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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVII. No. 940 



Dr. E. V. Faewell, associate professor in 

 the department of chemistry of the college of 

 agriculture of the University of Wisconsin, 

 lectured to the students of the department of 

 chemistry, on December 18, on " The Role of 

 Mineral Elements in Nutrition." 



Dr. E. p. Lyon, of St. Louis University 

 School of Medicine, recently delivered the 

 Founders Day address at the Bradley Poly- 

 technic Institute, Peoria, 111., on the subject, 

 " Medicine and Engineering." 



Mr. Austen Chamberlain will preside at a 

 meeting at the Eoyal Colonial Institute, Lon- 

 don, on January 14, in support of the fund he 

 is raising for the extension and development 

 of the London School of Tropical Medicine, 

 when Sir Eonald Eoss will give an address on 

 the work of the school and the advantages of 

 tropical medicine. 



Certain geological works of Dr. Alexander 

 Winchell, former professor of geology at the 

 University of Michigan, have recently been 

 found at the state capitol at Lansing, where 

 they have been kept since Dr. Winehell's 

 death forty years ago. Over four hundred 

 works are included in the collection, which is a 

 very valuable one, including plates and hand 

 drawings. The works are the property of the 

 Michigan State Geological and Biological Sur- 

 vey, and will be published in an appropriate 

 form. 



The valuable collection of microscopic slides 

 and preparations left by the late Professor T. 

 H. Montgomery, Jr., have been given by Mrs. 

 Montgomery to the zoological department of 

 the University of Pennsylvania. The collec- 

 tion comprises upward of 3,800 mounted 

 pieces and slides, in addition to a large num- 

 ber of objects embedded in paraffin. 



Mr. William B. Tegetmeier, the distin- 

 guished English naturalist, known for his 

 work on pigeons and other animals and for his 

 cooperation with Charles Darwin in the study 

 of variation, has died in his ninety-seventh 

 year. 



Me. Chester A. Eeed, curator of the Wor- 

 cester Natural History Society and the au- 

 thor of several books on bird life, died at Wor- 

 cester on December 16. 



Mr. Eugene Smith, a Brooklyn engineer, 

 interested in natural science and editor of The 

 Aquarium, died on December 25, aged fifty- 

 two years. 



Dr. Ernst von Koken, professor of geology 

 at Tiibingen, has died at the age of fifty-two 

 years. 



Dr. Wilhelm Fiedler, formerly professor of 

 mathematics in the Zurich Technical School, 

 has died at the age of eighty years. 



M. AiME Pagnoul, formerly director of the 

 Agricultural Station at Pas-de-Calais, has died 

 at the age of ninety years. 



The examination for the position of curator 

 of the State Natural History Museum of Illi- 

 nois, recently mentioned in these columns, has 

 been postponed by the civil service commis- 

 sion until January 25, in order to secure more 

 applicants. This is a position which pays 

 $3,000 per year. Applications should be on file 

 in the office of the state Civil Service Com- 

 mission, Springfield, 111., not later than Jan- 

 uary 18. 



The next meeting of the International 

 Union for Solar Eesearch will take place at 

 Bonn beginning August 1, 1913. 



An international congress for physical edu- 

 cation will be held in Paris, March 17-20, 1913, 

 under the auspices of the faculty of medicine. 

 It is expected that the United States will be 

 represented. 



In view of the seventeenth International 

 Congress of Medicine, which is to take place 

 in London in 1913, a committee has been 

 formed for the purpose of organizing a mu- 

 seum, and Professor Arthur Keith, conserva- 

 tor of the Eoyal College of Surgeons' Museum, 

 has been chosen chairman. Accommodation 

 has been secured at the Imperial College of 

 Science, South Kensington, and the museum 

 will be arranged in this place as far as is pos- 

 sible in correspondence with the sections of the 

 congress. It has been decided that, as the 

 meeting is to take place in London, and as the 

 visitors will doubtless desire to inspect the 

 metropolitan hospitals and other great institu- 

 tions, material will not be collected from the 

 museums of the metropolis. The committee 



