FEBRUARY 16, 1912] 
offered for an original paper advancing the 
knowledge of the transmission of any insect 
or arachnid-borne disease affecting Rhodesia, 
has been awarded to Dr. Edward Hindle, Beit 
memorial research fellow, for his paper on 
“The Transmission of Spirocheta duttoni.” 
At the January meeting of the Chicago 
Academy of Sciences the following officers 
were elected: President, Dr. T. C. Chamberlin; 
First Vice-president, Professor C. B. Atwell; 
Second Vice-president, Dr. Henry C. Cowles; 
Secretary, Dr. Wallace W. Atwood. 
Dr. Ancret GatuarDs, biologist, has been 
appointed director of the Museo Nacional, 
Buenos Aires, in the place of the late Pro- 
fessor Florentino Ameghino. 
Dr. Freperic A. Lucas, director, has been 
appointed to represent the American Museum 
of Natural History at the Centenary of the 
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 
March 19-21, 1912. Dr. W. D. Matthew, 
curator of the department of vertebrate 
paleontology, has been appointed to represent 
the museum at the celebration of the one 
hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the 
University of Pittsburgh, February 27-29, 
1912. 
Mr. Freperic G. HAuuert, secretary to the 
examining board of the Royal Colleges of 
Physicians and Surgeons, has left London for 
the United States, having been invited by the 
council on medical education of the Ameri- 
can Medical Association to attend the con- 
ference on medical education to be held in 
Chicago on February 26, and to address the 
meeting on the subject of the methods of 
conducting examinations for licenses to prac- 
tise medicine adopted by the conjoint exam- 
ining board in England. 
Tue University of Michigan has granted a 
leave of absence to Professor William H. 
Hobbs for the academic year 1912-13. In his 
absence from the university, the charge of the 
department of geology will devolve upon Pro- 
fessor E. C. Case. Professor Hobbs’s classes 
in geology will be conducted by Professor 
Frank Carney, head of the department of 
geology at Denison University. Professor 
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Hobbs will devote the year to study and 
travel abroad. 
THE yacht Anton Dohrn, of the department 
of marine biology of the Carnegie Institution 
of Washington, will make a cruise to Andros 
Island, Bahamas, in April and May, the chief 
objects being to provide an opportunity for 
Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan to continue his 
studies upon coral reefs, and to permit G. 
Harold Drew, Esq., B.A., of Cambridge Uni- 
versity, to pursue his researches upon the 
denitrifying bacteria of tropical seas. Dr. 
Paul Bartsch will also study the ecology of the 
molluscan fauna, and trawls with self-closing 
nets will be made in the deep tongue of the 
ocean. 
Tue third Hamilton fund lecture of the 
Smithsonian Institution was delivered by Dr. 
Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller 
Institute for Medical Research, in the audi- 
torium of the U. S. National Museum on 
February 8. The title of the lecture was 
“Tnfection and Recovery from Infection.” 
Dr. R. M. Pearce, professor of research 
medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, 
gave a course of five lectures on the Hitch- 
cock foundation, at the University of Cali- 
fornia from January 22 to 26. The subjects 
of the lectures were as follows: “ Antiquity to 
1800—The Efforts of Isolated Investigators,” 
“The Development of Laboratories for the 
Medical Sciences,” “Pasteur and the Rise of 
Bacteriology,” “Present Day Methods and 
Problems,” ‘“ Medical Research in American 
Universities, Present Facilities, Needs and 
Opportunities.” 
Tue Ichabod Spencer foundation lectures 
are being given at Union College by Pro- 
fessor Hugo Miinsterberg, of Harvard Uni- 
versity. His subject is “ Applied Psychol- 
ogy.” 
Av a recent meeting of the Biological Sci- 
ence Club, of Oberlin College, Professor L. 
James, associate professor of animal ecology, 
gave an address covering some phases of his 
special research work upon the migration of 
birds, carried on during the summer at Pt. 
Pelee, Lake Erie. 
