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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LV, No. 141S 



.'■.!ip;ii-i;cn of ;inlin;ils aiiil 

 ,oi-ial beetles." 

 ::ioli:an- fuid social." 

 .)li:ary an-i social." 



>■■ reiopinent, castes, 



Jr., U. S. National Museum, Washington, 

 D. C; Ui-. T. S. Palmai', U. S. Biological Sur- 

 vey, Washington, U. C; Dr. Barton W. Ever- 

 mann, California Academy Sciences, San Fran- 

 cisco, California; Dr. Robert Cushman Ivlm-phy, 

 American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York, N. Y. 



Peopessoe Willjaji M. Wheelee, dean of 

 the Bussey In.-ti:-: ■-'?- ^T'^'-ard University, will 

 give at tlie Lov, , Boston, a series 



of lppl,^,:.<. r.i • .L:_j Ainong Insects." 



Tlje . ■ 'a-' oi' the individual lec- 



tures . 



Fala' ■ 

 luiniaa 



Maacli i; " V\ 



Ma.reli 6: "B 



Ma- ' a ■-.■ 

 iiosi in 



Maj.;. :.,: ■ .-.-J - anil ant guests." 



J.Iarcli IG : " Termites, or white ants. ' ' 



Dia ".^' a K. Gregory, Ph. D., associate 

 proi. . c'brate paleontology at Colum- 



bia Lii!', c a- -raator of the Department 



of Compa any of the American Mu- 



seum of Nai ... _i- cory, w^Il deliver on March 

 4, 11, IS and 25 at the Wagner Free Institute 

 of Science in Philadelphia, four lectures on 

 "The Evolution of the Human Face." 



Peofessoe W. J. Mj3ad, of the department 

 of geology of the University of Wisconsin, 

 gave a course of twelve lectures in metamorphic 

 geology at the University of Chicago during 

 the first half of the winter quarter. 



De. Woods Hutchinson, of New York, ad- 

 di-essed the staff of the Mayo Clinic on Janu- 

 ary 18; he discussed "Causes of high death 

 rates reported." 



De. John li. Stokes, of the Mayo Clinic, 

 recently addressed Institutes in Memphis, 

 Tennessee, and Louisville, Kentucky, as a 

 special consultant of the United States Public 

 Health Service. 



De. Haeold Hibbeet, of Yale University, 

 addressed the students of the Department of 

 Chemistry of Oberlin College, on February 8, 

 on "Recent woi'k on the constitution of starch 



and cellulose." On February 10, he lectured 

 to the Syracuse Section of the American Chemi- 

 cal Society on: "The role of alkali in the future 

 development of the cattle-food, ceilulose, wood- 

 pulp, and liquid fuel industries," and, on the 

 foilowiu'? day spoke to the graduate students 

 of the department of chemistry of Syracuse 

 University and cf the New York State College 

 of Fore.try on "A review of recent w-ork on 

 tlie polysacicharides." 



Be. W. W. Swingle, of the zoology depart- 

 ment of Yale University, lectured recently at 

 Mour.; Hoiyoke on '-The eftect of thyroid se- 

 cretion upon growth and development." 



CiiAiaaES Leonard Bouton, professor of 

 mathemaiics at Harvard Universiij', died on 

 February '2i), aged fifty-three years. 



Charles Lewis Tayloe, president of the 

 Carnegie Hero Fund Commission and chairman 

 of the Carnegie Relief Fund, died on February 

 3 in Santa Barbara, California, at the age of 

 sixty-five years. He was prominent as a metal- 

 lurgist and chemist. 



EocEET L. Jack, for many years government 

 geologist in Queensland, died at Sydney, New 

 South Wales, in November, at the age of 

 seventy-six years. 



Me. J. Fischer-I-Iinken, professor of elec- 

 trotechnics and director of the Electrotechnic 

 Institute of the Winterthur Technical College, 

 died on January 13, at the age of fifty-two 

 years. 



Emile Riviere, well-known for his explora- 

 tions of paleolithic caves of Mentone and the 

 south of Prance, died in Paris on Januarj' 25, 

 at the age of eighty-six years. 



The ninetieth annual meeting of the British 

 Medical Association will be held from July 

 25 to 2D, at Glasgow, under the presidency of 

 , Sir William Maeewen, F. R. S. 



It is proposed to place a bronze memorial 

 tablet to Professor Sheridan Delepine in the 

 Public Health Laboratory at Manchester, and 

 old pupils and friends have been invited to 

 subscribe sums not exceeding one guinea. In 

 connection with the matter a committee ha:; 



