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Dr. Carl Runge, professor of mathematics 

 at Gottingen, recently Kaiser-WiUielm pro- 

 fessor at Columbia University, has been ap- 

 pointed " Geheimsregierungsrat." 



Dk. Benjamin Boss, son of the late Dr. 

 Lewis Boss, has been appointed acting direc- 

 tor of the Dudley Observatory, Albany. 



Colonel Martin V. Calvin, for the past six 

 years director of the Georgia Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, has announced his retire- 

 ment from the station. 



Mr. E. Grant Hooper, superintending 

 chemist of the government laboratory, Lon- 

 don, has been appointed deputy-government 

 chemist, in succession to Mr. H. W. Davis, 

 who has retired. 



Dr. F. Bidling Meyer has been appointed 

 director of the Observatory for Terrestrial 

 Magnetism at the University of Munich. 



Dr. a. B. Hamilton, who is now abroad, has 

 been appointed a delegate from the University 

 of Minnesota to the first International Con- 

 gress of Comparative Pathology, which meets 

 in Paris, October 17-23. 



Professor Josiah Eoyce, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, will give a course of eight Lowell lec- 

 tures on Monday and Thursday afternoons 

 beginning November 18, on " The Problem 

 of Christianity." 



A course of lectures at Union College on 

 the Ichabod Spencer Foundation will be de- 

 livered by Dr. Eudolf Eucken, professor of 

 philosophy at the University of Jena and 

 visiting professor at Harvard University. 

 The subjects of his lectures will be, " Goethe 

 as a Philosopher," " Idealism and Realism in 

 the Nineteenth Century," " Defence of Moral- 

 ity," and " Philosophy and Religion." 



The sixth of the Weir Mitchell lectures of 

 the College of Physicians was given on Oc- 

 tober 21 in Mitchell Hall by Dr. G. H. F. 

 Nuttall, of Cambridge, England, on " Some 

 Recent Advances in Our Knowledge of the 

 Mode of the Spread of Protozoan Diseases." 



Professor Borel, the French mathema- 

 tician, is the guest of the University of Illi- 

 nois this week. Professor Borel comes di- 



rectly from Houston, Texas, where he has 

 been attending the Rice Institute's inaugural 

 exercises. 



Among the recent lectures delivered by Dean 

 Eugene Davenport, of the College of Agri- 

 culture, was one on " The Church and 

 Country Life " delivered at Rantoul on Oc- 

 tober 11 and another on " Agriculture as a 

 Career for Boys," delivered October 8 at the 

 Illinois State Fair at Springfield. Some 

 twenty men from the faculty of the College of 

 Agriculture gave lectures and instruction at 

 the State Fair Boys School of Agriculture. 



At McGill University the annual univer- 

 sity lecture for the current year was given on 

 October 8 by Professor Francis E. Lloyd. He 

 took for his subject " The Artificial Ripening 

 of Bitter Fruits." 



The first meeting of the Royal Geograph- 

 ical Society, London, will be held in the even- 

 ing of November 4, when Miss Ellen Churchill 

 Semple, of the University of Chicago, will 

 give an amply illustrated lecture on " The 

 Geography of Japan and its Economic De- 

 velopment." 



Professor W. M. Flinders Petrie, F.R.S., 

 will deliver the address on the occasion of the 

 opening of the extension to the Manchester 

 Museum on the afternoon of October 30. 



The Henry Sidgwick memorial lecture at 

 Newnham College will be given by Professor 

 James Ward in the College Hall on Novem- 

 ber 9. The subject will be " Heredity and 

 Memory." 



Dr. William Willard Daniells, emeritus 

 professor of chemistry of the University of 

 Wisconsin, has died at the age of seventy-two 

 years. 



Dr. Frank S. Billings, formerly director 

 of the Nebraska State Veterinary Hospital 

 and a leading authority on veterinary surgery, 

 has died at the age of sixty-seven years. 



Professor Herm. F. Wiebe, a member of 

 the Physical Reichsanstalt, has died at the 

 age of sixty years. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an open competitive examination for 



