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Hopi Indians. His work is a faithful por- 

 trayal of the tribe, with which he lived during 

 the years of his study and of which he was 

 made a member. 



We learn from Nature that the friends of 

 the late Mr. H. O. Jones, F.E.S., who with his 

 wife met his death last summer in the Alps, 

 are of opinion that some permanent memorial 

 to him should be established in the University 

 of Cambridge. There is at present no teach- 

 ing post especially associated with physical 

 chemistry in the university, and as the labo- 

 ratory now affords opportunity for study and 

 research in this modern branch of chemistry, 

 the committee appointed for the purpose of 

 the memorial recommends that the endowment 

 •of such a post in connection with physical 

 chemistry would form an appropriate and a 

 lasting memorial to Mr. Jones, and one cal- 

 culated to further a cause in which he was 

 peculiarly interested. Subscriptions to the 

 extent of more than £2,750 have already been 

 received. 



Dr. Samuel Allen Lattimore, professor of 

 chemistry at the University of Kochester for 

 more than forty years until his retirement as 

 f)rofessor emeritus in 1908, died on February 

 17, aged eighty-four years. Professor Latti- 

 anore was a vice-president of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 in 1880. 



Dr. J. E. Manchester, instructor in mathe- 

 matics at the University of Minnesota, and 

 previously president of Vincennes University, 

 •died on January 24, aged fifty-seven years. 



G. Harold Drew, B.A., of Christ's College, 

 Cambridge, and research associate of the De- 

 partment of Marine Biology of the Carnegie 

 Institution of "Washington, died on January 

 29. 



There will be a civil service examination 

 on April 9, for the position of miscellaneous 

 computer in the Naval Observatory. 



There will be New York state civil service 

 •examinations on March 22 for the position of 

 chief medical officer, port of New York, at a 

 salary of $2,500, and locomotive boiler inspec- 

 !fcor in the second district, at a salary of $3,000. 



A REPORT has been received at the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History from the 

 South Georgia Islands expedition under Mr. 

 Eobert C. Murphy, which reached the Bay of 

 Islands, November 27, and was waiting for 

 the sea elephant season to open in order to ob- 

 tain the desired specimens for a museum 

 group of this Antarctic species. Mr. 

 Murphy's statement that there were already 

 on the ground twenty-one steamers represent- 

 ing seven commercial companies, mainly 

 Norwegian, is discouraging for the future of 

 the southern sea elephant race even with the 

 close season set upon the species by the Eng- 

 lish. The South Georgia Islands expedition, 

 made possible through the liberality of Mr, 

 Arthur Curtiss James, hopes to obtain young 

 penguins needed for completion of a penguin 

 group under construction at the American 

 Museum, in addition to sea elephants and a 

 general collection of birds. 



At the stated meeting of the CoUege of 

 Physicians, Philadelphia, held on February 5, 

 an Assyrian medical tablet, dating from the 

 seventh century B.C., the gift of Drs. S. Weir 

 Mitchell and Richard H. Harte, was presented 

 by Dr. F. P. Henry. 



The mental hygiene exhibit prepared for 

 the International Congress of Hygiene and 

 Demography will be held in Philadelphia, 

 March 13-22. The exhibit consists of charts, 

 statistics, photographs and models showing 

 past and present methods of care for the 

 insane. 



The Stanford University Medical Depart- 

 ment announces the thirty-first course of pop- 

 ular medical lectures to be given as follows: 

 February 7 — "Eugenics," President David 

 Starr Jordan. 



February 21 — "The State and the Physician," 

 Professor J. G. Fitzgerald, University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



March 7 — "Grafts and Transplantations of 

 Human Tissue," Dr. Leo Eloesser. 



March 21 — "The Work of the Medical Depart- 

 ment of the XJ. S. Army on the Firing Line" 



