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delivered in part (and later published com- 

 plete) in Union Theological Seminary before 

 the coming joint meeting of the eastern and 

 western divisions of the American Philosoph- 

 ical Association on December 27, 28 and 29. 

 Under the general caption of "Experience and 

 Philosophy," but subject to alteration, Pro- 

 fessor Dewey proposes the following tentative 

 outline: (1) Experience and philosophical 

 method; (2) Experience and reason; (3) Ex- 

 perience and selves; (4) Experience and tlie 

 IDs^-chioal ; (5) Experience and values ; (6) Ex- 

 perience and metaphysies. 



De. Edgar F. Smith, former provost of the 

 university and president of the American 

 Chemical Society, gave a lecture recently, in 

 the HaiTison Lalboratory of the Universiity of 

 Pennsylvania, on Joseph Priestley. The lec- 

 ture was under Ihe auspices of the Priestley 

 Club. Dr. Smith, author of a biography of 

 Priestley, showed for the first time many ex- 

 hibits of Priestley and his work. 



SiE Charles A. Parsons delivei-ed the sec- 

 ond Joule memoriall lecture at ithe Manchester 

 Literary and Philosophical Society's house on 

 Tuesday, December 5, his subject being "The 

 rise of motive power and the work of Joule." 



The Henry Sidgwick memorial lecture at 

 Newnham College, Cambridge, was delivered by 

 Lord Rayleigh on December 2, the subject being 

 "The iridescent colors of natural objects." 



Dr. Victor C. Yaughan, of the School of 

 Medicine of the University of Michigan, gave 

 a public address on Decemiber 6 under the 

 auspices of the chapter of Sigma Xi of the 

 University of Wisconsin, in commemoration of 

 the hundi-edth anniversary of the birth of Pas- 

 teur. 



At the ceremonies to be held, December 26, 

 under the auspices -of the Academy of Medi- 

 cine to commemoi'ate the centenary of Pasteur, 

 papers dealing with the development of Pas- 

 teur's work in the various biianches of medical 

 science will be read by Delezenne, for general 

 biology; Widal, for medicine; Delbet, for sur- 

 gery; Wallich, for obstetrics; Barrier, for vet- 

 erinary medicine, and Calmette, for hygiene. 



Charles Franklin Emerson, dean emeritus 

 of Dartmouth College, and formerly professor 

 of astronomy and physics, who was at the col- 

 lege from 1865, when he entered, until 1913, 

 when he retired ais dean, at the {ige of seventy 

 years, died on December 1. 



Charles Albert Fischer, professor of 

 mathematies and astronomy at Trinity College, 

 died at the Hartford Hospital, following an 

 operation for appendicitis on December 9, aged 

 -forty-eight years. 



Dr. Emil Holmgren, professor of histology 

 ait Stockholm, has died at the age of fifty-sis 

 years. 



Dr. Johannes Petrus Kuenen, professor 

 of physics in the University of Leyden, died on 

 September 25, aged flf ty-eigiht years. 



The death is announced of M. Barbiei-, cor- 

 respondent of the Section of Chemistry of the 

 Paris Academy of Sciences, at the age of 

 seventy-five j'ears. 



In honor of the late Lieutenant Colonel E. F. 

 Harrison, who shortly before his death on 

 November 4, 1918, became head of 'the British 

 Chemical AVarfare Department, a fund amount- 

 ing to £1,640 has been coUeeted. A memorial 

 to Colonel Harrison and other members of ithe 

 Chemical Society of London who lost their 

 lives during the war has 'been erected, and a 

 prize has been established , for the chemist 

 under thirty years of 'age who has carried out 

 the most meritorious researches in chemistry. 



The executive committee of the Australian 

 National Research Council has fixed the date of 

 the Second Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress as 

 August 13 to September 3, 1923. It is pro- 

 posed to hold the first sesslion at the University 

 of Melbourne, and the second session (August 

 21 to September 3, at the University of Syd- 

 ney. From Melbourne and Sydney as centere, 

 excursions are planned as part of the congress 

 program and, after the adjournment of the 

 formal meeting, opportunities will be provided 

 for visits to« more remote pants of the con- 

 tinent. 



The tenth annual meeting of the Indian 

 Science Congress, under the auspices of the 



