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Mexico and is at present working in the 

 museums of this country. 



At the meeting of the American Philosoph- 

 ical Society on December 17, the annual ad- 

 dress of the president will be given by Dr. 

 William W. Keen, and a historical paper will 

 be presented by Dr. Eduard Meyer, professor 

 of ancient history in the University of Berlin. 



The annual public address under the aus- 

 pices of the Entomological Society of America 

 will be given this year, on the evening of 

 Thursday, December 30, by Dr. John B. 

 Smith. The title is " Insects and Entomolo- 

 gists: their Eelation to the Community at 

 Large." Members of the American Associa- 

 tion and of the affiliated societies and the pub- 

 lic in general are cordially invited to attend. 



Dr. L. a. Bauer gave an illustrated ad- 

 dress at the annual meeting of the Washing- 

 ton Society of Engineers on December 7, on 

 ■" The Non-magnetic Yacht Carnegie and her 

 Producer Gas Engine." 



On Friday, December 3, Professor J. A. 

 Holmes, of the U. S. Geological Survey, lec- 

 tured before the students of the College of 

 the City of New York on " Explosions in Coal 

 Mines." 



The Huxley lecture at Birmingham Uni- 

 versity was delivered on December 1 by Pro- 

 fessor W. Bateson, F.E.S., his subject being 

 " Mendelian Heredity." 



We learn from Nature that the meeting of 

 the Royal Irish Academy on November 30 

 was occupied by a commemoration of Charles 

 Darwin, the date nearly coinciding with that 

 of the publication of " The Origin of Species " 

 fifty years before. The president. Dr. P. 

 Tarleton, opened the proceedings, and the fol- 

 lowing short addresses were given on the 

 influence of Darwin's work: Geology, Pro- 

 fessor G. A. J. Cole ; geographical distribution 

 of animals and plants. Dr. E. F. Scharff; zo- 

 ology. Professor G. H. Carpenter; botany, 

 Professor T. Johnson; anthropology. Pro- 

 fessor A. F. Dixon. 



The collection of lichens formed by the 

 late Clara E. Cummings, Hunnewell pro- 

 fessor of cryptogamic botany at Wellesley 



College, has been bought by the college and 

 will be installed in the department of botany 

 as a memorial to Professor Cummings. 



By subscription a fund has been created in 

 honor of Dr. Christian Fenger, of Chicago, 

 who died in 1902. The fund is to be known 

 as the Fenger Memorial Fund and the income 

 is to be used to promote medical investiga- 

 tion. The directors of the Fenger Memorial 

 Association have set aside $400 for this pur- 

 pose for 1910. Applications with the neces- 

 sary details should reach the secretary. Dr. L. 

 Hektoen, 1743 W. Harrison Street, Chicago, 

 not later than February 1, 1910. 



A SCHOLARSHIP in engineering at the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania has been founded by 

 Mrs. S. W. Carlton, Jr., in memory of her 

 father, the late Dr. Coleman Sellers, the emi- 

 nent engineer. 



Dr. Jean Binot, head of the department of 

 pathological anatomy of the Pasteur Institute, 

 Paris, died at the end of November. 



The new administration building of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, situ- 

 ated at Sixteenth and P Streets, will be open 

 to the public for inspection on Wednesday, 

 Thursday and Friday, December 15, 16 and 

 17, from 2 to 5.30 p.m. Opportunity will also 

 be offered to view an exhibit of the work of 

 the institution and its departments. 



Section B, of the American Association 

 and the American Physical Society, will meet 

 on Tuesday, December 2S, in the Lowell (new) 

 Lecture Hall, Cambridge, where the vice- 

 presidential address will also be given on 

 Tuesday afternoon. The Wednesday, Thurs- 

 day and Friday sessions of Section B and the 

 American Physical Society will be held at the 

 Institute of Technology, as previously an- 

 nounced. Dr. L. A. Bauer, chairman of the 

 section, has addressed to physicists the follow- 

 ing letter: 



It gives me much pleasure to announce that, 

 judging from present indications, our coming 

 meeting at Boston will be a success. Titles of 

 papers have already been received from eminent 

 physicists, among them Michelson and Runge, of 

 Gottingen. 



For one reason or another some of our foremost 



