching, Dr. Ira Eemsen, 

 president of Johns Hopkins IJniversity, and 

 Dr. Charles R. Van Hise, of the University 

 of Wisconsin, were elected trustees to fiU 

 vacancies caused by the resignations of Dr. 

 Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard University, and 

 Dr. E. H. Hughes, of De Pauw University. 

 Provost Charles E. Harrison, of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, was elected chairman 

 of the board to fill the vacancy caused by the 

 retirement of Dr. Eliot. 



Professor Franz Weidenreich, of Strass- 

 burg, has accepted the invitation of the As- 

 sociation of American Anatomists to partici- 

 pate in the meeting during convocation 

 of this year, and to deliver an address on the 

 development, morphology and clinical rela- 

 tions of the blood. His own researches in this 

 field have been of the highest importance, and 

 have done more to clear up the subject and to 

 free it from the intricate confusion created 

 by purely clinical writers than any other 

 work of recent years. The address will be 

 followed by a demonstration of preparations, 

 many of which are the results of new methods 



