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been appointed sanitary adviser in England to 

 the Canadian forces. 



We learn from Nature that Mr. Udny Tnle, 

 one of the honorary secretaries of the Royal 

 Statistical Society, has been appointed head 

 of the Information and Statistical Bureau of 

 the British Ministry of Food. With Mr. Tule 

 will be associated Professor T. B. Wood, 

 Drapers professor of agriculture in the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge, and Professor W. H. 

 Thompson, professor of physiology. Trinity 

 College, Dublin. 



Professor George C. Whipple, of Harvard 

 University, has recently made to the Kew York 

 state commissioner of health a report on the 

 proposed plant at Staten Island for the dis- 

 posal of the garbage of the city of New York. 



Dr. R. Tait McKenzie, professor of physical 

 education at the University of Pennsylvania, 

 is now making a standard design for all medals 

 given by the Intercollegiate Conference of 

 Western Universities. This design will serve 

 for the large medals given by the conference 

 to the individual point winner in its outdoor 

 meets. 



At the last meeting of the American Phyto- 

 pathological Society, from December 27 to 30, 

 in ISTew York City, the following oiSoers were 

 elected : 



President, Mel. T. Cook, N. J. Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station. 



Vice-president, Chas. Brooks, U. S. Bureau of 

 Plant Industry. 



Councilor, H. S. Jackson, Indiana Experiment 

 Station. 



At the annual meeting of the State Micro- 

 scopical Society of Illinois held in the audi- 

 torium of the College Club, Chicago, on Jan- 

 uary 16, the following trustees were elected. 

 Dr. Albert McCalla, Dr. Lester Curtis, David 

 L. Zook, Francis T. Harmon and Jeremiah A. 

 Hynes. The officers elected for the coming 

 year were: 



President, N. S. Amstutz. 



First Vice-president, Dr. I. J. K. Golden. 



Second Vice-president, Professor G. E. Marsh. 



Treasurer, Prank I. Packard. 



Curator, Henry P. Puller. 



Corresponding Secretary, Br. V. A. Latham. 

 Mecording Secretary, Charles A. Exihl. 



At the meeting of the Washington Academy 

 of Sciences on February 1, in the auditorium 

 of the New National Museum, the retiring 

 president. Dr. L. O. Howard, delivered an ad- 

 dress on " The Carriage of Disease by Insects." 



At the 505th meeting of the Anthropological 

 Society of Washington, Mr. William H. Bab- 

 cock read a paper on " Certain Precolumbian 

 Notices of the Inhabitants of Atlantic Is- 

 lands." He referred to early Norse and Celtic 

 legends, the story of Atlantis, and later tales 

 recorded by Diodorus Siculus and Plutarch. 

 The geography of the Arab writer, Edrisi, was 

 considered at greater length, and the rest of 

 the paper was taken up with accounts of the 

 Canary Islanders given by him, and by later 

 authors, such as Bontier and Leverrier, Azu- 

 rara and Cadamosto. 



Professor James W. Jobling, of Vanderbilt 

 University, lectured before the New York 

 Academy of Medicine on February 3 on " The 

 Influence of Nonspecific Substances on Infec- 

 tions." 



Dr. Robert M. Yerkes, of the department of 

 psychology of Harvard University, and psy- 

 chologist to the psychopathic hospital of Bos- 

 ton, lectured at the University of Minnesota, 

 before the Minnesota chapter of Sigma Xi on 

 January 26. The subject of his lecture was 

 " Psychological Methods of Examination and 

 Diagnosis." 



Professor A. W. Goodspeed, of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, has recently completed a 

 course of three lectures on " Light, Visible and 

 Invisible," at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 

 and Sciences. 



On January 25 Dr. A. Hrdlicka spoke on 

 " Anthropology " before the Colonnade Club 

 of the University of Virginia ; and on January 

 26 he gave a lecture before the faculty and ad- 

 vanced students of the university, on " The 

 Evolution of Man." 



The Gifford lectures at Glasgow University 

 are this year being given by Professor Samuel 

 Alexander, of Manchester University) on 

 " Space, Time and Deity." 



