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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLI. No. 1057 



Dr. Sidney Coupland has been appointed 

 Harveian orator of the Eoyal College of 

 Physicians, London, for 1915; Dr. J. Michell 

 Clarke Bradshaw lecturer for 1915, and Dr. 

 Samson G. Moore Milroy lecturer for 1916. 



Lady Huggins, widow of Sir "William Hug- 

 gins, the distinguished astronomer, and known 

 for her scientific work, died at her home in 

 London, on March 25. Lady Huggins was 

 born in Dublin and married Sir William Hug- 

 gins in 1875. She was joint author with him 

 of many scientific papers, and of an Atlas of 

 Representative Stellar Spectra. She was the 

 author of a monograph on the Astrolabe; of 

 articles in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and 

 of papers in astronomical and archeological 

 journals. 



Professor Heuhauss, of Berlin, noted for 

 his anthropologic investigations and his work 

 in the field of color photography, has died at the 

 age of fifty-nine years from diphtheria, con- 

 tracted while engaged in military hospital 

 work. 



De. Clon Stephanos, director of the Anthro- 

 pological Museum of the University of Athens, 

 died on January 24, at the age of sixty years. 



A CORRESPONDENT informs us that the follow- 

 ing German zoologists have been killed in the 

 war: Professor Stanislaus von Prowasek, head 

 of the zoological department of the Institute 

 for Tropic Diseases, Hamburg; Dr. W. Meyer, 

 assistant in the same institute; Dr. W. Mul- 

 sow, assistant in the protozoological depart- 

 ment of the Institute for Infectious Diseases, 

 Berlin; Dr. G. K'antsch, decent for zoology, 

 Kiel; Dr. v. Steudell, Edinger Institut, Frank- 

 furt; Dr. V. Miiller, assistant in the Zoolog- 

 ical Institute, Kiel; Dr. v. Greinz, assistant 

 in the Zoological Institute, Konigsberg. The 

 following have been wounded, but have in some 

 cases recovered: Professor O. zur Strassen, 

 professor of zoology, Erankfurt; Professor L. 

 Ehumbler, professor of zoology, Eorest School, 

 Minden; Dr. W. Eeichensperger, decent for 

 zoology, Bonn; Dr. C. Thienemann, docent in 

 Miinster. 



The American Ethnological Society has ad- 

 dressed the following reply to the Erench uni- 

 versities, which have addressed the scientific 



bodies of neutral countries, setting forth their 

 view of the causes of the war: 



The American Ethnological Society acknowl- 

 edges the receipt of the communication of the 

 French universities to the universities of the neu- 

 tral countries, dated November 3, 1914, and takes 

 the opportunity to express its sincere sympathy 

 for the sufferings that the present war is inflict- 

 ing upon France and other European countries. 



The society appreciates and respects the senti- 

 ments that have dictated the statement transmitted 

 to it, but believes, regardless of the feelings of the 

 individual members, that it behooves it to listen 

 with the same respect that it gladly grants to you 

 to the statements emanating from other nations. 

 The society, being located in a neutral country, 

 does not share the passions engendered by the pa- 

 triotic feelings of the citizens of all the contend- 

 ing nations. It is conscious, however, that if the 

 United States of America should find themselves 

 involved in a similar struggle, our members might 

 feel the same intense desire to convince the world 

 of the righteousness of their cause as impels at 

 present French, German and British scholars. 



At present, on account of the remoteness from 

 warlike passions, the society is mindful that the 

 time will come (and we devoutly hope it may come 

 soon) when the universities and scientists of the 

 whole world may work together again for the true 

 ideals of mankind, that know no national bound- 

 aries, when respect for the individuality of each 

 nation may again take the place of harsh recrim- 

 ination, when the true spirit of cooperation that 

 has characterized scientific work of the past cen- 

 tury may reappear. When that moment arrives, 

 the passionate expressions of an excited time will 

 not and must not stand in the way of mutual 

 understanding and of a renewal of old friendships. 



The council of the Society of American 

 Bacteriologists has decided to hold a special 

 summer meeting in San Eraneisco, August 3, 

 4 and 5, 1915. The chairman of the local com- 

 mittee of arrangements is Dr. Wilfred H. 

 Manwaring, Stanford University, California. 



The Princeton University Observatory has 

 received from Mr. Archibald D. EusseU, of 

 New York, a gift of the sum necessary for the 

 carrying on for five years of its share of the 

 work described in Professor Pickering's sum- 

 mary of the present needs of astronomical re- 

 search (Science, January 15, 1915). 



Through the efforts of Dr. Ealph Arnold, 

 and other alumni of the department of geol- 



