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by Sir William Osier, Professor W. Mac- 

 Dougall, Professor E. Bleuler, Dr. P. W. Mott, 

 Professor O. Rossi, Professor Heilbronner, 

 Dr. Achucarro and a number of leading 

 American psychiatrists, including Professor 

 A. Meyer, the director of the clinic. 



The first lecture on the Joseph Leidy 

 Memorial Foundation was delivered at the 

 IJniversity of Pennsylvania on April 17 by 

 Professor Edmund Beecher Wilson, Columbia 

 University. A tribute was paid, on this occa- 

 sion, to the life and services of Joseph Leidy, 

 the student, teacher and investigator, by Pro- 

 fessor Charles Sedgwick Minot, Harvard 

 University. 



A MEETING in commemoration of the life 

 and work of the late Dr. John Shaw Billings, 

 late director of the New York Public Library, 

 will be held in the library building on April 

 25. 



King Victor Emmanuel presided on March 

 27 at the inauguration of the International 

 Geographical Congress, Eome. 



The National Geographic Society has voted 

 $20,000 to the Norwegian Polar Expedition, 

 which will leave the Paciiic coast under com- 

 mand of Captain Eoald Amundsen in June, 

 1914, to explore the polar basin. The voyage, 

 it is expected, will require four years' drifting 

 in the polar ice. 



Dr. David Sharp, Lawnside, Brockenhurst, 

 Hants, England, and Dr. J. H. Fabre, Serig- 

 nan, Vancluse, Erance, were chosen on April 

 3 as the first two honorary members of the 

 Entomological Society of Washington. The 

 Entomological Society of Washington may 

 elect ten honorary members from among for- 

 eign entomologists. 



We regret to learn that Professor Willet M. 

 Hays, assistant secretary of agriculture, under 

 the Eoosevelt and Taft administrations and 

 formerly professor of agriculture in the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, is suffering a serious 

 nervous breakdown and is taking treatment at 

 a sanitarium near Washington. Professor 

 Hays had recently accepted a commission 

 from the government of Argentina to reor- 

 ganize the rural educational system of that 



republic, but his illness will make it impos- 

 sible to assume the duties. 



Dr. L. a. Bauer sails from New York on 

 April 22, to be gone for about two months, in 

 order to arrange for cooperative magnetic 

 work between the Department of Terrestrial 

 Magnetism and various foreign institutions. 

 On May 22 he will deliver the Halley lecture 

 on " Terrestrial Magnetism " at the Univer- 

 sity of Oxford. 



Professor H. T. Barnes, of McGill Univer- 

 sity, will accompany the government steamer 

 Montcalme to patrol the entrance of the Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence, to report the presence of 

 icebergs. Professor Barnes will use his micro- 

 thermometer to detect the presence of ice. 



Professor H. T. Eernald, of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College, sails for Europe 

 the last of April, for study in. various Euro- 

 pean museums. He will return about the 

 middle of September. 



A Japanese translation of " The Elements 

 of Statistics," by Wilford L King, of the 

 economics department of the University of 

 Wisconsin, has been made. The book has 

 just passed through its second English edition. 



Dr. Lafayette B. Mendel, professor of 

 physiological chemistry in the Shefiield Scien- 

 tific School of Yale University, addressed the 

 students of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, 

 on April 11 on " Nutrition and Growth." 



On April 7, before the Southern California 

 Academy of Sciences, Los Angeles, Dr. D. T. 

 MacDougall, director of the department of 

 botanical research of the Carnegie Institution, 

 delivered an address on " Some Physical and 

 Biological Features of American Deserts." 



Dr. H. L. Fairchild, professor of geology 

 in the University of Rochester, delivered a 

 lecture at Syracuse University under the 

 auspices of the Syracuse Chapter of Sigma 

 Xi, on the evening of April 11. He took for 

 his subject " Remarkable Glacial Drainage 

 Features about Syracuse." 



President Charles R. Van Hise, of the 

 University of Wisconsin, delivered an address 

 on " Waste in Distribution " before the first 



