February 19, 1915] 



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the Lasferre prize ($1,600) by the French 

 Institute. 



Dr. Josef Englisch, emeritus professor of 

 surgery in the University of Vienna, has cele- 

 brated his eightieth birthday. 



Dr. Alfred Kleiner, professor of physics at 

 Zurich, has on account of the state of his 

 health retired from his chair and has been 

 made honorary professor. 



Mr. T. F. Burton has succeeded Mr. Wat- 

 son Smith as editor of the Journal of the 

 Society of Chemical Industry, which is issued 

 fortnightly in London by the society. 



Professor G. C. Bourne, Linacre professor 

 of comparative anatomy at Oxford, has been 

 given leave of absence to engaged in military 

 service. 



We learn from Nature that the second la 

 dian Science Congress, organized by the Asi 

 atic Society of Bengal, was held at the Presi' 

 dency College, Madras, on January 14^16, 

 under the presidency of Surgeon-general W. 

 B. Bannerman. The sections of the congresS; 

 and their chairman, were as follows: Agricul- 

 ture and applied science. Dr. H. H. Mann 

 physics, Mr. C. V. Raman; chemistry. Pro 

 fessor P. C. Eay; zoology. Dr. IST. Annandale 

 hotany. Dr. 0. A. Barber; ethnology, Mr. H 

 V. Nanjundayya; geology. Dr. W. F. Smeeth. 



Professor E. W. Thatcher, chief of the 

 division of agricultural chemistry of the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Minnesota Section of the Ameri- 

 can Chemical Society. The section will here- 

 after hold regular meetings on the third Fri- 

 day evening of each month at various labora- 

 tories in the Twin Cities. 



Dr. a. F. Gilman, head of the chemistry de- 

 partment of Eipon College, has returned for 

 the second semester's work after a leave of 

 absence for a half year spent in study and 

 travel. 



Professor John Dewey delivered the eighth 

 series of McNair lectures at the University of 

 North Carolina on Fehruary 5, 6 and 7. His 

 subject was "Philosophy and Politics." The 

 lectures dealt with (1) The Inner and Outer 



Worlds, (2) The State and Moral Life, (3) 

 The German Philosophy of History. 



Dr. C. Wardell Stiles, of the U. S. Public 

 Health Service, gave the ninth Weir Mitchell 

 lecture of the College of Physicians, Philadel- 

 phia, on February 16. His topic was : " Au 

 Experiment from the Standpoint of Applied 

 Zoology in Medical Inspection of Schoolchil- 

 dren as a Basis for an Intensive Public 

 Health Campaign." 



Dr. LiLLiN Welsh, professor of physiology 

 and hygiene at Goucher College, Baltimore, 

 spoke on February 12 at Mt. Holyoke College 

 on " American Women in Science." The lec- 

 ture was given under the auspices of the Net- 

 tie Maria Stevens memorial lectureship fund, 

 established by the Naples Table Association, 

 for promoting laboratory research for women. 

 The lecture was also given during the week at 

 Wellesley College and Brown University. 



Professor Douglas W. Johnson, of Colum- 

 bia University, lectured before the Engineers 

 Club of Trenton, N. J., on February 11, on 

 " The Topography of Western Europe and its 

 Influence on the Campaign against France." 

 On January 15 he delivered the same lecture 

 before the Geographical Society of Philadel- 

 phia. 



Professor Abthue H. Blanchard, of Col- 

 umbia University, on February 9, delivered an 

 illustrated address on the subject " Economic 

 Phases of Highway Engineering " before the 

 Middletown Scientific Association at its meet- 

 ing at Wesleyan University. On February 11 

 he delivered an address on " The Highway 

 Engineer in Public Life " at the annual meet- 

 ing of the Engineers Society of Northwestern 

 Pennsylvania. 



The Illinois State Museum of Natural His- 

 tory announces a course of four popular illus- 

 trated lectures on natural history on Friday 

 evenings as follows: 



February 19 — -"Volcanic Emanations," by A. 

 L. Day, Ph.D., director Geophysical Laboratory, 

 Washington, D. C. 



February 26 — "The Wonderful Heavens," by 

 F. E. Moulton, Ph.D., professor of astronomy, 

 University of Chicago, Chicago. 



