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director of the Hull Anatomical Labora- 
tories of the University of Chicago, gave an 
address on “The Structure of the Pancreas 
and its bearing on the Islet Theory of Dia- 
betes.” 
THE twentieth “James Forrest” lecture 
will be delivered at the Institution of Civil 
Engineers on April 19, by Mr. H. R. Arnulph 
Mallock, F.R.S., his subject being “ Aerial 
Flight.” 
Sir WILLIAM MacreweEn will give an address 
on Lord Lister at the meeting of the Royal 
Institution of Great Britain on Friday even- 
ing, June 7. 
A portrait bust of the late Sir Joseph 
Hooker, from a sitting taken just before his 
death, has been completed by Mr. Pennachine. 
Tue funeral of Dr. Thomas H. Montgom- 
ery, Jr., professor of zoology in the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania, was held on Friday, 
March 22, at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church. 
The honorary pallbearers were: Provost Smith, 
of the University of Pennsylvania; ex-Provost 
Charles C. Harrison; Professor E. G. Conklin, 
of Princeton University; Professor G. H. 
Parker, of Harvard University; Professor J. 
P. Moore, of the University of Pennsylvania; 
Professor W. M. Wheeler, of Harvard Uni- 
versity; Professor William R. Newbold, of 
the University of Pennsylvania; William S. 
Morris and Professor Philip P. Calvert, of the 
University of Pennsylvania. 
Dr. James Rurus Tryon, formerly medical 
director of the navy, retired with the relative 
rank of rear-admiral, has died at the age of 
eighty-two years. 
Tue late Lord Wandsworth has bequeathed 
over a million pounds to establish an orphan- 
age and school; the will also contains a be- 
quest of £10,000 for medical research. 
Miss Heten Swinpetts, of Southport, has 
bequeathed £5,000 to the University of Man- 
chester for cancer research, and £5,000 to the 
benevolent fund of the Institution of Civil 
Engineers. 
Tue John Hay Library at Brown Univer- 
sity will be augmented by a collection of seven 
thousand volumes on engineering subjects, 
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the gift of Mr. Elmer L. Corthell, the hy- 
draulic and waterways engineer. The gift of 
the Corthell Library, as it is to be known, 
carries with it an endowment fund of $5,000. 
A SERIES of prizes is offered by a member of 
the Torrey Botanical Club for the best popu- 
lar article on some feature of the vegetation 
of the local flora range. The prizes will be 
as follows: (1) A first prize of $25; @) a 
second prize of $15; (8) for the five next best 
articles, a year’s subscription to Torreya. 
(Offered by the club.) The competition is 
open to all amateurs, school teachers and 
others not on the staff of a botanic garden, 
college or university. 
Tue fifth session of the Graduate School of 
Agriculture will be held under the auspices of 
the Association of American Agricultural Col- 
leges and Experiment Stations, at the Michi- 
gan Agricultural College, East Lansing, Mich., 
July 1-26, 1912. Director A. C. True, of the 
United States Office of Experiment Stations, 
will be dean of the school and the faculty, as 
usual, will consist of some of the leading 
scientific men from the United States De- 
partment of Agriculture, the American agri- 
cultural colleges and experiment stations, 
other American universities and European 
institutions. Two lecturers have been se- 
cured from England, Dr. A. D. Hall, of the 
Rothamsted Experiment Station, and Pro- 
fessor F. H. A. Marshall, Christ College, Cam- 
bridge University. This school is open only to 
college graduates who want to pursue ad- 
vanced work in _ agriculture. Graduate 
courses will be given under the general head 
of soils and plant physiology, animal physiol- 
ogy, agronomy, horticulture, swine hus- 
bandry, poultry husbandry, beef and dairy 
cattle, rural engineering and rural economics. 
Among the more important topics that will 
be given consideration at this time are the 
part played by the soil solution in the nutri- 
tion of plants, the relation of the physiology 
of plants to the soil problem, colloids in rela- 
tion to soil fertility and soil bacteriology, 
zootechnical problems in relation to the phys- 
iology of the cell, the physiology of reproduc- 
tion and the biology of sex, plant production 
