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medicine " and " The electric theory of com- 

 bustion." 



Dr. J. Paul Goode, professor of geography 

 in the University of Chicago, gave an address 

 before the general staff of the College of the 

 Army at Washington, D. C, on November 

 12, on " The geographic and economic founda- 

 tions of the world war." 



Professor Harold "FTtbbert, of Tale Uni- 

 versity, lectured before the Stamford Chem- 

 ical Society on " The constitution of cellu- 

 lose" on the evening of October 25. 



Dr. Frederick H. Getman lectured before 

 the Ehode Island State College on N'ovember 

 18 and before the Ehode Island Section of the 

 American Chemical Society at Providence, on 

 November 19, taking as his subject "The re- 

 lation between absorption and spectra and 

 chemical constitution." 



Baron Gerard DeGeer, professor of geol- 

 ogy at the University of Stockholm, delivered 

 two lectures at the University of Michigan on 

 ISTovember 12. The topic of the lectures was 

 " An autographic record of climate for the 

 last ten thousands of years," in which lectures 

 the methods of work and the applications to 

 Sweden and America were discussed. 



The annual Huxley memorial lecture of 

 the Eoyal Anthropological Institute was de- 

 livered by Dr. A. C. Haddon, in the lecture- 

 room of the Eoyal Society on November 23, 

 on " Migrations of Cultures in British New 

 Guinea." 



A MONUMENT has been erected at Castera- 

 Verduzan, Gers, France, to the memory of 

 the celebrated French surgeon and patholo- 

 gist, Lannelongue, who died in 1911. 



We learn from Nature that the council of 

 the British Association has agreed to the for- 

 mation of a separate section of psychology, as 

 recommended by the sections of physiology 

 and educational science at Cardiff, and ap- 

 proved by the general committee. Considera- 

 tion of the number and scope of the various 

 sections is to be referred to a special commit- 

 tee. It has been decided to invite national 

 Associations for the Advancement of Science 



to send representatives to annual meetings of 

 the British Association in future. 



The second International Congress of Com- 

 parative Pathology will be held at Eome in 

 April, 1921. An organizing committee has 

 been established under the presidency of Pro- 

 fessor Perroncito, comix)sed of Professors 

 Ascoli, Golgi, Grassi, Lustig, Marchiafava, 

 Paterno, Eaffaele, Sanarelli, and Colonel Ber- 

 toletti. Among the subjects to be discussed are 

 influenza in man and animals, foot-and-mouth 

 disease, recent researches in sarcoma and car- 

 cinoma, rabies and antirabic vaccination, piro- 

 plasmosis, acari and scabies in man and ani- 

 mals, and phylloxera. 



The Upsilon Sigma Chapter of the Chi Phi 

 medical fraternity has been installed at Co- 

 lumbia University. The installation cere- 

 monies and a dinner of the fraternity were held 

 recently at the Hotel Netherland in New 

 York. 



Since October the Dominion Observatory, 

 Ottawa, has been recording on the chronograph 

 the Arlington and Annapolis wireless time sig- 

 nals, together with the Observatory Eiefler 

 clock. 



The Smithsonian Institution, of which her 

 father, Joseph Henry, was secretary for many 

 years, is to be the ultimate beneficiary of the 

 estate of Caroline Henry, according to the 

 terms of her will, which has been filed for 

 probate. An immediate bequest of $1,000 is 

 made to the institution, together with several 

 other bequests. The net income from the re- 

 maining estate is to be distributed among 

 several beneficiaries upon whose death the es- 

 tate is to go to the Smithsonian Institution. 



Nature writes " the council of the British 

 Association has recently had before it the 

 suggestion made by Professor Herdman in his 

 presidential address at Cardiff for a new Chal- 

 lenger expedition for the exploration of the 

 great oceans of the globe with modern instru- 

 ments and methods. It will be remembered 

 that this proposal received the support of all 

 the sections of the association by formal reso- 

 lution, and the council was asked to appoint 



