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Hopkins University; Dr. H. P. Armsby, State 

 College, Pa., and Dr. C. W. Stiles, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



The Oliver-Sharpey lectures of the Eoyal 

 College of Physicians, London, have been 

 given by Professor C. S. Sherrington, F.E.S., 

 on " The Role of Reflex Inhibition in the Co- 

 ordination of Muscular Action." 



Professor Henet Jones, on behalf of a 

 committee, appeals for funds towards a me- 

 morial of the late Dr. Edward Caird in the 

 University of Glasgow — to place an inscribed 

 tablet in the moral philosophy classroom, and 

 to supplement the endowment of the lecture- 

 ship in political philosophy. 



The regents of the University of Kansas 

 have named the entomological collections of 

 the university the Francis Huntington Snow 

 Entomological Collections, in honor of the late 

 chancellor of the university. 



Dr. Persifor Prazer, well known as a chem- 

 ist, geologist and mining engineer as also for 

 his studies in handwriting, died at his home 

 in Philadelphia on April 7, at the age of sixty- 

 three years. Dr. Prazer had been connected 

 with the United States and Pennsylvania 

 Geological Surveys and was at one time pro- 

 fessor of chemistry in the University of Penn- 

 sylvania. His father was professor of natural 

 philosophy and chemistry in the university 

 and one of his sons is now instructor in chem- 

 istry in the institution. 



Mr. Charles Aldrich, a fellow and one of 

 the founders of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union, died at Boone, Iowa, on March 8, at 

 the age of eighty years. In addition to orni- 

 thology, Mr. Aldrich was interested in local 

 history and had been curator of the State 

 Historical Department at Des Moines, Iowa. 



Dr. Arthur Gamgee, F.R.S., emeritus pro- 

 fessor of physiology. University of Manchester, 

 and late Pullerian professor of physiology in 

 the Royal Institution, died in Paris on March 

 29, aged sixty-seven years. 



Dr. van Heuvek, director of the Zoological 

 Gardens at Antwerp, has died at the age of 

 seventy-one years. 



Dr. Ludwig Thanhoffer, professor of an- 

 atomy at Buda Pesth, has died at the age of 

 sixty-six years. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination on April 21, to fill 

 three or more vacancies in the position of 

 laboratory assistant (in chemistry) and assist- 

 ant chemist in the Bureau of Standards, at 

 salaries varying from $900 to $1,200 per an- 

 num for laboratory assistant, and from 

 $1,400 to $1,800 per annum for assistant 

 chemist. The duties in connection with these 

 positions vary from routine testing to ad- 

 vanced work involving original investigation. 

 As far as practicable, appointees are assigned 

 to work in the subjects for which they are best 

 fitted. 



The Bulletin of the American Mathematical 

 Society states that the Deutsche Mathe- 

 matiker-Vereinigung now includes 725 mem- 

 bers, of whom 60 are Americans. The Cir- 

 colo Matematico di Palermo has a member- 

 ship of 635, of whom 105 are Americans. 



The annual meeting of the German Bunsen 

 Society of Applied Physical Chemistry is to 

 be held at Aachen on May 23-26, immedi- 

 ately before the International Congress of 

 Applied Chemistry in London. 

 " Under the will of Elizabeth F. Noble, of 

 Mansfield, Mass., bequests of $10,000 each are 

 made to the American Society for the Pre- 

 vention of Cruelty to Animals and the Ameri- 

 can Anti-vivisection Society, $5,000 goes to 

 the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention 

 of Cruelty to Animals, and after other sums 

 are paid, the three societies are to share in the 

 residue of the estate. 



The daily papers state that the Jesuit 

 Fathers have decided to install a complete ap- 

 paratus in twelve colleges belonging to their 

 order in this country to take earthquake 

 records. 



Plans are maturing for a large exposition 

 to be held in Buenos Ayres in May and June 

 of 1910, on the occasion of the centennial cele- 

 bration of the independence of the Argentine 

 Republic. 



All paleontologists are interested in the 

 discoveries in the Permian of northern Russia, 



