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will be addressed by Professor E. C. Tolman 

 on " The Theory of Eelativity." The fourth, 

 February 15, will be addressed by Professor C. 

 S. Hottes on " Some Recent Advances in the 

 Physiology of the Cell" and the fifth on 

 March 15, will be addressed by Professor G. M. 

 Whipple on " Becent Development in Mental 

 Testing'." The speakers are all from the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois. 



The following lectures were recently given 

 at Oberlin College, under the auspices of the 

 department of zoology : " The Maturation and 

 Fertilization of the Eggs of Nereis" by Dr. 

 Omer Van der Stricht, of the University of 

 Ghent (now at Western Eeserve University, 

 Cleveland) ; and " The Significance of the 

 Egyptian Mummy," by Professor T. Wingate 

 Todd, head of the department of anatomy at 

 Western Eeserve University Medical School. 



At the Lowell Institute (Boston), on Tues- 

 day and Friday evenings beginning Tuesday, 

 December 5, a course of six lectures is being 

 given by George Sarton, D.Sc, editor of Isis 

 and lecturer on the history and philosophy of 

 science at Harvard University. The course is 

 on science and civilization in the time of 

 Leonardo da Vinci, the titles of the lectures 

 being : 



1. ' ' The Age of Leonardo. ' ' 



2. ' ' The Place of the Earth in the Universe. ' ' 



3. "Geographical Discoveries." 



4. ' ' Progress in Physics and Chemistry. ' ' 



5. ' ' Progress in Biology and Medicine. ' ' 



6. ' ' The New Humanism. ' ' 



Five lectures will be given at the Eoyal 

 College of Surgeons of England in December 

 by Dr. E. Mellanby, acting superintendent of 

 the Brown Animal Sanatory Institution, on 

 the part played in disease by water, salts and 

 other simple substances. 



The Swiney Lectures on Geology on " The 

 Mineral Eesources of Europe " have been de- 

 livered by Dr. J. S. Flett, at the Eoyal Society 

 of Arts, London. 



The Kelvin lecture was delivered before the 

 Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, on 

 November 9 by Dr. Alexander Eussell, who ex- 

 plained how, in many fields of fundamental 

 importance to the electrical engineer, Lord 



Kelvin's work had provided the basis on which 

 his successors had built. 



Frederick J. Hamilton Merrill, director 

 of the New York State Museum from 1894 to 

 1904 and New York state geologist from 1899 

 to 1904, later a consulting geologist and mining 

 expert in New York City, Arizona and Cali- 

 fornia, died in Los Angeles on November 29, 

 in his fifty-fifth year. 



Newton B. Pierce, formerly plant patholo- 

 gist for the U. S. government for the Pacific 

 coast region, and more recently private col- 

 lector and breeder of rare plants, died at his 

 home in Santa Ana, Calif., the thirteenth of 

 last October, aged sixty years. 



Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, the distinguished 

 inventor, died in England on November 24. 



Mr. Charles Smith, master of Sidney Sus- 

 sex College, Cambridge and the author of 

 works on mathematics, died on November 13, 

 at the age of seventy-two years. 



Professor H. M. Waynforth, until recently 

 professor of engineering in King's College, 

 London, died on November 5, aged forty-nine 

 years. 



Henrik Mohn, the distinguished Norwegian 

 meteorologist, died on September 12 at Chris- 

 tiania, aged eighty-one years. 



Members of Section E, Geology and Geog- 

 raphy, of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, are requested to 

 forward titles and abstracts of papers to be 

 read at the New York meeting, to Dr. George 

 F. Kay, Iowa City, la., not later than De- 

 cember 12. 



The Sullivant Moss Society will hold its 

 twelfth meeting on Friday, December 29, at 

 Barnard College, Columbia University, in con- 

 nection with the convocation-week meetings of 

 the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 

 Governor Edward F. Dunne and Dr. S. W. 

 Stratton, director of the Bureau of Standards, 

 are among the speakers that will give ad- 

 dresses on the occasion of the dedication of 

 the new ceramics building at the University of 



