Marcu 29, 1912] 
Tue Philadelphia section of the American 
Chemical Society held a meeting at the John 
Harrison Laboratory of Chemistry, the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, on March 22, when 
Dr. L. H. Baekeland, research chemist of New 
York City, delivered an illustrated address on 
“The Theory and Technicology of Baekelite.” 
Tue Chemical Club of the University of 
Tllinois is giving a series of lectures on “ The 
Field of Chemistry,” endeavoring to help the 
younger: student in chemistry to “find him- 
self ” and to show him the economic or “ dollar 
and cents” situation. Professor A. V. Blein- 
inger, Professor Edward Bartow, S. W. Parr 
and H. S. Grindley will speak on the divisions 
in which they are interested. 
Tue twelfth lecture of the Harvey Soeiety 
series was delivered by Dr. W. S. Thayer, of 
the Johns Hopkins University, on March 23, 
at the New York Academy of Medicine, the 
subject being “ Malaria.” 
A COMMITTEE has been formed to erect a 
monument in honor of the late Dr. Janssen, 
the eminent French astrophysicist. 
A sust of Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers, the 
distinguished founder of the Zoological Sta- 
tion at Roscoff in Brittany, is to be erected 
upon one of the public squares at Roscoff, near 
the laboratory and fronting the sea. The 
execution of the bust, which is to be mounted 
on a shaft of granite, is to be entrusted to a 
Breton artist, M. Guillioic. Professor Yves 
Delage, 16 Rue du Docteur Berger, 4 Sceaux 
(Seine), acts as secretary of the committee in 
charge of the proposed monument. 
Epwin SasBine Renwick, a well-known con- 
sulting engineer, son of James Renwick, pro- 
fessor of chemistry and natural philosophy at 
Columbia University, has died at the age of 
eighty-nine years. 
Tue International Association of Medical 
Museums will meet at the University of 
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, on April 4, and 
the American Association of Pathologists and 
Bacteriologists at the same place on April 5 
and 6. 
Tue Washington Academy of Sciences held 
a conversazione, with an exhibit of new and 
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interesting apparatus from the U. S. govern- 
ment and other scientific laboratories of 
Washington, in one of the rooms of the new 
National Museum on March 28. 
Proressor Grorce D. Hupparp, head of the 
department of geology in Oberlin College, has 
concluded plans for a field expedition for ad- 
vanced students in connection with the work 
of the Oberlin Summer School. The party 
will leave at the close of the college year for 
West Virginia where New River cuts through 
the Appalachian Mountains, entering a terri- 
tory containing examples of an unusually 
large number of geologic phenomena. Stu- 
dents furnish their own tents and equipment 
and camp during the entire trip, remaining in 
the field seven weeks and two days. This year 
for the first time women students will be ad- 
mitted to the course. Mrs. Hubbard will ac- 
company the expedition. Dr. Lynds Jones, 
associate professor of animal ecology, will 
conduct a field ornithological expedition to 
Point Pelee on Lake Erie, where special in- 
vestigations will be made regarding bird mi- 
gration. 
THE twenty-third annual session of the Bio- 
logical Laboratory of the Brooklyn Institute 
of Arts and Sciences will be held at Cold 
Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York, dur- 
ing the summer of 1912. Regular class work 
begins June 26 and continues for six weeks. 
Courses are offered in field zoology by Drs. 
Walter, Davenport and Kornhauser; in bird 
study by Mrs. Walter and others; in compara- 
tive anatomy in charge of Professor H. S. 
Pratt, Haverford College; cryptogamic botany 
in charge of Professor H. H. York, of Brown 
University; training course for field workers 
in eugenics in charge of Mr. H. H. Laughlin, 
of the Eugenics Record Office with lectures by 
Dr. C. B. Davenport. Facilities are offered 
for investigators. Further details are given 
in the announcement of the laboratory which 
may be obtained by addressing the director, 
Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y. 
AccorDING to astronomical bulletins sent 
by Professor Edward CO. Pickering, director of 
the Harvard College Observatory, the history 
