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tomology of the University of Minnesota Ex- 

 periment Station. 



Mr. E. J. McCaustland, professor of mu- 

 nicipal engineering, University of Washing- 

 ton, has been appointed sanitary engineer to 

 the State Board of Plealth. 



Dr. Ejnae Hertzsprung, associate professor 

 at Gottingen, has been elected observer in the 

 Astrophysical Observatory at Potsdam. 



It is proposed that a grant of £100 be made 

 from the Worts Fund, Cambridge University, 

 to Mr. J. Eomanes, towards defraying the ex- 

 pense of a journey to Costa Eica vcith the 

 ■object of studying the geology and geography 

 of that country. 



Dr. Ciiaeles Peabody, of Harvard Univer- 

 ^sity, recently made an archeological reconnais- 

 sance trip in Texas. The archeology of the 

 :mountainous region of the state, for some 

 1;hree hundred miles, was studied, and a fair 

 ■collection of the stone implements secured for 

 the Peabody Museum. The pictographs of 

 the area were also investigated. During the 

 summer, Dr. Peabody represented the museum 

 at the Congres Prehistorique at Beauvais, 

 Prance, presenting a paper covering the re- 

 sults of his investigations in Texas. 



Mr. W. Dawson Johnston, librarian of Co- 

 lumbia University, is preparing for the 

 United States Bureau of Education a report 

 on special collections in libraries in the 

 United States. . It is planned to make the 

 publication a record of all collections in public 

 libraries which are of extraordinary value, 

 either because of their completeness or be- 

 cause of the rarity of their contents. In 

 order to collect the material for this report 

 the Bureau of Education is sending circulars 

 to all libraries which are thought to possess 

 such collections. 



A COURSE of lectures upon Abnormal Psy- 

 chology will be given by Dr. Morton Prince, 

 of Boston, at the University of California, 

 from January to April, 1910. 



The Priday evening meetings of the Royal 

 Institution, London, will commence on Jan- 

 uary 21, when Sir James Dewar will give a 

 lecture on light reactions at low tempera- 



tures. Succeeding lectures will probably be 

 given by the Rev. Canon Beeching, Professor 

 W. Bateson, Mr. C. E. S. Phillips, Professor 

 H. H. Turner, Lord Rayleigh, Dr. 0. Chree, 

 Dr. H. Brereton Baker and Sir J. J. Thom- 

 son. 



On December 15 the name of Cyrus Hall 

 McCormick was installed in the Illinois 

 Farmers' Hall of Fame at the University of 

 Illinois. A portrait of Mr. McCormick was 

 unveiled by his granddaughter. Miss Muriel 

 McCormick. Among the speakers were Gov- 

 ernor Charles Deneen, President E. J. James 

 and Mr. Cyrus Hall McCormick, the son of 

 the inventor. The next name to be enrolled 

 in this Hall of Fame is that of Jonathan B. 

 Turner, the originator and promoter of the 

 idea of a National Land Grant for agricul- 

 tural colleges in the states. 



Professor Hilary Bauerman, formerly of 

 the Royal Artillery College, Woolwich, well 

 known as a metallurgist and geologist, died 

 on December 5, at the age of seventy-six 

 years. 



It is announced that the council of the 

 University of Paris has passed a resolution to 

 the effect that monuments intended to com- 

 memorate men who have brought distinction 

 on the University of Paris since 1808 shall be 

 erected in the church of the Sorbonne. 



The New York State Science Teachers As- 

 sociation will hold its fourteenth annual meet- 

 ing at Syracuse, N. Y., on December 2Y, 28 

 and 29, in . conjunction with the Associated 

 Academic Principals and other educational 

 bodies. The president of the association is 

 Professor W. M. Smallwood, of Syracuse 

 University. 



The week of December 6-11 was appointed 

 by the International Commission for Scien- 

 tific Aeronautics for the long series of obser- 

 vations in the upper air. The United States 

 Weather Bureau was unable to make the 

 ascensions of sounding balloons promised at 

 Omaha, but three of these balloons were sent 

 up by Professor A. L. Rotch, from Pittsfield, 

 Mass., and two pilot balloons, for wind direc- 

 tion and velocity, from Blue Hill Observatory. 



