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museums of London, Tring, Paris and Berlin 

 were studied. The large series thus passed in 

 review provided data for many generaliza- 

 tions hitherto impossible. A summary of the 

 results will soon be published, the details of 

 the work being reserved for the monograph 

 on which Mr. Beebe is engaged, to be pub- 

 lished under the auspices of the New York 

 Zoological Society. 



Dr. F. E. Watson, of the department of 

 physics of the University of Illinois, has re- 

 turned after a year's leave of absence. The 

 year was spent almost entirely in Germany, 

 where the universities of Berlin and Munich 

 were attended, and special work was done in 

 the subject of acoustics. 



Professor Williston S. Hough, dean of 

 the Teachers College and professor of philos- 

 ophy at the George Washington University, 

 Washington, D. C, died suddenly on Sep- 

 tember 18 at the age of fifty-two years. 



Dr. John Wade, reader in chemistry in the 

 University of London, known for his work in 

 organic chemistry, was killed by a bicycling 

 accident on August 15, aged forty-eight years. 



M. Louis Ceie, professor of botany at Caen, 

 has died, aged sixty-two years. 



The death is announced of Dr. Rudolf 

 Homes, professor of g'eology at Graz, and dis- 

 tinguished for his work on earthquakes. 



Professor Herman F. Wiebe, of the State 

 Institute of Physics and Technology at Ham- 

 burg, died at the age of sixty years in New 

 York City, where he had come to attend the 

 International Congress for Testing Materials. 



The International Congress of Mathema- 

 ticians recently meeting at Cambridge ad- 

 journed to meet in Stockholm in 1916. 



The fourteenth meeting of the Australasian 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 will be held in Melbourne in January, 1913. 



The International Congress on Hygiene 

 and Demography opened on September 21. 

 President Taft, honorary president of the con- 

 gress, opened its session at 11 o'clock on that 

 morning. The delegates number some 2,800, 

 representing thirty-three foreign governments. 



every American state and territory, over 300 

 American cities, leading colleges and univer- 

 sities here and in Europe, and many scientific, 

 medical and social institutions throughout the 

 world. In addition, many eminent visitors 

 are in attendance. The congress is divided 

 into eleven sections and four general sessions 

 have been arranged. Dr. Henry P. Walcott, 

 chairman of the State Board of Health of 

 Massachusetts, is president of the congress. 

 The presidents of the sections are as follows: 



Professor Theobald Smith, Harvard Medical 

 School, Boston, Hygienic Microbiology. 



Dr. Russell H. Chittenden, professor of physi- 

 ology and chemistry and director of the Sheffield 

 Scientific School of Yale, Dietetic Hygiene. 



Dr. A. Jacobi, New York City, president of the 

 American Medical Association, The Hygiene of 

 Infancy. 



Dr. Lewellys F. Barker, professor of internal 

 medicine of Johns Hopkins University, Mental 

 Hygiene. 



Dr. George M. Kober, professor of hygiene at 

 Georgetown University, The Hygiene of Occupa- 

 tions. 



Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, medical director of the 

 department of health, New York City, The Con- 

 trol of Infectious Diseases. 



Dr. Prank P. Wesbrook, professor of pathology 

 and bacteriology of the University of Minnesota, 

 State and Municipal Hygiene. 



Dr. Prince A. Morrow, New York City, Sex 

 Hygiene. 



Dr. Eupert Blue, Surgeon General of the United 

 States PubUc Health Service, The Hygiene of 

 Traffic and Transportation. 



Dr. Henry G. Beyer, U. 8. N., Military, Naval, 

 Tropical and Colonial Hygiene. 



Professor Walter P. Willcox, president of the 

 American Statistical Association, Cornell Univer- 

 sity, Demography. 



Dr. W. S. Bruce, the Scottish explorer, has 

 arrived at his home near Edinburgh, from his 

 surveying expedition with Dr. R. N. R. 

 Brown in Spitzbergen. According to the 

 London Times the explorers have made a 

 detailed topographical survey of the region 

 traversed by them and a general geological 

 investigation. They traveled from Bjona 

 Haven to Advent Bay by a new route over 

 land in which, so far as is known, reindeer, 



