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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The Elisha Kent Kane gold medal of the 

 Geographical Society of Philadelphia was 

 presented to Professor William Morris Davis, 

 of Harvard University, on January 28. On 

 that evening Professor Davis made an address 

 on " Human Response to Geographic Environ- 

 ment," inaugurating the Heilprin memorial 

 lectures. Professor Davis will receive the 

 Culver medal of the Geographic Society of 

 Chicago, at the annual dinner on February 19. 

 Professor George Herbert Palmer, Alvord 

 professor of natural religion, moral philosophy 

 and civil polity, and Professor Francis Pea- 

 body, Plummer professor of Christian morals, 

 have given their final lectures at Harvard 

 University. Professor Palmer has served the 

 university for forty-three years and Professor 

 Peabody for thirty-eight years. 



Professor George F. Swain, of Harvard 

 University, has been elected president of the 

 American Society of Civil Engineers. 



Dr. Charles L. Dana has been elected 

 president of the New York Psychiatric So- 

 ciety, and Dr. S. Ely JelifFe, president of the 

 New York Neurological Society. 



Major E. H. Hills, F.R.S., has been ap- 

 pointed honorary director of the Durham 

 University Observatory. 



Sir Sydney Olivier, governor of Jamaica, 

 has been appointed to be permanent secretary 

 of the British Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries. 



David E. Kellogg, Ph.D. (Ohio State, '12), 

 has accepted a position as research chemist in 

 the Bureau of Mines, with headquarters at 

 San Francisco. 



Dr. R. C. Benedict has been appointed 

 editor of the American Fern Journal to suc- 

 ceed Dr. Philip Dowell, who declined to be 

 considered for reappointment. 



Dr. a. Hrdlicka, of the United States Na- 

 tional Museum, has sailed for Peru and Bo- 

 livia, with the object of extending his former 

 work in those countries, and securing further 

 anthropological collections. He expects to re- 

 turn in April. 



Dr. Eollin T. Chamberlin, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, lectured on a visit to Brazil, 

 before the Geographical Society of Chicago, 

 on January 24. 



Dr. J. Arthur Harris, of the Carnegie In- 

 stitution, spoke before the Society of Sigma 

 Xi of Washington University on January 23, 

 his subject being " The Francis Galton Lab- 

 oratory for National Eugenics and its Work." 



Before the Society of the Sigma Xi of Co- 

 lumbia University, Professor Henry C. Sher- 

 man lectured on January 16, on " Progress 

 and Problems in Food Chemistry." 



Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, dean of the School 

 of Medicine of the University of Michigan, 

 addressed the Science Club of the University 

 of Wisconsin, January 16, on " Eugenics, or 

 Race Betterment." 



The Semon lectures on laryngology were 

 delivered at University College on January 22 

 and 24, by Dr. Peter McBride, the subject be- 

 ing " Sir Felix Semon : His Work and its 

 Iniluence on Laryngology." 



Mr. Francis Blake, who did important 

 work under the U. S. Coast Survey from 1866 

 to 1878, and subsequently obtained distinction 

 by the invention of the telephone transmitter 

 and other electrical apparatus, died at his home 

 in Weston, Mass., on January 19, aged sixty- 

 three years. 



Professor Jonathan Hyatt, knovm for his 

 contributions on insect anatomy, former 

 president of the American Microscopical So- 

 ciety, died at his home in New Rochelle, on 

 December 20, aged eighty-six years. 



Mrs. William Bashford Huff, formerly 

 demonstrator in physics in Bryn Mawr Col- 

 lege, the author of contributions to physics 

 and mathematics, died on January 19, aged 

 twenty-nine years. In 1898 she married Dr. 

 William Bashford Huff, professor of physics 

 at Bryn Mawr College. 



Dr. William Howship Dickinson, a dis- 

 tinguished English physician and pathologist, 

 died on JanuaTy 9, aged eighty years. 



Mr. B. Leigh Smith, known for his work in 

 Arctic exploration, died on January 4, at the 

 age of eighty-five years. 



