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retary of the New Jersey State Council of 

 County Boards of Apiculture. 



Priends of Professor Chandler presented in 

 1910 to Columbia University a sum of money 

 which constitutes the Charles Frederick 

 Chandler Foundation. The income from this 

 fund is used to provide a lecture by an emi- 

 nent chemist and to provide a medal to be pre- 

 sented to the lecturer in further recognition 

 of his achievements in science. Previous lec- 

 turers on this foundation were L. H. Baeke- 

 land, W. F. Hillebrand and W- K- Whitney. 

 The lecturer this year will be Frederick G-ow- 

 land Hopkins, professor of biological chem- 

 istry, Cambridge University, England. The 

 Chandler Medal will be presented to Dr. Hop- 

 kins in order to recognize his pioneer and very 

 valuable work in the study of food accessories, 

 such as vitamines. Professor Hopkins' sub- 

 jects will be " Newer Aspects of the Nutrition 

 Problem." His lecture will be in Havemeyer 

 Hall, Columbia University, on the evening of 

 April 18. 



Dr. a. J. LoTKA, who is working as a guest 

 in the department of biometry and vital sta- 

 tistics of the school of hygiene and public 

 health of John Hopkins University, gave in 

 April a series of four lectures on " The dyna- 

 mics of evolution and the foundations of phys- 

 ical biology." 



Sir Walter Fletcher, secretary of the 

 Medidal Research Committee of Great Britain, 

 will deliver the Tenth Harvey Society Lecture 

 at the New York Academy of Medicine, Satur- 

 day evening, April 16. His subject will be: 

 " The state's relation to medical activities in 

 Great Britain." 



Dr. Herbert Haviland Field, who in 1895 

 founded at Zurich the Concilium Bibliographi- 

 eum, died suddenly of heart disease on April 

 5, at Zurich, where he had lived. He was born 

 in Brooklyn in 1868, graduated from Harvard 

 in 1888. 



Dr. Thomas Benjamin Doolittle, of Bran- 

 ford, Conn., said to be the originator of the 

 first telephone switchboard and associated in 

 the organization of the original Bell Tele- 

 phone Compnay in Boston, died on April 4, at 



the age of eighty-two years. Dr. Doolittle in 

 1898 received the Edward Longstreth medal 

 from the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia 

 for developing the process of producing hand- 

 drawing copper wire. 



Dr. Alfred Doolittle, professor of mathe- 

 matics and instructor in astronomy at the 

 Catholic University since 1898, died on Feb- 

 ruary 23. 



We learn from the Journal of the Washing- 

 ton Academy of Sciences that Mr. Frederic 

 Perkins Dewey, assayer of the Bureau of 

 Mines of the Treasury Department, died on 

 Februai-y 10, in his sixty-sixth year. Mr. 

 Dewey after graduation from Yale University 

 became instructor in chemistry at Lafayette 

 College. From 1881 to 1889 he was connected 

 with the U. S. Government, first as chemist 

 with the Tenth Census, then as mineralogist 

 with the Geological Survey, then as curator in 

 the National Museum. After 24 years in 

 chemical and metallurgical patent practise he 

 became assayer of the Mint in 1903. 



Dr. E. Beraneck, professor of biology at the 

 University of Neuchatel, has died at the age 

 of sixty-one years. 



The death is also announced of Dr. Leon 

 Becerra, chief health officer of Guayaquil, 

 Ecuador, a member of the Rockefeller com- 

 mission studying the yellow fever situation. 



A COURSE of four public lectures on the his- 

 tory of plant delineation was given during 

 March in the botany department of Univer- 

 sity College, London. The first two, on the art 

 of the ancient empires and the dark and middle 

 ages, was delivered by Dr. Charles Singer, 

 and the other two, bringing the subject down 

 to recent times, by Dr. Agnes Arber. 



The United States Civil Service Commis- 

 sion announces an examination for tihe posi- 

 tion of scientific assistant in the U. S. Bureau 

 of Fisheries at $1,200 (plus $20 a month), to 

 be held on April 27. Applicants will be rated 

 chiefly upon zoology in its relation to the fish- 

 eries, and general biology. 



A regular meeting of the American Phys- 

 ical Society will be held in "Washington, at 



