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Notre Dame, has taken up Ms work after a 

 year's leave of absence, which was spent 

 traveling in Europe, visiting the principal 

 educational institutions. He attended lec- 

 tures at the University of Paris and at the 

 Technische Hoehschule in Berlin. 



Professok Hugo Munsteeberg has returned 

 to Harvard University from a trip to Chicago, 

 Toronto and Ithaca. He spoke in Chicago 

 before the Chicago Club on " Psychotherapy," 

 before the Germanic Society on " Books and 

 Readers in Germany and America," and be- 

 fore the Commercial Club on " Psychology in 

 Commerce and Industry." In Toronto he 

 addressed the Canadian Club on " Eight and 

 Wrong in the Prohibition Movement." At 

 Cornell University he spoke on " New Devel- 

 opments in the Psychological Laboratory " 

 and "Psychology and Law." 



On January 13, at 4 o'clock, Professor Cas- 

 sius J. Keyser, of Columbia University, will 

 deliver a lecture before the departments of 

 mathematics and philosophy of the Brooklyn 

 Institute of Arts and Sciences on " The Mes- 

 sage of Modern Mathematics to Natural 

 Theology." 



The Chicago Chapter of the Sigma Xi 

 Society held its fall meeting on December 9. 

 Dr. Chas. H. Judd, professor of psychology 

 of Tale University and director-elect of the 

 School of Education of Chicago University, 

 gave an address on " Visual Perception and 

 Eye Movements." Fourteen members joined 

 the society at this meeting. 



Db. J. B. Leathes, of the Lister Institute, 

 London, will deliver six lectures on the sub- 

 ject " The Metabolism of the Non-nitrogenous 

 Substances in the Animal Body " in the Car- 

 negie Laboratory of the University and Belle- 

 vue Hospital Medical College, New York City, 

 beginning on Monday, January 4, 1909, and 

 continuing daily throughout the week, at four 

 o'clock in the afternoon. Those interested are 

 cordially invited to attend the course. 



The Friday evening meetings of the Eoyal 

 Institution, London, will begin on January 

 ■22, when Dr. Alfred Eussel Wallace, O.M., 

 -will deliver a discourse on " The World of 



Life: as visualized and interpreted by Dar- 

 winism." 



The Wilde lecture of the Manchester Lit- 

 erary and Philosophical Society will be deliv- 

 ered on March 9, by Dr. H. Brereton Baker, 

 r.E.S., reader in chemistry in the University 

 of Oxford, the subject being " The Influence 

 of Moisture on the Combination of Gases." 



As this year is the jubilee of Speke's discov- 

 ery of the Victoria Nyanza, the long-sought- 

 for source of the Nile, the Eoyal Geographical 

 Society commemorated the event by a special 

 meeting on December 14, when Sir William 

 Garstin gave an address on "Fifty Years of 

 Nile Exploration and some of its Eesults." 

 There was an exhibition of portraits, Speke's 

 original map of his discoveries, and other 

 maps, instruments, photogTaphs, etc. 



Professor Thomas Gray, professor of dyna- 

 mics and engineering at the Eose Polytechnic 

 Institute, eminent for his researches in these 

 subjects, died on December 19 at the age of 

 fifty-eight years. 



Thomas M. Wilson, B.Sc. (Toronto), M.D. 

 (Eush), about to receive the degree of doctor 

 of philosophy at the University of Chicago 

 where he had been assistant in physiology, in- 

 structor in pathology in the Chicago Veter- 

 inary College, died on November 19 from 

 glanders contracted in the laboratories of the 

 McCormick Memorial Institute in an attempt 

 to produce a serum to counteract the effects 

 of the bacillus of the disease. 



Professor Eduard G. von Eindfleisch, the 

 eminent pathologist, died at Wiirzburg on De- 

 cember 5, at the age of seventy-two years. 



The death is also announced of Dr. Giu- 

 seppe Ciscato, professor of theoretical geodesy 

 in the University of Padua, at the age of 

 fifty-one years. 



Acting under instructions from President 

 Roosevelt, the Secretary of the Interior has 

 withdrawn from entry, selection and location 

 all public lands in Wyoming, Idaho and Utah 

 believed to contain phosphate rock, pending 

 action by congress. 



Dr. Arthur J. Evans, F.E.S., has given to 

 the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford University 



