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has decided to use it to equip in the psycho- 

 logical laboratory at Leipzig a department for 

 psychological acoustics and phonetics. 



Professor Emile Borel, of the University 

 of Paris, and director of the Bevue du Mois 

 and of the Nouvelle Collection Scientifique, 

 who is to be present at the opening of the Rice 

 Institute of Houston, Texas, will be the guest 

 of the University of Illinois part of the week 

 beginning October 14. 



Dr. E. Tait McKenzie, professor of physical 

 education at the University of Pennsylvania, 

 has executed a large bronze medallion known 

 as " The Joy of Effort " which has been pre- 

 sented to the Swedish nation by the American 

 committee on the Olympic games and is now 

 being mounted in granite in the wall of the 

 stadium at Stockholm. 



Dr. Henry Eox, professor of biology at 

 Ursinus College, has resigned to accept the 

 position of assistant in entomology in the 

 Bureau of Entomology. For the present he 

 will be engaged at the permanent station of 

 Lafayette, Indiana. 



Dr. R. Kent Beattie, recently professor of 

 botany in the State College of Washington, 

 Pullman, Wash., has accepted a position as 

 expert in the office of forest pathology of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry. 



Mr. Harold Bryant, M.S. (Calif.), has been 

 reappointed fellow in applied zoology in the 

 University of California on the State Eish and 

 Game Foundation for the continuance of an 

 investigation into the economic status of the 

 meadow lark, begun last year under the same 

 appointment. Mr. Frank C. Clarke, M.S. 

 (Calif.), has been appointed to a similar fel- 

 lowship for the investigation of the problem 

 of deer conservation in the state of California. 

 The state commission and the department of 

 zoology at the university cooperate in the in- 

 vestigation with a view to determining a sci- 

 entific basis for legislation. 



T. A. Bendrat, who has been engaged in 

 teaching economic geology at the University 

 of North Carolina, sailed from New York on 



the Saramacca on June 12 for Venezuela, 

 where he will enter an engagement as recon- 

 naisance geologist for at least two years. 



While Professor E. J. McCaustland, Mem. 

 Am. Soc. C. E., was prosecuting some water- 

 power investigations on the Deschutes River 

 in Oregon the boat in which he and two men 

 were traveling was swamped in the rapids and 

 his two companions were drowned. Professor 

 McCaustland clung to the boat and was car- 

 ried nearly a mile down the river and finally 

 flung upon a rock in mid-stream. Three hours 

 later he was rescued from this position by 

 some men, who succeeded in getting a line out 

 to him and who pulled him to the shore. The 

 drowned men had both been selected to handle 

 the boat on account of their long experience 

 in river work. Both were excellent swimmers, 

 but were unable to make shore on account of 

 eddies and cross-currents. 



Professor Wilhelm Ostwald, formerly of 

 the University of Leipzig, will deliver a course 

 of lectures at the University of Illinois during 

 the week beginning October 13. The' titles of 

 the lectures will be announced later. 



The following provisional program of lec- 

 tures before the Harvey Society, New York, 

 for the season of 1912-13 has been arranged: 



October 5 — Professor Max Rubner, University of 

 Berlin : ' ' Modern steam sterilization. ' ' 



November 9 — Professor Joseph Erlanger, George 

 "Washington University: "The localization of im- 

 pulse initiation and conduction in the heart." 



November 23 — Professor G. N. Stewart, Western 

 Reserve University : ' ' The rate of the blood flow 

 and the vasomotor reflexes in disease." 



December 14: Professor P. B. Mallory, Harvard 

 University: "The infectious lesions of blood ves- 

 sels. ' ' 



January 18— Major J. J. Russell, U.S.A.: "The 

 prevention of typhoid fever." 



February 15 — Professor Theodore C. Janeway, 

 Columbia University: "Nephritic hypertension: 

 clinical and experimental studies. ' ' 



March 1 — Professor Edward G. Conklin, Prince- 

 ton University : ' ' The size of organisms and their 

 constituent parts in relation to longevity, senes- 

 cence and rejuvenescence." 



March 22 — Professor John Howland, Johns Hop- 



