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tion Commission. Salary $2,400. The ap- 

 pointee to this position must have had wide 

 experience as a surveyor of Adirondack lands. 

 He is called and is relied upon as an expert 

 witness in title disputes and he must therefore 

 have had wide experience in Adirondack sur- 

 veys, including experience in running boundary 

 lines. 



A South American Expedition, which will 

 work under the joint auspices of the Field 

 Museum of Chicago and the New York Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, has sailed on the 

 United Fruit liner Metapan, going first to La 

 Paz, Bolivia. From La Paz, the party will 

 cross the Andes by pack train, and descend 

 into a section of Bolivia which is entirely new 

 to the collector. The party will descend either 

 the Beni or the Mamore Rivers, and eventually 

 reach the Amazon by the Madeira. The party 

 consists of Messrs. Lee Garnett Day, Alfred M. 

 Collins, George K. Cherrie, Robert H. Becker 

 and W. F. Walker. Mr. Day has traveled in 

 the Orient and in Brazil. Mr. Collins during 

 the past two years has made hunting trips in 

 South Africa and the Arctic regions north of 

 Siberia. Mr. Cherrie accompanied the Roose- 

 velt expedition last season, and has collected 

 for the British Museum, the New York Mu- 

 seum of Natural History and the Field Mu- 

 seum of Chicago. Mr. Robert H. Becker has 

 just returned from the Amazon Valley and 

 southern Brazil, where he collected for the 

 Field Museum. 



Dr. Frank Billings, Chicago, has been 

 invited to deliver the Lane lecture for 1915. 

 The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation gives the list of previous lecturers, 

 which is as follows : 



1896. Sir William Macewen, regius professor 

 of surgery, University of Glasgow. "Surgery of 

 the Brain. ' ' 



1897. Christopher Heath, professor of clinical 

 surgery, University College, London. ' ' Congenital 

 Malformations, Aneurism and other Surgical 

 Topics. ' ' 



1898. Thomas Clifford Allbutt, F.E.S., regius 

 professor of physics, University of Cambridge, 

 England. "Diseases of the Heart." 



1899. Nicholas Senn, professor of surgery, 



Eush Medical College, Chicago. "Topics in Gen- 

 eral Surgery. ' ' 



1900. Sir Michael Foster, professor of physiol- 

 ogy, Cambridge, England. "History of Physiol- 

 ogy." 



1901. Sir Malcolm Morris, surgeon, skin de- 

 partment, St. Mary's Hospital, London. "Social 

 Aspects of Dermatology." 



1902. Sir Charles B. Ball, regius professor of 

 surgery, University of Dublin. "Diseases of the 

 Eectum. ' ' 



1903. Oscar H. AUis, Philadelphia, Pa. "Dis- 

 locations and Fractures Involving Larger Bones. ' ' 



1904. William H. Welch, professor of pathol- 

 ogy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. "In- 

 fection and Immunity." 



1905. Sir Patrick Manson. "Tropical Dis- 

 eases. ' ' 



1906. John C. McVail. "Practical Hygiene, 

 Epidemics and Preventive Medicine. ' ' 



1910. Eeginald Heber Fitz, Hersey professor 

 of theory and practise of medicine, Harvard Uni- 

 versity, Boston. ' ' A Consideration of Some Fea- 

 tures of the Lymphatic System. ' ' 



1911. E. Fuchs, professor of ophthalmology, 

 University of Vienna. "Importance of Ophthal- 

 mology in Its Eolation to Systemic Disease. ' ' 



1913. Edward Albert Schaefer, professor of 

 physiology, University of Edinburgh. "Internal 

 Secretion. ' ' 



UNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The sum of $2,430,000 was obtained for 

 Wellesley College in the fourteen months just 

 ended, according to a statement given out by 

 the treasurer. Of this amount $430,000, in- 

 cluding a conditional pledge of $200,000 from 

 the General Educational Board, was raised be- 

 fore the fire of March lY, when College Hall 

 was burned. The remaining $2,000,000 in- 

 cludes a pledge from the Rockefeller Founda- 

 tion of $750,000. Only three gifts of over 

 $10,000 have been received since last August. 

 One of these was made but ten days ago, and 

 was a gift from Mr. Carnegie of $95,000 for 

 the enlargement of the library. 



The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 has received in gifts during the past year the 

 sum of $400,000, besides two items wherein 

 the institute is residuary legatee, and the 

 amounts have not been determined. Follow- 

 ing is the list: Bequest of Caroline L. W. 



