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[N. S. Vol. XXVIII. No. 724 



Dr. B. E. Eickards, director of the bacteri- 

 ological laboratory of the health department of 

 the city of Boston, has resigned to take charge 

 of the laboratory of the State Board of Health 

 at Columbus, O. 



Mr. J. C. Temple has resigned the position 

 of assistant in soil bacteriology in the North 

 Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station and 

 College to accept a position as soil bacteri- 

 ologist in the Georgia Experiment Station. 



Dr. a. J. Evans, E.E.S., will resign the 

 keepership of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 

 at the end of this year. 



The American Philosophical Society has 

 appointed Dr. Henry E. Osborn, of New York, 

 as its representative at the commemoration 

 of the hundredth anniversary of Charles 

 Darwin's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of 

 the publication of the " Origin of Species," to 

 be held at Cambridge, under the auspices of 

 the university, on June 22-24, 1909. It has 

 appointed Dr. William Trelease, of St. Louis, 

 to represent it at the inauguration of Albert 

 Eoss Hill, LL.D., as president of the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri, on December 10 and 11, 

 1908. 



Dr. Adolph Hempel, '95, Illinois, plant 

 pathologist and entomologist and professor in 

 the Agricultural College at Sao Paulo, Brazil, 

 will represent the University of Hlinois at the 

 first Pan-American scientific congress to be 

 held at Santiago, Chili, commencing Decem- 

 ber 25. 



Professor Charles D. Marx, of the depart- 

 ment of civil engineering of Leland Stanford 

 Junior University, has been engaged by the 

 supervisors of San Erancisco to report on the 

 Hetch-Hetchy water project, now under con- 

 sideration by the city. 



Professor E. J. H. DeLoach, professor of 

 cotton industry in the State College of Agri- 

 culture at Athens, Ga., has been made a mem- 

 ber of the committee on Cotton Breeding of 

 the American Breeders' Association. 



Professor Bessey, of the University of Ne- 

 braska, delivered the annual " college day " 

 address on the twenty-first of October at the 

 Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, this being 

 the fortieth anniversary of the opening of the 



college. The subject of the address, which is 

 soon to be published in The Alumnus, was 

 " Laying the Eoundations." 



The second lecture of the Harvey Society 

 course, delivered by Dr. William G. Mac- 

 Callum, of Johns Hopkins University, at the 

 New York Academy of Medicine, on Novem- 

 ber 7, was on the subject of " Fever." 



W. Falta, M.D., docent of internal medicine 

 in the University of Vienna, gave a lecture on 

 " The Eelations between Diseases that are 

 caused by Disturbances of Internal Secre- 

 tions," at the Harvard Medical School, on 

 November 3. 



Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Eockefeller In- 

 stitute for Medical Eesearch, New York, read 

 a paper on " Eecent Studies in Transplanta- 

 tion of Organs in Animals," at the meeting of 

 the American Philosophical Society, Phila- 

 delphia, on November 6. 



Eaemer Eex Eenshaw, instructor in chem- 

 istry in Wesleyan University, gave an illus- 

 trated lecture on " Industrial Alcohol," before 

 the Middletovm Scientific Association on No- 

 vember 10. 



A memorial service at the University of 

 Kansas in honor of the late Dr. Erancis 

 Huntington Snow, chancellor of the uni- 

 versity from 1889 to 1901, and professor in 

 the department of natural science since 

 1866, was held on November 10. Mr. James 

 Willis Gleed delivered an address on behalf 

 of the alumni, and Dean Green for the faculty. 

 Dr. S. W. Williston, of the University of 

 Chicago, who for many years was a colaborer 

 with Dr. Snow in the work of building up the 

 entomological and paleontological departments 

 of the university to their present high 

 standards, gave an account of Dr. Snow's 

 work for the advancement of science. Col. H. 

 L. Moore, of Lawrence, spoke for the citizens 

 of the town on " Dr. Snow as a Private 

 Citizen." 



At the meeting commemorative of Dr. 

 Daniel C. Oilman, late president of Johns 

 Hopkins University, held last Sunday after- 

 noon in McCoy Hall, addresses were delivered 

 by President Eemsen, Professors Gildersleeve 



