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ehoscopic Society, Dr. Samuel Iglauer, Cin- 

 cinnati. 



Professor Lewellys T. Barker, of the 

 Johns Hopkins University, will give the annual 

 address at the tenth annual meeting of the 

 Eugenics Research Association to be held at 

 Cold Spring Harbor on June 10. His subject 

 is "Heredity and the endocrine glands." 



Dr. William H. Welch, director of the 

 School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns 

 Hopkins University, gave the commencement 

 address at Bryn Mawr College on June 8. 



Dr. Frederick V. Covillb lectured before 

 the Gamma Sigma Delta of Kansas State Agri- 

 cultural College on April 26 on "The influence 

 of cold in stimulating the growth of plants." 

 At Manhattan Dr. Coville spoke before the 

 staff of the experiment station on "Acid tol- 

 erant plants" and related topics. 



Professor R. B. Moore, of the Bureau of 

 Mines, delivered a public lecture on "The man- 

 ufacture of helium by the government of the 

 United States of America" at University Col- 

 lege, London, on May 24. The chair was taken 

 by Professor J. Norman Collie. 



Dr. Jacob G. Lipman, of the New Jersey 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, who is now 

 traveling in Europe, delivered two lectures in 

 Paris recently, the first before the Academie 

 d' Agriculture on the condition of agriculture 

 in the United States, the other before the 

 Societe de Chimie Industrielle on the fertilizer 

 industry in the United States. 



Dr. George E. de Schweinitz, retiring pres- 

 ident of the American Medioal Association, has 

 accepted the invitation to deliver the Bowman 

 Lecture in London, in 19"23. 



The medical profession and allied scientific 

 bodies of Philadelphia are arranging for a cele- 

 bration of he centenary of Pasteur's birth on 

 December 27. 



Emerson McMillin, a New York banker, 

 who took an active interest in scientific work, 

 died on May 31, at the age of seventy-six years. 



John Allen Wteth, founder and for forty 

 years professor of surgery in the New York 



Polyclinic, died of heart disease, on May 28, at 

 the age of seventy-seven years. 



Ernest Solvay, distinguished for his process 

 for the manufacture of soda, died in Brussels 

 on May 26, at the age of eighty-five years. 

 M. Solvay made large gifts for scientific and 

 educational purposes. 



Dr. Rene Benoit, former director of the 

 International Bureau of Weights and Measures, 

 corresponding member of the Academy of Sci- 

 ence and of the Bureau of Longitudes, has died 

 in Dijon at the age of 78. 



A MEETING was held in Toronto on April 28, 

 of which the result was a resolution to form a 

 Canadian Metric Association. A temporary 

 committee was formed to draft a constitution, 

 and inaugurate action toward more definite 

 efforts to popularize the system for the benefit 

 of science and industry. 



The Western Psychological Association an- 

 nounces the postponement of its annual meet- 

 ing, originally announced to be held at Salt 

 Lake City on June 22 and 23. A meeting will 

 probably be arranged at Stanford University 

 later in the summer. 



The New England Intercollegiate Geological 

 Excursion will have as its leader for the com- 

 ing fall Dr. Ernst Antevs, who has been carry- 

 ing on the work of Baron de Geer since the 

 return of the latter to Sweden. Dr. Antevs 

 will demonstrate the field methods used by him 

 to obtain a record of the retreat of the ice 

 since the glacial epoch. The excursions will 

 be held on October 6 and 7, and the geologists 

 will begin their investigations at Springfield, 

 Massachusetts, following the Connecticut River 

 northward. 



The twelfth season of the Laguna Marine 

 Laboratory of Pomona College will begin on 

 June 21 and will last six weeks. Besides gen- 

 eral classes in general biology and marine 

 zoology, «there will be opportuniy for special 

 investigators. Eight private laboratories are 

 provided for individual work. Dr. W. A. Hil- 

 ton will be in charge. 



The Division of Geology and Geography of 

 the National Research Council has, been 

 informed by Professor Emile de Martonne, of 



