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land Stanford University on "Ways to Pass 

 the Walls of the World." On October 27, he 

 addressed the university meeting of the Uni- 

 versity of California on " The Ideals that are 

 Most Worthy of Loyalty." During the current 

 half-year Professor Keyser is giving instruc- 

 tion in the University of California in ex- 

 change of work with Professor M. W. Haskell, 

 who is lecturing in Columbia University. 



It is reported that Lieutenant-colonel J. 

 George Adami, professor of pathology in Mc- 

 Gill University, Montreal, who held the posi- 

 tion abroad of official Canadian recorder of 

 medical history of the war, has resigned and 

 will soon return to Montreal. 



Me. John E. Mellish, who has been at the 

 Terkes Observatory for the past fifteen months 

 as volunteer research assistant, will take 

 charge of the well-equipped private observa- 

 tory at Leetonia, Ohio, of Mr. Elmer Harrald. 



Walter D. Harris, formerly assistant pro- 

 fessor of physics at Syracuse University, has 

 resigned his position with the United States 

 Bureau of Chemistry to take an active inter- 

 est in the Valhalla Co., Chicago, manufac- 

 turers of electro-chemical machinery. 



Mr. E. W. Kerr has resigned his professor- 

 ship in mechanical engineering at Louisiana 

 State University to take up commercial work 

 with the Cuba Cane Sugar Corporation, 

 Havana, Cuba. 



Dr. Leverett D. Bristol, for two years pro- 

 fessor of bacteriology and hygiene and director 

 of the city public health laboratory at the Uni- 

 versity of North Dakota, has accepted the 

 newly created Boston dispensary fellowship 

 in public health in the department of preven- 

 tive medicine at Harvard Medical School, 

 Boston. 



Sir Ernest Shackelton, the Antarctic ex- 

 plorer, arrived in New Orleans, on November 

 3, on the steamer Parismina, from Colon, and 

 departed several hours later for San Prancisco, 

 on his way to rescue ten members of the 

 Shackelton party on the west side of the Ant- 

 arctic continent. He expected to sail from 

 San Prancisco for Wellington, New Zealand, 



on November 8, going thence to Dunedin, 

 where he and a rescue expedition will sail for 

 the Antarctic on the Aurora. 



Lieutenant-colonel E. Alexander Mearns, 

 U. S. A., died in Washington, D. C, on No- 

 vember 1, in his sixty-first year. He was one 

 of the founders of the American Ornithol- 

 ogists' Union, and a member of the Eoosevelt 

 East African expedition. Dr. Mearns was an 

 indefatigable collector of natural history 

 specimens all his life, and was the author of 

 many contributions to zoology and botany. 



Theodore Newell Ely, engineer and re- 

 tired chief of motive power of the Pennsyl- 

 vania railroad, died on October 28, at his home 

 at Bryn Mawr, Pa., aged seventy years. Dr. 

 Ely established a scientific department in the 

 Pennsylvania Railroad in 1875. He had re- 

 ceived the honorary degree of master of arts 

 from Yale University and the doctorate of 

 science from Hamilton College. In addition 

 to membership in the national engineering 

 societies, he was a member of the American 

 Philosophical Society and a fellow of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. 



Phillip H. Cart, a graduate of Oberlin 

 College who had nearly completed the work 

 for the degree of doctor of philosophy at the 

 University of Minnesota, where he was spe- 

 cializing in paleontology and stratigraphy, 

 died on October 27. Last January, when the 

 call came for more men in the southwestern 

 oil fields, he left his graduate work tempo- 

 rarily and was rapidly establishing a reputa- 

 tion as an oil geologist in Oklahoma. 



Professor G. C. J. Vosmaer, of the Uni- 

 versity of Leiden, known to all zoologists for 

 his valuable contributions on the morphology 

 and classification of sponges, has died at the 

 age of sixty-two years. 



The death is announced of the distinguished 

 psychiatrist Dr. Magnan, honorary chief phys- 

 ician of the Asile Sainte-Anne at Paris. 



The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the 

 American Psychological Association, in affilia- 

 tion with the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, will occur on Wed- 



