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August 30), stopped first for a day at Tusca- 

 loosa, where he was the guest of Dr. Eugene 

 A. Smith, state geologist, one of the pioneer 

 students of the relations between the geology 

 and vegetation in the southeastern states. 

 On the evening of September 21 he was given 

 an informal reception by the faculty of the 

 University of Alabama, in Smith Hall, and 

 described briefly some of his recent observa- 

 tions on mutation in (Enothera. While in 

 Alabama he was accompanied by Mr. H. H. 

 Bartlett, of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, who is also a student of (Enothera 

 mutants. After visiting Mississippi, Louisi- 

 ana and Texas, he will go late in October to 

 Florida to study the phytogeography of that 

 unique peninsula under the guidance of Dr. 

 John K. Small, Professor P. H. Eolfs, and 

 perhaps other botanists. 



Professor E. B. Dixon, of the department 

 of anthropology, of Harvard University, will 

 spend his sabbatical year in the Orient. Dur- 

 ing the autumn he will be in western Thibet, 

 but during the winter he expects to pursue his 

 ethnological researches in the Malay states. 



Professor A. S. Hitchcock, systematic 

 agrostologist of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, has gone to the West 

 Indies for the purpose of studying and col- 

 lecting grasses. He is accompanied by his 

 son, Mr. Albert E. Hitchcock, as assistant. 

 They will go first to Jamaica and later to 

 various points in the Windward Islands, prob- 

 ably visiting last the island of Trinidad. 



Dr. a. Hrdlicka, of the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum, has returned from an expedition to 

 Liberia and Mongolia. 



Professor C. W. Moulton, of Vassar Col- 

 lege, has been granted a leave of absence from 

 the college for the year 1912—13. He will pur- 

 sue special investigations at the University of 

 Berlin. 



Leave of absence for the coming year has 

 been granted by Oberlin College to Professor 

 F. E. Leonard, professor of physiology and 

 director of the men's gymnasium. Dr. Leon- 

 ard will divide his time between work under 



Professor Kelly at the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity and study and travel in Europe. 



Mr. J. B. Speer, registrar in the Univer- 

 sity of Montana, has resigned and has gone to 

 Stanford University as private secretary to 

 President Jordan. 



Professor E. C. Schmidt, in charge of the 

 department of railway engineering of the 

 University of Illinois, has been commissioned 

 by the Japanese government to design a rail- 

 way dynamometer car for the imperial gov- 

 ernment railways. The car will be constructed 

 in this country under the supervision of Pro- 

 fessor Schmidt, and is expected to be delivered 

 next spring to the representative of the 

 Japanese government. 



Professor G. H. T. Nuttall, of Cambridge 

 University, will give a Harvej' Lecture in 

 New York City on October 12 on " The Ee- 

 lapsing Fevers." 



" Social Hygiene " was the subject of a 

 recent lecture at the University of California 

 by Dr. Eichard C. Cabot, of the Harvard 

 Medical School. He urged the establishment 

 of an efficient national public health depart- 

 ment at Washington, physical examination 

 and adequate medical care by school physi- 

 cians and nurses for every child in the pub- 

 lic schools, more attention to industrial hy- 

 giene and occupational diseases, and develop- 

 ment by which the public hospitals shall more 

 and more care for the general public health. 



The Earl Lectures, supported by an en- 

 dowment of $50,000 given to the Pacific Theo- 

 logical Seminary by Mr. Edwin T. Earl, of 

 Los Angeles, are being given in Berkeley by 

 Dr. Arthur 0. McGiffert, professor of church 

 history in Union Theological Seminary, of 

 New York. His subject is " The Eise of 

 Modern Eeligious Ideas." As a state univer- 

 sity, the University of California has no 

 theological department. Several denomina- 

 tions, however, the congregationalists, bap- 

 tists, christians and unitarians, have estab- 

 lished independent theological seminaries in 

 Berkeley which devote their strength and re- 

 sources wholly to doctrinal and strictly theo- 

 logical training, while their students attend 



