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London, beginning on October 28 with a lec- 

 ture on " 'New realism : its background and 

 origin," was given by Professor "W. P. Mon- 

 tague, professor of pbilosopby in Columbia 

 University, New York City. The two other 

 lectures were entitled : " New realism : its im- 

 plication and promise," and on November 1, 

 Professor J. E. Boodin, professor at Carleton 

 College, Minn., gave a lecture on " Pragma- 

 tism : its right and left wings." 



The University of Bologna and the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences held a joint commemora- 

 tion service for the late Professor Righi on 

 November 1, when an address was delivered by 

 Professor Luigi Donati. 



A GOLD medal, studded with diamonds, but 

 valued chiefly because it had been " presented 

 to Dr. S. D. Gross by bis medical friends in 

 commemoration of his fifty-first year in the 

 profession, April 10, 1879," was recently given 

 to Dr. J. Chalmers DaCosta, S. D. Gross pro- 

 fessor of surgery at Jefferson Medical College, 

 to be placed in the Jefferson College Museum. 



Professor Samuel Hanaway, who retired on 

 account of health in 1916 from the department 

 of mathematics in the College of the City of 

 New York, has died at the age of 66. 



M. H. P. Steensby, professor of geography 

 at the University of Copenhagen, who was 

 forty-five years old, died suddenly on board the 

 liner Frederih VIII., while returning from 

 America, where he had been in connection 

 with his investigations into the voyages of the 

 old Norsemen to the coast of North America. 



The College of Physicians of Philadelphia 

 announces that the next award of the Alvar- 

 enga Prize, amounting to about $250, will be 

 made, July 14, 1921, provided that an essay 

 deemed worthy of the prize shall have been 

 offered. 



Professor "W. C. Allee, secretary-treasurer, 

 of the American Society of Zoologists, writes 

 that the committee on hotel accommodations 

 for the Chicago meetings have assigned the 

 American Society of Zoologists to the Congress 

 Hotel, Michigan Blvd. and Congress St. The 

 rates range from $3.00 to $9.00 for single 

 rooms and from $7.00 up for double rooms. 



This hotel is the headquarters for the Amer- 

 ican Association and for the biological so- 

 cieties and members are accordingly urged to 

 reserve rooms at their earliest convenience. 

 Members of the zoologists desiring less ex- 

 pensive rooms may make reservations in the 

 relatively nearby Y. M. C. A. Hotel at 822 S. 

 Wabash Avenue before December 1. Rates: 

 70 cents, 80 cents and one dollar. 



The publication of World Agriculture as the 

 official organ of the American E. E. Farmers' 

 Club and the World Agricultural Society, is 

 announced in the Experiment Station Record. 

 It will be issued quarterly from Amherst, 

 Mass. The purposes of the magazine are an- 

 nounced as follows : To further a sympathetic 

 understanding among all nations in matters 

 relating to the production, distribution and 

 consumption of the products of the soil; to 

 encourage study of the principles which should 

 control the agricultural policies of the world 

 to the end that every individual may do his 

 full duty and may enjoy his rightful share of 

 the results; to aid in the application of these 

 principles through the dissemination of infor- 

 mation, the exchange of students and teachers 

 between educational institutions, and the rend- 

 ering of practical assistance in the agricultural 

 regions devastated by the world war and wher- 

 ever such assistance is needed; to promote the 

 correlation on world lines of all agencies con- 

 cerned in rural improvement, technical, scien- 

 tific, economic and social, and a greater ap- 

 preciation of the possibilities of the country 

 for the development of the highest types of 

 individual and social life. In addition to the 

 World Agriculture Society the journal expects 

 to print official items regarding the Interna- 

 tional Institute of Agriculture, the American 

 E. F. Farmers' Club, American Country Life 

 Association, the International Live Stock 

 Breeders' Association, the Beaune Committtee 

 on World Cooperation in Agriculture and 

 Country Life, the International Association of 

 Agricultural Missions, the Agricultural Clubbf 

 the North Carolina College, and the Agricul- 

 tural Society of France. The June issue con- 

 tains the officers of these organizations; re- 

 ports of the Beaune conference of 1919, and 



