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prepared over camp fire. Study was made 

 while traveling of the animals, birds and 

 plants, the nature of the eoimtry and the 

 character of the soil, and lectures were given 

 each day. The party left Oberlin on Jime 

 20 and returned on August 27 all in good 

 health and reporting a most successfid and 

 enjoyable trip. For next summer a different 

 trip is planned, through Colorado and Estes 

 Park to California and the Yosemite. 



It is stated in Nature that the Swedish 

 Academy of Science has reported favorably 

 on a request by Professor J. G. Andersson, 

 formerly director of the Swedish Geological 

 Survey, for a government grant of 90,000 

 kroner towards scientific researches and col- 

 lections in China, where Dr. Andersson is 

 now geological adviser to the Chinese govern- 

 ment. It is hoped that the Swedish Eiks- 

 museum will thus receive ricJi collections in 

 paleontology, prehistory and zoology, but, to 

 comply with conditions laid down by Pro- 

 fessors Andersson and "Witman, the fossil 

 vertebrates will go to Upsala. 



Dr. James E. Angell, on leave of absence 

 as head of the department of psychology and 

 dean of the faculties of the University of 

 Chicago, now chairman of the National Re- 

 search Council, recently visited the Carnegie 

 Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, and con- 

 ferred with several members of the faculty 

 who are particularly interested in the prog- 

 ress of research. In the afternoon. Dr. 

 Angell addressed the faculty and graduate 

 students of the division of applied psychology. 



At the meeting of the Section on Medical 

 History of the College of Physicians of 

 Philadelphia, held on November 15, Lieuten- 

 ant Colonel Fielding H. Garrison, M. C, 

 IT. S. Army, "Washington, D. C, and Dr. 

 Edward C. Streeter, Boston, presented a 

 paper on " Sculpture and Paintings as Modes 

 of Anatomical Expression." 



The president. Professor James Ward, of 

 Cambridge University, delivered the inaugural 

 address before the Aristotelian Society on No- 

 vember 3 on the subject " In the begin- 

 ning . . ." The congress which the society 

 arranges annually will be held next year at 



Oxford in Septeniber, and the French Philo- 

 sophical Society will take part. 



A COURSE of twelve Swiney lectures on 

 " Geology and Mineral Resources of the Brit- 

 ish Possessions in Africa " will be given at the 

 Imperial College of Science and Technology, 

 London, by Dr. J. D. Falconer, on Novem- 

 ber 10 and later. 



The tablets in memory of Lord Lister, exe- 

 cuted for University College by Professor Har- 

 vard Thomas, were unveiled on November 11, 

 by Sir George Makins, president of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons, and Sir J. J. Thomson, 

 president of the Royal Society. The Duke of 

 Bedford, president of the Lister Memorial 

 Committee, presided. 



Dr. William G. Bissell, bacteriologist and 

 sanitary expert, died on November 14, at the 

 age of forty-nine years. He was director of 

 the laboratories of the Buffalo Health De- 

 partment for twenty-five years and past pres- 

 ident of the New York State Sanitary 

 Officers' Association. Since his graduation 

 from the medical department of the Univer- 

 sity of Buffalo in 1892 he had practised there. 



The National Academy of Medicine and 

 the Surgical Society of Rio de Janeiro is 

 compiling a catalogue of all medical publi- 

 cations that have appeared in Brazil within 

 the past hundred years. This catalogue will 

 be distributed at the celebration of the 

 Centenary of Independence which is to be 

 held in 1920. A Congress of Medicine will 

 be held at the same time in Rio de Janeiro 

 under the direction of Professor Fernando 

 Magalhaes, president of the Medical and 

 Surgical Association. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



By the terms of the will of Dr. Henry K. 

 Oliver, Harvard University receives funds for 

 a department of hygiene. 



The French minister of public instruction 

 has introduced in parliament a bill covering 

 an appropriation of 12,126,000 francs for the 

 benefit of the universities, to be used in the 



