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of surgery in the Polyclinic Hospital, New 

 York, died on January 30. 



Dr. O. T. Williams, lecturer on pharma- 

 cology and demonstrator of biochemistry in 

 the University of Liverpool, has died at the 

 age of thirty-five years. 



Professor Binz, who held the chair of phar- 

 macology at Bonn, has died at the age of 

 eighty years. 



Dr. F. Teller, chief geologist at the " Geol- 

 ogische Eeichsanstalt," Vienna, and member 

 of the Vienna Academy of Sciences, died on 

 January 10, in his sixty-first year. 



Dr. R. Collett, professor of zoology in the 

 University of Christiania, has died at the age 

 of seventy years. 



Dr. Augustus Witkowski, professor of ex- 

 perimental physics in the University of Cra- 

 cow, died on January 21, at fifty-eight years 

 of age. 



The Archduke Rainer, the oldest member 

 of the Imperial Austro-Hungarian family, who 

 died on January 27, at eighty-five years of age, 

 was actively interested in scientific and artis- 

 tic activity. Foreign journals state that at 

 the Vienna Academy of Sciences, of which 

 he was curator, he never missed an important 

 sitting, while the Austrian museums owed 

 their development largely to his support. 



In the Senate of the United States on 

 January 24 Mr. Cummins submitted the fol- 

 lowing resolution, which was considered and 

 agreed to : 



Eesolved, That the Committee on Naval Affairs 

 is hereby authorized and directed to investigate 

 the affairs of the Naval Observatory and its rela- 

 tion to the American Ephemeris and Nautical 

 Almanac; and, further, to inquire into the wisdom 

 and propriety of placing the management of the 

 Naval Observatory in the hands of scientists, with- 

 out regard to their connection with the Navy of 

 the United States. 



Sesolved further, That the said committee be 

 directed to make report of the matters herein 

 referred to it as soon as practicable. 



The Harriman Research Laboratory, which 

 was established in New York City in 1910 

 and is maintained by Mrs. E. H. Harriman 



for the study of chemical problems connected 

 with disease and owns and operates a building 

 on the grounds of Roosevelt Hospital, has 

 been incorporated. 



A gold medal is ofFered by the American 

 Laryngological Association for the best essay 

 pertaining to laryngology or rhinology, prefer- 

 ence being given to essays offering new sug- 

 gestions of practical value arising from orig- 

 inal work. 



The heirs of Herr Adolf Schwabacher, the 

 Berlin banker, have established a foundation 

 with 100,000 Marks, the income of which will 

 be used to confer a prize in medicine every 

 five years. 



The Astronomical Society of Mexico has 

 decided, beginning from 1913, to offer a medal 

 and diploma to any astronomer who discovers 

 a comet. The medal will bear the name of 

 " Carolina Herschel Medal." 



The ninth International Physiological 

 Congress will be held at Groningen September 

 2-6 under the presidency of Professor H. J. 

 Hamburger. 



At a special general meeting of the Royal 

 GeogTaphical Society, on January 15, the 

 president, Lord Curzon, of Kedleston, moved 

 the resolution : " That the society approve of 

 the election of women as fellows," and it was 

 carried by 130 votes to 51. 



The Jesup lectures on Heredity and Sex, 

 by Dr. Thomas H. Morgan, professor of ex- 

 perimental zoology in Columbia University, 

 are now being given in the lecture hall of the 

 Museum of Natural History on Wednesday 

 evenings at 8:15. The subjects are as follows: 



February 5 — "The Evolution of Sex." 



February 12 — "The Mechanism of Sex Deter- 

 mination. ' ' 



February 19 — "The Mendelian Principles of 

 Heredity and their Bearing on Sex. ' ' 



February 26 — ' ' Secondary Sexual Characters 

 and their Relation to Darwin's Theory of Sexual 

 Selection. ' ' 



March 5 — "The Effects of Castration and of 

 Grafting on the Secondary Sexual Characters. ' ' 



March 12 — "Parthenogenesis and Sex." 



March 19 — ' ' Inbreeding and Fertility. ' ' 



March 26 — ' ' Special Cases of Sex Inheritance. ' ' 



