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lecture trip. He is speaking at the State Col- 

 lege of Washington, University of Washing- 

 ton, Reed College, Oregon Agricultural Col- 

 lege, University of Oregon, Leland Stanford 

 Junior University and the University of Cali- 

 fornia. Before returning he will spend some 

 time at his observatory in Flagstaff. 



Professor Emmanuel de Martonne, pro- 

 fessor of geography in the Sorbonne, arrived 

 in New York on September 18 to take up his 

 work as visiting French professor at Colum- 

 bia University. He is giving courses on Euro- 

 pean physiography under the auspices of the 

 department of geology. His offerings include 

 two courses of four lectures each, delivered in 

 French and open to the public. The subjects 

 and dates of these lectures are: (1) Montagnes 

 du Centre et Sud de la France, 4:15 p.m. 

 (Massif Central), October 19 and 26, Novem- 

 ber 2, and (French Alps) November 9; (2) 

 Plaines et Champs de Bataille du Nord de la 

 France, 8:15 p.m., November 15, 22 and 29, 

 and December 6. In connection with this 

 series of lectures, there are conferences, open 

 to advanced students, in which a detailed 

 study of certain phases of the work will be 

 made. Professor de Martonne is also cooper- 

 ating with Professor D. W. Johnson in a 

 course on the physiography of Europe, in 

 which the Alps, the Carpathians, and south- 

 eastern Europe will be discussed by Professor 

 de Martonne. 



The New York sections of the American 

 Electrochemical Society and the Illuminating 

 Engineering Society have arranged for a joint 

 session to be held at the Engineering Soci- 

 eties Building, 29 West 39th St., New York, 

 on Thursday evening, November 9, at 8 o'clock. 

 A program has been prepared including papers 

 on " High Pressure Gas Installations," " The 

 Chemistory of Gas Lighting" and "The New 

 Flexible Mantle." Engineers and chemists 

 interested are cordially invited to attend. 



The Thomas Hawksley lecture of the Brit- 

 ish Institution of Mechanical Engineers was 

 delivered by Mr. H. E. Jones, on November 3, 

 on the subject of " The Gas Engineer of the 

 Last Century." 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that at the recent general meeting of the Med- 

 ical Society of London, the retiring president, 

 Sir St. Clair Thomson, drew attention to a 

 plaque removed from the society's house in 

 Bolt Court to the present library. The plaque 

 was erected originally by Dr. John Coakley 

 Lettsom, the founder of the society. The in- 

 coming president, Lieutenant-colonel D'Arcy 

 Power delivered an address on " John Ward 

 and His Diary." The Lettsomian lectures will 

 be delivered by Colonel Cuthbert Wallace, 

 C.B., and the oration by Sir William Osier. 



Dr. Louis McLane Tiffany, emeritus pro- 

 fessor of medicine at the University of Mary- 

 land, and consulting surgeon for the Johns 

 Hopkins Hospital, died on October 23, at 

 seventy-two years of age. 



Pictures of surgery done by Dr. Alexis Car- 

 rel and others on the wounded soldiers in 

 French hospitals have recently been made with 

 a cinema camera and brought to this country 

 by the Clinical Film Company. The picture 

 will be shown before medical societies and 

 medical students. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The General Education Board has an- 

 nounced the following appropriations : Albion 

 College, Albion, Mich., $100,000; George 

 Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, 

 Tenn., $200,000; Hamline University, St. 

 Paul, Minn., $100,000. 



Isaac F. Nicholson, Baltimore, celebrated 

 his eightieth birthday by giving the Johns 

 Hopkins University $15,000 for the establish- 

 ment of the Isaac Forester Nicholson Fund, 

 to establish scholarships for needy students 

 from Baltimore or the state of Maryland, or 

 to be used for any other purpose the trustees 

 may desire. 



Bishop Candler, chancellor of Emory Uni- 

 versity, announces the receipt of a contribu- 

 tion of $50,000 from J. J. Gray, Jr., Eockdale, 

 Tenn., for the erection of an outpatient build- 

 ing in connection with the medical department 



