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exhibits are to be placed in the hydraulic and 

 the state water survey laboratories. Among 

 the speakers announced were: Dr. E. O. Jor- 

 dan, professor of bacteriology, University of 

 Chicago ; Dr. W. L. Lewis, professor of chem- 

 istry, Northwestern University; Dr. S. A. 

 Forbes, professor of entomology, University 

 of Illinois, and others from these universities, 

 and water supply experts from Chicago, Lon- 

 don, England, Charleston, S. C, Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, Washington, D. C, and many other 

 large cities. 



Dr. E. C. Jeffrey, professor of plant mor- 

 phology at Harvard University, lectured at 

 the University of Illinois last week on the 

 formation of coal. 



Dr. Albert Ernest Jenks, professor of 

 anthropology. University of Minnesota, de- 

 livered five illustrated lectures on the " Phil- 

 ippine Peoples," in New York City, for the 

 Board of Education during the recent inter- 

 semester recess. 



On the evening of March 6, Professor A. 

 W. Goodspeed, of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, lectured before the Franklin Insti- 

 tute on " The Relation of Electricity to Mat- 

 ter." 



Professor George Grant MacCurdy, of 

 Tale University, lectured before the Science 

 Club of Amherst and the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College on the evening of March 3, 

 the lecture being based on his past summer's 

 work in the European prehistoric field. 



On February 28, Dr. L. R. Ingersoll, of 

 the physics department of the University of 

 Wisconsin, gave an address on the " Kerr Ef- 

 fect" before the physics colloquium at the 

 University of Illinois. 



Dr. John Shaw Billings, director of the 

 New York Public Library since 1896, previ- 

 ously professor of hygiene at the University 

 of Pennsylvania, surgeon and lieutenant colo- 

 nel in the army, died on March 10, aged sev- 

 enty-three years. 



Oscar Dana Allen, professor of metal- 

 lurgy and analytical chemistry at Yale Uni- 

 versity from 1871 to 1887, died on March 5 at 

 his home at Asliford, Wash. He had written 

 on the flora of Mount Tacoma. 



Professor Oscar Oldberg, dean emeritus 

 of the Northwestern University School of 

 Pharmacy, for thirty years a member of the 

 committee of revision of the United States 

 Pharmacopoeia, died in Pasadena, Cal., on 

 February 27. 



Dr. Arnold Heller, professor of patholog- 

 ical anatomy at Kiel, has died at the age of 

 seventy-three years. 



The Pagel collection of books on the his- 

 tory of medicine, being the library of the 

 late Professor Julius Pagel, has been given to 

 the medical department of Washington Uni- 

 versity through the generosity of a friend of 

 the institution. The library contains about 

 2,500 titles. 



A meeting of the committee appointed to 

 make arrangements for the meeting of the 

 British Association in Birmingham in Sep- 

 tember was held on March 10, Alderman W. 

 H. Bowater presiding. The Finance Sub- 

 committee reported that promises amounting 

 to £5,493 by 642 local people had been re- 

 ceived in answer to the circular sent out to 

 3,000 persons in January. Sir Oliver Lodge 

 mentioned that the local fund would pay the 

 greater part of the expenses of the meeting, 

 and that the membership subscriptions and 

 general receipts for admission would go into 

 the general funds of the British Association 

 for the assistance of scientific research. Pro- 

 fessor Gamble, on behalf of the Halls Com- 

 mittee, said it had been arranged to have the 

 president's address and the evening meeting 

 at Central Hall, while the ofiices, reception 

 rooms and refreshment rooms would be at the 

 Town Hall and Mason College. 



On the occasion of the seventeenth Inter- 

 national Congress at London next August, 

 three prizes will be awarded: The Prize of 

 Moscow, commemorating the twelfth con- 

 gress, of the value of 5,000 francs, will be 

 awarded for work in medicine and hygiene or 

 for eminent services rendered to suffering hu- 

 manity; the Prize of the thirteenth Congress 

 of Paris, having a value of 4,000 francs, will 

 be bestowed for original work during the past 

 ten years bearing upon medicine, surgery, 

 obstetrics or the biological sciences in their 



