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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVIII. No. 723 



the current year at tte Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology studying electrical engi- 

 neering. Captain Carter is attached to the 

 Coast Artillery Corps, and for the past few 

 years has been an instructor in the Fortress 

 Monroe Artillery School and the Fort Totten 

 School of Submarine Defence. 



The inaugural lecture of Professor Albrecht 

 Penck, of the University of Berlin, as Kaiser 

 Wilhelm professor at Columbia University, 

 was given on November 4, the subject being 

 « The Face of the Earth." 



Professor William James will repeat the 

 series of eight lectures, which he gave recently 

 at Oxford University, in Emerson Hall. The 

 course is entitled " The Present Situation in 

 Philosophy." 



At the Dublin meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, Sep- 

 i tember 2-9, Professor A. Lawrence Eotch dis- 

 cussed, before the Physical Section, the warm 

 stratum in the upper air. At the jubilee 

 meeting of the German Meteorological Society, 

 which was held at Hamburg, September 28-30, 

 Professor Eotch read a paper entitled " Die 

 warme Schicht der Atmosphare oberhalb 12 

 Km. in Amerika." 



The lectures on certain fundamental prob- 

 lems in physiology common to animals and 

 plants to be given by Dr. W. M. Bayliss, 

 F.R.S., at University College, London, will be 

 devoted to the permeability of cells and mem- 

 branes and the phenomena connected there- 

 with, such as plasmolysis, secretion, nature 

 of the nerve impulse, etc. The lectures, which 

 began on October 21, are given on Wednesdays 

 at 5 P.M. 



Dean Leonard Pearson, of the veterinary 

 medical department of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, delivered an address at the milk and 

 dairy exhibit in the Chamber of Commerce 

 at Pittsburg, Pa., under the auspices of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture on 

 October 22. 



The three hundredth anniversary of the 

 election of Francis Bacon as treasurer of 

 Gray's Inn, which took place on October 17, 

 1608, was celebrated October lY by a luncheon 



at the inn, at which the benchers entertained 

 a number of distinguished guests. It is the 

 intention of members of the inn to observe the 

 first night of term (November 2) as a Bacon 

 anniversary, and, at a later date, a permanent 

 memorial will be placed in one of the open 

 spaces of the inn — probably south-square. 

 This memorial will consist of a marble statue 

 of Bacon by Mi. F. W. Pomeroy, A.E.A. A 

 sketch model of it was on view October 17, 

 as well as a collection of Baconian manu- 

 scripts and printed books. 



A BRONZE tablet to the memory of the late 

 Major James Carroll will be unveiled in the 

 main medical building of the University of 

 Maryland, on November 11. Dr. William H. 

 Welch will deliver the principal address. 



F. A. C. Perrine, A.B. (Princeton '83) and 

 D.Sc. ('85), from 1893 to 1900 professor of 

 electrical engineering at Stanford University, 

 and since then a consulting engineer, died at 

 Plainfield, N. J., on October 20, aged forty- 

 six years. 



Professor Berger, the eminent French 

 surgeon, who was seized with an attack of 

 apoplexy while about to perform an operation 

 at the Neckar Hospital, on October 10, died 

 without recovering consciousness. He was 

 born in 1845. 



There will be a civil service examination 

 on November 16 and 17 for the position of 

 assistant (male) in the U. S. Naval Observa- 

 tory at a salary of $1,000. 



The National Association of State Univer- 

 sities will meet in Washington, D. C, on 

 November 16 and 17. 



The eighth annual meeting of the American 

 Philosophical Association will be held at Balti- 

 more, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 

 December 29, 30 and 31, 1908. 



The second regular meeting of the south- 

 western section of the American Mathematical 

 Society will be held at the University of 

 Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, on Saturday, No- 

 vember 28. 



The twenty-sixth stated meeting of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union will be held in 

 Cambridge, Mass., beginning on the evening- 

 of November 16, at 8 o'clock. The evening- 



