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Museum, Soutli Kensington, in succession to 

 Mr. Edgar Smith, who will retire, by reason 

 of age, on March 31. 



Dr. "William McPherson, professor of 

 chemistry and dean of the Graduate School at 

 the Ohio State University, has been granted 

 a leave of absence for the second semester. 

 He will spend the semester in Germany. 



Dr. Bryant Walker, of Detroit. Michigan, 

 will bear the expense of a zoological expedi- 

 tion to Colombia, South America, in the 

 summer of 1913. The field party will consist 

 of the head curator of the museum. Dr. A. G. 

 Euthven, Professor A. S. Pearse, University 

 of Wisconsin, honorary curator of Crustacea, 

 and Mr. Frederick Gaige, of the department 

 of zoology. University of Michigan. The work 

 will be carried on in the Santa Marta Moun- 

 tains, and will consist principally of detailed 

 studies of the local distribution of the crus- 

 taceans, molluscs, ants, amphibians and rep- 

 tiles, although an attempt will be made to get 

 specimens of other groups needed in the mu- 

 seum. 



Professor Harris Hawthorne Wilder, of 

 the department of zoology at Smith College, 

 and Mrs. Wilder, instructor in zoology, have 

 been given leave of absence for the second 

 half year, and will proceed to Naples. 



Professor James Hayden Tufts, head of 

 the department of philosophy in the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, will be the convocation orator 

 at the eighty-sixth convocation of that insti- 

 tution on March 18, the subject of his address 

 being " The University and the Advance of 

 Justice." 



Professor Ludwig Aschoff will deliver the 

 Cartwright lectures of the Association of the 

 Alumni of the College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons, Columbia University. There will 

 be two lectures, the subjects being " Throm- 

 bosis " aud " Contracted Kidney," and they 

 will be given at the New York Academy of 

 Medicine on March 12 and March 15. 



Professor Ludwig Sinzheimer, of the Uni- 

 versity of Munich, has arrived in Madison, 

 where he will give a course of lectures in the 



University of Wisconsin during the second 

 semester. His subjects are " Industrial Labor 

 Problems " and " Methods of Social Reform." 



Mr. John M. Goodell, Assoc.Am.Soc.O.E., 

 consulting engineer, Engineering Record, New 

 York City, on February 20 delivered a lecture 

 on " Essentials of Technical Writing," before 

 the graduate students in highway engineering 

 at Columbia University. 



By invitation of the scientific faculty. Pro- 

 fessor George Grant MacCurdy, of Yale Uni- 

 versity, gave a public lecture at Dartmouth 

 College on the evening of February 10, his 

 subject being the " Antiquity of Man." 



Harlan L Smith, of the Geological Survey 

 of Canada, delivered an illustrated public lec- 

 ture on January 28 in the Normal School, 

 Ottawa, on " Modern Museum Work for the 

 Scientist, the Teacher and the Public " under 

 the auspices of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' 

 Club. 



Dr. Rollin a. Harris, of the U. S. Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey, lectured before the 

 Sigma Xi Society of Cornell University on 

 February 10. His subject was " The Leading 

 Characteristics of the Tides." 



With the support of the Christiania and 

 Leipzig Academies, the firm of B. G. Teubner 

 contemplates the publication by subscription 

 of the collected works of Sophus Lie, edited by 

 Friedrich Engel. 



The American Museum Journal states that 

 by the death of the artist, Louis Akin, at 

 Flagstaff, Arizona, on January 2, the mu- 

 seum's plans for mural decorations for the 

 Southwest Indian hall have received a check. 

 Mr. Akin had been commissioned to prepare 

 tentative sketches for sixteen panels and had 

 made a number of preliminary figure studies 

 with that end in view. He expected to have 

 finished the sketches during the present year. 

 It is hoped that it may be possible to exhibit 

 Mr. Akin's studies during the spring months 

 when there is proposed a special exhibit of 

 material and paintings illustrating the life of 

 the Indians of the Pueblo region. Mr. Akin 

 is best known to the world by his paintings of 



