Mabch 5, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



881 



Professor E. S. Morse lectured at Tufts 

 College on February 24 on " Natural Selection 

 and its Application to the Darwinian Theory 

 of the ' Survival of the Fittest.' " 



Professor Lightner Wither, of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, is giving this term a 

 course of lectures on psychology to the fourth 

 year students of the medical department. 



Edwin EIatkenellenbogen, Ph.D. (Leipzig), 

 assistant physician at the Danvers Hospital 

 for the Insane, and fellow for research in logic 

 at Harvard University, is to give a course of 

 lectures on psychopathology, consisting of a 

 treatment of selected topics in abnormal psy- 

 chology. These lectures, which will be open 

 primarily to graduate students, will occupy 

 one hour and a half weekly. In each month 

 three of the lectures will be delivered in the 

 Psychological Lecture Room; the remaining 

 exercise each month will take place at the 

 Danvers Hospital for the Insane, at Hathome. 

 Special attention will be given to the legal as- 

 pects of psychopathology. 



The Kaiser Wilhelm has recalled his veto 

 of the Virchow monument design and has ap- 

 proved the second sketch. The monument will 

 now be erected on the Karl Platz near the 

 Charite. 



Db. William Tillinghast Bull, professor 

 of the practise of surgery at Columbia Uni- 

 versity and one of the most prominent sur- 

 geons in New Tork City, died on February 22, 

 at the age of fifty-nine years. 



The death is announced of Sir George 

 King, F.E.S., late director of the Botanical 

 Survey of India, aged sixty-eight and of Pro- 

 fessor Julius Thomsen, president of the Eoyal 

 Danish Society of Science, aged eighty-two. 



The " sundry civil " bill for the fiscal year 

 1910, as reported to the House of Representa- 

 tives February 19, provides for a new building 

 in Washington to accommodate the Geological 

 Survey, the General Land Office, the Office of 

 Indian Affairs and the Reclamation Service, 

 to cost $2,500,000, and appropriates $100,000 

 for preliminary work in construction. The 

 site named in the bill is the square bounded 

 by E and F and Eighteenth and Nineteenth 



streets, west of the building occupied by the 

 State, War and Navy departments and about 

 three blocks west of the White House. For 

 twenty-five years the survey has occupied a 

 rented building on F Street, in the heart of 

 the business section of the city, the annual 

 rental of which now amounts to $34,900. This 

 building is not fireproof and has been three 

 times visited by destructive fires, the last one, 

 in December, 1908, burning government prop- 

 erty worth $15,000. The annual rentals paid 

 by the survey and the Reclamation Service 

 amount to about $43,000, and the provision 

 made for the Indian and Land offices in the 

 new building will permit the transfer of other 

 bureaus, now in rented quarters, to a building 

 owned by the government. The annual net 

 saving accomplished will be $51,400. 



The Tale Daily News has made a statistical 

 study of the early training of the 15,142 men, 

 sketches of whose lives appear in Appleton's 

 Cyclopedia of American Biography. 5,326 of 

 these prominent men are college trained, with 

 the colleges, credited with over one hundred, 

 represented in the list as follows: Harvard, 

 883; Yale, 713; Princeton, 319; Dartmouth, 

 208; Columbia, 198; Brown, 189; Union, 188; 

 Pennsylvania, 175; Williams, 157; Bowdoin, 

 104; Amherst, 102. Tale's honor roll is 

 divided among the professions as follows: 

 clergymen, 194; lawyers, 149; educators, 83; 

 statesmen, 55; authors, 53; doctors, 43; scien- 

 tists, 38; soldiers, 37; business men, 19; jour- 

 nalists, 15; in government service, 14; philan- 

 thropists, 6; artists, 4; inventors, 3. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the International 

 Bureau of Public Health was formally in- 

 augurated at Paris on November 10, 1908, and 

 the director and secretary were installed in 

 office by the committee, composed of one rep- 

 resentative from each of the countries which 

 have agreed to support the newly created 

 bureau. Dr. S. B. Grubbs, of the Public 

 Health and Marine Hospital Service, was the 

 United States delegate. The idea of having 

 a central and international office for the pur- 

 pose of gathering and distributing informa- 

 tion concerning the graver epidemic diseases. 



