Febeuaby 19, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



293 



Brewer both graduated from the school in the 

 class of 1852. 



A NUMBER of physicians who have been 

 operated on by Dr. John B. Deaver, of Phila- 

 delphia, gave a dinner in his honor at the 

 TTniversity Club on February 14. More than 

 150 physicians are included in this category. 

 A loving cup was presented to Dr. Deaver. 



The election of Professor S. Kitasato, direc- 

 tor of the Infectious Diseases Institute, at 

 Tokyo, to the honorary fellowship of the 

 Koyal Society has been made the occasion of 

 a dinner given in his honor by a number of 

 his pupils and friends. Congratulatory ad- 

 dresses were delivered by Professor Kitajima 

 and Dr. T. Takaki, director of the Formosan 

 Medical Institute. 



"The title of honorary keeper of the Ash- 

 molean Museum, Oxford, has been conferred 

 upon Dr. Arthur Evans " in consideration of 

 his eminent services to the university as keeper 

 of the Ashmolean Museum, extending over 

 twenty-five years." The thanl« of the uni- 

 versity were also given to Dr. Evans for his 

 recent gift to the museum. 



Dr. Karl J. Oechslin, of Leipzig, for the 

 past year associated with Professor Michael, 

 of Tufts College, began his new work in the 

 Division of Chemistry, Bureau of Science, 

 Manila, P. I., on January 1. 



Mr. Charles S. Banks has resumed his 

 duties as entomologist in the Bureau of Sci- 

 ence, Manila, P. I., after five months spent in 

 America and Europe in the identification of 

 Philippine material. He worked largely on 

 Philippine CulicidSe, Hemiptera and Orthop- 

 tera in the British Museum, and with Dr. 

 Bouvier, in Paris, on Mallophaga, and Dr. 

 Leonardi, in Portici, on Coccidse and Ter- 

 mitidse. 



Professor J. B. Woodworth, of the geo- 

 logical department, of Harvard University, 

 has returned to Cambridge from his extended 

 trip in South America. He left Cambridge 

 last June and has spent the intervening time 

 in scientific investigation in Brazil and on the 

 western coast of the continent. The trip was 

 made possible by the Shaler Memorial Fund 



and is the first of a series of similar expedi- 

 tions to be made under the same provision. 



Mr. George H. Shull, of the Cold Spring 

 Harbor Station for Experimental Evolution, 

 has returned from a three-months' trip to 

 Europe undertaken for the purpose of study- 

 ing scientific and economic plant breeding. 

 He has now gone to California to resume his 

 work on Mr. Burbank's methods and results. 



Mr. and Mrs. C. William Beebe sailed 

 for Georgetown, British Guiana, on Eebruai-y 

 15, on the Eoyal Dutch mail steamer Gop- 

 penarae. A month or more will be spent in 

 the interior for the purpose of studying the 

 more generalized types of birds inhabiting this 

 country. Mr. Lee S. Crandall will accompany 

 Mr. Beebe as assistant, and the attempt will 

 be made to bring back alive for the New York 

 Zoological Park some of the more interesting 

 birds and other animals. 



Mr. Ellsworth Huntington, of the geolog- 

 ical department of Yale University, sailed on 

 February 10 on the Majestic for Southampton. 

 He is going to Jerusalem by the way of Con- 

 stantinople, taking with him Mr. C. F. Gra- 

 ham, a Yale senior, as assistant. They will 

 study the former shorelines around the Dead 

 Sea. Their plan is to use a folding boat and 

 visit various points on its shores. The special 

 problem to be solved by this expedition is as 

 to whether any of the shorelines record expan- 

 sions of this sea within historic times. After 

 leaving the Dead Sea some two months will 

 be spent in the study of the geography of 

 Palestine and the Syrian Desert, with special 

 reference to changes of climate and the effect 

 which the geographic environment has had 

 upon the people and their history. The third 

 objective point will be in the lake region of 

 Asia Minor, where some three months will be 

 spent in the study of the same problems of 

 shorelines, climate and man. This expedition 

 is made under the auspices of Yale University, 

 which defrays a portion of the expenses. 



Professor Julius Stieglitz, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, will deliver shortly at the 

 University of California a series of eight or 

 ten lectures, on some aspect of chemistry. 

 This will be the first series of lectures on the 



