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vania on " Some Kecent Studies on the Bodily 

 Effects of Pear and Eage." 



Dr. H. C. Miller, professor of physics, Case 

 School of Applied Science, lectured under the 

 auspices of the Ohio State University chapter 

 of the Sigma Xi Society on March 7, on the 

 topic " Photographing and Analyzing of 

 Sound Waves." The lecture was accompanied 

 with illustrations. 



Dr. Eaymond Pearl, of the Maine Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, gave a series of 

 three lectures on genetics at the Ontario Agri- 

 cultural College, Guelph, Canada, on March 

 25 and 26. 



Arthur H. Blanchard, professor of high- 

 way engineering in Columbia University, on 

 March 31, delivered an illustrated lecture on 

 " Highway Engineering in Europe and Amer- 

 ica " before the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 

 and Sciences. 



Dr. a. C. Eycleshymer, of St. Louis Uni- 

 versity, lectured on March 30 at the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois on "Growing Old and Attempts 

 to Prevent It." It was one of a series on pub- 

 lic health given by authorities in various 

 branches of medicine. 



Professor George Grant MacCurdy, of 

 Yale University, recently completed a lecture 

 tour of two weeks in the middle west, the sub- 

 ject being " Ancient Man, His Environment 

 and His Art." He spoke at the Art Museum, 

 Toledo; at Alma College, Michigan; at the 

 Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; 

 at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and 

 before the Anthropological Society of Wash- 

 ing-ton; also for the Archeological Institute 

 of America at St. Louis, Kansas City, Topeka, 

 Cedar Rapids and Davenport. 



Professor Egbert Woodworth Prentiss, 

 who had held the chair of mathematics and as- 

 tronomy in Eutgers College since 1891, died 

 on April 5 at the age of fifty-six years. 



Dr. George McClellan, a Philadelphia sur- 

 geon, known for his researches in anatomy, 

 died on March 29, aged sixty-four years. 



Dr. Adolf Slaby, professor of electrotech- 

 nics in the Berlin Technical School and the 

 University of Berlin, knovm to the general 



public for his contributions to wireless teleg- 

 raphy, has died at the age of sixty-four years. 



At a meeting of the executive committee 

 of the New York Zoological Society held on 

 February 24, Mr. Niles presented a report with 

 reference to charges against Dr. Charles H. 

 Townsend contained in a report of a majority 

 of the committee of the house of representa- 

 tives on the expenditures in the Department 

 of Commerce and Labor. After reading and 

 careful consideration of Mr. Niles's report, the 

 executive committee passed the following reso- 

 lutions : 



Eesolved, That after a full examination of the 

 proceedings of the House Committee on Expendi- 

 tures in the Department of Commerce and Labor, 

 and of the report submitted by the minority of 

 the said committee by which it appears that the 

 said committee has never held a single meeting for 

 the purpose of considering the evidence, and that 

 the report made by the chairman was never sub- 

 mitted to the committee for its consideration, and 

 that in the opinion of the minority the report had 

 never been approved by a majority of the com- 

 mittee, that it is the unanimous opinion of the 

 Executive Committee that the honesty and integ- 

 rity of Dr. Charles H. Townsend have not been 

 impugned in any way; that the recommendations 

 of said Congressional Committee are in no wise 

 justified by the evidence taken by the committee; 

 that the report of the majority of the committee 

 is drawn without any reference to the facts in 

 regard to Dr. Townsend 's connection with the 

 matter, and that the attack upon him is unjusti- 

 fiable, malicious and untruthful, and further 



Resolved, That the Executive Conmiittee of the 

 New York Zoological Society does unanimously 

 approve and endorse the report upon the subject 

 prepared by Mr. Niles and the conclusions con- 

 tained therein. 



Madison Gkant, Chairman 



Samuel Thoene 



Wm. Pierson Hamilton 



W. W. Niles 



Henry PAiRriELo Osborn 



Frank K. Sturois 



Percy E. Pyne 



LisPENARD Stewart 



The announcement of the twenty-sixth ses- 

 sion of the Marine Biological Laboratory, 

 Woods Hole, Mass., has been issued. The im- 



