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excursion of some sixty students througli 

 the Wera and Leine Valleys. 



Sir Eubert Botce, F.E.S., dean of the 

 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, is on 

 behalf of the Colonial Oifice visiting the West 

 Indies for the purpose of looking into the 

 present methods of dealing with sickness and 

 recommending what can be done to promote 

 the physical welfare of the people. 



The Tale Chapter of Sigma Xi held its 

 annual banquet February 27, following the 

 initiation of the new members. Dr. W. N. 

 Kice, professor of geology at Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity and holder of the first doctor's degree 

 awarded by Tale for study in geology, de- 

 livered the formal address of the evening. 

 He spoke on " The Eeturn to Faith," discus- 

 sing the newer relation of science to religion. 

 Other speakers were Professor Ross G. Har- 

 rison; Professor William Hallock, of Co- 

 lumbia University; Professor Charles W. 

 Brown, of Brown University; Assistant Pro- 

 fessor "E. C. Hawley, '04F., Davenport 

 Hocker, '08, and F. L. Gates, '09. 



At the meeting of the Chicago Section of 

 the American Mathematical Society, the fol- 

 lowing officers were elected: G. A. Miller, 

 University of Illinois, chairman; H. E. 

 Slaught, University of Chicago, secretary; 

 O. D. Kellogg, University of Missouri, mem- 

 her of the program committee. The next 

 meeting of the section will be held at the 

 University of Chicago on April 10 and 11. 



At the annual meeting of the Physical So- 

 ciety, London, the following officers were 

 elected: President^ Dr. C. Chree; vice-presi- 

 dents, those who have filled the office of presi- 

 dent, together with Mr. W. Duddell, Professor 

 A. Schuster, Mr. S. Skinner and Dr. W. 

 Watson; secretaries, Mr. W. E. Cooper and 

 Dr. S. W. J. Smith; foreign secretary. Pro- 

 fessor S. P. Thompson; treasurer. Pro- 

 fessor H. L. Callendar; librarian. Dr. W. 

 Watson. 



At the anniversary meeting of the Geo- 

 logical Society of London, the officers were 

 elected as follows : President, Professor W. J. 

 SoUas; vice-presidents, Mr. G. W. Lamplugb, 

 Mr. H. W. Monckton, Dr. J. J. H. Teall and 



Professor W. W. Watts; secretaries, Professor 

 E. J. Garwood and Dr. A. Smith Woodward; 

 foreign secretary. Sir Archibald Geikie ; treas- 

 urer. Dr. Aubrey Strahan. 



The Congress on Tropical Diseases, which 

 was opened at Bombay on February 22, was 

 attended by representatives of all parts of 

 India and by Major Eonald Eoss, of Liver- 

 pool, Professor Shiga, of Japan, and Dr. Mus- 

 grave, of the Philippines. The congress is 

 accompanied by a popular medical exhibition. 



Dr. Frederick W. Taylor, past-president 

 of the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 

 neers, gave an address before the College of 

 Engineering of the University of Illinois on 

 February 18. 



Professor Charles L. Edwards, of Trinity 

 College, will address the Scientific Society of 

 Stamford, Conn., on March 12, on the sub- 

 ject of " The Methods and Eesults of Deep- 

 sea Exploration." 



Dr. George Grant MacCurdy, of Tale Uni- 

 versity, gave a lecture before the Buffalo So- 

 ciety of Natural Sciences on February 26, his 

 subject being " The Ancient Art of Chiriqui." 



A MEMORIAL has just been erected in Ken- 

 sington Cemetery, London, to the memory of 

 Admiral Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, the 

 Arctic explorer and discoverer of the lost 

 Franklin expedition. It takes the form of 

 an old style wheel cross standing on a massive 

 molded base, reaching to a height of 10 feet 

 and executed in rough silver-gray Cornish 

 granite. 



Dr. James W. Moore, professor of physics 

 in Lafayette College since 1872, died on Feb- 

 ruary 28, at the age of sixty-four years. 



Sir George King, F.E.S., eminent for his 

 researches on the flora of India, died on Feb- 

 ruary 13, at the age of sixty-eight years. 



Dr. David James Hamilton, lately professor 

 of pathology at Aberdeen University and emi- 

 nent as a pathologist, died on February 19, 

 in Aberdeen, at the age of 60. 



A government laboratory of bacteriology 

 has been founded in Warsaw. The director 

 is Dr. Tscharnozky. The laboratory is in- 



