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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LV, No. 1428 



Pittsburgh, President; Harry Crmn, Lawi-enee, 

 Kansas, vice-president ; Dr. C. E. Decker, Uni- 

 versity of Oklahoma, secretary-treasurer; E. F. 

 Sehranun, University of Nebraska, historian, 

 and Dr. W. A. Tarr, University of Missouri, 

 editor. 



Peopessob a. GrURWiTSCH, formerly pro- 

 fessor of anatomy and histology in Petrograd, 

 is now on the faculty of the newly founded 

 university at Simferopol, Crimea, Russia. As 

 the university library is without recent scien- 

 tific publications, he would welcome the receipt 

 of reprints, books or periodicals from his col- 

 leagues in the United States. 



De. Veenon Kellogg, permanent secretary 

 of the National Research Council, gave an ad- 

 dress before the Graduates Club of Ohio State 

 University on May 2, and the annual Phi Beta 

 Kappa address at Oberlin College on May 4. 

 He will give the annual Phi Beta Kappa ad- 

 dress at the University of Virginia on June 12. 



On April 26, Dr. Frederick Bedell, of Cor- 

 nell University, spoke before the staff of the 

 California Institute of Technology and the 

 Mount Wilson Laboratory on "Some alter- 

 nating cm-rent phenomena." 



Dr. Frederick V. Coville on April 26 de- 

 livered a lecture on "The influence of cold in 

 stimulating the growth of plants" before the 

 Kansas chapter of the honor society of agricul- 

 ture. Gamma Sigma Delta, at the Kansas State 

 Agricultural College. 



Dr. Brayton H. Ransom, of the division of 

 zoology of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 United States Department of Agriculture, gave 

 a De Lamar lecture on April 24, at the School 

 of Hygiene and Public Health of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, entitled "The hygienic 

 importance of recent discoveries in ascariasis." 



Dr. E. p. Lyon, dean of the College of Medi- 

 cine of the University of Minnesota, delivered 

 the annual Alpha Omega Alpha address before 

 the Alpha Chapter of the University of Ne- 

 braska College of Medicine on April 21, on 

 the subject "Humidity as a physiological 

 factor." 



Peopessob E. B. Titchener, Sage professor 

 of psychology, Cornell University, delivered a 



lecture on "The structui'e of the physiological 

 psychology" on April 8 before an open meet- 

 ing of the William James Club of Wesleyan 

 University. 



At the recent meeting of the Michigan Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, Dr. J. McKeen Cattell gave 

 the evening lecture under the auspices of the 

 University of Michigan, his subject being "The 

 uses of psychology." 



The Morison lectures before the Royal Col- 

 lege of Physicians of Edinburgh were delivered 

 by Professor G. Elliot Smith, on May 1, 3 and 

 5, the subject being "The evolution of the 

 human intellect." 



George R. Davis, engineer in charge of the 

 Pacitie division of the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 died recently in San Francisco. 



Adolph B. Amend, for more than twenty 

 years with the house of Eimer & Amend, New 

 York City, died at his home in Brooklyn on 

 April 19." 



Dr. Andrew McWilliam, consulting metal- 

 lurgist and formerly professor of metallurgy in 

 Sheffield University, died at Sheffield on 

 April 5. 



The death is announced of Dr. Francis 

 Darby Boyd, Moncrieff-Arnott professor of 

 clinical medicine in the University of Edin- 

 burgh, at the age of 55 years. 



A monument to the memory of the lat« Pro- 

 fessor George Trumbull Ladd, professor of 

 moral philosophy and metaphysics at Yale 

 University from 1881 to 1906, whose death oc- 

 curred in New Haven on August 8, 1921, was 

 unveiled in the grounds of a Buddhist temple 

 near Tokyo, Japan, on March 11, in the pres- 

 ence of Mrs. Ladd, Mr. Charles Beecher 

 Warren, American ambassador to Japan, and 

 Japanese friends of Professor Ladd. Speeches 

 were made by the American ambassador and a 

 number of Japanese officials, and Mrs. Ladd 

 gave a brief response. The monument consists 

 of a slab of gray, volcanic rock. It stands on 

 the top of the hill of the bell tower in the 

 grounds of Soji-ji, the great Buddhist temple 

 at Tsurumi. Beneath the slab are a part of 

 the ashes of the psychologist and philosopher, 

 brought to Japan at his request. 



