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on Mareh 11, in the Auditorium of the new 

 National Museum, when there was a lecture 

 by Mr. Wilfred H. Osgood, of the Field Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, who was engaged 

 on a special investigation of the fur-seal ques- 

 tion for the Department of Commerce during 

 the summer of 1914. His subject was "Eur 

 Seals and Other Animals on the PribilofE Is- 

 lands." 



Director John F. Hayford, of the college 

 of engineering, Northwestern University, ad- 

 dressed a group of graduate students and pro- 

 fessors of the University of Wisconsin on the 

 subject of " Isostasy " on March 1. That even- 

 ing he addressed the Science Club of the same 

 institution on the decision in regard to the 

 Panama-Costa-Rieo Boundary Dispute. Di- 

 rector Hayford was chairman of the committee 

 appointed by the chief justice of the United 

 States, which made a personal investigation 

 and survey. 



Dr. Lafayette B. Mendel, professor of 

 physiological chemistry in Yale University, ad- 

 dressed the Johns Hopkins Hospital Medical 

 Society at Baltimore, March 1, on " Nutrition 

 and Growth." 



The tenth lecture before the Harvey So- 

 ciety was given on March 13, at the New York 

 Academy of Medicine, by Professor Elliott P. 

 Joslin, of Harvard University, on " Carbohy- 

 drate Utilization in Diabetes, based upon 

 Studies of the Eespiration, Urine and Blood." 



Dr. Charles S. Berkey, associate professor 

 of geology in Columbia University, wiE. give 

 the last of the Jessup lectures on " Origin and 

 Meaning of Some Fundamental Earth Struc- 

 tures " at the American Museum of Natural 

 History on March 26. The subject of the lec- 

 ture is " The Relation of Structural Geology 

 to Practical Undertakings." 



Professor Edward H. Williams, Jr., of 

 Woodstock, Vt., for many years head of the 

 department of mining and geology at Lehigh 

 and now a lecturer of the university, gave two 

 lectures in February before the students. His 

 subjects were " The Geology of the Lehigh 

 VaUey " and " The Formation of the Alle- 

 gheny Eiver." 



The American Association of Pathologists 

 and Bacteriologists, of which Dr. Leo Loeb, 

 St. Louis, is president, will meet in St. Louis, 

 on April 2 and 3. The meetings will be held 

 in the pathological department of Washington 

 University Medical School and in the library 

 of the St. Louis University. Preceding these 

 meetings on April 1 will be held the annual 

 meeting of the American Association for Can- 

 cer Research and the annual meeting of the 

 International Association of Medical Mu- 

 seums. These meetings will be held in the 

 laboratories of the Washington University 

 Medical School. 



The seventh semi-annual meeting of the 

 American Institute of Chemical Engineers 

 will be held in San Francisco, Calif., from 

 August 25 to 28. An itinerary is being ar- 

 ranged so that the natural scenery of the west 

 may be seen and also some of the more impor- 

 tant mining operations as well as the typical 

 chemical industries of California. 



The senate of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society 

 for the Advancement of Science at a session 

 held on January 23, determined to break 

 ground for the projected Kaiser Wilhelm In- 

 stitute for Physiology and for the Study of 

 the Brain. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for 

 Biology is soon to be opened at Dahlem. 



VNIVEESITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 At the convocation at the University of 

 Chicago, on March 16, Julius Eosenwald Hall, 

 devoted to the work of the departments of 

 geology and geography, was dedicated. The 

 building, a gift from Mr. Julius Rosenwald, 

 a trustee of the university, has cost approxi- 

 mately $260,000. 



The Arnold Biological Laboratory, ground 

 for which was broken at Brown University 

 last summer, is practically completed and will 

 be put into use for regular class work with 

 the reopening of college after the spring recess. 

 The building, which is three stories in height, 

 117 feet long and 52 feet wide, will cost when 

 finished $80,000, and $30,000 more will be ex- 

 pended upon the equipment. The cost of the 

 building will be covered by a bequest made to 

 the university for the purpose by the late Dr. 



