November 8, 1912] 



SCIENCE 



627 



The Congo expedition of the American 

 Museum of Natural History under the leader- 

 ship of Messrs. Lang and Ohapin reported 

 from Faradje under date of August 21 that 

 the packing of equipment and collections was 

 well under way for the start with caravan for 

 Avakubi and thence out of Africa by the 

 western coast. 



Mr. Wilfred H. Osgood, of the Field Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, has returned from 

 a nine-months' trip, during which he crossed 

 the Andes of northern Peru and descended the 

 Amazon River, studying and collecting the 

 vertebrates of the region. Mr. Malcolm P. 

 Anderson, who accompanied him, has remained 

 to continue work in Peru and Brazil. 



Mr. J. B. Tyrrell, of Toronto, Canada, has 

 just returned from an extended expedition 

 into the Hudson Bay region. He went north- 

 ward in the early summer by the ordinary 

 trade route to the mouth of the Nelson River, 

 spent the remainder of the summer on Hud- 

 son Bay, and returned from the Bay up the 

 Severn River and by a previously unexplored 

 route across the new district of Patricia to 

 the line of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. 



Dr. Edward L. Thoendike, professor of edu- 

 cational psychology in Teachers College, Co- 

 lumbia University, will give a course of lec- 

 tures on the Ichabod Spencer Lecture Foun- 

 dation at Union College in February and 

 March. 



The third of the present series of Harvey 

 lectures will be delivered by Professor Joseph 

 Erlanger, of the Washington University Med- 

 ical Department, St. Louis, at the New York 

 Academy of Medicine on the evening of No- 

 vember 9, at 8 :30. Professor Erlanger's sub- 

 ject will be : " The Localization of Impulse 

 Initiation and Conduction in the Heart." 



Professor Burt G. Wilder lectured re- 

 cently at Smith College on " Louis Agassiz 

 and the Founding of the Laboratory at Peni- 

 kese." 



It is stated in Nature that lectures on vol- 

 canic action, earth movements, the geological 

 action of water and the evolution of scenery 



and life on the globe are to be delivered by 

 Dr. Werner Marchand on October lY, 24 and 

 31, in the meeting rooms of the British Es- 

 peranto Association, London. They will be 

 delivered in Esperanto. 



Professor Metchnikoff .will deliver the 

 Lady Priestley memorial lecture for 1912 on 

 " The Warfare against Tubercle," on Novem- 

 ber 29, in the lecture theater of the Royal 

 Society of Medicine, London. The lecture 

 will be given in French and illustrated by 

 lantern pictures. 



The Chicago Academy of Sciences has an- 

 nounced the following course of public lec- 

 tures for the fall of 1912 : 



October 18 — "Places of Special Scientific In- 

 terest near Chicago, ' ' by Dr. Wallace W. Atwood, 

 secretary of the academy. 



October 25- — ' ' Switzerland and the Alps, ' ' by 

 Mr. Edward Marsh McConnoughey. 



November 1 — "Floral Exhibits in the Academy 

 and how to use them, ' ' by Dr. Herman S. Pepoon, 

 of the Lake View High School. 



November 8 — ' ' The Common Butterflies about 

 Chicago," by Mr. Frank Collins Baker, curator of 

 the Chicago Academy of Sciences. 



We learn from Nature that a memorial 

 service for the late Mr. H. O. Jones, F.R.S., 

 fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, demon- 

 strator to the Jacksonian professor of natural 

 experimental philosophy, and Muriel Gwen- 

 dolen Jones, his wife, who were killed in the 

 Alps in August while on their honeymoon, was 

 held at the University Church of St. Mary the 

 Great, Cambridge, on October 12. The service 

 was attended by a large congregation, which 

 included masters of several colleges, univer- 

 sity professors and many other members of 

 the university. The Royal Society, the Al- 

 pine Club and the Cambridge Alpine Club 

 were also represented. 



Dr. Albert N. Husted, who has been con- 

 nected with the New York State Normal 

 College as student and teacher for fifty-nine 

 years, died on October 16. He would have 

 been seventy-nine years of age had he lived 

 until October 19. His entire life as a 

 teacher was spent in this institution, where he 

 was professor of mathematics, continuing in 



