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[N. S. Vol. XXXVII. No. 963 



Db. a. C. Abbott, Pepper professor of hy- 

 giene and bacteriology, University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, has been appointed a delegate to the 

 fourth International Congress of School Hy- 

 giene, to be held at Buffalo, August 25 to 30, 

 next, to represent the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania and the American Physiological Society. 



Me. N. E. Hansen, secretary of the South 

 Dakota State Agricultural Society, has started 

 on his fourth expedition to Siberia, to gather 

 seed of the Siberian alfalfas which he brought 

 over in 1906 for the first time. 



Professoe B. E. Livingston wiU spend the 

 summer at the Desert Laboratory of the Car- 

 negie Institution, at Tucson, Arizona, -where 

 he may be addressed from June 20 to Sep- 

 tember 20. 



Professor W. A. Heney, emeritus professor 

 of agriculture at the University of Wisconsin, 

 and for fifteen years dean of the College of 

 Agriculture, is again at the university after 

 a five months' absence. He is planning the 

 preparation of a new book on agriculture. 



De. E. C. Scheoedee, pathologist of the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry, delivered the 

 concluding lecture of the annual series under 

 the auspices of the Ohio State University 

 chapter of the Society of Sigma Xi upon the 

 topic, "Eelation of Animal to Human Tuber- 

 culosis." 



Dr. Oscae Eiddle, of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion, lectured on May 5 under the auspices of 

 the Cornell Chapter of Sigma Xi on " A Eela- 

 tion between the Storage Metabolism of Ova 

 and the Experimental Control of Sex." 



The Croonian lecture before the Eoyal So- 

 ciety was delivered by Dr. Eobert Broom, 

 keeper of vertebrate paleontology in the South 

 African Museum, on June 5. The subject was 

 " The Origin of Mammals." 



The mathematical works of the late Henri 

 Poincare are to be published by the firm of 

 Gauthier-Villars, under the auspices of the 

 minister of public instruction and the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Professor Erancis T. Havard, associate 

 professor of mining and metallurgy at the 

 University of Wisconsin, died at Madison re- 



cently from pneumonia. He was thirty-five 

 years of age and was a native of Australia. 

 He attended universities in Australia and 

 Germany and later had charge of mining in- 

 terests in South America, Africa and Mon- 

 tana. He became associated with the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin in the fall of 1909. 



Professor Heinrich Weber, of Strasburg, 

 died of apoplexy on May 17. He is princi- 

 pally known for his profound work in algebra 

 and at various times was rector of the univer- 

 sities of Koenigsberg, Marburg and Stras- 

 burg. His wife, who died a few years ago, 

 translated Poineare's " La valeur de la sci- 

 ence " into German. 



The regular annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Chemical Society will be held in Eo- 

 chester, N. Y., September 9-12, inclusive. 



A party of advanced students from the de- 

 partment of geology of the University of Illi- 

 nois, under the leadership of Dr. John L. 

 Eich, left on June 12 for a two-weeks' geolog- 

 ical and geographical excursion through 

 neighboring states. The party planned to 

 proceed east to Eichmond, Indiana, and Ham- 

 ilton, Ohio, where a study will be made of the 

 physiography of the district devastated by the 

 recent floods of the Miami Eiver, thence to 

 Cincinnati. From Cincinnati the party will 

 proceed south into the blue grass district of 

 central Kentucky, west to Mammoth Cave, 

 where a stop of two days wiU be made, and 

 then return to Urbana through Kentucky and 

 Indiana. 



On May 28 an informal meeting was held 

 in the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 

 and the sod was turned to begin the building 

 of the addition to the Peabody Museum which 

 wiU complete the entire University Museum 

 as originally planned. A short address writ- 

 ten by Professor F. W. Putnam was read by 

 Dr. Charles Peabody. Professor Putnam, 

 unfortunately absent on account of illness, 

 recalled the first ceremony in connection with 

 the beginning of the museum when Governor 

 Banks cut the sod, Professor Louis Agassiz 

 turned it over and Mrs. Agassiz put it into 

 the wheelbarrow. In the present exercises 



