October 9, 1908] 



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and December. The other members of the 

 commission, are: Henry Wallace, of Wallace's 

 Farmer, Des Moines, la.; President Kenyon 

 L. Butterfield, of the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College; Gifford Pinchot, chief of the 

 Forest Service, and Walter H. Page, editor of 

 the World's Worh. 



Dr. N. L. Britton, director-in-chief of the 

 New York Botanical Garden, and Mrs. Brit- 

 ton have returned from a fourth trip of botan- 

 ical exploration of the island of Jamaica. 



Professor H. E. Crampton has returned to 

 Columbia University from zoological explora- 

 tions in the Society Islands. 



Dr. George N. Stewart, professor of experi- 

 mental medicine in Western Eeserve Univer- 

 sity, who has been abroad on leave of absence 

 for the past year, has returned. 



Professor J. H. Comstock has returned to 

 Cornell University after a year abroad. 



Dr. William Osler has received leave of 

 absence from Oxford University for one year, 

 which he will spend on the continent. 



Professor Henry A. Perkins, of Trinity 

 College, will spend the coming year in physical 

 research at the University of Paris. 



Dr. Lyman B. Hall, professor of chemistry 

 in Haverford College, has been given leave of 

 absence for the present academic year. 



The expedition under Professor Baron 

 Gerard de Geer, of Stockholm University, 

 which has been exploring the Spitsbergen 

 group of islands, has returned. 



Professor Edward L. Nichols, head of the 

 department of physics of Cornell University, 

 will represent the university at the inaugura- 

 tion of C. A. Duniway as president of the 

 University of Montana. 



Professor George Trumbull Ladd is now 

 giving a course of fifteen lectures upon certain 

 psychological aspects of education at the Col- 

 lege for Women of Western Eeserve Uni- 

 versity. 



Professor Charles Baskerville began on 

 October 3 a series of six lectures on the chem- 

 istry of existence, to be given at the American 

 Museum of Natural History on successive Sat- 

 urday evenings. 



The Eev. Edmund Ledger, M.A., has re- 

 signed the Gresham lectureship in astronomy 

 in Gresham College, London, which he has 

 held since 1875. 



There was quoted in the last issue of Sci- 

 ence an editorial article from the New York 

 Evening Post discussing academic freedom in 

 America, which was based on the alleged call 

 of Professor George A. Coe to the Union 

 Theological Seminary. This article, it ap- 

 pears, was incorrect, both in regard to Pro- 

 fessor Coe's call to the seminary and in regard 

 to the alleged objections to his views at North- 

 western University. 



The Eoyal Society of Victoria is collecting 

 a fund to establish a medal in honor of the 

 late Dr. A. W. Howitt, to be awarded for work 

 in Australian natural science. 



Dr. Homer Taylor Fuller, president of the 

 Worcester Polytechnic Institute from 1882 to 

 1894, member of the Geological Society of 

 America and fellow of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, has 

 died at the age of seventy years. 



Professor Ernest F. Fenellosa, curator of 

 the department of oriental art in the Boston 

 Museum of Fine Arts, at one time professor 

 of philosophy in the University of Tokyo, and 

 an authority on oriental archeology, art and 

 philosophy, has died in London at the age of 

 fifty-five years. 



The deaths are also announced of Dr. The- 

 odor Peters, director of the Society of German 

 Engineers, and of Mr. George Nicholson, for- 

 merly curator of the Eoyal Gardens, Kew. 



There will be a New York State Civil Serv- 

 ice Examination to fill the position of asso- 

 ciate in clinical pathology in the Pathological 

 Institute at a salary of $2,000; of director's 

 assistant in the State Library at a salary of 

 $2,100, and of junior statistician for the 

 Public Service Commission at a salary of 

 from $1,200 to $1,500. 



Director George Otis Smith, of the U. S. 

 I Geological Survey, has invited officers of the 

 leading railroads of the country to a confer- 

 ence on the amount of water flowing in the 

 rivers of the country under certain conditions 

 and in different periods of the year. The 



