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to give the annual Sigma Xi address at the 

 University of Kansas early in November and 

 also an address before the Kansas State Teach- 

 ers' Association in Topeka on the subject of 

 " Recent Discoveries in Physics and Chem- 

 istry." 



At the annual meeting of the Kansas Teach- 

 ers' Association, held at Topeka, November 7 

 and 8, Professors David Eugene Smith and 

 Maurice A. Bigelow, of Teachers College, Co- 

 lumbia University, delivered addresses, the 

 former on " Teaching Mathematics," and the 

 latter on " Biology as Applied Science." 



The following non-resident lecturers in 

 highway engineering at Columbia University 

 have been appointed for the 1912-13 session: 

 John A. Bensel, New York state engineer; 

 William H. Connell, chief. Bureau of High- 

 ways and Street Cleaning, Philadelphia; 

 Morris L. Cooke, director, Department of 

 Public Works, Philadelphia; C. A. Crane, sec- 

 retary, the General Contractors Association; 

 W. W. Crosby, chief engineer to the Mary- 

 land Geological Survey and consulting engi- 

 neer, Baltimore; Charles Henry Davis, presi- 

 dent, National Highways Association; A. W. 

 Dow, chemical and consulting paving engi- 

 neer. New York City; Walter H. Eulweiler, 

 engineer, Research Department, United Gas 

 Improvement Company; John M. Goodell, 

 editor-in-chief. Engineering Record; D. L. 

 Hough, president, the United Engineering and 

 Contracting Company; Arthur N. Johnson, 

 state highway engineer of Illinois; Nelson P. 

 Lewis, chief engineer, Board of Estimate and 

 Apportionment, New York City; J. C. Nagle, 

 professor of civil engineering and dean of the 

 School of Engineering, Agricultural and Me- 

 chanical College of Texas; Harold Parker, 

 first vice-president, Hassam Paving Company; 

 H. B. Pullar, assistant manager and chief 

 chemist, the American Asphaltum and Rubber 

 Company; J. M. F. de Pulligny, ingenieur en 

 chef des ponts et chaussees, et directeur. Mis- 

 sion Erangaise d'Ingenieurs aux Etats-Unis; 

 John R. Rablin, chief engineer, Massachu- 

 setts Metropolitan Park Commission; Clifford 

 Richardson, consulting engineer. New York 

 City; Philip P. Sharpies, chief chemist, Bar- 



rett Manufacturing Company; Francis P. 

 Smith, chemical and consulting paving engi- 

 neer. New York City; Albert Sommer, con- 

 sulting chemist, Philadelphia ; George W. Till- 

 son, consulting engineer to the president of 

 the Borough of Brooklyn. 



The following lectures are announced at the 

 Royal College of Physicians, London, during 

 November: the FitzPatriek lectures by Dr. 

 Raymond Crawf urd on " The History of Med- 

 icine " on November Y, 12, 14 and 19, the sub- 

 ject being " Echoes of Pestilence in Literature 

 and Art " ; the Horace Dobell lecture by Dr. 

 C. J. Martin, on " Insect Porters of Bacterial 

 Infection," on November 21. 



The eighty-seventh Christmas course of 

 juvenile lectures, founded at the Royal Insti- 

 tution in 1826 by Michael Faraday, will be de- 

 livered this year by Professor Sir James 

 Dewar, LL.D., D.Sc, Ph.D., F.R.S., Fullerian 

 professor of chemistry. The lectures will be 

 experimentally illustrated, and the subjects 

 are as follows : " Alchemy," Saturday, Decem- 

 ber 28 ; " Atoms," December 31 ; " Light," Jan- 

 uary 2 ; " Clouds," January 4 ; " Meteorites," 

 January 7 ; " Frozen Worlds," January 9. 

 The lecture hour is 3 o'clock. 



As a memorial to the late Professor Tait it 

 is proposed to establish an additional chair of 

 physics at Edinburgh, for which it is hoped to 

 collect at least £20,000. The chair would be 

 connected with the department of Tait's work 

 in which he achieved especially conspicuous 

 success — namely, the application of mathe- 

 matics to the solution of physical problems, 

 including those which bear upon engineering 

 and other departments of applied science. 



At a meeting held at the Mansion House to 

 establish a memorial to Lord Lister, it was de- 

 cided to put up a medallion in Westminster 

 Abbey; to erect a monument in a public place 

 in London; and to found an International 

 Lister Memorial Fund for the advancement of 

 surgery. 



Dr. Oliver Clinton Wendell, assistant pro- 

 fessor of astronomy in Harvard University, 

 died at Belmont on the fifth instant, in the 

 sixty-eighth year of his age. 



