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speeificness of anti-anapliylaxis. Dr. Henri- 

 etta Calhoun, Iowa State University, $400, 

 for a study of the effect of protein shock on 

 diptheria intoxication. 



The Cornplanter silver medal, which is 

 awarded biennially by the Cayuga County 

 (N. T.) Historical Society in recognition of 

 service to the historical study and the present 

 welfare of the Iroquois Leagnie or Six ISTations 

 Confederacy, has been given this year to 

 Mrs. Frederick Ferris Thompson (Mary Clark 

 Thompson) in acknowledgement of her con- 

 tributions to the Iroquois collections of the 

 New York State Museum and to the con- 

 servation of the historical records of the 

 league. Mrs. Thompson's contrbutions to 

 this object have been made in the name of 

 her father Myron H. Clark, a former gov- 

 ernor of New York state. 



The seventh lecture of the Harvey Society 

 series will be given by Dr. Otto Folin, pro- 

 fessor of physiological chemistry, Harvard 

 University, on " Blood chemistry " at the New 

 York Academy of Medicine on Saturday even- 

 ing, March 13. 



At a meeting of the American Philosoph- 

 ical Society held on March 5, the program was : 

 " Across the Andes in search of fossil plants," 

 by Edward W. Berry, assistant professor of 

 paleobotany, Johns Hopkins University, and 

 " Interrelations of the fossil fuels — the Paleo- 

 zoic ooals," by John J. Stevenson, professor 

 emeritus of geology. New York University. 



Dr. Alfred J. Moses, professor of mineral- 

 ogy in Columbia University, has died at the 

 age of sixty-one years. 



Dr. Francis C. Phillips, professor of chem- 

 istry at the University of Pittsburgh for forty 

 years, died on February 16, at the age of 

 sixty-nine years. Professor Phillips was 

 known for his work in the chemistry of nat- 

 ural gas. 



Sir James Alexander Grant, one of the 

 most distinguished surgeons of Canada, known 

 also for work in paleontology, died on February 

 6, at his home in Ottawa, aged eighty-nine 

 years. 



The department of geology and geography 

 at the University of Michigan is to have a 

 summer camp in the mountains of Kentucky 

 for field work in geology and geography. 

 This camp will open on August 30, and will 

 continue for four weeks. Professor C. O. 

 Sauer, in charge of geography at the univer- 

 sity, will be director of the camp and conduct 

 the work in geography. The work in geology 

 will be directed by Professor E. C. Case. 

 The number of students will be limited to 

 twelve in each course. Students from other 

 universities who have finished an elementary 

 course in geology will be welcome to the 

 camp. Full information can be obtained 

 from Professor Sauer. 



Dr. Joseph Grinnell, associate professor of 

 zoology and director of the California Museum 

 of Vertebrate Zoology, has presented his en- 

 tire private collection of scientific study skins 

 of North American birds to the University of 

 California. The specimens number 8,312 and 

 represent collections during the period 1893 

 . to 1907. The total ornithological collections 

 in the California Museum of Vertebrate Zool- 

 ogy now amount to 39,659 specimens. The 

 study skins were secured from Los Angeles 

 county, the Colorado Desert, the Mohave Des- 

 ert, the San Bernardino Mountains, the Santa 

 Barbara Islands, Mt. Pinos in Ventura, Santa 

 Clara county, Los Coronados Islands, the 

 Stikan District in southeastern Alaska, and 

 the Kotzebue Sound District in arctic Alaska. 

 Twenty-seven types of suibspecies newly de- 

 scribed, and specimens of at least three species 

 of birds now extinct, are included in the col- 

 lection. There are also many " record speci- 

 mens." Large series of such birds as the wil- 

 low ptarmigan, specially selected tO' illustrate 

 processes of molt are included. There are also 

 long series of birds gathered from appropriate 

 territory to show facts in geographic varia- 

 tion. 



The American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory has published in its Bulletin a full report 

 by Dr. Pilsbry on Land Mollusks of the Bel- 

 gian Congo, one of a series of reports on the 

 fauna of that region. These reports are 



