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ity College, for an Essay on "Studies in the 

 theory of radiative equilibrium," and to G. C. 

 Steward, Gonville and Caius College, for an 

 Essay on "The Aberration-diftraetion problem." 

 J. A. Carroll, Sidney Sussex College, has been 

 elected to an Isaac Newton Studentship, and the 

 studentship of W. M. H. Greaves, St. John's 

 College, has been prolonged for a year. 



The American Medical Association has grant- 

 ed to Dr. Reynold A. Spaeth, of the Depart- 

 ment of Physiology, School of Hygiene and 

 Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, the 

 sum of $200 to further his researches on the 

 relation between susceptibility and fatigue. 



De. W. a. Cannon, of the Department of 

 Botanical Research of the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington, has returned to this country 

 from South Africa where for several months he 

 was engaged in making observations on the 

 plants and on the conditions of plant life in 

 certain of the more arid portions of that 

 country. 



Professor Lazarus Barlow, who holds the 

 chair of experimental pathology at the Middle- 

 sex Hospital Medical School, is visiting the 

 United States to investigate methods of cancer 

 research and radium treatment. 



Professor Alexander Maximofp, formerly 

 professor of histology and embryology at the 

 Imperial Academy, Petrogi-ad, has arrived in 

 Chicago from Russia to accept an appointment 

 in the department of anatomy at the University 

 of Chicago. 



On February 19 Dr. Francis W. Simonds 

 completed thirty-two years of continuous serv- 

 ice as head of the department of geology in the 

 University of Texas. Dr. Simonds is now the 

 senior professor in the faculty of the College of 

 Arts and Sciences, and for the past five years 

 he has been secretary of the general faculty. 



The University of Buffalo recently combined 

 with Canisius College and the Buffalo Society 

 of Natural Sciences in bringing Professor M. M. 

 Metcalf, formerly of Oberlin College, to Buffalo 

 for a series of three lectures on "Animal Distri- 

 bution; Man's Origin; Man's Future: can he 

 control it?" The lectures were given on April 



26, 2/ and 28, and the course was attended by 

 about 3,500 people. 



Professor C. J. Ketser gave, on April 20, 

 a lecture before the Detroit Mathematics Club 

 on the mathematical obligations of philosophy 

 and education. 



Frederick V. Coville, botanist of the Bu- 

 reau of Plant Industry, delivered the annual 

 address before the Gamma Sigma Delta frater- 

 nity of the Kansas State Agricultural College 

 on April 26. His subject was the "Influence of 

 cold in stimulating the growth of plants." While 

 in Manhattan, Mr. Coville visited the station 

 projects and lectured before the staff members 

 on "Acid tolerant plants" and related subjects. 



Sir Ernest Rutherford delivered a Royal 

 Institution lecture on April 7, on "The evolu- 

 tion of the elements." 



George Bruce Halsted, professor of mathe- 

 matics at the University of Texas from 1882 to 

 19'03 and subsequently at the State Teachers 

 College, Greeley, Colorado, died in New York 

 City on March 19, at the age of sixty-nine years. 



Dr. Ansel A. Tyler, professor of biology in 

 James Millikin University, died of pneumonia 

 on Friday, March 31. Dr. Tj'ler was born in 

 East Bridgewater, Pa., in 1869. He did his 

 undergraduate work in Lafayette College and 

 received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. 

 He had served on the faculties of Union Col- 

 lege, Syi'acuse University; University of Ari- 

 zona; and Bellevue College, Omaha. 



Hexry Newton Dixon, formerly lecturer in 

 the Oxford School of Geography and professor 

 of geography in University College, Reading, 

 has died at the age of fifty-six years. 



Philippe Auguste Gute, professor of phys- 

 ics at Geneva, died on March 27, at the age of 

 sixty years. 



Professor Hetn, whose work at the Mate- 

 rialpriifungsamt, first under Martens and later 

 as co-director, has made his name known to 

 engineers and metallurgists, has died at Berlin 

 at the age of sixty-eight years. 



The death is announced of Professor Robert 

 Wenger, director of the Geophysical Institute of 



