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source of most of the New England states 

 ■would disappear. 



Highways. — The highway problem, of 

 course, aroused an interesting discussion, for 

 here the advocates of the purely utilitarian 

 met the devotees of pleasure on a common 

 ground. Methods of constructing highways, 

 the repair of highways and the influence of 

 the automobile on the life of the highway, 

 were live issues of this general topic. The 

 necessity of constructing trunk lines whereby 

 the leading centers of New England should 

 be directly connected, and the necessity of 

 providing for adequate maintenance, sug- 

 gested the desirability of cooperation in the 

 prosecution of these purely interstate projects. 



The conference was made up then of these 

 three sessions, crowded full of features of in- 

 terest. In addition to the eleven governors, 

 a number of invited delegates representing 

 the topics mentioned above were present, and 

 were allowed the courtesy of the floor for 

 their periods. 



Mr. F. L. Dean, secretary to Governor 

 Guild, acted as executive secretary of the 

 conference and will have charge of printing 

 the report of the proceedings. 



A feature of the conference was the 

 masterly, and one might say artistic, way in 

 which the speakers were introduced and the 

 discussion expanded, or repressed as occasion 

 seemed to demand, by the versatile chairman. 

 Governor Guild, of Massachusetts. Un- 

 doubtedly the first of a great series of con- 

 ferences, whereby questions of common im- 

 port to the New England states shall be con- 

 sidered impartially and uncolored by political 

 surroundings, has been launched, and un- 

 questionably it will be followed by others even 

 more influential in character. 



John Craig 



DR. GIUSEPPE NOBILI 

 Professor Lorenzo Camerano in the Bol- 

 leitino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anaiomia 

 comparata della B. Universitd di Torino, Vol. 

 XXTTI., number 595, announces the death of 

 Dr. Giuseppe Nobili on the fourth of De- 

 cember, 1908, at Omegna, Italy. He was the 



son of Dr. Gaudenzio and Adele Antonioli 

 Nobili and was born at Omegna, February 11, 

 187Y. He received his doctor's degree in 

 natural science at the Eoyal University of 

 Turin in 1899, becoming also an assistant in 

 the Zoological Museum of that University, and 

 later (1903) was made an assistant in the 

 Museum of Comparative Anatomy. 



While a student at the university he en- 

 gaged in some botanical researches and pub- 

 lished several interesting notes. He soon, 

 however, turned his attention to zoology and 

 as early as 1896 wrote a paper on the decapod 

 crustaceans collected by Dr. A. Borelli in the 

 Argentine Republic and Paraguay. This 

 was the first of a long series of publications 

 chiefly on Crustacea (Decapoda, Stomato- 

 poda, Isopoda, etc.) based on collections in the 

 museum at Turin, and also in those at 

 Geneva, Genoa, Naples, Paris, Budapest and 

 Madrid. These papers (53 titles in all) con- 

 tain descriptions of many new genera and 

 species and critical discussions of others, and 

 form an important contribution to our knowl- 

 edge of the Crustacea. Foremost among 

 them is his monographic work on the decapods 

 and stomatopods of the Red Sea, published in 

 the Annales des Sciences Naturelles (9), TV., 

 1906. Professor Camerano pays a high 

 tribute to the personal character of Dr. 

 Nobili, who, by his unwearying activity, had 

 built up the collections in the Turin Museum, 

 and by his kindness of heart had won the 

 affection and esteem of his associates. 



DARWIN ANNIVERSARY ADDRESSES AT 

 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 



The Biological Club of the University of 

 Chicago has arranged the following program: 



February 1 — Introductory remarks by President 

 H. P. Judson. 



" The World's Debt to Darwin," Professor E. G. 

 Conklin, Princeton University. 



February 2—" The World of Thought Before 

 and After the Publication of the Origin of Spe- 

 cies," Professor G. H. Mead. 



February 4 — " Cosmic Evolution," Professor F. 

 R. Moulton. 



February 9 — " Bridging the Gap between Living 

 and Lifeless," Professor A. P. Mathews. 



