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Dr. a. J. Caelson, professor of physiology 

 in the University of Chicago, read a paper at 

 the February meeting of the Kansas Chapter 

 of Sigma Xi on " The Nature of the Hunger 

 Mechanism." 



On the evening of March 24 Professor Wal- 

 lace W. Attwood, of Harvard University, will 

 conduct a lecture conference at the Brooklyn 

 Institute of Arts and Sciences on " Gold Min- 

 ing in Alaska." The lecture will be illustrated. 



Dr.W. S. Cooper, of the University of Minne- 

 sota, gave a lecture on February 23 before the 

 Geographic Society of Chicago on " The Vege- 

 tation of the Glaciers of Alaska." On March 

 23, Professor Robert G. Aitken, of the Lick 

 Observatory, will speak on " The Work of two 

 Mountain Observatories." 



Mr. a. Caston Chapman delivered a lecture, 

 entitled " Some Main Lines of Advance in the 

 Domain of Modern Analytical Chemistry," to 

 the Chemical Society, London, on March 15. 

 Dr. Horace T. Brown will lecture on " The 

 Principles of Diffusion : their Analogies and 

 Applications," on May 17. 



The library of the late Professor Hugo 

 Miinsterberg has been given to Harvard Uni- 

 versity by a group of his friends. The library 

 consists of about 10,000 books, reprints, pamph- 

 lets, manuscripts, charts and other papers. 

 Among the 3,000 books in the collection are 

 the latest and most valuable ones on experi- 

 mental and applied psychology, especially those 

 bearing on phases of the subject to which Pro- 

 fessor Miinsterberg had devoted his time. 



George Massee, formerly of the Royal Bo- 

 tanic Garden, Kew, died on February 17, at 

 the age of sixty-seven years. 



Dr. a. Battelli, professor of experimental 

 physics at the University of Pisa and a mem- 

 ber of the Italian national legislature, has died 

 at the age of fifty-five years. 



Dr. Friedeich Hahn, who occupied the chair 

 of geography at Konigsberg, has died at the 

 age of sixty-five years. 



The National Canners' Association has 

 offered Harvard University the sum of $20,000 

 annually for a period of three years to carry 

 on an investigation of food poisoning or so- 



called ptomaine poisoning, with special refer- 

 ence to canned goods. The offer has been ac- 

 cepted by the university, with the understand- 

 ing that the investigation shall be conducted 

 and the results thereof published with entire 

 academic freedom. The study will be made at 

 the Medical School under the direction of Dr. 

 M. J. Rosenau, professor of preventive medi- 

 cine and hygiene. The national research coun- 

 cil of the National Academy of Sciences is 

 supervising the investigations on this subject. 

 The advisory committee of the council consists 

 of Professors John J. Abel, of Johns Hopkins 

 University; Reid Hunt, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity; H. Gideon Wells, of the University of 

 Chicago; Eugene Opie, of Washington Uni- 

 versity ; Lafayette B. Mendel, of Yale Univer- 

 sity, and Frederick T. Novy, of the University 

 of Michigan. 



The council of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences has voted that because of the un- 

 settled condition of our international affairs 

 the Centennial Celebration, planned for the 

 second week of the coming May, be deferred 

 without date. It was, however, voted that a 

 centennial meeting be held some Monday even- 

 ing in May at which emphasis will be placed on 

 the history of the academy. The president was 

 authorized to obtain a speaker for this Cen- 

 tennial Meeting; and was requested, in con- 

 sultation with the other members of the com- 

 mittee on history to prepare a digest of his- 

 torical data for the occasion. 



The lieutenant-governor of the Punjab laid 

 the foundation stone of the new building of the 

 Society for Promoting Scientific Knowledge 

 at Lahore on January 30. The site for the 

 new headquarters of the society has been given 

 by the Lahore municipality and a sum of Rs. 

 14,000 has been raised by subscription. 



The department of chemistry of the New 

 York City College, of which Professor Charles 

 Baskerville is the head, has announced a series 

 of lectures to be offered during the spring se- 

 mester. These lectures are open to the public, 

 and will be held on Friday afternoons at three 

 o'clock in the Doremus Lecture Theater, 140th 

 Street and Convent Avenue. The following is 

 the list of lectures. February 16, " From Ore 



