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Okla., and' will there continue his work as a 

 consulting petroleum geologist. 



Dr. Ira Eemsen, of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, will deliver the commencement ad- 

 dress at West Virginia University on June 15. 



Dean W. M. Wheeler, of Bussey Institu- 

 tion, Harvard University, delivered an address 

 under the auspices of the Society of Sigma 

 Xi of Syracuse University, on May 6. The ad- 

 dress, which was on " Worm-lions, ant-lions 

 and some eighteenth-century entomologists," 

 covered the observations made by Reaumur and 

 other early naturalists upon the habits of the 

 worm-lion and ant-lion; and included the 

 studies of the lecturer upon the structure and 

 behavior of the worm-lions of California. 



Dr. G. M. Stratton, professor of psychology 

 at the University of California, has given the 

 Nathaniel W. Taylor lectures at the Yale 

 School of Eeligion. 



Dr. George F. Kay, head of the department 

 of geology. State University of Iowa, and 

 state geologist of Iowa, lectured on April 21 

 before the chapter of Sigma Xi of the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, on " The History of 

 Glaciation in the Mississippi Valley." 



Dr. C. E. KJENNETH Mees, director of the 

 research laboratories of Eastman Kodak Co., 

 landed in England April 27. While there 

 he will deliver the following lectures before 

 various scientific bodies : " Some Photographic 

 Phenomena in Relation to Astronomy," " Some 

 Results of Recent Investigations on the 

 Theory of Development," " Photography of 

 the Air," "Reaction of the Eye to Light," 

 " A Photographic Research Laboratory," " The 

 Production and Supply of Synthetic Organic 

 Chemicals in the United States," " Rochester 

 and the Kodak Works," " Scientific Research 

 and Industrial Production," " The Theory of 

 Tone Reproduction with a Graphic Method 

 for the Solution of Problems." 



Dr. Harry IST. Holmes, head of the chem- 

 istry department of Oberlin College and chair- 

 man of the National Research Council's Com- 

 mittee on Colloids is on a five weeks lecture 

 toui to the Pacific coast. The series of from 

 one to four lectures on " Colloid Chemistry " 



will be given at Northwestern University, 

 Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle Sec- 

 tions of the American Chemical Society, Uni- 

 versity of Washington, State College of Wash- 

 ington, Montana School of Mines, Montana 

 State College, State College of North Dakota, 

 University of Wisconsin, Iowa State College 

 (Ames), Leland Stanford University and the 

 University of California. 



Dr. Joseph Simms, a well-known lecturer 

 and traveler, who died of cerebral hemorrhage 

 in New York City on April 11, in his eighty- 

 seventh year, bequeathed his body to Dr. 

 Edward A. Spitzka for scientific study. The 

 brain of Dr. Si mm s, removed eighteen hours 

 after death, weighed 1,520 grams (53.58 onces 

 avoirdupois) and has been preserved by Dr. 

 Spitzka for the detailed study of its morpho- 

 logic features in comparison with the brains 

 of other notable men. 



It is stated in Nature that botanists in 

 Great Britain have been considering the prac- 

 ticability of holding an Imperial Botanical 

 Congress in London at which botanists from 

 the overseas Dominions might meet their 

 colleagues at home for the discussion of 

 matters of common interest. Many subjects 

 are ripe for discussion, such as the methods 

 of training botanists for service abroad, the 

 relation between the pure science and its ap- 

 plications and between the botanist and the 

 commercial men interested in industries in 

 which botanical knowledge should play an im- 

 portant part, more helpful cooperation be- 

 tween the home and the overseas botanist, 

 botanical surveys of overseas Dominions, and 

 )thers. After careful consideration it has 

 been decided that it would be inadvisable to 

 hold such a congress during the present year. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The medical departments of Columbia, Har- 

 vard and the Johns Hopkins Universities re- 

 ceive $5,541,401 each, in the distribution of the 

 estate of Captain Joseph R. De Lamar. The 

 will, disposing of a sum of thirty-two million 

 dollars, provides these funds for the study and 



