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been granted a leave of absence for tbe acad- 

 emic year. 



Professor Santayana, having resigned from 

 his chair at Harvard IJniversity, and Pro- 

 fessor Royce being on leave of absence for the 

 whole year and Professor Palmer for the sec- 

 ond half, there will be no full professor in 

 service on the side of pure philosophy. Pro- 

 fessor Bakewell, of Yale University, wiU 

 come up from New Haven to give instruction 

 during part of each week. 



Dr. Neil E. Stevens, recently assistant 

 pathologist in the Kansas Experiment Station, 

 has accepted a position as forest pathologist 

 in the Bureau of Plant Industry. 



Professor Eudolph Eucken, of the Univer- 

 sity of Jena, visiting professor at Harvard 

 University, has been selected to deliver the 

 Deems lectures at New York University this 

 year. They will be six in number, and will 

 be given in the English language, probably in 

 February or March of next year. The subject 

 of the course will be " The Fundamental Prin- 

 ciples of Ethics with special Consideration of 

 the Eeligious Problems." 



Professor Morris Jastrow, of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, has been appointed 

 Haskell lecturer on oriental literature in Ober- 

 lin College. 



Among public lectures being given at the 

 University College, London, are the following : 

 Proftssor Flinders Petrie, on "Amulets"; 

 Profe,3sor 6. Dawes Hicks, on " The Philos- 

 ophy of Shadworth Hodgson " ; Mr. D. Jones, 

 on " General Phonetics " ; Mr. Carveth Eead, 

 on " An Introduction to Comparative Psychol- 

 ogy " ; Professor H. E. Butler, on " Eoman 

 Education " ; Professor F. W. Oliver, on 

 " Joseph Dalton Hooker," and Professor J. A. 

 Fleming, on " The Sources of Energy Avail- 

 able to Man." 



A memorial to Lord Lister is to be estab- 

 lished at University College Hospital. It was 

 in 1843 that Joseph Lister entered the college 

 as an arts student and graduated bachelor of 

 arts in 1847. He then became a student of 

 medicine and entered the hospital to complete 



his studies. A special committee has been 

 formed under the presidency of the Duke of 

 Bedford, president of the hospital. The exact 

 nature of the tribute will be largely decided 

 by the amount of the subscriptions received, 

 but it has been suggested that either a bust or 

 a tablet should be placed in both the hospital 

 and the college. It is understood that the me- 

 morial will be entirely local in character, and 

 only those who have been in some way con- 

 nected with University College or the hospital 

 are being asked to subscribe. 



A tablet in memory of Dr. Walter Eeed, 

 eminent for his work in yellow fever, will be 

 erected at the University of Virginia by the 

 Virginia Medical Association. 



Naval constructor John Forsyth Hanscom, 

 U. S. N., retired, an authority on naval con- 

 struction, died on September 30, aged seventy 

 years. 



A Eeuter telegram from London (Ontario) 

 states that Mr. Stewart Dickey, of Belfast, 

 Ireland, who recently arrived there to take up 

 the position of professor of anatomy at the 

 Western Medical College, has died in circum- 

 stances pointing to suicide. 



Mr. G. H. Grosvenor, an entomologist con- 

 nected with Jesus College, Oxford, who was 

 assistant secretary of the recent International 

 Entomological Congress, has been drowned off 

 the Cornish coast in trying to save the life of 

 a poor swimmer. 



The fifth annual meeting of the American 

 Institute of Chemical Engineers will be held 

 in Detroit, Mich., from December 4 to 6, 

 1912. A number of the technical plants in 

 and about Detroit will be visited and a pro- 

 gram of papers and addresses will be presented. 



At the eighty-fourth meeting of the Ger- 

 man Association of Scientific men and Physi- 

 cians held recently at Miinster, it was decided 

 that next year the meeting will be held at 

 Vienna, under the presidency of Professor H. 

 H. Meyer. 



The first Italian Congress on the history of 

 medicine and natural science will be held in 

 Eome from October 11 to 14. 



