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the 'bird-room at the Natural History Mu- 

 seum in succession to Mr. W. E. Ogilvie- 

 Grant. Captain Lowe has for many years de- 

 voted himself to ornithological research at the 

 Natural History Museum, the Royal College 

 of Surgeons, and Cambridge University, and 

 has made extensive colleotions of, and obser- 

 vations on, birds in Madeira, the Canaries, the 

 Azores, the Cape de Verde Islands, the "West 

 Indies, Mexico, Florida, the Mediterranean is- 

 lands and coasts, South Africa and the Brit- 

 ish Islands. 



Dr. Joseph T. Singewald, Jr., professor of 

 economic geology at the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, has been granted leave of absence to 

 carry on geologioal investigations in northwest- 

 ern Peru. He will sail from New Orleans on 

 December 20. 



Associate Professor Frederick Starr, of 

 the department of sociology and anthropology 

 at the University of Chicago, who is now in 

 Japan on a research expedition, will return to 

 the university in time to give in January a 

 series of illustrated lectures on Mexico. 



To express the admiration and gratitude in 

 which Dr. George M. Kober is held by his 

 pupils, friends and coworkers, it has been de- 

 cided to issue as a testimonial to these senti- 

 m.ents an anniversary publication dedicated 

 to him, on the occasion of his seventieth birth- 

 day, March 28, 1920. George Tully Vaughan 

 has been elected chairman of the organization ; 

 Felix Neumann, of the Army Medical Mu- 

 seum, secretary; John Foy Edson, treasurer, 

 and as members of the committee at large. 

 General Eobert E. Noble, Drs. Charles D. Wal- 

 catt, Wilfred M. Barton, J. W. Fewkes, Walter 

 D. Hough, L. O. Howard, Ales Hrdlicka, T. 

 Michelson, W. H. Holmes and N. M. Judd. 

 The anniversary publication will be the issue 

 of the American Journal of Physical Anthro- 

 pology, which will be published in the latter 

 part of March, and will be known as the 

 George M. Kober anniversary number. 



The annual Mellon lecture of the Society 

 for Biological Research of the University of 

 Pittsburgh will be delivered by General W. C. 

 Gorgas on the evening of January 8. The sub- 



ject of the address will be "Yellow fever." 

 General Gorgas is chairman of the Yellow 

 Fever Commission of the International Health 

 Board, Rockefeller Foundation, and has just 

 returned to the United States from an exten- 

 sive trip through Central and South America. 

 In his address he will describe the present 

 plans and progress of the work on yellow 

 fever. 



Professor Wm. E. Eitter, director of 

 Scripps Institution for Biological Research, 

 visited the University of Illinois December 2 

 and 3. He spoke before the graduate students 

 and faculty on " Research Problems and 

 Facilities of the Scripps Institution." The 

 department of zoology tendered him a dinner 

 at which he led a discussion on marine biology. 



Dr. E. G. Conklin, professor of zoology at 

 Princeton University, lectured on December 3 

 at Mount Holyoke College on " Has human 

 evolution come to an end ? " 



The Boyle lecture was delivered by Pro- 

 fessor A. Keith on November 19, at Oxford 

 University, on " Race and nationality from an 

 anthropological point of view." 



The Harveian festival has been celebrated 

 with full honors by the Royal College of 

 Physicians of London, for the first time since 

 1913. The oration was delivered by Dr. Ray- 

 mond H. P. Crawford, and dealt with the fore- 

 runners of Harvey in antiquity. After the 

 oration the president presented the Baly 

 Medal to Dr. Leonard E. Hill. 



As a memorial of Professor J. Dejerine, 

 Madame and Mile. Dejerine have placed a 

 fund at the disposal of the Paris Society of 

 Neurology for research in neurology. 



Louis Valentine Pirsson, professor of geol- 

 ogy in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale 

 University, died in New Haven, on December 

 8, at the age of fifty -nine years. Professor Pirs- 

 son had held the chair in physical geology since 

 1897, and for the same period was associat-e 

 editor of The American Journal of Science. 



John Tapan Stoddard, professor of chem- 

 istry at Smith College since 1878, died on 

 December 9. 



