Apbh 23, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



653 



the future far greater and more general 

 recognition in the universities, where it 

 should receive at once magnificent support 

 and endowment. Now is the time for us to 

 seize upon this inheritance which Germany 

 seems about to relinquish! 



H. J. Wheeler 

 Ehode Island Agbicultubal 

 ExPEBiMENT Station, 

 Kingston, R. I. 



SCIENTIFIG NOTES AND NEWS 

 The two volumes containing " The Collected 

 Papers of Joseph, Baron Lister," will shortly 

 be issued from the Clarendon Press. They 

 were planned as a memorial of Lord Lister's 

 eightieth birthday, celebrated two years ago. 

 The committee formed for the purpose has 

 had the advantage of Lord Lister's advice, 

 and the two volumes contain all the papers 

 and addresses which he considers to possess 

 permanent value. 



Professor H. P. Osborn, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, has recently been elected one of the 

 twenty-five foreign members of the Zoological 

 Society of London, and also an honorary mem- 

 ber of the Eoyal Academy of Sweden, as the 

 successor of the late Professor Albert Gaudry. 



Prince Albert of Monaco has been elected 

 a foreign member of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences in succession to Lord Kelvin. 



Edinburgh University has conferred the 

 honorary degree of LL.D. on Mr. J. G. Bar- 

 tholomew, hon. secretary Eoyal Scottish Geo- 

 graphical Society; Professor A. Crum Brown, 

 r.E.S.; Professor W. Burnside, P. E.S., Eoyal 

 Naval College, Greenwich; Sir Alfred Keogh, 

 K.C.B., director-general of the Army Medical 

 Service, and Professor C. H. Kronecker, Uni- 

 versity of Berne. 



Sni EiCHARD D. Powell has been reelected 

 president of the Eoyal College of Physicians 

 of London. 



Dr. Clemens von Pirquet, of Vienna, has 

 been appointed physician-in-chief to the Har- 

 riet Lane Home for Invalid Children, affiliated 

 with the Johns Hopkins Hospital and pro- 

 fessor of pediatrics in the university. 



Dr. Oliver L. Passig, of the U. S. Weather 

 Bureau, Baltimore, and the Johns Hopkins 

 University, has been placed in charge of the 

 Porto Eiean station with headquarters at San 

 Juan. 



Professor H. E. Gregory, of the geological 

 department of Yale University, will, on behalf 

 of the U. S. government, undertake an expedi- 

 tion to the Arizona desert to seek a water 

 supply for the Navajo Indians living on the 

 Arizona reserve. 



The annual business meeting of the Phi 

 Beta Kappa Alumni in New York wiU be held 

 in the Hotel Savoy on the evening of May 

 4, when Dr. Simon Flesner, director of the 

 Laboratories of the Rockefeller Institute for 

 Medical Eesearch, will address the association 

 on the subject " The Service to Medical Sci- 

 ence of Independent Institutions for Med- 

 ical Eesearch." 



Professor Joseph Barrell, of Yale Uni- 

 versity, gave a series of lectures in the de- 

 partment of geology at the University of Wis- 

 consin from March 31 to April 6, dealing 

 especially with sedimentation in some of its 

 more modern aspects. 



At the 353d regular meeting of the Mid- 

 dletown Scientific Association, held in the 

 Scott Laboratory of Physics, Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity, on April 13, Dr. Arthur Eugene Wat- 

 son, assistant professor of physics in Brown 

 University, gave an illustrated lecture on 

 " Some Mile-stone Marks in Electrical Engi- 

 neering." 



A meeting of instructors and advanced 

 students at Harvard University for the dis- 

 cussion of a recent chemical research will be 

 held in Boylston Hall at 5 o'clock on the 

 following Thursdays: April 29, May 6, 13, 20 

 and 27, and June 3. The next meeting will 

 be open to all members of the university, and 

 the special subject will be " The Eusting of 

 Iron," by Dr. Allerton S. Cushman, of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Under the auspices of the department of 

 physics of Columbia University a course of 

 lectures on " The Present State of the Sys- 

 tem of Theoretical Physics," will be given by 

 Max Planck, Ph.D., professor of mathematical 



