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Sydney for Port Moresby with the object of 

 exploring New Guinea from the air. The 

 party includes an ethnologist and a naturalist. 

 Two seaplanes are being taken and will be 

 used in a four months' air survey of the western 

 portions of British New Guinea. JMeanwhile 

 the scientific section of the expedition will nav- 

 igate the Fly River in a ketch. The cost of 

 the seaplanes is being borne by Mr. L. Hodson, 

 of Sydney. 



The courses offered by the New School for 

 Social Research, New York City, include "The 

 Signifleanee of Modern Philosophy," by Pro- 

 fessor John Dewey, Columbia University; "Be- 

 havior Psychology," by Dr. John B. Watson, 

 of the J. Walter Thompson Company, "Psysi- 

 ology and Conduct," by Professor Artliur R. 

 Moore, of Rutgers College, and "Biology and 

 its Social Implications," by Professor Otto 

 Glaser, of Amherst College. 



The Hai-veian Oration will be delivered be- 

 fore the Royal College of Physicians of Lon- 

 don by Dr. Arnold Chaplin, on October 18. 

 The Bradshaw Lecture will be delivered by Sir 

 Maurice Craig, on "Mental symptoms in 

 physical disease," on November 2. The Fitz- 

 Patrick Lectures will be delivered by Dr. R. 0. 

 Moon, on "Philosophy and the post-Hippo- 

 cratie school of medicine," on November 7. 



A CELEBEATION of the One hundredith anni- 

 versary of the birth of Louis Pasteur will take 

 place in Philadelphia on December 27. Tenta- 

 tive plans call for a meeting in the afternoon 

 at the Academy of Music, and a banquet in 

 the evening at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, at 

 both of which there will be distinguished 

 speakers. A general committee, comprising 

 Drs. Edgar Fahs Smith, Ernest Laplace, 

 Francis X. Dercum, Charles A. E. Codman 

 Wilmer Krusen, McCluney Radeliffe, secretary, 

 Judson Daland, treasurer, and William Duf- 

 fleld Robinson, chairman, and an honorary ad- 

 visory committee from all parts of the country 

 have been appointed. 



Dr. Alice Robertson, for several years pro- 

 fessor of zoology in Wellesley College, known 

 for her work on the Bryozoa, especially of the 

 Pacific Coast of North America, died at Berke- 



ley, California, on September 14. Although 

 Dr. Robertson had not been in good health for 

 several years, she had kept at her scientific 

 work, and death followed a sudden illness, 

 which a surgical operation failed to relieve. 



Miss Mart A. Booth, formerly editor of 

 Practical Microscopy , has died at her home in 

 Springfield, aged seventy-nine years. She was 

 a member of the American Microscopical Soci- 

 ety, the New York Microscopical Society, and 

 the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences 

 and a fellow of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science and of the Royal 

 Microscopical Society of London, England. 



David Sharp, F.R.S., formerly curator of 

 the Musemn of Zoology at the University of 

 Cambridge and editor of the Zoological Record, 

 died on August 27, at the age of eighty-one 

 years. 



Tadeusz Godlevfski, professor of physics in 

 the School of Technology at Lwow, has died 

 at the age of forty-four years. He is known 

 for his work on radioactive and electrochemical 

 problems. 



Dr. T. Ichikawa, president of Momoyama 

 Hospital, Tokio, died on September 19 from 

 typhoid fever contracted while experimenting 

 with typhoid serum. 



The organization founded to promote the 

 welfare of the University of Bonn has endowed 

 the university with an institute for research 

 with the roentgen rays. Professor Grebe is in 

 charge and it is expected that the institute will 

 be inaugurated this fall. 



A SCIENTIFIC conference on problems rela- 

 ting primarily to the Pacific region will be held 

 in Australia during August or September of 

 next year. Plans are now being made for this 

 event by the Australian National Research 

 Council, supported by a commonwealth grant 

 of £5,000 under the leadership of Professor Sir 

 T. Edgeworth David. This will be the second 

 conference on Pacific problems. The first was 

 organized by the Committee on Pacific Inves- 

 tigation of the American National Research 

 Council and met in Honolulu in August, 1920. 

 The scientific men and scientific agencies inter- 

 ested in studies of the Pacific have not yet 



