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Planck, professor of physics in the University 

 of Berlin; for medicine, divided between Dr. 

 Paul Ehrlieh, of Berlin, and Professor Elie 

 Metchnikoff, of the Pasteur Institute of Paris. 



At a recent meeting of the board of di- 

 rectors of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical 

 Eesearch, Dr. Eufus I. Cole, of the Johns 

 Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, was ap- 

 pointed director of the Hospital of the Rocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research and Dr. 

 Christian A. Herter was appointed physician 

 to the hospital. Work on the hospital build- 

 ings is in progress. It is expected that the 

 hospital will be completed and ready for occu- 

 pancy in November, 1909. 



Dr. S. p. Harmee, F.E.S., fellow and as- 

 sistant tutor of King's College, Cambridge, 

 has been appointed keeper in zoology at the 

 British Museum of Natural History. 



Me. a. H. Kiekland, superintendent of the 

 Massachusetts state work against gypsj and 

 brown-tail moths, has resigned his office. 



Dr. William Morton Wheeler, who, during 

 the past summer accepted the professorship of 

 economic entomology in Harvard University, 

 has recently been appointed honorary curator 

 of social insects in the American Museum of 

 Natural History, where, until the present year, 

 he had been curator of the department of in- 

 vertebrate zoology since 1902. At the close 

 of hie term of service at the museum, he pre- 

 sented to the institution his entire collection 

 of Formicidse — the result of many years of 

 earnest effort and study — a gift of such value 

 as to make the museum the possessor of the 

 finest collection of its kind in America and 

 one of the three largest in the world. 



Mr. Eduard Essed, B.Sc. (Edinburgh), has 

 been appointed forest botanist to the govern- 

 ment of Dutch Guiana, 



Professor John M. Coultee has been ap- 

 pointed to represent the University of Chicago 

 at the University of Cambridge Darwin me- 

 morial celebration. 



MM. Edmond Peeeiee and Van Tieghem 

 have been appointed delegates from the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences to the Darwin centenary 

 in Cambridge. 



Dr. Peeoy Gaedner, professor of archeology 

 at Oxford, and Dr. Barclay Vincent Head, 

 some time keeper of the department of coins 

 and medals in the British Museum, have been 

 elected corresponding members of the Prussian 

 Academy of Sciences. 



The council of the University College, 

 Bristol, has appointed Dr. John Beddoe, 

 F.R.S., honorary professor of anthropology. 



We learn from Nature that Mr. N. W. 

 Thomas has been selected by the secretary of 

 state for the colonies to conduct an investiga- 

 tion into the laws and customs of the native 

 tribes of southern Nigeria. The tribes to be 

 studied are, in the first instance, those of the 

 old kingdom of Benin, but it is probable that 

 the inquiry will be continued and include the 

 natives of the other West African colonies in 

 addition. Mr. Thomas is leaving to take up 

 his duties in a few weeks. 



Dr. Charcot and his companions left 

 Buenos Ayres, on November 23, on the ex- 

 ploration ship Pourquoi Pas for Punta 

 Arenas, whence they will continue their 

 journey to the South Polar regions. 



In reply to an invitation sent him by the 

 president of the Royal Geographical Society, 

 President Roosevelt has promised when he 

 goes to England, about April, 1910, after his 

 journey in Africa, to address the society. 



Professor Edwin G. Conklin, of Princeton 

 University, is to deliver the address at the 

 public semi-annual meeting of the Ohio Eta 

 Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Ohio Wesleyan 

 University, on the twentieth of February. 

 The exact title of the address has not been 

 announced, but it is to be in the nature of a 

 Darwin centenary memorial. 



The three hundred and forty-ninth meeting 

 of the Middletown Scientific Association was 

 held in the Scott Laboratory of Physics, 

 Wesleyan University, on December 8, when 

 Gordon Ferrie Hull, Ph.D., professor of 

 physics in Dartmouth College, gave an illu- 

 strated lecture on The Electron Theory of 

 Matter. 



The former library building of Oberlin 

 College has been remodeled and is now the 



