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eaney caused by the resignation of Dr. Lucian, 

 wlio will take up research work for the Green 

 and Bauer Company, of Hartford, Conn. 



Professor J. C. Merriam, of the University 

 of California, will give a paper on " A Plan 

 for Cooperation in Research among the Scien- 

 tific Societies of the Pacific Coast " in the 

 symposimn, under the direction of Dr. D. T. 

 MacDougal, before the Stanford meeting of 

 the Pacific Division of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science. 



Gekeral George W. Goethals gave an 

 illustrated lecture on the Panama Canal at 

 Cornell University on March 5. 



Dr. W. D. Bancroft, professor of physical 

 chemistry at Cornell University, addressed 

 the Indiana branch of the American Chemical 

 Society, at Indianapolis, on March 9, on " Con- 

 tact Catalysis " ; and on March 10, Professor 

 Bancroft spoke before the Society of Sigma 

 Xi of Indiana University on " Colloid Chem- 

 istry." 



Dr. William S. Telayer, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, delivered an address before 

 the New York Academy of Medicine, on 

 March 15, on " The Significance of Some 

 Common Deviations from the Ordinary in 

 Cardiac Function." 



Mr. E". H. Darton, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, recently lectured to Lehigh University 

 on " The Grand Canyon of Arizona, a Great 

 Object Lesson in Geology and Geography." 

 A large number of new views and other illus- 

 trations were shown. 



Professor C. M. Child, of the department 

 of zoology of the University of Chicago, wiU 

 give the principal address before the Science 

 Section of the Colorado Educational Asso- 

 ciation at the spring meeting to be held at 

 Teachers College in Greeley on March 30 

 and 31. 



Dr. William R. Brooks, director of Smith 

 Observatory, and professor of astronomy at 

 Hobart College, recently delivered his illus- 

 trated lecture on " The Wonders of the Heav- 

 ens," at the Rhode Island State College at 

 Kingston. 



The magnetic-survey vessel, the Carnegie, 

 under the command of J. P. Ault, arrived at 

 Buenos Aires, with all well on board, on 

 March 2. Leaving San Francisco on Novem- 

 ber 1, 1916, he proceeded to Easter Island, 

 thence around the Horn to Buenos Aires. The 

 scientific work was successfully accomplished 

 on the entire trip. 



The daily papers report that Vilhjalmur 

 Stefansson, the Arctic explorer, is wintering 

 with the gasolene schooner Polar Bear at 

 Prince of Wales Strait, according to news 

 brought by a Northwest police expedition from 

 Fort McPherson. Stefansson, who passed last 

 summer exploring the new land discovered 

 north of Prince Patrick Island, is hopeful that 

 the ice will break up early this spring and per- 

 mit him to make the northeast passage and to 

 sail up the St. Lawrence River to Montreal. 



Professor William Beebe, of the faculty of 

 mathematics of Yale University, died on 

 March 11, in New Haven, in the sixty-sixth 

 year of his age. He was graduated from Yale 

 in 1873, and had been teaching there since 

 1876. 



Dr. John S. McKay, head of the department 

 of physics and mathematics of the Packer Col- 

 legiate Institute, Brooklyn, from 1890 to his 

 retirement last summer, has died at the age of 

 sixty-seven years. 



The librai-y of the American Institute of 

 Mining Engineers has received a gift of $100,- 

 000 from Mr. James Douglas, of Arizona. 



A CHAPTER of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, the na- 

 tional collegiate fraternity devoted to geol- 

 ogy, mining and metallurgy, was installed in 

 the University of Nebraska on the evening of 

 March 3. Communications intended for the 

 national officers should be addressed to Mr. 

 Harry E. Crum, Lawrence, Kansas. 



A CIRCULAR letter giving 39 generic names in 

 Protozoa, Ccelenterata, Trematoda, Cestoda, 

 Cirripedia, Tunicata and Pisces, chiefly Lin- 

 n^an, which have been proposed for inclusion 

 in the Official List of Zoological Names, has 

 been mailed to the leading scientific institu- 

 tions, colleges, laboratories, etc., in various 

 countries ; in addition 20 copies have been sent 



