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was made, and as a result Professor Case pub- 

 lished tte monograph entitled, " Revision of 

 the Pelycosauria of North America," which 

 has been reviewed in this journal. 



Mr. Taft left for Panama on January 25 

 on the cruiser North Carolina, accompanied by 

 the following engineers : Frederick P. Stearns, 

 Boston; John E. Freeman, Providence, R. I.; 

 James Schuyler, Los Angeles; Isham Ran- 

 dolph, Chicago; Henry R. Allen, Chicago; 

 A. P. Davis, Washington, D. C, and Allen 

 Hazen, New Tork. 



Dr. Ellsworth Huntington, instructor in 

 geography at Tale University, will leave New 

 Haven on February 10 for an extended scien- 

 tific trip in Palestine and Asia Minor. 



Mr. Frank A. Perret, who contributed an 

 article on " Some Conditions affecting Vol- 

 canic Eruptions " to the issue of Science for 

 August 28, 1908, is at present engaged in 

 investigating the conditions of the Calabrian 

 earthquake. 



The Research Club of the University of 

 Michigan will celebrate the Darwin centennial 

 on February lY. The president. Professor 

 Wenley, of the department of philosophy, will 

 give the eulogy; Professor Reighard, of the 

 department of zoology, will speak on "Dar- 

 win's Contribution to Zoology"; Professor 

 Case, of the department of geology, on " Dar- 

 win's Contribution to Geology " ; Dr. De Leng- 

 Hus, of the department of botany, on "Dar- 

 win's Contribution to Botany " ; and Professor 

 Pillsbury, of the department of philosophy, on 

 " Darwin's Contribution to Psychology." Fur- 

 ther, in conjunction with the Michigan Acad- 

 emy of Science and the Society of Sigma Xi, 

 the club will hold a public commemoration 

 meeting on April 2, when the address will be 

 delivered by Professor Scott, of Princeton 

 University. 



In addition to lecturing at the Sorbonne, 

 Paris, and at the University of Oxford, Presi- 

 dent Roosevelt has consented to give a lecture 

 before the students and faculty of the Uni- 

 versity of Berlin in May, 1910. 



During the meeting of the Association of 

 American Universities recently held at Ithaca, 

 President Charles R. Van Hise, of the Uni- 



versity of Wisconsin, lectured before the Cor- 

 nell Chapter of Sigma Xi on " The Conserva- 

 tion of our National Resources." 



Professor T. A. Jaggar, Jr., lectured before 

 the Society of Arts of the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology on January 21 on " The 

 Scientific Aspects of the Messina Earthquake." 



Dr. George H. Shull, of the Station for 

 Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, 

 gave an illustrated lecture in the Friday 

 Evening Course of Clark College on January 

 15, on " Plant Breeding, Economic and Sci- 

 entific." 



Mb. H. E. Ashley, assistant chemist in the 

 Technologic Branch of the United States 

 Geological Survey, read recently a paper be- 

 fore the Columbus Section of the American 

 Chemical Society embodying his recent re- 

 searches on coUoids in clays. 



On Friday evening, January 15, Dr. W. R. 

 Brooks, of Hobart College, delivered a lecture 

 on " Other Worlds than Ours " before the 

 Stanford Scientific Society. On February 5 

 Dr. Robert T. Morris, of New York City, is 

 to lecture before the same society on "A 

 Canoe Trip to Hudson Bay." 



The following tablet was recently placed in 

 Barney Hall, of Denison University, in honor 

 of C. L. Herrick, who for many years was 

 professor of geology and natural history in 

 this institution: 



CLARENCE LUTHER HERRICK 



1859 1904 



FOUNDEE OF THE 



DENISON SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION 



BULLETIN OF THE SCIENTIFIC 



LABORATORIES 



JOURNAL OP COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY 



A TRUE TEACHER 



A COMMITTEE has been formed to erect a 

 monument in honor of E. J. Marey, the emi- 

 nent physiologist. Subscriptions may be sent 

 to M. Carvallo, at the Institut Marey, Pare 

 des Princes, Boulogne-sur-Seine. 



Brigadier General William Price Craig- 

 HiLL, past president of the American Society 

 of Civil Engineers, died at Charleston, W. 

 Va., on January 18, at the age of seventy-five 

 years. 



