Febbuaby 12, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



251 



Mr. L. F. Noble, graduate student in 

 geology at Yale University, has returned from 

 a six-months' trip in the Lower Colorado 

 Canyon, where he has been pursuing studies 

 in structural geology, particularly with refer- 

 ence to the Algonkian. 



Nature states that Professor E. A. Minchin 

 has left England for three months, accom- 

 panied by his assistant. Dr. Woodcock, on a 

 visit to the zoological station at Eovigno, in 

 order to carry on researches on the develop- 

 ment of the trypanosome of the little owl 

 {Athene noctua). 



Dr. Charles William Andrews, F.RS., as- 

 sistant in the Geological Department of the 

 Natural History Museum, London, has re- 

 turned from Christmas Island, in the Indian 

 Ocean, where he has been making scientific 

 researches. 



Dr. Sven HJEDiN delivered at Stockholm on 

 January 22 a lecture upon his travels in 

 Central Asia before a large audience, which 

 included King Gustav and the royal family, 

 and the members of the Anthropological and 

 Geographical Societies. The Wahlburg medal 

 of the latter society has been conferred on Dr. 

 Sven Hedin, and the society has raised a fund 

 of over $2,500 to be known by the explorer's 

 name, which will be devoted to geographical 

 research. 



Professor A. G. Webster, of the depart- 

 ment of physics at Clark University, is giving 

 three lectures under the auspices of the Sigma 

 Xi Society at each of the universities of Mis- 

 souri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, and one 

 each at Wisconsin and Northwestern, speaking 

 on the present outlook in physics and on his 

 researches in acoustics. 



Dr. R. S. Woodward, president of the Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington, lectured to 

 the students of the University of Wisconsia 

 on the evening of February 2 on the work of 

 that institution. 



Dr. Wm. a. Notes, professor of chemistry 

 in the University of Illinois and editor of the 

 Journal of the American Chemical Society, 

 delivered an address before the Saint Louis 

 Chemical Society, on January 29, on "La- 



voisier." After the meeting an informal 

 dinner was held in honor of the speaker. 



Professor Wm. J. Gies, of the department 

 of biological chemistry of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, is conducting a course of public lectures 

 on " The Chemistry of Digestion " on Monday 

 evenings at Cooper Union. The lectures are 

 illustrated by zoetrope figures, and by chemical 

 and digestive demonstrations. 



Sigma Xi lectures at the University of Cal- 

 ifornia have been given as follows : " The 

 Effect of Solutions on Plant Growth," by Pro- 

 fessor W. J. V. Osterhout; " Some Eecent 

 Discoveries in Solar Physics," by Professor E. 

 P. Lewis ; " The Origin and Distribution of 

 Shell Mounds in the San Francisco Bay 

 Eegion," by Mr. N. C. Nelson. 



At the meeting of the American Nature- 

 study Society held at Baltimore the following 

 officers were elected for 1909: President, Pro- 

 fessor C. F. Hodge, of Clark University, 

 Worcester, Mass. Vice-presidents — ^Professor 

 V. L. Kellogg, of Stanford University, Cal.; 

 Professor F. L. Stevens, North Carolina 

 CoUege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 

 Ealeigh, N. C; Professor W. Loehhead, Mac- 

 donald College, Quebec; Professor O. W. 

 Caldwell, The University of Chicago; Pro- 

 fessor B. M. Davis, Miami University, Oxford, 

 O. Directors (for two years) — G. H. Traf- 

 ton. Public Schools, Passaic, N. J.; Professor 

 F. L. Holtz, Brooklyn Training School, N. T. ; 

 Professor J. Deamess, Normal School, Lon- 

 don, Canada; Mrs. Anna Botsford Comstock, 

 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. T., and Dr. 

 Euth Marshall, Milwaukee High Schools. 

 Directors D. J. Crosby, C. E. Mann, S. Coul- 

 ter, H. W. Fairbanks and M. F. Guyer and 

 Secretary M. A. Bigelow were elected in 1908 

 to serve two years. 



A Science Club has been organized among 

 the members of the agricultural department 

 of Delaware CoUege and the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station staff. The following offi- 

 cers were elected: President, Professor C. A 

 McCue; Vice-president, Professor C. O. 

 Houghton; Secretary, Professor A. E. Gran- 

 tham. Weekly meetings will be held. 



