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noons there are public lectures at the College 

 of the City of New York by distir fished 

 chemists whose names have already been given 

 in Science. An extensive series of banquets, 

 receptions, teas and excursions has been ar- 

 ranged, and at the close of the congress excur- 

 sions have been planned to Chicago and to 

 California. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The following Americans have expressed 

 their intention to be present at the meeting 

 of the British Association, which opens this 

 week at Dundee: Professor E. E. Allardice, 

 Stanford; Professor Frank Allen, Manitoba; 

 Professor Burton-Opitz, Columbia; Professor 

 Irvine Cameron, Toronto; Professor D. H. 

 Campbell, Stanford; Professor Archibald 

 Clark, Manitoba; Dr. G. W. Field, Boston, 

 Mass.; Professor J. C. Fields, Toronto; Miss 

 Alice Fletcher, Cambridge, Mass.; Dr. W. 

 H. Hale, New York; Professor Paul Hanus, 

 Harvard; Professor Ida Hyde, Kansas; Pro- 

 fessor A. E. Kennelly, Harvard; Professor 

 A. B. Macallum, Toronto; Professor J. J. E. 

 Macleod, Western Reserve; Professor J. C. 

 McLennan, Toronto; Professor F. P. Mall, 

 Johns Hopkins; Professor Gustav Mann, 

 Tulane; Dr. S. J. Meltzer, Eockefeller Insti- 

 tute; Professor E. A. Millikan, Chicago; 

 Professor E. C. Moore, Yale; Professor B. 

 O. Peirce, Harvard; Professor F. H. Pike, 

 Columbia; Dr. J. W. Spencer, Washington; 

 Professor Swale Vincent, Manitoba, and Pro- 

 fessor A. G. Webster, Clark. 



Professor Bernstein, formerly director of 

 the Laboratory of Physiology at Halle, cele- 

 brated on August 3 the fiftieth anniversary of 

 his doctorate. 



Dr. Gustav Fritsch, honorary professor at 

 Berlin, known for his work on localization in 

 the brain and for his other contributions to 

 physiology, histology and anthropology, has 

 also celebrated the same anniversary. 



The city of Paris has named the pavilion 

 at the St. Anne Asylum in honor of Dr. Val- 

 entin Magnan, who has retired from the di- 

 rectorship, which he has held since 1857. 



The King and Queen of Norway on August 

 20 gave a dinner in honor of Captain Amund- 

 sen. He presented the king with the silk flag 

 which he had with him at the South Pole. 



Mr. a. Crompton, a research assistant at 

 the Pasteur Institute, Paris, has been ap- 

 pointed a member of the staff of the Imperial 

 Cancer Eesearch Fund, London. 



Dr. Geo. E. Lyman, assistant professor of 

 botany in Dartmouth College, will take the 

 work of Professor Eoland Thaxter during the 

 coming year, at Harvard University, while 

 Professor Thaxter is absent on his sabbatical 

 leave. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the Southern Med- 

 ical Association has appointed a special com- 

 mission consisting of Captain Charles F. 

 Craig, M. C, U. S. Army, chairman; Dr. 

 Graham E. Henson, Crescent City, Fla., secre- 

 tary, and Drs. E. H. von Ezdorf, TJ. S. P. H. 

 Service, Mobile; William Kraus, Memphis^ 

 Tenn. ; Creighton Wellman, New Orleans; 

 William H. Deaderick, Maxianna, Ark. ; W. S. 

 Thayer, Baltimore, Scale Harris, Mobile, and 

 C. C. Bass, New Orleans. The commission 

 will tabulate information from the entire 

 south on malaria and diseases simulating- 

 malaria and will decide on what means will 

 be used for the elimination of this condition. 



Mr. G. L. Carver, professor of biology at 

 Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, will spend 

 the coming year in research work at Columbia 

 University. Mr. E. A. Ganz, B.A. (Mich- 

 igan), will be acting professor of biology at 

 Mercer University. 



Professor Herschel Parker and Mr. Bel- 

 more Brown have returned to Tacoma after 

 reaching a point within three hundred feet 

 from the summit of Mt. McKinley. 



Professor H. von Buttel-Eeefen has re- 

 turned from an expedition to the East Indies,, 

 undertaken under the auspices of the Prussian 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. C. E. Kenneth Mees on August 20 

 delivered a lecture before the Illuminating- 

 Engineering Society of England on producing- 



