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February 10 — " Phylogeny," Professor S. W. 

 Williston. 



February 17 — " Variation and Heredity," Pro- 

 fessor W. L. Tower. 



February 18 — " The Interpretation of Environ- 

 ment," Professor H. C. Cowles. 



February 24 — " Darwinism and Political Sci- 

 ence," Professor C. E. Merriam. 



February 25 — " Human Evolution — Physical and 

 Social," Dr. Geo. A. Doraey. 



March 3 — " The Influence of Darwinism on Psy- 

 chology," Professor J. R. Angell. 



March 4 — " The Theory of Individual Develop- 

 ment," Professor F. E. Lillie. 



March 10—" The Evolution of Religion," Pro- 

 fessor Shailer Mathews. 



March 1 1 — " Darwinism and Experimental 

 Methods in Botany," Professor D. T. MacDougal, 

 Carnegie Institute. 



March 17 — " Evolution in Language and in the 

 Study of Language," Professor C. D. Buck. 



March 18 — " Selection Mutrtion and Orthogen- 

 esis," Professor C. O. Whitman. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. James B. Ajstgell proposes to present 

 his resignation as president of the IJniversity 

 of Michigan on February 17. It is under- 

 stood that the office of chancellor will be 

 created and that he will be the first to occupy 

 this position. 



Dr. Wilhelm Trabert, professor of cos- 

 mical physics at Innsbruck, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Austrian Bureau of 

 meteorology and geodynamics, vacant by the 

 death of Professor Pemter. 



Dr. Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, chemist, 

 U. S. Geological Survey, and professor of 

 mineral chemistry in the George Washington 

 University, has been invited by the Chemical 

 Society of London to deliver a memorial lec- 

 ture on Dr. Woleott Gibbs. As Professor 

 Clarke is to attend the International Congress 

 of Applied Chemistry, which meets in Lon- 

 don on May 2Y, this lecture will follow shortly 

 after the adjournment of the congress. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phil- 

 adelphia has elected as correspondents the fol- 

 lowing: Dr. Albert Cahnette, of Lille; Dr. 

 Sven Hedin, of Stockholm; Dr. Robert F. 



Scharff, of Dublin, and Dr. John M. Clarke, 

 of Albany. 



Sir James Dewar and Dr. Ludwig Mond 

 have been elected honorary members of the 

 German Chemical Society. 



M. P. Villard has been elected a member of 

 the Paris Academy of Sciences in the Section 

 of Physics to succeed M. Mascart. 



On the recommendation of a committee of 

 the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Col- 

 lege of Physicians, the Swiney prize, of the 

 value of $1,000, has been awarded to Dr. 0. A, 

 Mercier, for his work on " Criminal Respon- 

 sibility." 



A new portrait of President Eliot, of Har- 

 vard University, by Mr. Charles Hopkinson 

 has been hung in the Harvard Union, where 

 it will remain for the next few days. The 

 portrait represents President Eliot seated at 

 his desk. 



Mr. H. F. Newall, assistant director of the 

 Observatory, Cambridge, has been elected a 

 fellow of Trinity College. 



We regret to learn that the illness of Pro- 

 fessor G. D. Louderback, of the department 

 of geology of the University of California, has 

 made it necessary for him to take an indefinite 

 leave of absence. 



Professor F. W. Blackmar, head of the 

 department of sociology in the University of 

 Kansas, who has spent four summers in in- 

 vestigating the chief irrigating plants in west- 

 ern states, has finished a report on the develop- 

 ment of irrigation and the reclamation service 

 of the government in the arid west. This re- 

 port will be published by the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution of Washington. 



Professor Trevor Kincaid, of the depart- 

 ment of zoology, University of Washington, 

 will leave Seattle about the first of April for 

 Simferopol, Crimea, Russia, where he will 

 undertake, for the U. S. Bureau of Entomol- 

 ogy, the collection and shipment of parasites 

 of the Gypsy moth. During the absence of 

 Professor Kincaid, Professor A. D. Howard, 

 Ph.D. (Harvard), formerly of Westminster 

 College, Pennsylvania, will have charge of the 

 department. 



