August 30, 1912] 



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S. A. Forbes, of the University of Illinois, 

 contributed a series of observations on " Sim- 

 ulium and Pellagra in Illinois, U. S. A." He 

 has failed to associate directly the many 

 cases of pelagra investigated with insects of 

 this genus. 



The congress decided to institute an inter- 

 national committee to deal with the subject 

 of entomological nomenclature, and advised 

 the formation of national committees in each 

 country, to be elected by the various entomo- 

 logical societies, to collect opinions and con- 

 sider changes required in the international 

 code; and further commissioned the interna- 

 tional committee to communicate their reso- 

 lutions to the international committee on 

 zoological nomenclature. 



The third international congress will be 

 held at Vienna in 1915, under the presidency 

 of Dr. A. Handlirsch. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Wilhelm Wundt, professor of philos- 

 ophy in the University of Leipzig, one of the 

 founders of modern psychology,, celebrated his 

 eightieth birthday on August 16, on which 

 occasion a " Wilhelm Wundt Stiftung," 

 amounting to 7,000 Marks, was presented to 

 the university by his students and friends. 



The students, colleagues and friends of the 

 late Professor Thomas H. Montgomery are 

 desirous of purchasing his zoological library 

 and presenting it to the University of Penn- 

 sylvania in grateful recognition of his services 

 and achievements. It is proposed to mark 

 each volume with a book-plate indicating that 

 it forms part of The Montgomery Memorial 

 Library. Contributions towards the purchase 

 of the library may be sent to Dr. H. G. Kribs, 

 treasurer. Zoological Laboratory, University 

 of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Dr. Charles L. Parsons, secretary of the 

 American Chemical Society, will move to 

 Washington on September 1, and the main 

 office of the American Chemical Society will 

 be in that city after the date mentioned, with 

 address as Box 505, Washington, D. C. 



The International Lenval prize of the Oto- 

 logical Congress has been awarded to Dr. 

 George E. Shambaugh, Chicago, for his work 

 on the anatomy and physiology of the laby- 

 rinth. 



Dr. Hans Winkler, associate professor of 

 botany at Tiibingen, has been appointed di- 

 rector of the Botanical Institute at Hamburg. 



De. Hermann Kredner, professor of geology 

 and paleontology at Leipzig, has retired from 

 active service. 



Dr. Alexander Naumann, professor of 

 chemistry at Giessen and since 1882 director 

 of the chemical laboratories, celebrated his 

 seventy-fifth birthday on July 31. 



Professor George Grant MacCurdt, of 

 Tale University, has been appointed the repre- 

 sentative of the American Museum of Natural 

 History at the eighth session of the Congres 

 Prehistorique de Prance, at Angouleme, Au- 

 gust 18-24. He will also represent the mu- 

 seum at the fourteenth session of the Congres 

 International d'Anthropologie et d'Archeol- 

 ogie prehistoriques, to be held at Geneva the 

 first week in September. 



Professor Herbert E. Gregory, head of the 

 department of geology in Tale University, has 

 sailed for Peru to join the Tale Peruvian 

 expedition under Professor Hiram Bingham. 

 They expect to return at Christmas time. 



The resignation of Professor Sarah F. 

 Whiting, who founded the department of 

 physics at Wellesley College and has been its 

 head ever since, has been accepted by tne 

 trustees, and Miss Louise Sherwood McDowell, 

 Ph.D. (Cornell), has been appointed her suc- 

 cessor. Professor Whiting was the first 

 woman student in physics at the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, where Professor 

 E. C. Pickering had lately started a students' 

 laboratory. She opened the laboratories at 

 Wellesley in 1878, thus antedating most stu- 

 dent laboratories in American colleges. 

 Courses in the new astronomy were offered as 

 applied physics until Professor Whiting se- 

 cured the funds to build an observatory with 

 an exceptional equipment. For ten years she 

 has had charge of both departments. She 



