FEBRUARY 23, 1912] 
Theory.” Many papers of scientific and edu- 
cational interest will be presented during the 
sessions, 
A coursE of six lectures under the auspices 
of the Chicago Nature Study Club is being 
given at the Academy of Science, Lincoln 
Park, on Saturday afternoons at 1:30 as fol- 
lows: ; 
February 10—‘‘Schoolroom Aquaria,’’ Frank 
C. Baker, curator, Academy of Science. 
February 17—‘‘ Window Gardening,’’ Aaron H. 
Cole, Chicago Teacher’s College. 
February 24—‘‘Beautifying the Schoolyard,’’ 
Jens Jensen, landscape architect. 
March 2—‘‘Trees for the Schoolyard, Street 
and House, How to Select and Care for them,’’ 
J. H. Prost, city forester. 
March 9—‘‘The Enemies and Diseases of 
Trees,’’? J. H. Prost, city forester. 
March 16—‘‘Birds as Guardians of Trees and 
other Plants,’? R. M. Strong, University of 
Chicago. 
WE learn from Nature that it is proposed to 
establish in Dartmouth a permanent memorial 
to Thomas Newcomen, known for his work in 
connection with the steam engine, who was 
born in that town in 1663. A meeting of 
those interested in the matter has been held in 
the Dartmouth Guildhall. The mayor of 
Dartmouth, Mr. Charles Peek, and Mr. T. F. 
Caston, the honorary secretary to the New- 
comen Memorial Committee, will welcome sug- 
gestions as to the best manner of perpetuating 
the memory of the inventor and his invention, 
and be glad to receive contributions. 
Tue late Dr. A. S. Packard, of Brown Uni- 
versity, planned a series of illustrated volumes 
on the bombycid moths of North America, to 
be published by the National Academy. Two 
volumes were issued during his lifetime. Ma- 
terials for a third volume, on the large silk- 
producing moths, were left and these have 
been plaeed in the hands of Professor Cock- 
erell, of the University of Colorado, who is 
editing them for publication. 
Dr. Francisco P. Moreno, member of the 
chamber of deputies, Argentina, has intro- 
duced a motion in the congress of Argentina 
for the acquisition by the government, for the 
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Museo Nacional at Buenos Aires, of the great 
private paleontological collection of Florentino 
Ameghino. 
Mr. Joun D. RockereLuer has given $11,- 
000 toward the purchase of the house in which 
Pasteur was born in the village of Déle. 
Proressor Henry WILuiaMson Haynes, 
known for his investigations in archeology, 
died at his home in Boston on February 15, 
aged eighty years. 
Dr. Henry Taytor Bovey, F.R.S., from 
1887 to 1909 professor of civil engineering and 
applied mechanics in McGill University, first 
rector of the reorganized imperial College of 
Science and Technology in London, died on 
February 2, aged fifty-eight years. 
Sm Henry TrentHam Burtwin, Bart., a 
leading English surgeon and pathologist, died 
on January 24, aged sixty-six years. 
Sir JoHN Cuartes Datrympie Hay, Bart., 
F.R.S., admiral (retired) of the British navy 
and the author of books on naval topics, died 
on January 28, at the age of ninety years. 
M. T. Duranp, member of the Royal Acad- 
emy of Belgium, director of the State Botanic 
Garden and general secretary of the Royal 
Botanic Society of Belgium, died on Jan- 
uary 12. 
Tue death is announced of Dr. L. Pic, the 
noted Bohemian archeologist, in charge of the 
unsurpassed archeological collection of the 
Museum Regni Bohemiae, Prague. 
Dr. Orro Lirpmann, formerly professor of 
philosophy in the University of Jena, has died 
at the age of seventy-one years. 
THERE will be a New York State civil service 
examination on February 24, the positions 
opened including that of first assistant vet- 
erinarian in the Department of Agriculture 
at a salary of $1,800 to $2,400, and bacteriol- 
ogist in the Health Officers’ Department, 
Quarantine, New York, at a salary of $1,500. 
The latter position is for women. 
THE most notable map publication of the 
year is the large geologic map of North Amer- 
ica just issued by the United States Geolog- 
It represents an exceptional 
