June 11, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



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address at tlie Tale Medical School, his sub- 

 ject being " The Medical School as Part of 

 the University." 



Dr. Charles S. Minot, of the Harvard 

 Medical School, delivered on May 27, at St. 

 Louis, the commencement address in medicine 

 for Washington University. The address was 

 entitled " On Certain Ideals of Medical Edu- 

 cation," and ■will be published shortly. 



Dr. Dickinson S. Miller, professor of phi- 

 losophy at Columbia University, will give the 

 Phi Beta Kappa address at Hobart College. 



Professor I. Woodbridge Eiley, of Vassar 

 College, delivered the annual address before 

 the American Medico-Psychological Associa- 

 tion at Atlantic City on June 2. The subject 

 was " Mental Healings in America." 



The Electrical World states that an unfor- 

 tunate complication has arisen concerning the 

 location of the memorial statue to Lord Kelvin 

 in his native city of Belfast. It has been de- 

 cided to erect the statue in the grounds of the 

 Queen's College, but it was subsequently 

 pointed out that such use of the grounds 

 would be legally a breach of trust under the 

 terms of tenure of the property. In the mean- 

 time, some of the subscribers to the memorial 

 have served formal notice restraining the Lord 

 Mayor from expending any of the money sub- 

 scribed until the questions regarding the site 

 have been satisfactorily determined. 



Dr. Wilhelm Engelmann, professor of 

 physiology at Berlin, has died at the age of 

 sixty-five years. 



Dr. George von Nedmayer, the eminent 

 meteorologist, has died at Neustadt at the age 

 of eighty-three years. 



Tables at the laboratory of the United 

 States Bureau of Fisheries, at Beaufort, 

 North Carolina, will be available for the use 

 of investigators after July 1. Requests for 

 further information should be addressed either 

 to the commissioner of fisheries, Washington, 

 D. C, or to the director of the laboratory, 

 Beaufort, N. C. 



The third annual geographical conference 

 was held, on the invitation of Professor Davis, 

 in the Geographical Laboratory of Harvard 

 University on Saturday, May 29, and was at- 



tended by over forty teachers from the schools 

 of Boston and neighboring cities. Eecent 

 proposals regarding the teaching of geography 

 in secondary schools were discussed, and an 

 excursion to the coastal plain of Maine was 

 planned for June 26. 



At the last meeting of the International 

 Physiological Congress, which was held at 

 Heidelberg, in 1907, it was decided to hold! 

 the next Congress at Vienna in 1910, at Whit- 

 suntide. The British Medical Journal states 

 that it has been found that at this time of the 

 year it would be impossible for a large num- 

 ber of physiologists to attend the congress, and 

 the local committee of the congress at Vienna 

 has therefore, after consulting the local secre- 

 taries in the various countries, determined to. 

 change the date of the congress. In accord- 

 ance with the general wish, it will be held 

 from September 26 to 30, 1910. 



It has been arranged to transfer the whole 

 of the Vatican Observatory to the summit of 

 the Vatican Hill, 100 meters above the square 

 of St. Peter's, where a section of the observa- 

 tory has been for some years. 



Foreign papers state that the central com- 

 mittee of the Austrian Alpine Club has by the 

 authorities of Munich been put in possession 

 of a large building with excellent accommoda- 

 tion and well situated on the banks of the Isar. 

 The club proposes to inaugurate an Alpine 

 museum in its new building. 



The Pacific coast will soon be the scene of 

 an interesting tree-growing experiment. The 

 United States Forest Service is planning to 

 introduce a number of the more important 

 eastern hardwoods into California, and will 

 this year experiment with chestnut, hickory, 

 basswood, red oak and yellow poplar or tulip 

 trees. Small patches of these trees will be 

 planted near the forest rangers' cabins on the 

 national forests, and if these do well larger 

 plantations on a commercial scale will soon be 

 established on wider areas. There are over 

 125 different species of trees in California,, a 

 number of which produce some of the most 

 valuable varieties of lumber in the country. 

 Although considerably over one half of the 

 species are hardwood or broad-leaved trees, 

 yet, with the exception of the exotic' eucalyptus,. 



