APRIL 26, 1912] 
Dr. Pavut G. Freer, director of the United 
States Government Scientific Bureau in the 
Philippines and previously professor of chem- 
istry in the University of Michigan, died at 
Beguio on April 17, at the age of forty-nine 
years. 
Tue letters of the late Professor William 
James are being collected for biographical 
purposes. Those who have any of his letters 
can render assistance that will be highly ap- 
preciated by addressing Mr. Henry James, Jr., 
95 Irving Street, Cambridge, Mass. Casual 
or brief letters may have an interest or impor- 
tance not apparent to the person preserving 
them; and news of the whereabouts of such 
letters will be gratefully received. 
Mr. A. D. Hatt, F.R.S., has resigned from 
the directorship of the Rothamsted Experi- 
ment Station. 
Proresssor H. F. Newatt, F.R.S., has been 
elected a member of the Atheneum Club for 
distinguished eminence in science. 
Proressor Pau WALDEN, of Riga, has been 
elected an honorary member of the Chemical 
Society, London. 
At the annual meeting of the Harvey So- 
ciety, held on April 10, the following officers 
were elected for 1912-13: 
President—Frederie 8S. Lee. 
Vice-president—William H. Park. 
Treasurer—Edward K. Dunham. 
Secretary—Haven Emerson. 
Additional Members of the Executive Committee 
—S. J. Meltzer, Graham Lusk, W. G. McCallum. 
Tue Journal of the American Medical Asso- , 
ciation states that a dinner was given to Dr. 
Ludvig Hektoen at the Chicago Club on April 
11 by the faculties of Rush Medical College 
and the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
and his former students at these institutions, 
in honor of the twenty-first anniversary of his 
entrance into the practise of medicine. Dr. 
Frank Billings presided. An oil-painting of 
Dr. Hektoen was presented to him by his 
friends, the presentation speech being made by 
Dr. E. R. Le Count. Professor E. O. Jordan 
and Drs. H. Gideon Wells and James B. Her- 
rick responded to toasts. 
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Proressor Gerorce Grant MacCurpy, of 
Yale University, is installing a hall of Euro- 
pean prehistoric anthropology for the Amer- 
ican Museum of Natural History, New York. 
Dr. J. N. Rost, who has recently been ap- 
pointed research associate in the Department 
of Botanical Research of the Carnegie Insti- 
tution, sailed for Europe on April 17, where 
he goes to investigate cactus collections in 
the various botanical gardens of England, 
France, Italy and Germany. He will be away 
about two months. His European address 
will be: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Lon- 
don, England. 
Proressor G. FREDERICK WRIGHT, professor 
emeritus of geology at Oberlin College, presi- 
dent of the Ohio State Archeological and His- 
torical Society, is carrying on a systematic 
investigation of the Ohio mounds. At present 
the society is erecting two buildings of impor- 
tance, one at Columbus, costing $100,000, to 
serve as a general library and museum, the 
other at Fremont, costing $40,000, to hold the 
library of Americana left by the late President 
Rutherford B. Hayes. Professor Wright has 
in press a volume on “The Origin and An- 
tiquity of Man,” which will appear in July. 
On March 27 Dr. Samuel W. Williston, 
professor of paleontology in the University of 
Chicago, delivered an address to the students 
of the Kansas State Agricultural College, at 
Manhattan. Coincidently this date was the 
fortieth anniversary of his graduation from 
the college. On this date also he matriculated 
his youngest daughter in the domestic science 
department of the college. On March 29 
Professor Williston delivered a lecture on the 
“ Bvolution of Early Vertebrates” to a special 
meeting of the College Science Club. 
At the annual meeting of the Michigan 
Academy of Science, held at Ann Arbor March 
2%-29, the principal address was delivered by 
Professor Albert A. Michelson, of the Univer- 
sity of Chicago. The subject of the address, 
which was illustrated, was “ Iridescent Colors 
in Birds and Insects.” Professor E. C. Case, 
of the University of Michigan, was elected 
president of the academy. 
