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sity of North Carolina were opened on May 
8. These laboratories present a complete 
equipment for anatomy, physiology, pathology, 
histology, pharmacology and the other studies 
usually included in the first two years’ course. 
Proyost Edgar F. Smith, of the University of 
Pennsylvania, delivered the chief address. 
The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred 
upon Provost Smith, Dr. Charles W. Stiles, 
in charge of the work of the Rockefeller Hook- 
worm Commission, and Dr. Richard H. Lewis, 
formerly secretary of the North Carolina 
Board of Health and president of the National 
Health Association. 
Dr. W. P. BraDtey, professor of chemistry 
at Wesleyan University, has been granted 
leave of absence for the year 1912-13, to 
organize a department of research for the 
United States Rubber Goods Company. 
THE American Philosophical Society has 
appointed the following delegates to represent 
it on the occasions designated: The Hon. 
Charlemagne Tower, at the inauguration of 
John Grier Hibben as president of Princeton 
University, on May 11; Dr. Morris Jastrow, 
Jr., at the fourth Congress on the History of 
Religions, to meet in Leyden on September 
9-13 next; Professor Edward W. Morley, of 
West Hartford, Conn.; Professor Marston T. 
Bogert, of New York, and Professor Theo. 
William Richards, of Cambridge, at the eighth 
International Congress of Applied Chemistry, 
to be held in Washington and New York, 
September 4-13 next. 
Dr. Franz Boas, professor of anthropology 
in Columbia University and in the University 
of Mexico, has returned to New York after a 
winter in Mexico and has immediately sailed 
for England to attend the Congress of Amer- 
icanists to be held in London beginning on 
May 27. 
Dr. Grorce Byron Gorpon, director of the 
University of Pennsylvania Museum, has 
been appointed a delegate to represent the 
university at the Highteenth International 
Congress of Americanists. 
Proressork GkrorcE H. Parker, Harvard 
University, gave the sixth lecture in the 
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course offered to the students in the depart- 
ment of biology at Trinity College, on the 
evening of May 2 with the subject, “The 
Nervous System.” 
Mr. Tatcott WintiaMs, director of the 
School of Journalism of Columbia University, 
is giving the Phi Beta Kappa address at the 
universities of Wisconsin, Minnesota and 
Nebraska on May 6 to 9 on “ The Old Learn- 
ing and the New.” 
ProFEssor JOSEPH JAsSTROW, of the Univer- 
sity of Wisconsin, will give the commence- 
ment address at the Normal School, Emporia, 
Kansas, on June 5, and also addresses at the 
opening of the summer school there. 
Proressor Lintien’ J. Martin, of the psy- 
chological department of Stanford University, 
gave an address on “Ueber die Localisation 
optischer Vorstellungsbilder” at the Fifth 
Congress for Experimental Psychology, held 
in Berlin from April 16 to 19, 1912. Her ad- 
dress appears in full in the April number of 
the Monatschrift fiir Psychiatrie und Neurol- 
ogie. 
SPECIAL lectures will be given at Kings Col- 
lege, University of London, by Dr. F. W. 
Mott, F.R.S., on May 20, 27, June 8 and 10, 
on “ Heredity considered from the Point of 
View of Physiology and Pathology.” 
THERE will be civil service examinations on 
June 5, for the position of agricultural prop- 
agator in the Philippine Service at a salary of 
$1,600; for examiners of surveys in the field 
service of the Department of Agriculture, at 
entrance salaries ranging from $1,200 to 
$1,500, and for scientific assistants, qualified 
in farm equipment, in the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, at salaries of $1,200 to $1,400. 
Tue late Henry Iden bequeathed $100,000 
to Cooper Union, New York City, and among 
other public bequests $10,000 each to the 
American Museum of Natural History, the 
New York Botanical Garden and the New 
York Zoological Society. 
Two eggs of the Great Auk, as we learn 
from the London Jimes, were sold on April 
17 at Mr. J. C. Stevens’s rooms in King- 
