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George T. Southgate, formerly research en- 

 gineer with the American Cyanamid Company 

 at Brewster, Fla., has accepted a position in 

 the Bureau of Soils, United States Department 

 of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Charles William Dabney, who retired 

 from the presidency of the University of Cin- 

 cinnati a year ago, has established an office in 

 Houston, Texas, where he and his associates 

 are prepared to report on mineral, oil and other 

 properties. 



Dr. Raymond Pearl gave an illustrated lec- 

 ture on "The growth of population" before the 

 War College in Washington on March 6. 



Dr. John A. Widtsoe, formerly president of 

 the Utah Agricultural College and later of the 

 University of Utah, is delivering a series of 

 lectures at the Brigham Young University on 

 "The making of science." 



President Walter Dill Scott, of North- 

 western University, formerly professor of psy 

 ehology, will give the convocation address at 

 the one hundred twenty-fourth convocation of 

 the University of Chicago on March 21. His 

 subject will be "Handling men." 



Recently, under the auspices of the depart- 

 ment of physics of the School of Mines and 

 Metallurgy, RoUa, Missouri, Professor S. R. 

 Williams, of Oberlin College, spoke to the stu- 

 dents of the department of physics on "The 

 principle of Bernoulli and some of its applica- 

 tions"; to the Science Club on "Magnetic- 

 mechanical analysis of ferromagnetic sub- 

 stances," and at chapel on "The spirit of schol- 

 arship." 



Dr. Otto Klotz, director of the Dominion 

 Observatory, delivered an address before the 

 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on 

 "Astronomy in Canada" on February 28. 



Professor H. E. Armstrong, who has con- 

 sented to deliver the first Messel Memorial Lec- 

 ture at the forthcoming annual meeting of the 

 Society of Chemical Industry, has chosen as the 

 subject of his discourse, "Rhapsodies culled 

 fi-om the Thionic Epos, including a discussion 

 of the conditions determinative of chemical 

 interchange." 



Dr. Major Greenwood, Milroy lecturer be- 

 for the Royal College of Physicians of London, 

 had for the subject of his lectures on March 9, 

 14 and 16, "The influence of industrial em- 

 ployment on general health." The Goulstonian 

 lectures to be given by Dr. Anthony Felling, 

 on March 21, 23 and 28, will deal with the 

 interpretation of symptoms in disease of the 

 central nervous system. Dr. Hector Macken- 

 zie's Lumleian lectures on diseases of the 

 thyroid gland will be delivered on March 30 

 and April 4 and 6. 



William James Comstock, for many years 

 instructor of organic chemistry at the Shef- 

 field Scientific School of Yale University, died 

 on January 24, at the age of sixty-two years. 



George Lyman Cannon, for thirty-four 

 years instructor in biology and geology in the 

 Denver high schools, author of contributions to 

 geology and natural history, died on February 

 15, at the age of sixty-two years. 



The death is announced at the age of forty- 

 two years of Professor Erich Ebler, professor 

 of inorganic and analytical chemistry in the 

 newly founded University of Frankfort-on-the- 

 Main. 



An appropriation of $34,978,033, to meet 

 expenses of the Department of Agriculture 

 during the coming year is recommended in a 

 bill reported on March 6 by the House Appro- 

 priations Committee. The total is $3,710,026 

 less than the amount appropriated for the cur- 

 rent fiscal year and $1,554,683 less than budget 

 estimates. 



The defeat of the Ellis evolution bill by the 

 Kentucky House of Representatives by a ma- 

 jority of one vote on March 10 finally disposed 

 of the question at this session of the legislature. 

 The Rash bill in the Senate recently was re- 

 committed and the rules committee refused to 

 allow it to be reported. The Ellis bill would 

 have forbidden the teaching in the University 

 of Kentucky, the normal schools and the public 

 schools of "Darwinism, atheism, agnostics or 

 evolution as it pertains to the origin of man." 

 It was the first of three similar bills introduced 

 this season, two in the House and one in the 

 Senate. The other bills can not be passed, 



